Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Sam Wyndham novels volume 2
Formats
Description
India, 1920. Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of the Calcutta Police Force investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharajah's son, in the sequel to A Rising Man.
The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven...
Author
Series
Inspector Ghote mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
172 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident-- Masterji--...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those aroundher.
Author
Series
Vish Puri mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
341 p.
13) The bridge home
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 1
Formats
Description
Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.
16) Magic seeds
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 22
Formats
Description
Willie Chandran feels as though the life he lives is not his own. But his listlessness washes away in a flood of encouragement from his radically political sister. Inspired, he joins an underground liberation movement in India. But after years of revolution and incarceration, he grows disillusioned and returns to England, still hoping to find his true self.
17) The hungry tide
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
333 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Presents a novel of life in modern India, chronicling the interwoven journey of an American marine biologist and a Delhi businessman who travel to the remote Sundarban islands.
18) The golden son
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A portrait of a young Indian man who must learn to reconcile his career ambitions in America with the traditional values and expectations of his family in India.
Author
Formats
Description
"Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy?s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in...
20) Siddhartha
Author
Formats
Description
A young Brahmin named Siddhartha searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, written with a deep and moving empathy...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title