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Shantaram volume 1
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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.
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Baby Ganesh Agency investigations volume 1
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
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An independent New York foodie accompanies her husband to his home in Mumbai, where her ex-pat sense of adventure is tested by the unexpected arrival of her headstrong mother-in-law.
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Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
8) Sacred games
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 916 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Receiving an anonymous tip that could lead to the capture of a powerful criminal overlord, Bombay police officer Sartaj Singh is nearing his goal when he realizes that his imminent confrontation with the crime lord is part of a more sinister agenda.
9) The blue bar
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 21 cm.
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When women's dismembered bodies are unearthed on the outskirts of Mumbai, Inspector Amav Singh Rajput discovers a link between a decade's worth of missing persons reports and the disappearance of his own lover thirteen years earlier, leading him on the trail of a serial killer.
10) Shantaram
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Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1141 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
A novel based upon the life of the author about Lin, an escaped convict who disappears into the dark side of Bombay's streets and enters into a life of murder and betrayal, prison and torture, and war.
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Dylan, an aspiring photographer, is spending a month in Mumbai with his friend Rohit Lal and his family, but knowing nothing of Indian culture, he cannot seem to do anything right (do not hit cows!)--and the situation is made worse by the tensions within the Lal family over whether Rohit should be raised in India, which Mr. Lal's wealthy sister is pushing for.
12) Thirst
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"A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
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Series
Captain Jim Agnihotri novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
400 pages
Description
"In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lays in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that catches Jim's attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university's clocktower in broad daylight. Moved by the widower of one of the victims - his certainty that his wife and sister did not commit...
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"Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force - Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee - track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in...
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Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
A village outside Mumbai is having a water crisis that only a group of kid geniuses can fix--so Max and her CMI friends book it to India. But it's hard to save the world when you're trying not to be kidnapped by a greedy corporation that profits when others suffer--and seems to know your every move. It's almost like the bad guys have a spy inside the Change Makers"--OCLC.
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
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308 p. ; 24 cm.
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American divorcée Armaiti has six months to live and her last wish is to see her three best friends again--Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta, all in Bombay. But Nishta's husband, Iqbal, a fellow university idealist turned fundamentalist, will be the biggest obstacle to fulfilling Armaiti's final desire.
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Series
Shantaram volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
873 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
The sequel to Shantaram continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
18) The archer
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling expectations of her life with a vivid imagination until one day...
19) Count to ten
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In the #1 bestselling series, Jack Morgan teams up with the head of Private India to solve a high-stakes case: one by one, people are missing-and they have to find them before they're dead. Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only...
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