Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have made their home in this dynamic region...
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Auteur:Anna, Threes, Fasting, BarbaraSommaire:India, 1995. Charlotte Bridgwater lives with her father, a former British general, and just one loyal servant in a stately old mansion in the town of Rampur. Money is scarce and the once grand estate is crumbling. In a desperate bid to...
- Auteur:Wood, HeatherSommaire:
A firsthand account of 40 Indian villagers who are given the chance to see all of India by a wealthy landowner.
- Auteur:Quinn, Susan KayeSommaire:
Skyships, saber duels and lots of royal intrigue... and, of course, kissing. The Third Daughter of the Queen wants her birthday to arrive so she'll be free to marry for love, but rumors of a new, flying weapon may force her to accept a...
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Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the...
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India's future will be determined not only by economic development, but also by a dynamic traditional culture that continues to develop along its own lines sometimes in concert, and sometimes in conflict with material enrichment. India...
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Auteur:Narsimhan, MahtabSommaire:When a note placed in a delivered lunch tin (a tiffin) is lost Kunal is seperated from his mother and ends up living as a slave. While learning to deliver tiffins with the help of an old friend Kunal hatches a plant that could reunite...
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Auteur:Kipling, RudyardSommaire:The Second Jungle Book is the sequel to Rudyard Kipling's acclaimed collection of stories about the Indian jungle. These new stories were published a year after the original, and mostly focus on the same characters including Mowgli,...
- Auteur:Schanfield, Shelley ElizabethSommaire:
A beautiful warrior princess. A tormented prince. A terrible choice between love, duty, and spiritual freedom.Rebellious Dhara runs away from her Himalayan clan to study with the powerful yogi Mala, a mysterious woman with a violent...
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Auteur:Collins, WilkieSommaire:Rachel Verinder is given an extraordinary diamond for her 18th birthday by her uncle, a British officer who served in India. That very night the diamond disappears. Considered the first detective novel in the English language, this...
- Auteur:Narayan, ShobaSommaire:
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different...
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Auteur:Kipling, RudyardSommaire:Presents more adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
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Auteur:Kipling, RudyardSommaire:The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.
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Auteur:Kipling, RudyardSommaire:Come meet heroic mongoose Riki-Tiki-Tavi, the “man cub” Mowgli, Toomai the elephant handler and many more delightful characters in these playful fables set in the vividly imagined India of Kipling’s youth. Each tale teaches a lesson to...
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Auteur:Badami, Anita RauSommaire:Sripathi Rao, the protagonist of Anita Rau Badami's second novel, is an ordinary, middle-aged man whose career and family have failed to meet his expectations. But when his daughter and her husband are suddenly killed in a car crash,...
- Auteur:Joshi, AlkaSommaire:
Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist, and confidante, most in demand to the...
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Auteur:Roy, ArundhatiSommaire:The international publishing sensation of 1997 -- translated into 18 languages -- a magical, sophisticated tour de force.
The God of Small Things heralds a voice so powerful and original that it burns itself into the...
- Auteur:King, Laurie R.Sommaire:
English spy Kimball O'Hara - who inspired Rudyard Kipling's famous title character in Kim - has gone missing and is feared either kidnapped or killed. Russell and Holmes, a secret friend of Kim, make for India to take up the search.
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