Alors qu’elle vide la maison de son défunt père, Mair Ellis découvre un éblouissant châle ancien et une boucle de cheveux d’enfant. Débute alors une quête qui changera à jamais sa vie. Se rendant au Cachemire sur les traces de ses...
India
- Author:Thomas, RosieSummary:
- Author:Houck, ColeenSummary:
La dernière chose que Kelsey Hayes croyait faire cet été-là, c’était de tenter de conjurer une malédiction indienne vieille de 300 ans. En compagnie d’un mystérieux tigre blanc nommé Ren À l’autre bout du monde. Mais c’est exactement ce...
- Author:Houck, ColeenSummary:
Trois des quêtes de la déesse Durgâ se trouvant maintenant derrière eux, il ne reste plus à Kelsey, Ken et Kishan qu’une seule prophétie à réaliser pour conjurer la malédiction du tigre. Mais le plus difficile des défis les attend : une...
- Author:Houck, ColeenSummary:
L’été des dix-huit ans de Kelsey Hayes fut complètement fou. Le genre de folie à laquelle personne ne croirait jamais. En plus de se battre contre des singes d’eau immortels et de traverser péniblement les jungles de l’Inde, elle est...
- Author:Victor, DivyaSummary:
kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations.In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith'...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the book’s publication; its setting is India under the British Empire. The title character is a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of...
- Author:Campbell, WandaSummary:
This collection “spattered diversely by the trades that we live by” as Pablo Neruda puts it, reflects the variety of influences that have shaped the poet’s craft. Kalamkari (from the Persian for “pen craft”) refers to the hand-painted...
- Author:Tharoor, ShashiSummary:
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from...
- Author:Trautmann, Thomas R.Summary:
India: A Brief History of a Civilization provides a brief overview of a very long period, allowing students to acquire a mental map of the entire history of Indian civilization in a short book. Most comprehensive histories devote a few...
- Author:Umrigar, ThritySummary:
When Indian American journalist Smita returns to India to write the story of a young widow Meena and the murder of her husband, it's Smita's first time back since her family left when she was a child. Both Smita and Meena were...
- Author:Rajakumar, MohanalakshmiSummary:
- Author:Alexander, KristineSummary:
Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts. Out of this milieu, the Girl Guide movement emerged...
- Author:Rushdie, SalmanSummary:
Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island...
- Author:Singh, Rina, Rooney, EllenSummary:
Every morning, a young girl walks her grandmother to the Aajibaichi Shala, the school that was built for the grandmothers in her village to have a place to learn to read and write. The narrator beams with pride as she drops her...
- Author:Shraya, VivekSummary:
In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; in the ten years since, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Waking up in Morocco with no memory of her identity, Mary Russell is enmeshed in the political and military uprisings of Europe, while Sherlock Holmes taps the assistance of T. E. Lawrence to restore Mary's memory and prevent a full-...
- Author:St. Clair, AnthonySummary:
Travel. Destiny. Beer. When an evil as old as the world awakens, only three wanderers can prevent the annihilation of all life. Nobody in Agamuskara, India, remembers why the river and the ancient city both carry the name "smiling fire...
- Author:Cook, RobinSummary:
During a study break, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez is shocked to learn that her grandmother died during surgery in New Delhi. Desperate to find out why, she uncovers several other unexplained deaths.
- Author:Young, BerylSummary:
What thirteen-year-old boy wants to travel on a hopeless quest to India with his grandmother? Not Ben Leeson, whose anger about his father’s recent death has led him to escape into the isolated world of computer games. India is the last...
- Author:Laidlaw, S. J.Summary:
Noor has lived all of her fourteen years in the fifteen lanes of Mumbai's red light district. Born into a brothel, she is destined for the same fate as her mother: a desperate life trapped in the city's sex trade. She must act...
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