|
Jasmine
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $5.99!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
Desirable Daughters
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
Tara Chatterjee, one of three daughters in an upperclass Bengali family in Calcutta, has scandalized the community by divorcing her husband and moving to California. In telling her complex story, Bharati Mukherjee's novel surveys the various strata of Indian society, both at home and in the new world, with their rigid caste divisions and religious ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $1.99!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
Middleman and Other Stories
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
In these stories the author confronts the American Dream, as immigrants and exiles transform and are transformed by the experience and the idea of America. They travelled to live and find fortune, love or adventure in a culture uneasy in their presence yet partly remaking itself in their image.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $1.99!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
Holder of the World
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
When she discovers a bequest in a museum, an American woman, Beigh Masters, becomes obsessed with the life of Hannah Easton, which started in the Puritanism of 17th-century England, moved to London in the reign of William of Orange, and ended in India at the court of the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.50!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
Tiger's Daughter
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
WHEN TARA BANERJEE CARTWRIGHT, THE HEROINE OF THIS FIRST NOVEL, RETURNS TO HER NATIVE CALCUTTA FOR A SUMMER, SHE FINDS SHE MUST NOT ONLY BECOME AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN TWO CULTURES BUT ALSO BEAR WITNESS TO THE DOWNFALL OF HER OWN CLASS. TARA IS A GIFTED DAUGHTER OF BENGAL TIGER BANERJEE, A WEALTHY MANUFACTURER, WHO IS DESCENDED FROM A POET AND ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $27.36!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss
more books like this
by
Andre Aciman (Editor)
Five writers who live in the U.S. but were born elsewhere give their views on being an exile: André Aciman, Eva Hoffman, Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Said, and Charles Simic.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $12.41!
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
|
The Pathology of Congenital Heart Disease: A Personal Experience with More Than 6,300 Congenitally Malformed Hearts
more books like this
by
Saroja Bharati, Maurice Lev
Drs. Bharati and Lev share the knowledge they've accumulated through the study of the pathology of congenital heart disease as seen in this century. Their detailed studies of over 6,300 congenitally malformed hearts give them a unique and comprehensive perspective on this topic. This monograph reports the results of their analyses and includes 2 ...
see all copies
from $120.99!
new only
from $120.99!
|
|
Wife
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
VERY MUCH A CONTRAST TO MUKHERJEE'S FIRST NOVEL, HER SECOND DESCRIBES DIMPLE DASGUPTA'S ATTEMPTS TO COPE WITH HER LIFE IN AMERICA. HER MARRIAGE ARRANGED TO A RESPECTABLE ENGINEER, DIMPLE IMMIGRATES TO THE U.S., BUT CANNOT ADJUST TO THE FOREIGN AND VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT OF NEW YORK CITY. MORE AND MORE SHE RETREATS FROM REALITY, LIVING IN HER OWN ...
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $92.71!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
|
The Tree Bride
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her "American" identity.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $1.99!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
|
From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women
more books like this
by
Bharati Ray (Editor)
The ten essays which make up the body of this book are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and weave a complex pattern of the experiences of women. It attempts to rewrite history by giving a central position to women.
see all copies
from $8.42!
new only
from $18.50!
|
first editions
|
|
Leave It to Me
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukherjee
This novel of rage and retribution, colonialism and responsibility is set against the multi-cultural backdrop of San Francisco, Vietnam and the Far East. Jess Strand's daughter, Ovidia attempts to exact revenge on her mother for her courtroom betrayal of her father.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.55!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
|
Walking with a Himalayan Master: An American's Odyssey
more books like this
by
Justin O'Brien
This autobiography of an American yogi is the story of the training of a Western scholar by a unique Himalayan Master, one of the greatest yogis of the era, Shri Swami Rama.
see all copies
from $2.24!
new only
from $12.00!
|
signed copies
|
|
|
The cardiac conduction system in unexplained sudden death
more books like this
by
Bharati, Lev
Pathologists are often confronted with cases of sudden cardiac death. The role of anatomical abnormalities or pathological lesions of the cardiac conduction system in sudden unexplained death has previously received insufficient attention. This is due, to a large extent, to the elusive, often inocuous nature of such lesions, the ostensibly normal ...
see all copies
from $6.00!
new only
from $56.25!
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Walking with a Himalayan Master: An American's Odyssey
more books like this
by
Justin O'Brian, Jaidev Bharati, Swami
An extraordinary rendering of an American's spiritual transformation, this book tells of a theologian's meeting, and life with a great saint. O'Brien reveals his doubts, learnings, devotion, and ability to apply all the teachings to a western lifestyle, and teaches us to achieve the same.
see all copies
from $11.80!
new only
from $41.49!
|
view cover
|
Leave It to Me
more books like this
by
Bharati Mukjerjee, Bharati Mukherjee
The daughter of a flower child and a murderer, adopted as a toddler, sets off on a quest to find her real mother.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.45!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
SVS
|
view cover
|
Philosophy of Hatha Yoga
more books like this
by
Pandit U Arya, Swami Veda Bharati, Usharbudh Arya
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $1.99!
|
SVS
|
view cover
|
Understanding Hinduism
by
Dayananad Bharati
see all copies
from $18.07!
new only
from $18.07!
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Vedic Mathematics: Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas
more books like this
by
Jagadguru S. Maharaja, Bharati, V. S. Agrawala (Editor)
This epich-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of approach. It relates to the truth of numbers and magnitudes equally applicable to all sciences and arts. The book brings to light how great and true knowledge is born of intuition, quite different from modern Western method. The ancient Indian method and its secret ...
see all copies
from $6.97!
new only
from $6.97!
|
view cover
|
Days and Nights in Calcutta
more books like this
by
Clark Blaise
An account of a yearlong sojourn in India that balances the viewpoint of a Bengali woman--Bharati Mukherjee--with that of her Western husband, Clark Blaise. Both are well-known writers living in America.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $52.72!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Yoga Nidra Meditation: Extreme Relaxation of Conscious Deep Sleep
more books like this
by
Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati
Yoga Nidra means 'Yogic Sleep'. It is a deep relaxation in which you leave the waking state, go past the dreaming state, and enter into the deep sleep state, while remaining fully awake and alert. This state of awareness is extremely beneficial, both for releasing stress, and for experiencing the joy of subtler spiritual explorations or ...
see all copies
from $14.51!
new only
from $14.51!
|
SVS
|
|
|
The light at the center : context and pretext of modern mysticism
more books like this
by
Swami Agehananda Bharati
see all copies
from $8.55!
first editions
|
view cover
|
Consuming Desires, C
more books like this
by
Roger Rosenblatt (Editor), Jane Smiley (Editor), Bharati Mukherjee (Editor)
Among the contributors to this volume of essays are fiction writers Jane Smiley and Bharati Mukherjee, social critic Bill McKibben, and film critic Molly Haskell.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $12.00!
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Engaged Buddhism: The Dalai Lama's Worldview
more books like this
by
Bharati Puri
This volume elaborates on, examines, and understands the Dalai Lama's thought on various current issues, such as non-violence, human rights, and the political issue of the autonomy of Tibet. This is one of the first books in spite of the range of books on the Dalai Lama to actually seek out the conceptual foundations of his thought. The Dalai Lama ...
see all copies
from $9.95!
new only
from $17.58!
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
Necessary Fictions
more books like this
by
Barbara Croft, Bharati Mukherjee (Selected by)
Storytelling and art are the major themes of this collection. The stories centre on the need for expression, the pain of failing and the ways in which we construct imaginative representations of our lives, the "necessary fictions" that allow us to live.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $32.46!
|
signed copies
|
first editions
|
|
|
Living Water and Indian Bowl: An Analysis of Christian Failings in Communicating Christ to Hindus, with Suggestions Toward Improvements
more books like this
by
Dayanand Bharati
see all copies
from $19.99!
new only
from $99.00!
|