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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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Elizabeth Gilbert
A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts
Based directly upon the experiences of its author, "Shantaram" is the story of a man who escapes from a maximum security in Australia to arrive in Bombay, the crossroads of the underworld, where he works in a first-aid station and smuggles drugs and guns.
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God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy
A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997.
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Satanic Verses
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Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, ...
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Passage to India
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E M Forster
In Forster's beautifully written novel about British India at the turn of the century, a simple misunderstanding erupts into hostility. The plot centers on Aziz, a young doctor who is initially tolerant of the British presence in India. However, when he takes a group of Americans to the Caves of Marabar and an American woman accuses him of raping ...
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Interpreter of Maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Most of the short stories in this debut volume are about marriage in one form or another. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999, this book also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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Paramahansa Yogananda
A classic text, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI describes the life and teachings of the Hindu monk Paramahansa Yogananda. From his childhood in India that inspired his search for a spiritual teacher, to the time that he spent in the West as a teacher himself, this book gives not only the facts of his life but also the spiritual tenets by which that life ...
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Fine Balance
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R Mistry
In mid-1970s India, a "State of Internal Emergency" has been declared. Four disparate people find their lives connected in ways that are as inextricable as they are unexpected. A housing shortage brings them together as roommates in an apartment: they are a widow determined not to remarry, a student from the Himalayas, and a man and his nephew ...
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Midnight's Children
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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize for this novel, which follows the lives of children born on August 15, 1947, the day India became an independent nation. The book is simultaneously the story of one boy's coming of age, a chronicle of the growing pains of the new nation, and a family drama, all told in a magical-realist style that manages to be ...
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The Space Between Us
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Thrity Umrigar
Devastating in its power, here is a searing novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India, as witnessed through the lives of an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and her stoic, illiterate domestic worker.
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Kim
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Rudyard Kipling
The tale of an Irish boy raised as an Indian in imperial India. It is the story of his coming of age in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and the "great game" between the British and the Russians for control of Central Asia.
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Beneath a Marble Sky: A Love Story
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John Shors
This "passionate, lush, and dramatic" (Sandra Gulland) debut novel reveals the story behind the building of the Taj Mahal and the destruction of a royal family.
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Sister of My Heart
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
From the award-winning author of "Mistress of Spices" comes the bestselling novel, now in paperback, about the bond between two women and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.
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Jungle Book
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Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli's days are filled with danger, wonder, and excitement. He learns the ways of the jungle from the bear, Baloo, and is rescued from the Monkey-People by the mighty python, Kaa. Yet, someday he must face his enemy--Shere Khan the tiger. Here are all of Kipling's Mowgli stories, plus the tale of Rikki-tikki-tavi. 18 color illustrations. Gift ...
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Rikki Tikki Tavi
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Rudyard Kipling
A picture book version of a story from "The Jungle Book". A clever mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is taken in by a family of British colonists living in India. Will brave Rikki-Tikki-Tavi be able to protect the family from Nag and Nagaina, two poisonous cobras? Illustrated with acrylic paintings.
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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
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Robyn Meredith
Meredith offers a compelling look at the major changes in store as America faces increasing competition from India and China--two emerging economic giants.
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The Story of Little Black Sambo
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Helen Bannerman
Sambo is an African boy who lives in India. One day, while dressed in his finest outfit, Sambo goes for a walk and encounters a series of hungry tigers who, piece by piece, demand his fine clothing. Will Sambo find a way to retrieve his wonderful outfit from the fierce tigers? One of the most controversial works in children's literature, THE STORY ...
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Nectar in a Sieve
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Kamala Markandaya
This American Library Association Notable Book of 1955 tells the story of a peasant woman in India, married as a child bride to a tenant farmer, working with her husband to wrest a living from land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. Through years of poverty and disaster, she sees one of her infants die, her daughter become a prostitute, ...
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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Salman Rushdie
In Rushdie's humorous and tender novel, Haroun is the 12-year-old son of a famous storyteller. When his father loses his powers of invention, Haroun takes charge, and sets out on a series of adventures that, against all odds, will bring his skills back.
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Far Pavilions
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M M Kaye
The bestselling epic tale of love and war among the colonists and natives of 19th-century India.
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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Mohandas Gandhi, Mahadev H Desai (Translator), Sissela BOK (Foreword by)
Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface The only authorized American edition Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and ...
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The Snow Leopard
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Peter Matthiessen
Author Matthiessen documents his travels in Nepal with naturalist George Schaller, including his attempts to come to grips with his wife's death from cancer, and his general pondering of questions of life and death. The snow leopard becomes a symbol to Matthiessen of the elusive silence of the peace of Zen.
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Foreign Body
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Robin Cook
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers, in this chilling tale from the master of the medical thriller.
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Freedom at Midnight
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Larry Collins
The subject of this narrative is the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. Key players include Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten--and, of course, the gentle revolutionary Gandhi.
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Kama Sutra
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Anne J Hooper
Learn the secrets of sensuality from a 2,000-year-old classic. Spice up a mundane sex life with ancient and modern wisdom. Master the art of seduction, foreplay, and arousal. Discover unusual positions, aphrodisiacs, and erotic games. Straightforward and relaxed in its approach to each subject, this guide features full-color photography on every ...
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