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Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Sherman Alexie (Read by)
Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.
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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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The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text
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Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Alain Danielou (Translator), Alain Daniilou (Translator)
This edition of the definitive modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is the first to include two essential commentaries--the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Danielou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra, drawing on his intimate experience of India to preserve the full ...
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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Mohandas Gandhi
Boyhood, legal studies, purification, the growth of the Satyagraha -- nonviolent protest -- movement. Critical, inspiring work of the man responsible for the freedom of India.
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Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing
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Vasant D Lad, M.D., Angela Werneke (Illustrator)
In this illustrated guide, one of the most respected scholars of ayurveda explains the ancient healing practice, originating in India, that has become very popular with the general health-minded public as well as a respected source for practitioners of complementary medicine. Lad explains the basic principles of ayurveda, including the three ...
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Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse
An allegorical novel by the celebrated German writer. Sidhartha, the hero, is a type of Buddhist Everyman, who passes through many temptations and trials on his way to purification. The different stages of his spiritual development are represented by the various roles he takes on: wanderer, courtier, merchant, and hermit. Originally published in ...
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Shape Shifter
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Tony Hillerman
Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is back in this latest tale of murder and mystery from a "New York Times" bestselling author. With Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito on their honeymoon, Joes left on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he thought impossible to solve. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
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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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Follow the river
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James Alexander Thom
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to ...
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The Wailing Wind
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Tony Hillerman
Navajo cops Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate two murders that are somehow connected to the legend of an ancient gold mine.
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Hawk O'Toole's Hostage
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Sandra Brown
When Miranda Price is kidnapped from a train by the chief of an Indian tribe, she finds that her feelings for her captor are confused. She has every reason to loathe Hawk, but, instead, Randy feels a growing attraction for this quixotic, proud man.
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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
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R K Narayan, Pankaj Mishra (Introduction by)
A modern retelling of the ancient Indian epic.
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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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The White Tiger
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Aravind Adiga
This rambunctious story of contemporary India shows how religion doesn't create morality, and money doesn't solve every problem--but a person can get what he wants out of life by eavesdropping on the right conversations.
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Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
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Louise Erdrich
Set on the reservation where LOVE MEDICINE and its sequels took place, Erdrich's novel again takes on the Nanapush and Kashpaw families. This installment concerns Father Damien, a priest who is actually a woman, and who, nearing the end of his long and eventful life, wants to reveal his true identity and explore the climactic events of which he ...
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Vanishing Act
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Thomas Perry
The protagonist, Jane Whitefield, is a Native American woman who helps people change their identities and start new lives. A new client is not who he claims to be, and she tries to find out who he really is before turning him into someone else.
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Family Matters
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Rohinton Mistry
In Bombay, a retired professor named Nariman Vakeel looks back on his life, and specifically his failure to marry the woman he really loved, instead submitting to an arranged marriage. He lives now with his stepchildren, but when he breaks an ankle he is sent to the home of his own daughter to be cared for. This KING LEAR-derived tale presents a ...
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The Sinister Pig
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Tony Hillerman
In Hillerman's 16th series novel, officer Bernadette Manuelito, now working for the U.S. Customs Service, stumbles into a complicated corporate corruption case, while series mainstay Jim Chee is slowly pulled into the case due to his feelings for Manuelito.
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The Twentieth Wife
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Indu Sundaresan
Set in 16th- and 17th-century India, this debut novel about the Mughal Empire chronicles the story of the beautiful Mehrunnisa, whose love for the heir to the throne is continually thwarted until, late in their lives, they are united.
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Just So Stories
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Rudyard Kipling (Illustrator)
The 12 original, unabridged "Just So Stories", including "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "How the Elephant Got His Trunk", accompanied by woodcut illustrations.
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Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
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Sarah MacDonald
After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return. But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South ...
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Foreign Body
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Robin Cook
In this chilling new novel from the master of the medical thriller ("The New York Times"), New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism and a sinister global conspiracy. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
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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
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built motorways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering the telephone from a call-center. Communist China is as close ...
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A Concise History of Modern India
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Barbara D Metcalf, Thomas R Metcalf
In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new ...
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Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
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Mary Pope Osborne
A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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