Venkatraman, Padma.
Summary: In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speak 2010
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC VENAnappara, Deepa
Summary: "Based on a true story--Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality police shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she gets the best grades), and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ANAPPARASingh, Vandana.
Summary: In a small town in northern India, three siblings await their father's youngest brother, Younguncle, who is said to be somewhat eccentric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F SINVenkatraman, Padma.
Summary: In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC VENGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life here is precarious, ruled by the unforgiving tides and the constant threat of attacks by Bengal tigers. Into this place of vengeful beauty come two seekers from different worlds, whose lives collide with tragic consequences. The settlers of the remote Sundarbans believe that anyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GHOSHNelan, Anne L.
Summary: An abridged, simplified version of the adventures of a boy raised and protected by the animals of the jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fearon Pitman 1967
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] KIPHall, Tarquin.
Summary: Mustachioed sleuth Vish Puri tackles his greatest fears in a case involving the poisoning death of the elderly father of a leading Pakistani cricketer, whose demise is linked to the Indian and Pakistani mafias and the violent 1947 partition of India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY HALLBowen, Carl.
Summary: Presents a graphic novel adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," which details the adventures of a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2010
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: J GRAPHIC KIPLINGHiranandani, Veera
Summary: Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J LP FICTION HIRANANDANIDavies, Carys
Summary: Taking refuge in a mission house in a remote hill town in India, an Englishman fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life bonds with a Padre's daughter against a backdrop of escalating religious tensions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DAVIESUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: Having lost their beloved only child to a sudden illness, Frank and Ellie Benton hope to rebuild their lives by accepting a job offer in India but find their new home compromised by Frank's efforts to heal his grief through a friendship with a young boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION UMRIGARKing, Laurie R
Summary: "Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2018
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY KINGNewmark, Elle.
Summary: In 1947, as Britain loses its grip on India, Evie Mitchell and her husband and son are forced to hole up in a small Indian village, where Evie discovers a cache of letters that leads her to the compelling story of two nineteenth-century Englishwomen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NEWMARKMaheshwari, Priti Birla
Summary: "When their train makes a ten-minute stop at the station in Jaipur, a young girl and her mother hurry to get in line for a cup of chai. The girl orders two cups, and then delights in watching the chaiwala at work--grinding the spices, adding scoops of tea leaves and sugar to the bubbling, boiling milk, then cooling the chai by pouring it from high, back and forth, back and forth--the girl is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE MAHESHWARIRushdie, Salman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RUSHDIEOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F OSBCopies Available at Kalkaska County Library
1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION OSBORNECopies Available at Birch Street Elementary
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] OSBSummary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Includes discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION KIPLINGGobhai, Mehlli
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1900
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC GOBKing, 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-scale war that threatens countless lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY KINGLahiri, Jhumpa.
Summary: Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LAHIRIPatterson, James
Summary: Struggling to remain sober, Santosh Wagh, the head of the India office of an elite PI agency, investigates a serial killer who is targeting women and leaving mysterious tokens at each crime scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PATTERSONKipling, Rudyard
Summary: A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION KIPLINGRoy, Arundhati
Summary: "A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017