Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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2020., Ages 10 up, Puffin Books Call No: Y VEN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the kids find plenty to laugh about and take pride in too. After all, they are now the bosses of themselves and no longer dependent on untrustworthy adults. But when illness strikes, Viji must decide whether to risk seeking help from strangers or to keep holding on to their fragile, hard-fought freedom.
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2011., Random House Call No: G OSB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Magic tree house Volume: #45Summary Note: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
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c1997., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC ROY Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a December Day in 1969 twins Rahel and Estha, born to a wealthy family living in the provice of Kerala, India, find their lives changed after the death of their English cousin visiting for the holidays.
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By Joshi, Alka2020., Adults, Harlequin MIRA Call No: FIC JOS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist--and confidante--to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own ... Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her livelihood. As she pursues her dream of an independent life, she is startled one day when she is confronted by her husband, who has tracked her down these many years later with a high-spirited young girl in tow--a sister Lakshmi never knew she had. Suddenly the caution that she has carefully cultivated as protection is threatened. Still she perseveres, applying her talents and lifting up those that surround her as she does."--Amazon.
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2016., Young Adult, Orbit Call No: YA CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Custard Protocol Volume: #2Summary Note: Rue and the crew of The Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend, Primrose, keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and her obstreperous mother is both. Worst of all, Rue's beginning to suspect what they really are ...is frightened.
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2007., Young Adult, Sterling Publishing Call No: YA KIP Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A children's classic, featuring Mowgli, the Indian boy brought up by wolves in the jungle, his companions, Baloo and Bagheera, and his enemy, Shere Khan.
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c1993., Ages 3-6, Troll Associates Call No: PB KIP Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Troll illustrated classicsSummary Note: Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle.
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-- Disney's the jungle bookc1995., Ages 4-8, Mouse Works Call No: G DIS Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: Picture book based upon the Disney animated movie version of the story of Mowgli, a boy who is raised as a wolf cub and has many adventures with the animals of the jungle until he goes to live in a man-village.
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2024., Adult, Pegasus Crime Call No: FIC NAG Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Bangalore detectives club mystery.Summary Note: Kaveri and Ramu investigate Indian street magic in 1922 Bangalore where they uncover a potential threat to the visiting Prince of Wales amidst cries for India's independence.
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2013., Ages 3-6, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: Y STE Edition: English language ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Agatha : girl of mystery Volume: 2Summary Note: Armed with a photographic memory, twelve-year-old detective Agatha Mistery heads to India to assist her uncle Raymond--a wildlife photographer and a snake charmer--on a mission to find the famous Pearl of Bengal, an ancient artifact that was stolen from the temple of the Hindu goddess Kali.
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By Joshi, Alka[2023]., Adults, MIRA Books Call No: FIC JOS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jaipur trilogy. Volume: #3Summary Note: After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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2015, orbit Books Call No: YA CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Custard Protocol Volume: Book 1Summary Note: Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampier, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.
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By Joshi, Alka[2021]., Adults, MIRA Call No: FIC JOS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Henna Artist Volume: #2Summary Note: Back in the Pink City where he was once a wily street urchin, Malik, assigned to help Samir Singh's feckless son Ravi build the new public cinema, finds his livelihood, reputation and the people he loves most threatened after Ravi implicates him in a ruthless scandal.
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[2019]., Adults, Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. Call No: FIC STE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Great Rebellion of 1857 was a remarkably bloody business. At a time when Britain's imperial influence in India was sparking brutal clashes on both sides, no one could have expected Rena, an Indian woman, to marry a British officer--nor do they understand her decision to follow her mother-in-law to England after her husband's tragic death.
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c1993., Adult, Warner Call No: FIC WAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Michael Tillman, a middle-aged college economics professor, meets Jellie Braden, the wife of a colleague and it is instant attraction. When Jellie disappears, Michael is ready to travel the world to make her his.
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2007, c2005., Adult, HarperPerennial Call No: FIC UMR Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.
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c1999., 4.6; Ages 3-6, Random House Call No: G OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Magic tree house Volume: #19Summary Note: 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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-- Wind fall2017., Young Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: YA SMI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they'd settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son's acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status: skinny ties, hired guards, shoe-polishing machines, and all. The move sets off a chain of events that rock their neighbors, their marriage, and their son, who is struggling to keep a lid on his romantic dilemmas and slipping grades, and brings unintended consequences, ultimately forcing the Jha family to reckon with what really matters.
