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"India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal...
2) Count to ten
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 15
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Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only person he can trust. Still battling his demons, Santosh accepts, and it's not long before the agency takes on a case that could make or break them. Plastic barrels containing dissolved human remains have been found...
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November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand...
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"An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time. In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining...
9) Ria rabbit
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Ria is a cute, lovable little rabbit who lives in beautiful Pashu Nagri, India, with her younger brothers and parents. She loves having fun with her family and friends.
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ACP Avinash Verma, a narcotics officer, is asked to join a special team, in order to investigate a high-profile murder. However, the investigation leads them to disturbing facts.
"When everyone is hiding the truth about Pooja, the daughter of retired Justice Chaudhary, is found murdered under mysterious circumstances, ACP Avinash Verma, a narcotics officer is roped in to investigate this high-profile case. Justice will thrive despite the silence....
14) 14 phere
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"Sanjay is a Rajput from Jahanabad, which is known for honor killings. He is in love with Aditi, a Jat from Jaipur whose father and elder brother will kill to keep their honor. Both are very close to their families, yet they want to get married."--
15) The night diary
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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.
17) Jangli phool
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"A novel based on Nishi Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh"--Title page verso.
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After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain...
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