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1) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Author
Series
The Rajes volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Chef Ashna Raje thinks that joining the cast of Cooking with the Stars will help save her restaurant and prove to her mother that she's not a failure, but when she's paired with her first love, Rico Silva, the kitchen begins to heat up."--Publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the highly acclaimed and prize-winning collection, QUARANTINE, an insightful, compelling debut novel about an Indian American boy's struggle to fit into a society where his race and sexuality are outside the norm and to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
Author
Language
English
Description
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child,...
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Language
English
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Description
Maya Rao is the owner of a bustling café and bakery in New York and the mother of a teenage daughter, Samantha. But when Samantha lands in legal trouble over a misdemeanor she didn't commit, Maya is desperate enough to call Samantha's dad, Sam Hutcherson, whom Maya left abruptly many years ago, and who is now a successful lawyer. Sam doesn't know he has a daughter. As Maya and Sam reconnect, those old sparks begin to fly.--Adapted from publisher's...
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Language
English
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Description
"Kareena dreams of having a perfect love story ... That's why on the morning of her thirtieth birthday, she's decided to ... enter the dating arena ... Prem doesn't have time for romance, which is why it's no surprise when his first meeting with Kareena goes awry. Their second encounter is worse when their on-air debate about love goes viral. Now Prem's largest community center donor is backing out because Prem's reputation as a heart-health expert...
Author
Series
Chai Masala Club romances volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne..."--
12) American betiya
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Rani, a budding photographer, grapples with first love, family boundaries, and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.
13) Gold diggers
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds of miles away, the community she's known since birth is transformed by fear, bigotry, and hatred.
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world...
15) Afterworlds
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Author
Series
The Rajes volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yash Raje, California's first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate, has always known exactly what he wants-and how to use his privileged background to get it. He attributes his success to a simple mantra: control your feelings and you can control the world. But when a hate crime at a rally critically injures his friend, Yash's easy life suddenly feels like a lie, his control an illusion. When he tries to get back on the campaign trail, he blacks...
17) The loophole
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sy, a seventeen-year-old gay Muslim boy, travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes.
18) Vanished
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing.
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in the New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Gifted violinist Zurika Damani tries to juggle the obligations of her sister's extravagant wedding week while secretly preparing for a prominent music contest all while trying to dodge her family's matchmaking schemes.
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