Best Indian Love Story Novels - April 2024

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native Amer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316013692
• ASIN: 0316013692
• ISBN: 9780316013697
• Brand: Little Brown Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel

An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07415PPP1
• ASIN: B07415PPP1
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The Namesake: A Novel

 "Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."—The New York Times "Hugely appealing."—People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."—Entertainment Weekly Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world—conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake, the Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri br... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618485228
• UPC: 046442485227
• ASIN: 0618485228
• ISBN: 9780618485222
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Fault in Our Stars

• ASIN: B005ZOBNOI
• ASIN: B005ZOBNOI
• Manufacturer: Speak

Life of Pi

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0156027321
• ASIN: 0156027321
• ISBN: 9780156027328
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Lonesome Dove: A Novel

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439195269
• ASIN: 1439195269
• ISBN: 1439195269
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Island of the Blue Dolphins

• ASIN: 0547328613
• ASIN: 0547328613
• ISBN: 0545289599
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142405965
• ASIN: 0142405965
• ISBN: 0142405965
• Brand: Speak
• Manufacturer: Speak

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel

Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Pick A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.Every woman has a secret life . . .Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially stra... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M1G2SV6
• ASIN: B01M1G2SV6
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which star... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451163966
• ASIN: 0451163966
• ISBN: 0451163966
• Brand: Signet
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Midnight's Children

• ASIN: B003WUYQCS
• ASIN: B003WUYQCS
• Manufacturer: Random House

Walk Two Moons

In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.As Sal entertains he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0064405176
• ASIN: 0064405176
• ISBN: 0064405176
• Brand: HarperCollins
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Siddhartha: A Novel

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man’s se... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553208845
• ASIN: 0553208845
• ISBN: 0553208845
• Brand: Bantam Classics
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Morna's Legacy: Books 1, 2, 2.5 & 3: Scottish, Time Travel Romances (Morna's Legacy Collections)

"I have a thing for sexy highlanders (who doesn't?!), but not everyone is able to get it right - Claire is bang on... I haven't enjoyed myself reading a book this much in ages. I actually sat down to start reading it and didn't stand up again until I was finished - I had to know how it ended. This book gets 5 hunky Scotsmen out of 5." - Chelsey of Pure TextualityThis Morna’s Legacy Collection contains the following books: LOVE BEYOND TIME – BOOK 1: When Texas Kindergarten teacher, Brielle Montgomery accompanies her archaeologist mother on a dig in Scotland, they discover a secret spell roo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JI6MP4Q
• ASIN: B00JI6MP4Q
• Manufacturer: Bethany Claire Books

The Drums of Autumn

Cast ashore in the American Colonies, Claire and Jamie Fraser are faced with a bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in a New World--shadowed by Claire's knowledge of the coming revolution. Reissue.

• ASIN: 044022425X
• ASIN: 044022425X
• ISBN: 9780440224259
• Brand: Dell Publishers
• Manufacturer: Dell

The Hypnotist's Love Story

A "sharp and funny romantic tale" (O, the Oprah Magazine) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers. Ellen O'Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out

• UPC: 120315280
• Rating: 4.0

Best-Loved Short Stories : Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others

This international array of 11 tales by popular authors includes Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," de Maupassant's "The Necklace," and stories by Flaubert, Poe, Tolstoy, Kipling, Joyce, Lawrence, Cather and others. Large print

• UPC: 2461790

Indian Love Stories - eBook

An anthology of contemporary love stories that depicts how disgust can be as much part of erotic love as violence, physical and mental.Disgust can be as much part of erotic love as violence, although the

• UPC: 205499446

The Last Resident: The Love Story of a British Official and an Indian Princess - eBook

British diplomat Nigel loves India and Muslim culture, but not his spoiled wife Pamela. He falls in love with the married Muslim princess of the state where he serves. When Pamela is murdered, Nigel has

• UPC: 675373338

Love Story at Indian Foot Lake - eBook

Psychologically scarred from traumatic events in her teen years, young librarian Sylvia Marshall reunites with her long-lost childhood sweetheart and worries that her odd habits, weird obsessions, and scandalous past might thwart their budding romance.

• UPC: 496075632

Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 2 - eBook

The sequel to the bestselling Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories - Volume I... Following the success of the first collection, Khushwant Singh, the country's foremost literary figure, serves up another round of the

• UPC: 265607816

Khushwant Singh Best Indian Short Stories Volume 1 - eBook

The bestseller Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories - Volume I, offering the finest stories by India's master storytellers... The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules

• UPC: 720928777

Desiring the Best Man: Love at First Sight Story - eBook

From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Witching Call, Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, Ralph's Gift, Children of Time, Chains of Darkness, Tropical Storms and Friend Zone...She

• UPC: 946394487

To My Best Girl : Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates

Behind all descriptions of historical events are the stories of real people. This is the extraordinary true story of a citizen soldier and the girl he loves, as both become embroiled in the cauldron of

• UPC: 672995980

The Best Of All Sins: Stories Of Love & Heartbreak - eBook

In The Best Of All Sins: Stories Of Love & Heartbreak, we've compiled a collection of great romance stories, each unique in its take on love. Some stories frame love as life's greatest treasure. Others

• UPC: 561906276