Best Indian Novels Of 21st Century - April 2024

The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries Book 1)

• ASIN: B0023SDPS6
• ASIN: B0023SDPS6
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547485859
• ASIN: 0547485859
• ISBN: 0547485859
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Orphan Train: A Novel

The #1 New York Times BestsellerNow featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel A Piece of the World, coming February 2017.Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel—the captivating story of a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to long-buried questions…now with an extended scene that addresses the number one question readers ask, and an excerpt from Kline’s upcoming novel A Piece of the World.“A lovely novel about the search for family that also happen... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0089LOG02
• ASIN: B0089LOG02
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form

In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation of the information age, the arrival of a perpetual state of global war, and the expanding focus on humanitarianism. Ganguly analyzes a trove of novels from authors including Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Art Spiegelman, who address wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0822361566
• ASIN: 0822361566
• ISBN: 0822361566
• Brand: Duke University Press
• Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

Montana Mail Order Bride Box Set (Westward Series) - Books 4 - 6: Historical Cowboy Western Mail Order Bride Bundle (Westward Box Sets Book 2)

Books 4 -6 in the series that critics describe as a superb collection of heart-warming, humorous, romantic stories full of adventure which show strong women in difficult situations.Westward Destiny: Book 4When Jamie meets Luke, Luke is bowled over by the beauty with the emerald green eyes and auburn hair, but is instantly tongue-tied. Jamie is not sure how they’re going to develop a relationship when he can barely talk to her, but she sets out to seduce the handsome man with the soulful brown eyes.A game of cat and mouse ensues and Jamie finds out that marrying Luke is easy, but capturing hi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00N869I74
• ASIN: B00N869I74
• Manufacturer: Mail Order Bride Dept, Beldene Publishing

The Glass Palace: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland— a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun never set on the British Empire.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewSet in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375758771
• ASIN: 0375758771
• ISBN: 0375758771
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Round House: A Novel

• ASIN: B007HC3UF6
• ASIN: B007HC3UF6
• ISBN: 0062065254
• Manufacturer: Harper

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 081297932X
• ASIN: 081297932X
• ISBN: 9780812979329
• Brand: Katherine Boo
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier

This sweeping historical narrative chronicles events instrumental in the painful birth of a new nation from the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the lopsided Battle of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of the Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition s destruction of the Iroquois homeland. Caught in the middle of it all was the Mohawk River Valley. Through 1763, culminating with the French & Indian War, a series of colonial conflicts between the French and British raged along t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1883789664
• ASIN: 1883789664
• ISBN: 1883789664
• Brand: Brand: Black Dome Press
• Manufacturer: Black Dome Press

Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series Book 10)

In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a scheduled interview. Meanwhile, unfinished business ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008QXXQOU
• ASIN: B008QXXQOU
• Manufacturer: Harper

Ghachar Ghochar: A Novel

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION“A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review   A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 014311168X
• ASIN: 014311168X
• ISBN: 014311168X
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

• ASIN: B0012D1CY2
• ASIN: B0012D1CY2
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Space Between Us: A Novel

• ASIN: B000FCKM74
• ASIN: B000FCKM74
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

• ASIN: 0385469012
• ASIN: 0385469012
• ISBN: 0385469012
• Brand: Mahfouz, Naguib/ Johnson-Davies, Denys (TRN)
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Son

• ASIN: B009NF6YLM
• ASIN: B009NF6YLM
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Off the Path : An Anthology of 21st Century Montana American Indian Writers

"Adrian Jawort's edited volumes collecting new voices, voices we've never heard but needed to, are volumes worthy of the world's deepest consideration. The voices collected in Off the Path 1, and Off the Path 2,

• UPC: 52896202