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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"India, 1947. In a village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor. Priya: intelligent and idealistic, resolved to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor though society frowns on it. Deepa: the beauty, determined to make a marriage that will bring her family joy and status. Jamini: devout, sharp-eyed, and a talented quiltmaker, with deeper passions than she reveals. Theirs is a home of love and safety, a refuge...
Author
Series
Brotherhood of the conch volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Language
English
Description
Tilo is a beautiful young Indian woman who has the gift to recognize peoples inner desires. She is sent to San Francisco to run a shop whose mystical spices work wonders for her customers. However, she is forbidden to to step outside or follow her own passions. Tilo's life is turned upside down when a handsome architect walks through her door.