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Daily life in ancient India

from 200 BC to 700 AD
2002
Describes what life was like in ancient India from 200 B.C. to 700 A.D., explaining how many of the patterns and traditions have remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Gandhi before India

2014
A biography of Mahatma Gandhi that focuses on his years before India.

Tall tales

Folk tales from around the world
1990
A collection of eight tall tales featuring such legendary heroes as Finn McCoul, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Sally Ann Crockett, and John Darling.

The song of Kahunsha

2007
In 1993 Bombay, ten-year-old Chamdi runs away from his orphanage in search of his father and finds himself living on the streets, begging with a brother and sister he meets, as the city becomes engulfed in terrorism and sectarian violence.

The perfect man

a novel
2007
The closeness of five friends growing up in 1950s Pisgah, Missouri--including Rajiv Travers, a boy born to a East Indian mother and English father, abandoned by his family, and adopted by the American romance writer his uncle left behind by suicide--is threatened when a love triangle develops within their group and the dark secrets of Pisgah's residents emerge.

Bombay talkie

1994
Sabah, a young American woman, returns to India on a search for her identity and heritage, while her aging Bombay movie-star uncle and his wife look for their gay son in the underground scenes of London and New York.

The roller birds of Rampur

1994
An Indian teenager raised in England returns to India to find her identity.

The roller birds of Rampur

1993
An Indian teenager raised in England returns to India to find her identity.

A bend in the river

1989
A young Indian flees his country to escape the war that has claimed his family and settles in a small town in a newly independent African nation.

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