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Radha & Jai's recipe for romance

(Romance)
2021
"Told in two voices, teens Radha and Jai, seniors at a New Jersey performing arts high school, reignite their passion for dance and find strength in one another to pursue their dreams"--OCLC.

Under lock & skeleton key

"After an accident derails Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home and begins working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest visits her dad's latest renovation project, her former stage double is discovered dead inside a wall. Fearing she was the intended victim, it's up to Tempest to solve this crime."--.

Indian Americans

2022
This book explores the story of Indian Americans. Readers will learn about why Indians wanted to move to the United States. Entertaining text will illustrate what life is like for Indian American families and how they celebrate their culture.

Beauty and the besharam

2022
"High-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she's a little too ambitious, a little too mouthy, and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam. So, when her nemesis, Ian Jun, witnesses Kavya's very public breakup with her loser boyfriend on the last day of junior year, she decides to lay low . . . Exhausted by Kavya and Ian's years-long feud, their friends hatch a plan to end their rivalry by convincing them to participate in a series of challenges. But as the competition heats up, so too does the romantic tension"--Provided by publisher.

You can't be serious

2021
"With intelligence, humor, and charm on every page, [the author] explores what it means to be the embodiment of the American Dream, as the child of immigrant parents who came to this country with very little, and who never expected to see their son get his big break by sliding off an oiled-up naked woman in a raunchy Ryan Reynolds movie. He also pulls back the curtain on racism in Hollywood and the constant reminders that he would never fit in. And of course, he reveals how, after twenty-five years fighting for success in Hollywood, he made the terrifying but rewarding decision to walk away from it all for a career in politics . . bravely demonstrates by example that no matter who you are and where you come from, you have many more choices than those presented to you"--Provided by publisher.

Runway ZomBee

a zombie bee hunter's journal
2018
Twelve-year-old Raksha Kumar is so busy hunting zombie bees for Science Squad that she hardly has time to prepare for her fashion camp runway show.

10 things I hate about Pinky

2021
"Told in two voices, Ashish's friends Pinky and Samir pretend to date during a summer at Cape Cod to achieve their individual goals--especially to get their respective mothers off their backs"--OCLC.

Karthik delivers

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein.

A batch made in heaven

Mina is excited to start her mentorship at A Batch Made in Heaven, a bakery famous throughout Washington State for their unique cookies, because she would like to become a baker herself, and she wants to enter the cookie competition in Seattle to win money to help her father open a restaurant to replace the one he left behind in Delhi; but she is soon frustrated because the owner's annoying son, Flynn, will not even let her near the kitchen--clearly he is hiding some secret, and Mina is determined to find out what it is.

My sister's big fat Indian wedding

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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