LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden
By: Nilanjana Bhowmick
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
Savitribai Phule, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritam, Medha Patkar, Kamla Bhasin, and countless others h…
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1. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
2. Everybody Loves a Good Drought
By: Palagummi Sainath , P. Sainath
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry langu… read more
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3. Zafarnama
By: Navtej Sarna , Guru Gobind Singh
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Written in exquisite Persian verse, the 'Zafarnama'or 'Epistle of Victory' was a defiant message co… read more
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4. The Liberation of Sita
By: Volga
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, a triumphant king who will a… read more
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5. Love Story (Love Story, #1)
By: Erich Segal
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a ca… read more
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6. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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7. Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement
By: Rahul Pandita
4.27
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of… read more
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8. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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9. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
10. The Class
By: Erich Segal
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From world-renowned author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary membe… read more
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11. Curfewed Night
By: Basharat Peer
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. read more
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12. Doctors
By: Erich Segal
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Autor v knihe vykresluje ustavicny boj s chorobami, v ktorom vsak lekari nie su bezchybne fungujuce… read more
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14. The North Water
By: Ian McGuire
3.98
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more
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"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
15. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.87
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more
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16. Independence
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more
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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
17. The Book of Everlasting Things
By: Aanchal Malhotra
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more
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18. Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
By: Thibaut Meurisse
4.01
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
Reclaim your focus in 48 hours or less. Do you keep procrastinating? Do you feel restless and un… read more
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19. Don't Believe Everything You Think
By: Joseph Nguyen
3.76
Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt & self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or … read more
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20. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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21. The Forest of Enchantments
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more
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"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
22. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
By: Perumal Murugan
4.11
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more
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23. The Last Queen
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more
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"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
24. I Came Upon a Lighthouse: A Short Memoir Of Life With Ratan Tata
By: Shantanu Naidu
4.44
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
An endearing portrait of an Indian legend I told him that when I write a book, I would write abo… read more
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25. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
By: Tony Joseph
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South … read more
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26. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
By: Aravind Jayan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more
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27. Girl in White Cotton
By: Avni Doshi
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more
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28. LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden
By: Nilanjana Bhowmick
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
Savitribai Phule, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritam, Medha Patkar, Kamla Bhasin, and countless others h… read more
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29. The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
By: Sanam Sutirath Wazir
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after Operation Blue Star of June 1984 and the anti-Sikh riots later that y… read more
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"I thought all of this will end soon and everything will be normal shortly. But its been thirty years. I'm still waiting for things to get back to normal."-Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
"How easily women become the first casualty of every conflict, large or small. Rape and gendered segregation are common weapons of war and ethnic cleansing."-Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
"Successive governments have advised us to forget the past and focus on the future. Put yourself in our shoes for a second. Is it possible to erase the bloody past?"-Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
"Without a male guardian in their lives, and with their mother gone from the house for long hours every day, the children turned wayward and, eventually, dropped out of school."-Sanam Sutirath Wazir, The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
30. Rosarita
By: Anita Desai
3.29
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more
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31. Mother India: A Novel
By: Prayaag Akbar
3.74
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING LEILA Mother India is the story of two young people living … read more
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