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A girl like that / by Bhathena, Tanaz.;
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape.LSC
Subjects: East Indians; Dating (Social customs); Rape; Bullying; Religion; High schools; Schools;
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The dueling lemonade stands / by Kochar, Amandeep S.; Weaverbird Interactive (Firm);
On the hottest day of the year Jeet, Fudge, Jamal, and Tugboat set up a lemonade stand to raise money to buy a fan for the puppies at the animal shelter. Little do they know two sisters and their pets have the same idea and they've set up a lemonade stand right across from theirs! Will the dueling lemonade-stands band together and learn the perks that come with coexisting?
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Adopted children; East Indian Americans; Sikhs; Dogs; Lemonade; Friendship; Conduct of life;
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To have and to heist / by Desai, Sara,author.;
"To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she's desperate for a break-that's right when Jack waltzes out of the bushes and into her life. Jack is just as charming as he is mysterious. When he offers to help her find the missing necklace and steal it back, Simi jumps at the chance to clear her friend's name and collect the substantial reward. But every good heist needs a crew. All she needs to do is transform a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew, infiltrate a high-society wedding and steal the necklace from a dangerous criminal before the happy couple say "I do". Meanwhile the bride is keeping secrets, a detective with a slow-burn smile keeps showing up at her door, and the ultimate robbery might not be the wedding con, but the way Jack is stealing her heart"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Debt; East Indian Americans; Jewelry theft; Lost articles; Man-woman relationships; Unemployed; Weddings;
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What a Desi girl wants / by Khan, Sabina,1968-author.;
Mehar did not come to India planning to break up her estranged father's wedding, but she is convinced that socialite Naz is only after his money and title; except she soon begins to question many of her assumptions about her parents' relationship, and her own place in his world--especially when she begins to fall in love with Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant.012+.Grades 7-9.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; Children of divorced parents; East Indian Americans; East Indians; Fathers and daughters; Interpersonal relations; Lesbian teenagers; Lesbians; Children of divorced parents; East Indian Americans; East Indians; Fathers and daughters; Interpersonal relations; Lesbian teenagers; Lesbians;
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Fitting Indian [graphic novel] / by Chand, Jyoti,author.; Anand, Tara,illustrator.;
This teen graphic novel follows one girl's journey navigating high school and her mental health within a traditional South Asian family. All Nitasha's parents want is for her to be the perfect Indian daughter--something she is decidedly not. Everything she does seems to disappoint them, especially her mom. They just don't get that she'll never be like her doctor older brother. To make matters worse, she's never quite felt like she belongs at school either, and lately, her best friend, Ava, and her crush, Henry, seem to be more interested in the rich new girl than in her. Alcohol takes the edge off, but when that doesn't work, Nitasha turns to cutting. She can't stop asking herself: Will she ever be enough for her friends or her family? Or even for herself? This authentic and powerful teen graphic novel shines a light on how harmful the stigma of mental illness is and how lifesaving a community that is honest about mental health can be.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Psychological comics.; School comics.; Social issue comics.; East Indian American teenagers; East Indian American teenagers; East Indian American teenagers; East Indian Americans; High school girls; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations; Mental health; Self-mutilation in adolescence; Self-mutilation;
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Rosarita / by Desai, Anita,1937-author.;
"Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park's lush beauty, when she slowly becomes aware that she is being watched. An elderly woman approaches her, claiming that she knew Bonita's mother-that they had been friends when Bonita's mother had lived in Mexico as a talented young artist. Bonita tells the stranger that she must be mistaken; her mother was not a painter and had never travelled to Mexico. Though the stranger leaves, Bonita cannot shake the feeling that she is being followed. Days later, haunted by the encounter, Bonita seeks out the woman, whom she calls The Trickster, and follows her on a tour of what may, or may not, have been her mother's past. As a series of mysterious events brilliantly unfold, Bonita is unable to escape The Trickster's presence, as she is forced to confront questions of truth and identity, and specters of familial and national violence"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; East Indians; Identity (Psychology); Mothers and daughters; Self-realization in women; Stalkers; Women travelers;
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The raven thief / by Pandian, Gigi,1975-author.;
"Multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian is one of the best locked room mystery writers working today. Her newest heroine, Tempest Raj, returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more sinister than the Secret Staircase Construction crew ever imagined. One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake séance hides a very real crime. Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first project with Tempest Raj officially a part of the team-a classic mystery novel-themed home interior. Their client is now ready to celebrate her new life without her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt. First up, a party, and Tempest and Grandpa Ash are invited to the exclusive mock séance to remove any trace of Corbin from the property-for good. It's all lighthearted fun until Corbin's dead body crashes the party. The only possible suspects are the eight people around the séance table-a circle of clasped hands that wasn't broken. Suspicion quickly falls on Grandpa Ash, the only one with actual blood on him. To prove her beloved grandfather's innocence, Tempest must figure out what really happened-and how-or Ash will be cooking his delectable Indian and Scottish creations nevermore"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Authors; Dwellings; East Indian Americans; Family-owned business enterprises; Grandparent and child; Murder; Seances;
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When Mimi went missing / by Sukumar, Suja,author.;
After seeking retaliation against her cousin Mimi and vindictive foe Beth for relentless bullying, East Indian American Tanvi awakens as the prime suspect in Mimi's disappearance with no memory of the previous night.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Cousins; East Indian Americans; Memory; Missing persons; Victims of bullying; Cousins; East Indian Americans; Memory; Missing persons; Victims of bullying;
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Jeet and Fudge find yoga / by Kochar, Amandeep S.; Weaverbird Interactive (Firm);
During dog yoga day, Jeet, Fudge and their friends learn the value of connecting with their breath, slowing down and stretching their bodies to help manage their nerves about the new school year.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Adopted children; East Indian Americans; Sikhs; Dogs; Hatha yoga; Anxiety; Friendship; Conduct of life;
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Kismat connection / by Devarajan, Ananya,author.;
Is it possible to change your fate? Madhuri Iyer is doomed. Doomed for her upcoming senior year to be a total failure, according to her astrology-obsessed mother, and doomed to a happily ever after with her first boyfriend, according to her family curse. Determined to prove the existence of her free will, Madhuri devises an experimental relationship with the one boy she knows she'll never fall for: her childhood best friend, Arjun Mehta. But Arjun's feelings for her are a variable she didn't account for. As Madhuri starts to fall for her experimental boyfriend, she'll have to decide if charting her own destiny is worth breaking Arjun's heart--and her own.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Blessing and cursing; Dating (Social customs); East Indian Americans; Fate and fatalism; Man-woman relationships; Best friends; Blessing and cursing; Dating; East Indian Americans; Fate and fatalism; Man-woman relationships;
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