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Monsoon summer / by Gregson, Julia,author.;
Subjects: Midwives; Physicians; Anglo-Indians; Interracial marriage; Mothers and daughters; Family secrets; Social conflict;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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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;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Death in the air : a novel / by Murali, Ram,author.;
Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in London's poshest clubs and on the squash court, but unmoored after he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances. He decides it's time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite nestled in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. A person could be spiritually reborn in a place like this. Even a very rich person. But a person--or several--could also die there. Samsara is the Sanskrit word for the karmic cycle of death and rebirth, after all. And as it turns out, the colorful cast of characters Ro meets--including a misanthropic politician; an American movie star preparing for his Bollywood crossover debut; a beautiful heiress to a family jewel fortune that barely survived Partition; and a bumbling white yogi inexplicably there to teach meditation--harbors a murderer among them. Maybe more than one. As the death toll rises, Ro, a lawyer by training and a sleuth by circumstance, becomes embroiled in a vicious world under a gilded surface, where nothing is quite what it seems ... including Ro himself.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; East Indian Americans; Health resorts; Lawyers; Murder; Rich people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shin-chi's canoe / by Campbell, Nicola I.; LaFave, Kim.;
When Shi-shi-etko returns for her second year at a residential school, she is accompanied by her six-year-old brother Shin-chi, to whom she gives the gift of a tiny cedar canoe to help him get through the difficult months until summer.LSC
Subjects: Native children; Indians of North America; Off-reservation boarding schools; Brothers and sisters;
© 2008., Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Still this love goes on / by Sainte-Marie, Buffy.; Flett, Julie.;
"A love letter to Indigenous communities everywhere, this picture book gorgeously illustrated by Julie Flett celebrates seasons, nature, and community"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Songs, English; Songs, English.; Cree Indians; Cree language materials; Cree; VOX books.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Beautiful scars : Steeltown secrets, Mohawk skywalkers and the road home / by Wilson, Tom,1959-author.;
""Bunny told me there were secrets about me that she would take to the grave, secrets that no one would ever hear, including me ... ". Tom Wilson always felt something wasn't quite right. His parents, Bunny and George, were much older than other kids' parents. There were no baby photos of him in the house. At school, classmates called him Indian, despite his parents' Irish-Quebecois background. And as he got older, friends, lovers and even family members remarked on his uncanny resemblance to Bunny's closest relative, her niece Janie Lazare, whose father was a Mohawk from Kahnawake, Quebec. Tom wouldn't learn the truth about his identity until he was fifty-three, when a tour handler whose mother had known Tom's now deceased parents let it slip that he was adopted. It would be another two years until he worked up the courage to confront Janie with what the handler had told him, what all his life he had suspected. Janie--the woman whom Tom called cousin, whom he'd known his whole life, who had lived with Tom and Bunny after George died--immediately broke into tears and confessed. She was his biological mother. In this incredible story about family and identity, carefully guarded secrets and profound acts of forgiveness, Tom Wilson writes about growing up as an outsider in two families--the family he lost, and the family who took him in. His story takes us from working-class Hamilton of the 1960s and '70s, neighbourhoods peopled by fall-guy wrestlers, broke mobsters and WWII vets, to today, as he continues his journey to connect with the man he now knows to be his father and with his Mohawk heritage and relatives, discovering Kahnawake chiefs, Brooklyn "skywalkers" and nomadic Arnold Palmer groupies among them. With a rare gift for storytelling and a remarkable story to tell, Tom Wilson writes with unflinching honesty and extraordinary compassion about his search for identity and for the truth about his family. Moving, captivating and at times hysterically funny, Beautiful Scars is a story about the families who raise us, and the families who course through our veins."---
Subjects: Biographies.; Wilson, Tom, 1959-; Wilson, Tom, 1959-; Birthparents; Adopted children; Mohawk Indians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ghost fire / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.; Harper, Tom,1977-author.;
Theo, wracked with guilt, strikes a solitary path through life. Haunted by the spirits of lovers and family members, he is determined to atone for his mistakes. He seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian army.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; War fiction.; Historical fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Courtney family (Fictitious characters);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Ancient Inca : archaeology unlocks the secrets of the Inca's past / by Gruber, Beth.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 60), Internet addresses and index.An examination of how archaeological techniques such as the study of ruins and artefacts, and satellite imagery have provided a window into what Incan life was like, including marriage customs, farming and worship.LSC
Subjects: Incas; Incas; Incas; Indians of South America; Excavations (Archaeology);
© c2007., National Geographic,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Ultimate curry lover's cookbook : over 115 deliciously spicy and aromatic Indian dishes, shown with clear step-by-step instructions in more than 480 photographs / by Baljekar, Mridula.;
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Subjects: Cooking, Indic.; Cooking (Curry).; Cookbooks.;
© c2012., Lorenz Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sacajawea : her true story / by Milton, Joyce.; Hehenberger, Shelly.;
Grades 2-3.F&P text level N.LSC
Subjects: Sacagawea; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Shoshoni women; Shoshoni Indians; Shoshone women; Shoshone;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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