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1995., Anchor Books Call No: Fic Div Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2023., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: MYS Fic Shr Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him -- he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it's a rumor that just won't die. It turns out that being known as a self-madey widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It's even been good for business; no one dares to not buy her jewelry. Freedom must look good on Geeta, because now other women are asking for her expertise, making her an unwitting consultant for husband disposal. And not all of them are asking nicely. With Geeta's dangerous reputation becoming a double-edged sword, she has to find a way to protect the life she's built -- but even the best-laid plans of would-be widows tend to go awry. What happens next sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything, not just for Geeta, but for all the women in their village. Filled with clever criminals, second chances, and wry and witty women, Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens is a razor-sharp debut of humor and heart that readers won't soon forget.
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[2008]., General, Lions Gate Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic BeforeR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village, and his past. Loyalties are tested and destinies decided as two worlds collide.
![Before the rains [DVD] (2008). Directed by Santosh Sivan](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Before the rains [DVD] (2008). Directed by Santosh Sivan")
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2004., Adult, Faber and Faber Call No: Fic Sla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "India, 1920: exotic, glamorous and painfully wrenching away from Britain's colonial grip, only to be thrown into religious violence and terrorism. Isabel, a young woman in search of herself and in flight from the ravages of the Great War, has married a career soldier whose brutality and cruelty sicken her. Upon arrival in India she is thrust headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor who insists, against all the odds, on the right to be both black and British. Their devotion to each other takes them across the length and breadth of India and to the brink of disaster."--BOOK JACKET.
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2021., Soho Crime Call No: MYS Fic Mas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Perveen Mistry series Volume: 3Summary Note: November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand procession is passing by her college. Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Perveen, who strongly identified with Freny-another young Parsi woman fighting hard against the confines of society's rules and expectations-feels terribly guilty for failing to help her. Perveen steps forward to assist Freny's family in the fraught dealings of the coroner's inquest, and when Freny's death is ruled a murder, Perveen knows she can't rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?
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2003., Adult, Criterion Collection : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Bombay Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: A troubled romance laced with barbed wit and pointed melodrama and an affectionate view of the Indian film industry (aka Bollywood). A visiting English author becomes involved with a married Indian movie star; when the romance fizzles she flees to an ashram.
![Bombay talkie [DVD] (1970) Directed by James Ivory](/Library/images/~imageCT75400.JPG "Bombay talkie [DVD] (1970) Directed by James Ivory")
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2021., Adult, The Overlook Press Call No: Fic Dos Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist'--all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers--between mother and daughter.
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c2000., Universal Studios Call No: DVD Fic Cotton M Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Cotton Mary, a hospital aide and moralizing Anglophile who claims her father was a British officer, takes over the infant's care and, without a word to the mother, takes the baby daily to her sister to nurse. Mary moves into the English household, taking over more and more duties as she plays on the mother's fatigue and lack of spousal counsel: in effect, Mary colonizes the English household while she pilfers its stores and tells tall tales to her own family. For how long can Mary sustain her rule before the Englishwoman stands on her own feet?.
![Cotton Mary [DVD] (1999) Direcetd by Ismail Merchant](/Library/images/~imageCT75373.JPG "Cotton Mary [DVD] (1999) Direcetd by Ismail Merchant")
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2005., General, Home Vision Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Courtesans Edition: Full screen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. The film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian society: the entertainment of paying customers - always men - by songstresses and dancers who perform in the classical Hindustani styles of the ancient "nautch" girls.
![The courtesans of Bombay [DVD] (1983) Directed by Ismail Merchant](/Library/images/~imageCT75399.JPG "The courtesans of Bombay [DVD] (1983) Directed by Ismail Merchant")
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c2015., Adult, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Win Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Maisie Dobbs novel Volume: 11Summary Note: Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability--and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realized she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain, she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community is murdered and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service.
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2006., General, Penguin Audio Call No: CD 910.4 G464e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance, experience, and meaning.
![Eat, pray, love [CD] : [one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia]](/Library/images/~imageCT74803.JPG "Eat, pray, love [CD] : [one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia]")
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-- Husband-hunting in the Raj.2012., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 954.03 D278f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the British went to India to trade and work, the men who left the country knew they would probably not return and married Indian wives or took Indian mistresses. As the East India Company was replaced by government, men were curtailed from doing this by various means. The Company then began to pay passage to India of a number of willing women who were maintained for a year and expected to marry within that time. For young women, unable to make a 'good match' at home, it was a chance to find a husband with prospects, women flocked to India, willing to try to make a go of it. De Courcy brings this forgotten era vividly to life.
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2008., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Coo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
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2019., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Div Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version. The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari. A powerful comment on duty, betrayal, infidelity and honour, it is also about women’s struggle to retain autonomy in a world that privileges men, as Chitra transforms an ancient story into a gripping, contemporary battle of wills. While the Ramayana resonates even today, she makes it more relevant than ever, in the underlying questions in the novel: How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does a woman need to stand up and say, ‘Enough!’.
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2012., Bantam Books Call No: MYS Fic Kin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Volume: 12Summary Note: The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom he's learned, to his horror, has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a temporary memory loss, searches for her"self," each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late for them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe.
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2009., Penguin Call No: Bio S547g Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this beautifully crafted memoir, a young Muslim-Christian woman travels to an insular Jewish community in India to unlock her family's secret history.
