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"An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this searing, brave memoir. How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain--and lose--by taking control of our narrative? These questions propel Prachi Gupta's heartfelt memoir, and can feel particularly fraught for many immigrants and their children who live...
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Sejal Sinha ; 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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During a family trip to the beach, Sejal uses a submarine powered by Imagination Fuel to plunge into an undersea adventure where she hopes to learn more about how the small but powerful blue dragon might help her deal with a class bully.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Girl's Trip meets Dial A for Aunties in this women's fiction novel following an aspiring screenwriter in a desperate chase for a celebrity to read her script while struggling to pursue her dreams over cultural expectations. Isha Patel is the black sheep of the family. She doesn't have a "prestigious" degree or a "real" career, and her parents never fail to remind her. But that's okay because she commiserates with her cousin, best friend, and fellow...
5) Shakti
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"When the three meanest girls in school start casting spells, 12-year-old Shakti draws on ancient Indian magic to stop them but instead curses the entire town and must harness her own strength, power and empathy to save those she loves and end the hate"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ravi can't wait to spend summer vacation at the lake house with his family-especially his cousins! Summer vacation is for days at the beach, long hikes, paddle boarding, and-of course-ice cream. Ravi and his oldest cousin, Dhruv, had the same favorite flavor last year, but everything feels different now. Dhruv's much taller and his voice is deeper. Ravi's worried that Dhruv won't be interested in spending time with him, the little cousin. The ice...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When her heightened sense of smell disappears, jeopardizing her career, Poppy Patel, a gifted Paris perfumer, returns home to tend to her grandmother's aromatic garden only to discover it has been uprooted and destroyed, while navigating family drama, childhood friendships and a former love to heal an unscented life."--
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2024.
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English
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"As her sister's wedding approaches, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president."--
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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce-their move to...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...
13) Boomi's boombox
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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After her dad dies of COVID, twelve-year-old Boomi is given his old boombox and magically transported to Thumpton-on-Soar, England, 1986, where she meets her dad at age twelve and must figure out what she's supposed to do--save him or change her life.
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Sejal Sinha ; 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Sejal and the gang set off on an imaginative adventure through outer space.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old queer Indian American, Maya, who falls for her white, wealthy, and complicated female classmate, Juneau, is asked to join a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school.
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Dell
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"My Best Friend's Wedding meets Never Have I Ever in this utterly charming, heart-stealing debut romance about two completely different people who get engaged under false pretenses. "I couldn't put down this page-turner . . . A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut." -Colleen Hoover When Seth, Meghna's one-who-got-away writing partner and best friend, asks Meghna Raman to be the "best man" for his last-minute wedding, Meghna is determined...
18) The cobra's song
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When ten-year-old Indian American Geetanjali, part of a family of classical Hindustani music singers, believes her neighbor has become an ichchaadari naagin, a cobra that can turn human, she must overcome her fears and harness the power of her voice before the naagin changes the whole town into snakes.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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.
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Bina quiere darles a sus hermanos unos brazaletes con patrones especiales para Raksha Bandhan. Desea hacerlos ella misma, pero no es tan f�acil como pensaba. �Podr�a Bina arregl�aselas sola?
Bina has three older brothers and this year she wants to make them bracelets for Raksha Bandhan, an Indian holiday that celebrates brothers and sisters--but first she must come up with patterns that include only their favorite colors, plus one unique...
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