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1) Gold diggers
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
An American child of East Asian descent revels in dances, clothing, games, foods and other characteristics of both cultures, while blending them into what makes this American desi unique.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Priya Chakraborty plans a birthday party for her first client, Layla Aunty, personalizing everything from the invitations to the menu in Aunty's favorite color, but as party-time finally arrives, Priya is nervous something will go wrong.
Author
Series
Magic ponies volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Preeti Namesh is snowed in, so she thinks it's going to be the most boring vacation ever, until magical pony Comet shows up"--
Author
Publisher
Push
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later, Ayesha's daughter Mira finds an old box with letters addressed...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can't stop wondering if, thirty-five years ago, she chose the wrong life. In Los Angeles, her son, Akash, has everything he ever wanted, but as he tries to kickstart his songwriting career and commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted...
Author
Publisher
SJP for Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the...
12) Members only
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
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Children's Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Books
Children's Jewish American Heritage Books
Children's Jewish American Heritage Books
Description
A young girl with a Jewish mother and a South Asian father learns more about her family's history and embraces her multifaceted identity.
Author
Series
Singh sisters volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The four teen Singh sisters navigate romance, coming of age, and chasing their dreams over the course of one windy November day"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Saira Qader, who rejected her Indo-Pakistani family's traditional views and chose a career as a journalist, finds her life thrown into turmoil five years later by a tragedy that reveals to her the culturally rich stories of her family.
Author
Series
Nina Soni volume 5
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When she notices a strange car stopping at her neighbor's house while they are away, Nina, her sister Kavita, and new friends Priya and Nayan investigate what the MP (Mystery Person) is up to, which could spell disaster.
19) Laxmi's mooch
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Laxmi's friend Zoe points out the hairs on her lip, Laxmi is very self-conscious until her East Indian parents help her to accept and celebrate her appearance.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Gifted violinist Zurika Damani tries to juggle the obligations of her sister's extravagant wedding week while secretly preparing for a prominent music contest all while trying to dodge her family's matchmaking schemes.
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