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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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2009.
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English
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An utterly irresistible first novel: The story of two sisters, the yearning to disappear into another country, and the powerful desire to return to the known world. • “Dazzling and deeply absorbing.... One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Linno is a gifted artist, despite a childhood accident that has left her badly maimed, and...
Linno is a gifted artist, despite a childhood accident that has left her badly maimed, and...
8) India
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Escapi
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Andrew Daddo visits northern India traveling from the holy river Ganges in Varanasi to the lost city of Leh. Traveler Holly Morris then moves east to Darjeeling and Calcutta before heading for the peaceful Andaman Islands. Moving south, Justine Shapiro visits vibrant Madras before exploring the lakes and waterways of Kerala's coast. Finally, in west India, Megan McCormick travels through Goa, Bombay and Mumbai.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults...
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In India's long and diverse coastline, fish inhabit the heart of many aspects of life: food of course, and also culture, commerce, sports, history, and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. Following Fish conducts rich, journalistic investigations of the use of fish to treat asthmatics in Hyderabad; of the preparation and the process of eating West Bengal's prized...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Through an examination of exciting new documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, archaeological artifacts, and cutting-edge DNA evidence, Menzies painstakingly uncoveres a trading empire that spanned from the Mediterranean, to the Great Lakes in North America, to Kerala in India. He explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilization described by Plato, as well as its violent disappearance....
15) Bindi: a novel
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Kerala, 1993: Eight-year-old Birendra suddenly loses his mother, but he refuses to believe he's an orphan. He's certain that his mother's twin sister, the troubled but winning Nayana, will come for him all the way from West London. But when the letter informing Nayana of her sister's death goes missing, numerous lives are forever altered, and Birendra is set adrift. Madeline, a Los Angeles native and interior designer to the stars, is floundering...
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Narrativa
Pub. Date
20231024
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English
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"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Watch elephants bathing from a houseboat in Kerala, marvel at ancient cave paintings in Bhimbetka, wander Delhi's bustling streets, and ride a train through the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. In spread after colorful spread, India's breathtaking landscapes, rich history, and cultural splendor leap to life on the page, framed by the story of a little girl named Thara and her grandmother. In a carved wooden trunk, Nanijee keeps mementos collected...
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Running Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Expand your recipe collection with dishes that focus on cross-cultural flavors, rainbows of vegetables, gem-toned desserts, and spice-forward twists from the author of the critically acclaimed cookbook My Two Souths.
Gomez is known for her easy mix of cooking traditions from the American South and her homeland of Kerala in Southern India. Here she embraces dishes from around the globe, with recipes that focus on cross-cultural flavors, rainbows of...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Travelers are showing a huge interest in the fast-growing sector known as experiential tourism--vacations that encompass heritage, culture, nature, ecology, and soft adventure. In the footsteps of the briskly selling The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life featuring North American destinations, our new title extends these ardent travelers' sights to global scale. From helping to build a health clinic in Tanzania to learning massage in Thailand...
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