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"Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London--must work the tobacco plantations....
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After leaving India with her mother and leaving her estranged father behind, decades later, Mehar surprises herself by returning to her homeland to attend her father's wedding to the popular socialite, Naz. Since her father is actually Indian royalty, the wedding will be at his palace family home, making it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even if it will be awkward. Mehar still hopes to repair their relationship, but when she begins falling in love...
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"For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams-a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis"--
In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à...
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"An astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home. Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted, in every sense of the...
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When Sona learns about the climate crisis at school and is very worried that no one is doing enough to combat it, she takes up the challenge herself. But Appa isn't amused when Sona throws out her baby sister's nappies and Thatha isn't happy when she tells him to get rid of his colour-coded plastic files. When Sona learns that many of the kolams - the traditional art that people draw in front of their homes to celebrate the winter months and the festival...
11) The deaf parents
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Like most children, Dee could speak English and the language of her ethnic heritage -- Gujarati. However, Dee's parents were both deaf, which meant that she grew up communicating in British Sign Language too. Find out how Dee felt about being a child of deaf adults and about the things she and her sisters were responsible for as they cared for their parents.--