Bharti Kirchner
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English
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Introducing feisty Asian-American private investigator Maya Mallick in the first of an intriguing new mystery series.
During a morning stroll in Seattle's Green Lake district, Maya Mallick is horrified to see two young women, shrouded in white, set themselves ablaze in front of the temporary residence of the visiting Chinese foreign minister. She's even more shocked to recognize one of them: Sylvie Burton, a brilliant Tibetan-American biomedical...
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English
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Maya Mallick, Seattle P.I., receives a call from her mother Uma, who lives in Jaipur, India. It appears that Uma's partner Neel Saha, a gemologist, has been arrested by the police on charges of stealing a rare ruby. The heirloom, an object of much superstition, belonged to Neel's client, Rana Adani, a young, charismatic Jaipur business tycoon. Insisting that Neel is innocent, Uma begs Maya to fly to Jaipur and clear Neel of the charges. Further complicating...
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English
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The bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother hits the road again to learn about love and finally finds it closer to home.
When you've been jilted at the altar and forced to take your pre-paid honeymoon with your brother, it's fair to say you could learn a thing or two about love. And, that's what Franz Wisner sets out to do-traveling the globe with a mission: to discover the planet's most important love lessons and see if they can rescue him...
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English
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India, 1684. Moorti-widowed at seventeen and about to be burned on her husband's funeral pyre-is saved from the fire by a mysterious Englishman. Taken to safety and given employment by her savior, Job Charnock, Moorti is renamed Maria and must embrace her new life among the English traders. Though she is grateful to be alive, the intelligent and talented Maria is not content to be a kitchen servant for the rest of her life. Seizing the opportunity...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Computer expert Meena Kumari of California returns to India to reacquaint herself with her husband from a forced child marriage before she was saved by an American couple who adopted her. Paradoxically, the trip leads to love with an American. A first novel by the author of The Healthy Cuisine of India.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A Hindu-American woman from Chicago who is tired of love affairs which lead nowhere accepts her mother's offer of an arranged marriage and flies to India to meet the groom. But the heroine, artist Sharmila Sen, is a liberated woman and the novel chronicles her disappointments. By the author of Shiva Dancing.
