Indian Women

From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers....

Banished! Forgotten! Lost! So vicious was the last attack on Ulka, that she lost her memories and her abilities. Her entry to the parallel earth was well publicized. Broadcast by media, made viral by the internet. With time she gained back her memories and her powers. Once again pulled into the saving-the-world business, she makes new friends and foes. During a high profile rescue operation, the evil from her past catches up and she’s struck by the deadly Vikruid magic. Will her friends help her survive? And will they together take down their nemesis who’s always a step ahead? If you ...

Popat Lal and other stories is a collection of short stories written in an effortless, easy and flowing manner. Covering a range of emotions from humour in "Popat Lal" to horror in "A Tale of Woe" to hope in "Out of Luck" to contending with your fears in "Dusk to Dawn", these stories are so vivid that they seem like our own or next door happenings. Whilst simple in style, these are sublimal and lingering. Neatly packaged, these are a crisp collection of stories that will appeal to all age groups.

A SINGLE LIE COULD WIN THE WAR WITHOUT SHEDDING A DROP OF BLOOD. The chaotic ’eighties... political assassinations, drug wars, the computer revolution... Jared Sanders, the criminal oilman, is inches away from controlling the White House. His old nemesis, Senator Temple, stands in the way. This time, the senator is not alone. The heirs of the three oldest clans in the oil business join Temple. An aspiring lawyer with her eye on a supreme court seat, a Navy SEAL with a target on his back, and a dashing blueblood from New York City. Together, they could defeat the enemy without firing a ...

GREED MAKES MEN ADMIT TO CRIMES THEY DON’T HAVE THE BRAINS TO COMMIT. The ’nineties loom. The Cold War is ending, and an information revolution is on its way. Freedom remains under attack... in death threats to writers, in the brutal crushing of political protests. Just as Temple concludes his time in the White House, the oil empire he built falls into the hands of a criminal. His allies—the Kingsleys, the Sheppards, and the Barronses—are once again at war. Temple’s chosen heir, the woman he thinks of as his daughter, is on the run. A pretender—Steven Kingsley—now sits on her ...

The inspiring and heartbreaking story of one of India's unsung heroes. Madhuri lives with her entire family in a tiny room in the cramped slums of Chennai, India, finding joy in her family despite their poverty. When tragedy strikes and her father dies, her mother has no choice but to send her away. What remains of Madhuri's childhood is a harrowing journey that will test her incredible spirit's ability to triumph over adversity. Moving from unpaid labor in a charitable institution to servitude for a wealthy family, Madhuri's life is marked by drudgery and cruelty until news of the ...

Intrepid American newlywed Jane Wunderly learns that tigers aren't the only dangers lurking in 1920s India, when a murder in a popular resort town threatens to destabilize the local government and undermine the resistance movement for Indian self-rule....

A cosy mystery perfect for fans of Sally Smith, Steve Higgs, LJ Ross, Robert Thorogood, and Richard Osman. Karen McLaren has organised what she believes will be the perfect Yuletide celebration: a murder mystery evening based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It’s being held at Club Britannia; attendees are attired in period costume, and traditional food is on the menu. Everything has been planned to perfection… …one of the guests dying, however, isn’t something that’s been scheduled. A fictional murder mystery transforming into a real murder investigation throws Castillo ...

Women and Indenture offers a unique insight into the experiences of Indian women migrants under the indenture system which operated from the 1840s until the early 20th century. The largest recipient of Indian indentured migrants was Mauritius, where a majority of the population are today descended from these labourers. Guyana, Trinidad, Fiji and Natal were important recipients of indentured labourers. The French colonies also received some migrants under this scheme. The volume makes extensive use of archival records to describe the working and personal lives of women under indenture. The ...

A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power players.

Jyoti has always been the ideal second-generation Indian daughter. She stayed out of trouble, looked after her younger sisters and married a man her parents approved of. So when her husband, Ashok, forces her to quit her dream job as head chef of his family’s restaurant to focus on starting a family, she obliges. But despite Jyoti’s tireless efforts to provide children, when it becomes clear that she cannot carry a baby to term, Ashok leaves her. Jyoti’s new status as an unemployed divorcee is a disgrace to her family, and she flees New York to visit her best friend in Tuscany.

From the author of "The Journal of Snow Woman" and "The Strange Husband" comes "Whither Thou Goest". A story of a pledge of love made by a Sioux maiden. It begins when a deserting galvanized-Yankee and young Sioux maiden he meets. He is in a strange land, little money, no job, and no place to live. But it is love at first sight for both of them. The land is full of fighting and hatred between their people. Where can he find a job and a place for them to live? Also Ruth is a Christian (and goes by her Christian name) and wants a church marriage before joining together. Jason does also, ...

In Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu Shau has dreams too. A heady romantic and marginal novelist, Tilu is in love with the indifferent Lalee and wants to liberate her from her street life with marriage. But when a fellow sex worker and young mother is brutally murdered, the solicitous madam of the Blue Lotus invites Lalee to take the woman’s place “upstairs” as a high-end escort.

Gail shocks the world with her sexy tell-all book - from Playboy model to Hollywood casting couch to business mogul, to amassing an erotic library valued at $50 million dollars. In the era of #MeToo, Gail emerges as a strong woman who manages to play the game in a man’s world and use it to her advantage. This is not about a woman as a victim. Nor is it dishing out the dirt on powerful men in Hollywood and the sex industry, it’s actually a light-hearted, often hilarious look at the real inner workings of a male-dominated industry and how a young girl was able to pull the strings.

On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at a museum in Mumbai. What's written in the caption will change her life forever. This gorgeous Punjabi princess, it's said, sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unnoticed?

Shreeja stumbled on a child at a busy Kolkata street that made her rush to Shiuli so that crimes against children could be stopped. Will they succeed? Shreeja is a crime beat reporter of a leading newspaper in Kolkata. But crime ridden streets of the city could not made her sensitivity blunt enough that she could ignore severe crimes against children on the streets. She brought those crimes to the notice of the police and met detective Shiuli. Shiuli appreciated Shreeja's endeavor and opened a bunch of cold cases against children of the city. Irritated by the slow progress of the police ...

Do you know how people fall in love? If someone is ever giving you the feeling of love, can you still distinguish between true love and infatuation? We often try to find true love, like it exists somewhere in the magical dark woods. Can you really find ready-made true love? While building relationships, most people rush and try loving someone hard because they really need the feeling of love from someone. Of course, we need someone, but the need can't build true love. In need, we become selfish subconsciously and ignore the vital factors of true love. It's definitely true, when you are in ...

Nikhil is a passive landowner. His houseguest is Sandip, a headstrong anti-imperialist. Between them is Nikhil’s wife, Bimala, dutiful to her conventional husband yet drawn to the fiery independence and bold flirtations of the charismatic Sandip. As Bimala questions her role as a woman and the possibilities for her life outside marriage, the three undergo an emotional struggle that will change their lives forever—just as their country undergoes a radical upheaval of its own.

Changing the conversation from how stereotypes shackle women to how they can enable them, Nirupama Subramanian uses the wisdom of archetypes to provide practical advice to women to claim the powers they need to achieve their goals. In a world where biases precede their entry into every space, Powerful helps modern women understand their sources of power and embark on a path of transformation and growth.

The Bravant triplets, Amber, Dominique and Madeleine, apply for jobs at Tosh Scarborough’s company in the Empire State Building. Tosh discovers an open-pit mine on a satellite photo of his property in the Amazon. Oxana uses forced labor to operate the illegal mine. Tosh goes to Brazil to investigate and is captured by Oxana’s thugs. Amber and her sisters organize a search for him. Oxana is quick to punish and even murder her slave laborers, but what will happen if she gets her hands on Amber?