Indian Comedy

"Just three dates. That's all I'm asking. One boy shares your sense of humor. Another has similar interests and ideals. The third boy has a helpful heart like yours." When Aditi Gupta comes home late from work as a pediatric resident one night and her grandfather offers this pitch, she reluctantly agrees. She's far too busy with med school to be dating, and besides, she dreams of a love for the ages, like her parents, not an arranged marriage. And yet she finds herself agreeing to three dates because she loves her grandfather. All she has to do is make herself utterly ineligible.

Abducted? Heck no! I’ll rescue myself thank you very much. I don’t need some creepy four-armed alien stalking me either. Meena Dragged from my home, I’ve rescued myself before, and I’ll do it again if I have to. I don’t trust these aliens that say I’m safe. I especially don’t trust that four-armed creep spying on me and leaving presents at my door. When I’m kidnapped again, it’s him that’s there for me. Sweeping me off into the trees like he’s freaking Tarzan. He’s willing to put everything on the line just because he thinks I’m his mate. He’s everything I’m ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this hilarious instant classic, the creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood. “[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK From the best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both “Like Nora...

The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT...

This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the 108 Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism. Roshen Dalal explains the concepts at the core of each Upanishad...

It is a story of a girl whose secret crush was her best friend's brother. Ever since she saw him when she was fifteen, she was smitten. The girl, Kanan Bakshi, has a knack for accepting challenges. One such challenge, a bet with her best friend, lands her right into the office of her childhood crush. It is a story of a boy who is sick and tired of his parents who try to hook him up with every girl available on the planet. Manav Bedi, the business tycoon, is not lacking female attention, no! He is lacking interest. The caked up beauties who are ready to throw themselves at him have made him ...

He burns with a desire to possess her. She struggles with the urge to resist him. Aryan Oberoi Cold, calculating, and always in control—Aryan rules the business world with an iron fist. Emotions are the weaknesses he never had, until he meets Mrinal- a walking sin in heels. Their one-night stand should have been just that - a single, a wild moment lost to the night. But she lingered, an intoxicating memory that refused to fade. She is the forbidden fruit that haunts his thoughts, a craving that burrows deep, pulling him into an irresistible spiral of desire—one taste was never enough. ...

An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into their arranged marriage​ in this “heartwarming journey of self-discovery” (Southern Living). “Touching . . . both funny and moving—a family drama the entire family can enjoy...

In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all the charming misfits on television...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Naina Kumar turns the arranged marriage plot on its head. . . . A sparkling new voice in the romance stratosphere.”—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-) “I couldn’t put down this page-turner. . . . The new When Harry Met Sally . . . a warm, smart, sexy, and...

A Marie Claire Book Club Pick! Even with a step-by-step plan, these fake fiancés might accidentally fall for each other in this hilarious, heartfelt romantic comedy from the author of The Marriage Game. Daisy Patel is a software engineer who understands lists and logic better than bosses and...

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. “By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment...

“This novel has all the funny banter and sexy feels you could want in a romantic comedy.”–NPR A high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy. After her life falls apart, recruitment consultant Layla Patel returns home to her family in...

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn...

Rajveer was the only child of an ambitious couple. They gave him every tangible and expensive thing, but one intangible thing they couldn’t give was ‘TIME’. They didn’t have time to tend to him, so they appointed Savita as his nanny. Savita looked like a well-educated person, so why did she accept such an insignificant job? Savita was very proficient at her job and Rajveer took an instant liking to her. Savita was the world to Rajveer. Shikha was a breathtaking girl, but she was very easy to win as well. She acted hard to be friends, but actually she was very soft from inside. Her ...

Meet the residents of Gammage, New York, a town on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, when inspiration strikes. Why not go native, and open a casino? With Not Enough Indians, actor, writer, producer, and former Saturday Night Live cast member Harry Shearer joins the ranks of such comedian/authors as Steve Martin and Michael Palin with a brilliantly funny, whip-smart satire of greed, collusion, distrust, and betrayal in the halls of Washington and the casinos of Native America.

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture...

Young Roxana Weston is off to boarding school, first in nearby Hallowell and then in Boston, where an evil manstealer is out to kidnap some of her new friends. Based on the lives of real people.

Meet Aman Khatri, a dashing and brainy young man who commands attention wherever he goes. With his towering height, impressive physique, and irresistible charm, he leaves a lasting impression on everyone he meets. It's not just because he is the heir to a powerful political family—no, it's his magnetic charm that draws even his toughest critics in. Despite his privileged upbringing, Aman is determined to carve out his own path to success. In his quest to revolutionize and make a mark on the coal mining industry in India, he even manages to stir up trouble with the daughter of his father's...