Indian Women

A Lilly's Library Book Club Pick! “A sparkling debut.”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams. Simran...

Hi, I'm Radhika Mehta, and I'm getting married this week. I work at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank. Thank you for hearing my story. However, let me warn you. You may not like me too much. One, I make a lot of money. Two, I have an opinion on everything. Three, I have had a boyfriend before. Ok, maybe two. Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat, writing for the first time in a female voice, brings to you One Indian Girl, the heart-warming story of a modern Indian girl.

“A rich family saga about art and memory's power to inform the present, make peace with the past, and maybe even alter the future.” — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts “[Asha] Thanki reinvents generational memory, conjuring inheritance as a tapestry of...

This beautiful and devastating book - part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir - should be required for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.

When Jennifer found out she was pregnant, she was horrified. Unlike normal pregnancies, to carry a wolf offspring full term always equaled death for the human mother. In a race against time, Mohinder and his friends scramble to try to find a cure. Along the way, they make new friends, but find new enemies that will stop at nothing to hinder Mohinder from reaching his goal. Through his trials, Mohinder is pushed to his breaking point emotionally and physically in order to save the one person he holds dear on this Earth. Can Mohinder create a cure to save his paired mate, or will she meet her...

INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story) is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It was inspired by the diary entries of young English blacksmith John Jewitt during his time aboard the brigantine The Boston and also during his sojourn at Nootka Sound, on North America's western seaboard, from 1802 to 1805. Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of The World Duology and The Orphan Trilogy), INTO THE AMERICAS is a tale of two vastly different cultures – Indigenous North American and European civilization ...

A cosy mystery compilation perfect for fans of Sally Smith, Steve Higgs, LJ Ross, Robert Thorogood, and Richard Osman. When she relocates to Spain’s Costa del Sol, Karen McLaren turns her back on an unfaithful husband and a long teaching career. She arrives at the Club Britannia complex for the over-60s carrying many plans for her future… …finding herself investigating crimes along with an eccentric group of Spanish and expat friends isn’t one of them. But Karen discovers she has a real talent as an amateur sleuth. She’s aided by her sharp intellect, the expert lip-reading skills ...

Elite Reid is a girl on a mission: to get her glow up on and get as far away from her drunken father as possible. When her boyfriend offers up the opportunity to make some serious cash and level up, Elite believes she's finally hit the jackpot. Sweet, innocent, and naive, she's every man's dream...and quickly becomes the newest infatuation of the man at the top--the man with all the power. Unfortunately, it's a privilege that may cost her something she can never recover. Bishop is a man whose heart has room for just one love: his money. That's until Elite stumbles her way into his life and ...

With just one wrong turn, ELITE finds both her life and that of her unborn hanging in the balance. Unbeknownst to her, she’s being hunted by someone willing to risk it all for the only thing that matters in the end: her. Will she make it out alive? Shots have been fired, and Bishop is absolutely the ish as Oz threatens not only his business, but the object of his heart’s obsession. Determined to come out on top, Bishop takes a big risk to silence his enemy forever. Will he succeed or fall victim to his own savagery? Elite is a "must-have" as the men in her life thug it out, but who will...

Life is built on single decisions. Choose wisely. It’s one of life coach Nikki Parekh’s mottos. That and being open to opportunities and taking leaps without fear. But when Nikki accepts her boyfriend’s casual proposal of marriage, she wonders if it’s just too soon, too spontaneous—and so sudden that she seeks out the advice of her not-so-nurturing mother, Tara. To Nikki’s surprise, Tara, who raised her daughter to be self-sufficient, urges Nikki to trust her decision.

""No one should miss this beautiful legend."" —Tony Hillerman Velma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winter Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers...

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers...

She can't let a man come between her and God...can she? Widowed missionary Laurie Wilcox has promised to live the rest of her life serving God and feels called to minister to the Plains Indians. But when a handsome Cheyenne elder ignited a passion in her heart, she realized he had also taken her eyes off her calling. Panicked by the distraction, Laurie ran, slipping away to a different reservation. Surely, after all, serving the Lord was her path… not a trivial romance? Henry Long Feather was fighting to build his life in a white man’s world. When he met and fell in love with Laurie, he...

King Igotta loved his fast-paced lifestyle. He was the king of the fourth richest country in the world and was one of the top billionaires in the world. As the ruler of the African nation, Uswallow, he felt like a living God. He had lavish cars, got to fly around the globe in his private jumbo jet. Not to mention, he dated some of the sexiest women on the planet. He loved it all, but what trumped everything was his mother, Queen Mother, Utha. After a public sex tape exposes him, his mother urges him to settle down, find a queen and produce an heir. However, King Igotta isn’t a one-woman ...

A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of...

Selected as an "Outstanding Book of the Year" by the New York Time Book Review in 1973, "I Once Knew an Indian Woman" is a heartwarming childhood memoir. The story is set in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, between First and Second World Wars. The book received multiple rave reviews, and was also awarded first prize in the Canadian Centennial Literary Competition. This new edition for 2020 is edited by Ebbitt Cutler's son, Keir Cutler, who worked with his mother before her death in 2011 to develop an updated version. Keir also created a theatrical monologue from the book titled, "Magnificence" which...

PASSION INDIA The story of the Spanish Princess of Kapurthala FOUR MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE HAVE BEEN FASCINATED BY THIS LOVE STORY THAT TRANSPORTS US TO THE FABULOUS WORLD OF THE MAHARAJAS -FILLED WITH HAREMS, JEWELS, PALACES, FLAMENCO MUSIC AND TIGER HUNTING. On January 28, 1908, Anita Delgado, a beautiful, but barely literate, Spanish teenager, danced a brief flamenco in a Madrid nightclub where she caught the eye of a visiting Indian prince, Sir Jagatjit Singh, the Maharaja of Kapurthala. They married and she spent the next 18 years living in opulent luxury, in the Himalayan foothills....

"Heartfelt, hilarious, and refreshingly honest, The "I" in Indian is a must-read for fans of cross-cultural rom-coms—blending sharp wit with emotional depth as one woman navigates love, identity, and the art of disappointing your parents for all the right reasons." – NewInBooks.com If you loved Crazy Rich Asians, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or Bend It Like Beckham, get ready to fall hard for The “I” in Indian. Aria Kapoor is caught between two worlds. As a second-generation Indian American, she’s fluent in Western ambition and Eastern expectations—and constantly feels like she’s...

A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books. But in the...

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures...