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The Bollywood bride
By Sonali Dev. 2015
Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favourite ice princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling…
home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar. Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria's exclusive boarding school in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love--until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom, and it's taken him years to rebuild his life. But beneath his pent-up anger, their bond remains unchanged. And now, among those who know her best, Ria may find the courage to face the secrets she's been guarding for everyone else's benefit--and to stop acting and start living. 2015.The Chaneysville incident: a novel
By David Bradley. 1981
The cannibal galaxy (The library of modern Jewish literature)
By Cynthia Ozick. 1983
A philosophical novel permeated with Jewish thought and folklore. The French-born Jewish headmaster of a midwestern private school fears that…
neither he nor his teaching has made any difference to the world. The limitations with which he restricts himself blind him to the mark of promise in an apparently dull student eclipsed by her brilliant mother. 1983.The Blue Mountains of China
By Rudy Henry Wiebe. 1970
A wandering chronicle, spanning a hundred years, of the Mennonite diaspora, beginning in the brutality of Stalin's Soviet Union and…
moving outward to find sanctuary of sorts in Canada and Paraguay. 2008, c1970.The boat people
By Sharon Bala. 2018
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.The brothers Ashkenazi
By Israel Joshua Singer. 1980
Social novel tells of the life of the Jews in Poland from the 1880s through the Russian Revolution to the…
rise of independent Poland. The story describes the influx of German weavers from Silesia and Saxony, the rise of the weaving industry, and its final collapse. Of the two Ashkenzai brothers, Jewish textile merchants, Max is the brilliant student and Jacob the pleasure lover. 1980. Uniform title: Brider Ashkenazi.The book of ifs and buts: stories (Vintage tales)
By Rabindranath Maharaj. 2002
Nine stories that mainly deal with the experiences of ethnically Indian Trinidadian men who have immigrated to Canada. In "Swami…
Pankaj", a Trinidadian master farmer, who wishes nothing more than to retire to the Himalayas and become a mystic, leads a strange second life as a Brampton taxi driver. "The House in Lengua Village" concerns a schoolteacher who returns home, only to unexpectedly officiate at his father's funeral. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2002.The book of lights
By Chaim Potok. 1981
Portrays the life and inner conflicts of Gershon Loran, a young Jewish rabbi. While serving as a chaplain during the…
Korean War, he must reconcile his deep-rooted beliefs in Judaism with the struggle between light and darkness in a land where Judaism has never existed. 1981.The bluest eye (Picador Bks.)
By Toni Morrison. 1994
This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.The black madonna
By Doris May Lessing. 1964
The big bad wolf (Alex Cross series. #9.)
By James Patterson. 2003
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are…
kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom. They are being bought and sold. It seems that a shadowy predator known only as "The Wolf" is the mass criminal behind this terrible trade, bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime. Some strong language. Sequel to "Four blind mice" (DC25663), followed by "London bridges" (DC28329). 2003. (Alex Cross Series ; 9)The big gold dream
By Chester B Himes. 1996
Pursuing two apparently unrelated murders, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are led into a squalid Harlem ghetto,…
where they confront the killer in an explosive showdown. Strong language and violence. 1996.The betrayers: a novel
By David Bezmozgis. 2014
When Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician, refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West…
Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fiery young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award. 2014.The beautiful things that heaven bears
By Dinaw Mengestu. 2007
In his store in a neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., Ethiopian immigrant Stepha Stephanos regularly meets with fellow Africans Ken the…
Kenyan and Joe from the Congo, discussing how their immigrant expectations measure up to the reality of life in America. Stephanos makes keen observations of American race and class tensions, seeing similarities to his hometown of Addis Ababa. When Judith, a white woman, and Naomi, her mixed-race daughter, move into the neighbourhood, Stephanos finds tentative prospects for friendship beyond his African compatriots. Some descriptions of violence. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. c2007.The autobiography of my mother: a novel
By Jamaica Kincaid. 2016
A deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a…
Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. 2016.The bass saxophone
By Josef Skvorecky. 1980
Two portraits of people whose love is for the forbidden in a totalitarian regime: Emoke loves God and a boy…
loves jazz. Nominated for the 1984 CNIB talking book of the year award. c1980. Uniform title: Legenda Emöke.The angel of Zin
By Clifford Irving. 1984
The Gestapo sends Captain Paul Bach to investigate the murders of two prisoners and a Polish lieutenant at an SS…
camp. Bach begins to realize that he is a guilty party to the policy of extermination. Some strong language. 1984.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By Mordecai Richler. 1959
The Auerbach will
By Stephen Birmingham. 1984
In "The Auerbach Will", ambitious young Essie Litsky defies a rigid upbringing by immigrant Russian Jewish parents to achieve wealth…
and success. But her children tear Essie and her husband Jack Auerbach's family apart in fights over their fortune, and Essie finds that money will not mend broken lives. 1984.Texaco: roman
By Patrick Chamoiseau. 1992