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The Tree Of Red Stars
by Tessa Bridal

Price: ~~Rs.842~~ Rs.816
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the Friends of America Writers Award in 1997, this vivid debut, set in Uruguay in the 1960s, charts the toll of political events on a young woman and those close to her, as their democracy is gradually tak read more
Boy Without A Flag
by Abraham Rodriguez Jr.

Price: ~~Rs.842~~ Rs.690
Discount: Rs. 153 (18%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Author Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. captures what it's like to grow up too fast amid the crushing poverty of the South Bronx. A gritty slice of New York Latino life - now reissued with a striking new cover.
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Hell's Bottom, Colorado
by Laura Pritchett

Price: ~~Rs.902~~ Rs.746
Discount: Rs. 157 (17%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Winner of the Milkweek National Fiction Prize, in this collection of linked short stories, Laura Pritchett balances gritty material with genuine warmth and understanding of character. Hell's Bottom is more than a ranch. Home to Renny, one of those women w read more
Roofwalker
by Susan Power

Price: ~~Rs.902~~ Rs.707
Discount: Rs. 196 (22%)
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In Roofwalker, Native American writer Susan Power explores the complexities of contemporary Native American life. Featuring both fiction and nonfiction ? "stories" and "histories" ? the book shows the ways that native traditions and beliefs work for chara read more
Ordinary Wolves: A Novel
by Seth Kantner

Price: ~~Rs.966~~ Rs.837
Discount: Rs. 129 (13%)
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In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic cliches of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner?s vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly?s life on the Alaskan plains through the read more
Cracking India: A Novel
by Bapsi Sidhwa

Price: ~~Rs.963~~ Rs.819
Discount: Rs. 144 (15%)
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The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days wit read more
An American Brat: A Novel
by Bapsi Sidhwa

Price: ~~Rs.963~~ Rs.924
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Feroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected 16-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan ? and their daughter. Hoping that a few months with her uncle, an MIT grad student, will soften read more
Gardenias: A Novel
by Faith Sullivan

Price: ~~Rs.906~~ Rs.861
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A month after the United States enters World War II, the country is in upheaval — and so is the Erhardt family. Nine-year-old Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are heading for San Diego, far away from Harvester, Minnesota and Arlene's shiftle read more
Sky Bridge: A Novel
by Laura Pritchett

Price: ~~Rs.906~~ Rs.744
Discount: Rs. 162 (18%)
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A supermarket clerk in a small dusty town, 22-year-old Libby is full of dreams but lacks the means to pursue them. When her younger sister Tess becomes pregnant, Libby convinces her not to have an abortion by promising to raise the child herself. But then read more
Water: A Novel (Bapsi Sidwha)
by Bapsi Sidhwa

Price: ~~Rs.1023~~ Rs.803
Discount: Rs. 221 (22%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa's novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta's controversial film Water to the read more
Aquaboogie
by Susan Straight

Price: ~~Rs.845~~ Rs.769
Discount: Rs. 77 (9%)
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Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the residents of Rio Seco. In “Aquaboogie," art student Nacho finances his class out East by working as a janitor, subject to torment by his white coworkers. In read more
Montana 1948: A Novel
by Larry Watson

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Discount: Rs. 180 (21%)
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“From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them… “ So begins David Hayden's story of what happened in read more
The Pakistani Bride: A Novel
by Bapsi Sidhwa

Price: ~~Rs.845~~ Rs.707
Discount: Rs. 139 (16%)
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As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of Lahore. Amid the read more
The Blue Sky
by Galsan Tschinag

Price: ~~Rs.906~~ Rs.821
Discount: Rs. 85 (9%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

In the Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan people's ancient way of life is colliding with the relentless influence of the modern world. For a young shepherd boy, the confrontation comes in stages. First, his older siblings leave to att read more
The Farther Shore (Milkweed National Fiction Prize)
by Matthew Eck

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In his unforgettable debut novel, Matthew Eck puts readers inside the mind of a confused young soldier caught in the fog of unexpected warfare. A small unit of soldiers from the U.S. Army is separated from their command and left for dead. Their only optio read more
Driftless
by David Rhodes

Price: ~~Rs.966~~ Rs.910
Discount: Rs. 56 (6%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. read more
The Hospital For Bad Poets: Stories
by J. C. Hallman

Price: ~~Rs.966~~ Rs.887
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Full of cryptic twists, philosophical quandaries, and fabulist turns, J. C. Hallman's stories elucidate an intuitive understanding of the human condition. An alienated young man discovers the meaning of love in the pages of the biology textbook The Conjug read more
Orion You Came And You Took All My Marbles
by Kira Henehan

Price: ~~Rs.966~~ Rs.855
Discount: Rs. 111 (12%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Immediately captivating, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles introduces readers to Finley, an investigator of indiscernible origins and prowess who is assigned to a mysterious Professor Uppal and his puppets. The nature of the investigation isn't c read more
The Last Fair Deal Going Down
by David Rhodes

Price: ~~Rs.966~~ Rs.877
Discount: Rs. 89 (9%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Survival has been the Sledge way since Reuben Sledge’s father first moved to Des Moines. Yet the family seems cursed, and one by one the Sledges are slipping away. Reuben’s oldest brother is hanged for the murder of his wife. Then another b read more
The Easter House
by David Rhodes

Price: ~~Rs.906~~ Rs.806
Discount: Rs. 100 (11%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Originally published in 1974, this gripping novel tells the tale of the Easter family of Ontarion, Iowa. Ansel Easter was a favored minister until he rescued a grotesque creature from a carnival sideshow. His sons, C and Sam, suffer in the shadow of their read more