Shawn K. Jain
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Language
English
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Riya Desai and Dhillon Vora grew up together. Until the devastating house fire that ripped them apart, claiming the life of Dhillon's father and Riya's big brother, Samir. Riya and Dhillon have barely spoken since that terrible night, but they both made big decisions based on that fire. Riya has chosen to fight fire with everything she's got, but it's not easy. As the only female firefighter and one of the only people of color at her fire hall, she...
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Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Audacious . . . Reddi has produced a social novel in the broadest sense, leading us to make connections beyond the page. Such connections stretch beyond California, requiring us to think about-to reimagine-the history of immigration in the United States." - David L. Ulin, Alta
"Reddi is a talented writer with a gift for pacing - she knows how to employ suspense to keep readers turning pages." - Los Angeles Times
"In Passage West, Reddi expertly...
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent -- the Virtual elite -- and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity. The system...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Great Arab Revolt of 1936 in the Holy Land lasted three years, cost thousands of lives--Jewish, British, and Arab--and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since. It radicalized the Jewish and Arab communities and made the separation permanent. This book reveals world-changing events through extraordinary people on all sides.
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Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-three-year-old hijabi Sana Saeed has put away her childhood dream of ishq--an all-consuming, sweeping love. The arranged dates she's agreed to have failed time after time, and she has responsibilities to consider--namely her sweet, autistic younger brother, Zia. Sana and Zia are a package deal, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But their traditional mother won't allow Sana to be named as his future guardian... unless she's married. When...
7) Sojourn
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn in the city, which seems strange, and also strangely familiar, to him. He is disoriented by its names, its immensity, and its history; he is worried that something may happen to him there. Faqrul, a friendly Bangladeshi poet living in exile, takes him up--then disappears. The visiting writer is increasingly adrift in a city that not long ago was two cities, each...
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Series
Very short introductions volume 508
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This Very Short Introduction surveys the key issues and controversies surrounding global intellectual property law and policy, considering the effects global standardization is having on both developed and developing nations and the relationships among them. Noted cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan helps clarify both the basic terms and the major conflicts surrounding the fascinating and controversial idea of intellectual property"--...