Soneela Nankani
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Amani is desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, and she's counting on her sharpshooting skills to help her escape. But after she meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army, she unlocks the powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and the Demdji powers she's struggling to control, Amani must rally a crew of rebels to take on the bloodthirsty sultan of Miraji and free the imprisoned prince Ahmed. But as the rescue mission travels through the unforgiving desert to a place that, according to maps, doesn't exist, Amani questions whether she is leading them all to their deaths.
5) Internment
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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English
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Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gifted violinist Zurika Damani tries to juggle the obligations of her sister's extravagant wedding week while secretly preparing for a prominent music contest all while trying to dodge her family's matchmaking schemes.
"Zurika Damani is a naturally gifted violinist with a particular love for hip hop beats. But when you're part of a big Indian family, everyone has expectations, and those certainly don't include hip hop violin. After being rejected...
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Series
Elementae volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Having sacrificed her freedom to establish peace with a neighboring kingdom, Shalia discovers that she has the power to control earth the day she marries Calix, whose only motivation is to eliminate the Elementae.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Follow Me Back is the perfect mix of fandom with just the right amount of suspense. An enthralling page turner from beginning to end." —ANNA TODD, New York Times bestselling author of the After series
There's a fine line between fandom...and obsession.
Tessa Hart's world feels very small. Confined to her bedroom with agoraphobia, her one escape is the online fandom for pop sensation Eric Thorn. When
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Snakebite, Oregon. The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead. All fingers seem to point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to town. Arriving in Snakebite, Logan Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV's ParaSpectors, gets the feeling that there's more secrets buried here than they originally let on. Ashley Barton's boyfriend was the first teen to go...
12) Star daughter
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HarperTeen
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English
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Sheetal Mistry, a rising high school junior who is half-star, half-human, must win a competition in the starry court to save her human father.
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English
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The Selection meets The 5th Wave in this heart-racing debut duology about a girl competing for a spot on a mysterious mission to the outer reaches of space. The rules are simple: you must be gifted -- you must be younger than twenty-five -- and you must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win.
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English
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The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but she's never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers...
17) American betiya
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Rani, a budding photographer, grapples with first love, family boundaries, and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.
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Wrath of Ambar volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Trained in warrior magic after the murder of her parents, a girl with a star-shaped birthmark is prophesied to be the downfall of a tyrant king, but the boy she falls in love with owes his loyalty to those hunting her.
19) A girl like that
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English
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In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape. When the two end...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.