Lakshmi: 63 books

A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn Long...

‘The author of this absorbing book was, where India is concerned, truly present at the Creation...I urge her book on everyone who lived in those great years and on all those who want to know more about them.’ —John Kenneth Galbraith When Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for the nation to...

Indian American … then Indian again vividly portrays the incidents in the life of an average Indian-American. Waking up in the US for the first time, the first moments of pride and fear at home ownership, the inevitable trips back to the home country, the pain endured while grieving alone … these...

Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and...

Desert Wisdom brings us back to the realization that we are not separate from God or from one another. We are at a new frontier where it is time to weave East with West and spirit with matter. Author Vasantha Lakshmi Sai does not ask that you believe blindly in a God; instead, she asks that you believe...

From the Emmy-nominated host of the award-winning Top Chef, an A-to-Z compendium of spices, herbs, salts, peppers, and blends, with beautiful photography and a wealth of explanation, history, and cooking advice. Award-winning cookbook author and television host Padma Lakshmi, inspired by her...

This book contains two stories of kings 1) The Cheating Minister and the other 2) The Clever Princess. Both these are easy to read and understand, with a moral in each, which help the children to learn to keep away from doing wrong things.

This book contains three short stories (1) A Difficult Decision (2) The Delayed Train and (3) The River Flows Forward. All three stories are heart warming and inspirational.

"Big Brother Appu" is a children's book where Appu goes through a sibling rivalry when he gets a baby sister. This story tells you how he overcomes that problem and later makes his elder brother status to his advantage. It will be interesting for the kids up to the age of 10 and their parents.

Lakshmi Lal recreates the absorbing story and the lyrical beauty of the original Sanskrit epic the Valmiki Ramayana. In rich and expressive language, she narrates the legend of Rama, the Ikshvaku prince, who embodies the ideals by which a man, a warrior and a king must live.

"Magic Land of Zanzibar" is a handy guide written from the view of a tourist, to provide the information of the exotic land in a concise form. It can be used for saving your time in collecting information from various websites and books.

10,000 years ago, a cataclysm nearly destroyed the entire planet. (Worldwide geological evidence of this cataclysm is undeniable.) This cataclysm laid waste to dozens of super civilizations whose level of technological attainment far surpasses that of our own. (Archaeologists all over the world,...

Thirteen year old Jason finds himself trapped in an inn that turns out to be nastier than it looks. Fallen under the crutches of the evil Boogeyman and his pet, the gargoyle, Jason is thrown into various alternate dimensions. Will he escape this ordeal or get captivated in a portal that has no return along with these hideous creatures?

In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme-of-colour lens,Bodymap contains work created and...