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The Mistress of Spices
The Mistress of Spices

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Divakar

Tilo, an Indian clairvoyant, becomes queen of the pirates who kidnaped her for her powers, and she gains immortality and the skills of a mistress of spices, which she uses to help mortals before falling in love with Raven.—Baker & Taylor



—Submitted by Jackie L., Senior Information Assistant, VITAL

 

Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • What is the What


  • Dune Messiah


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • The Raven Boys


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • The Snowy Day


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • The Friend


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • Naked Lunch


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Birdie and Me


  • The Shipping News


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • Copper Beach


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Oleanna


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Dark of the Moon


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • The Little Prince


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • The Silmarillion


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • The Music Lesson


  • Catch 22


  • Raintree County


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • Cannery Row


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • Little Bear


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • The Never Game


  • A Little Princess


  • Jane Eyre


  • East of Eden


  • Watchmen


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Foundryside


  • The Index Card


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • In Full Color


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • Through a Life


  • Gilead


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • The Last Wish


  • Life


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • Hopscotch


  • Lost Horizon


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • War and Peace


  • Figuring


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Cinder


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • Strange Planet


  • Dragon Bound


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Providence


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • The Ghost Clause


  • The Word Is Murder


  • The Blue Sword


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • The Color Monster


  • Growth of the Soil


  • Oreo


  • X'ed Out


  • Patriot Games


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • VALIS


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • The Stand


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • The Room : A Novel


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Running with Sherman


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • The King's Stilts


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Rural Free


  • Wolf Hall


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • Suttree


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Persepolis


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • The Woman in White


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Dietland


  • Dawn


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • Fog Island


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Giver of Stars


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • Six Seasons


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • The Goldfinch


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • The Library


  • Siddhartha


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Dune


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Robin


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • The Snow Child


  • True Grit


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • Riddley Walker


  • I Know This Much is True


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • Wild Beauty


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • On A Sunbeam


  • Big Sur


  • The Wild Robot


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • The Master and Margarita


  • The Far Field


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • Wired


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Unterzakhn


  • The Shell Seekers


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • Parable of the Sower


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • Ulysses


  • The Lost Coast


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • The Go-Between


  • The Stardust Road


  • Travels With Charley


  • Sunny


  • Station Eleven


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


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Submitted by Bill W. on Fri, 2019-11-01 11:41