<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Rao, Shobha]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Rao, Shobha]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/hclib/rss/search?query=Rao%2C%20Shobha&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:19:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Girls Burn Brighter]]></title><description><![CDATA["A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. After her mother's death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn't feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India's underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls' perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them."--Page 4 of cover.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5636278</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5636278</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5636278109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250074256/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls Burn Brighter]]></title><description><![CDATA[A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: "I was standing there, and I was thinking ... she's just a girl. Let her go ... That's the thing with girls, isn't it ... You think, Push. That's all it would take, Just one little push." After her mother's death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn't feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India's underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls' perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.--]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6838682</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6838682</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6838682109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250074263/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Country]]></title><description><![CDATA["Following an Indian couple, newly wed, that moves to Montana for his job, as they navigate the small-town politics and inherent racism, interspersed with flashbacks to 1800s Ganges River and Cotton River"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6764102</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6764102</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6764102109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593798959/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Country]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6800551</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6800551</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6800551109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Country]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6800464</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6800464</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6800464109</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls Burn Brighter]]></title><description><![CDATA["The resplendent prose captures the nuances and intensity of two best friends on the brink of an uncertain and precarious adulthood...An incisive study of a friendship's unbreakable bond." - KirkusGirls Burn Brighter is a searing, electrifying debut audiobook set in India and America. Irrepresible author Shobha Rao examines the EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN TWO GIRLS, driven apart by circumstances, but relentless in their search for one another.Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls.When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her. But he hesitated: "I was standing there, and I was thinking...She's just a girl. Let her go...That's the thing with girls, isn't it...You think, Push. That's all it would take. Just one little push."After her mother's death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to take care of her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn't feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to secure for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India's underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls' perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces listeners to two heroines who never allow the hope that burns within them to be extinguished.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5695622</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5695622</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5695622109</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781427295705/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Unrestored Woman]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of intense tales of turmoil and tragedy that explores the reverberations of Partition through generations, from a mapmaker's gamble to a grandfather who cannot speak of what he escaped as a young boy.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5341579</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5341579</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rao, Shobha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5341579109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250073822/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 2015]]></title><description><![CDATA["Welcome to the best of the best. "New York Daily News Books Blog The stories in this 100th installment of The Best American Short Stories will be selected by award-winning and best-selling author T. C. Boyle. A master storyteller with a delightfully subversive streak, Boyle mixes "brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics, meditations with whiz-bangery" (Los Angeles Times) and he is "always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness" (New York Times Book Review).]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5263868</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5263868</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5263868109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547939438/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 2015]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5334959</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5334959</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5334959109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547939407/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>