Love Potion Number 10: A Jana Bibi Adventure
by:
Betsy Woodman (author)
In the newest Jana Bibi adventure, Jana, Mr. Ganguly, and the gang are back as their small town in India is rocked by an espionage scandal and a homemade remedy that has love on everyone’s mindThe Jolly Grant House still welcomes all its visitors with the sign Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes...
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In the newest Jana Bibi adventure, Jana, Mr. Ganguly, and the gang are back as their small town in India is rocked by an espionage scandal and a homemade remedy that has love on everyone’s mindThe Jolly Grant House still welcomes all its visitors with the sign Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes hanging proudly outside its front door. Jana’s fortune-telling has brought a lot of attention to the small town of Hamara Nagar, and now that the dust has settled and the town is safe from the threat of being flooded by a government dam, all eyes are on the Scottish-born card-reader Jana and her feisty, loose-beaked parrot, Mr. Ganguly. Some people, though, are not to be trusted, and Mr. Ganguly finds himself the target of a potential kidnapping that puts Jana and her household on edge.Meanwhile, love is in the air and, thanks to Abenath’s Apothecary, it’s also in a bottle. Abenath has created an intoxicating brew that he calls Love Potion Number 10, which seems to have Jana in a tizzy. While she explores her newest hobby, dream interpretation, her head is swimming with questions: Is a new love possible at age fifty-nine? If so, would she ever marry again? All around her she sees different kinds of love and connection—family, arranged marriages, chemical attractions, even intercontinental romance between people who have only met through letters—so when an old flame arrives and rekindles long-gone feelings, Jana begins to think that Love Potion Number 10 just might be the magic elixir its inventor thinks it is.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805099577 (0805099573)
ASIN: 805099573
Publish date: August 13th 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Though this is the second book in the Jana Bibi Series, this book can be treated as a stand-alone. A word of warning – after reading this book – you will want to go back and read the first book immediately.Jana Bibi is of Scottish origin but has settled down in a part of Uttar Pradesh. She is the pr...
As charming and as full of endearingly eccentric characters as its predecessor, Love Potion Number 10 could be enjoyed without reading the first book, but why would you want to? It's 1961, fourteen years after India's independence from Great Britain, and Jana Bibi, more formally known as Janet MacPh...