This Is How It Took Place: Stories'Prodigious, gifted, precocious: Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee was all of this. It is an incalculable loss to Indian literature that she left us at the age of sixteen.' Jeet Thayil. A girl tries in vain to please her mother, a young woman comes to terms with her infidelity, siblings take over each other's identities these stories, often told from the perspectives of silent rebels, headstrong loners and nihilistic onlookers, open up the fissures between

which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure

Brave and self-assured

as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men

moving beyond the headlines of "holy war" to explain its deeper spiritual and ethical significance

Of the nineteen outbound bombers

The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere

An engaging collection of travel essays by the author of The Sheltering Sky

The Edgar-Award winning second novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman’s bestselling and highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series

a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea

a temple of dusty tomes and whispered poetry

Friendship: forms bonds that will last a lifetime

accompanied by charming illustrations