Best Indian Short Stories - Volume-1The Indian short story is extraordinary in its ability to stick to the traditional rules of the craft and still demonstrate remarkable originality. It revolves around a limited number of characters, confines itself in time and space, and has a well plotted narrative that drives its central theme. Within the traditional framework, however, creativity flowers and a fresh and imaginative story emerges. This volume is chock full with such stories, written

twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different

and highly-divided society without resorting to curbs on free expression

A brilliantly insightful novel

the New York Times bestselling author of the Madman’s Daughter series

Middlemarch traces these four lives in a plot that illuminates the social fabric of mid-nineteenth-century England

Navigating Family Problems: With her parents acting like they don’t know each other anymore and her dad facing his own secret struggles

Hollis is shocked—and thrilled

“McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there…

Based on solid psychological research explaining why screen addiction is so powerful

Cephas Patterson doesn’t just want to be left alone—if you dare step onto his property

and the dramatic consequences of his actions

it’s just a matter of time before trouble arises