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Marine Corps veteran and author Charles Henderson chronicles the final days of America's involvement in Vietnam through the voices of those who were there--and those who would never be heard again. Photos.

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A gripping novel of global disaster--by the visionary creator of Dune.

A Newbery Award winner!Most dolls lead a comfortable but unadventurous life. This was true of Miss Hickory until the fateful day that her owner, Ann, moves from her New Hampshire home to attend school in Boston—leaving Miss Hickory behind. For a small doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, the prospect of spending a New Hampshire winter alone is frightening indeed. In this classic modern day fairy tale, what's a...

Marion Zimmer Bradley's beloved Avalon saga continues with the dramatic story of the ancestors of Avalon, from their life on the doomed island of Atlantis to their escape to the mist-shrouded isle of Britain.

Ways of Worship is a visual chronicle of ritual and religion in India. The photographs, taken by anthropologists in the course of fieldwork, illustrate the innovative, cosmopolitan and visually striking ways on which people please their gods. The photographs display the sophisticated visual cultures that frame the relationship between ordinary devotees and their gods.

On the life and works of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, b. 1941, Malayalam film director.

In the winter of 1978, Siddharth meets Sudhir in a friend's friend's room at college. He falls instantly in love. Siddharth becomes a full time lover over the next seven years ans stubbornly pursues the object of his lust and affection.

Discover the WAIS ways of Mrs Neri Miranda If you have enjoyed and learned from the snippets of my life as a ' Wais Na Misis', through my Instagram and Facebook posts, you'll most certainly get a kick out of the untold stories you'll find in the pages of this book. It wasn't always easy for me, but when life threw me lemons I didn't dodge or flinch. Instinctively, I caught every piece and turned the bunch into lemonade, lemon meringue pie, lem...

The daughter was too young and innocent to understand either her adolescence or her destiny. Having been brought up as a son for years, she now considered herself a man. She believed that she would grow a moustache when she got married. Folktales are the collective memories of people, handed down from one generation to another. But often, this process of handing down stops the evolution of these folktales. Vijai Dan Detha, one of India's most ...

A witty and poignant account of an extraordinary adventure with India's most dreaded bandit, Veerappan and his Companions Veerappan responded in a soft voice: It has been many years since I killed elephants. But no one believes me if I say so. In a comic case of mistaken identity, wildlife photographers Krupakar and Senani were kidnapped one night from their home at the edge of the Bandipur National Park by Veerappan, India's most dreaded band...

As everyone knows by now, I m homosexual. To write this sentence and to speak it publicly, which is a great liberation, is why I write. Provocative and percipient, The Man Who Would Be Queen is a collection of lyric essays on the self that flaunts itself as autobiographical fiction. In the words of its writer: The art of living is the art of creating life-fictions. The first and second sections of the autobiography take us through the garden o...

Questioning the image of India as a nascent superpower or putative economic powerhouse that has been the flavour of the decade, Ashok Mitra draws on his experience as India's chief economic adviser and West Bengal's finance minister to look at critical current issues that include the policies of liberalization, the Indo?US nuclear deal and the attempt to take away land from peasants for industrialization. His clear sighted analyses of the root...

In a secluded ashram in Mullagarhi, arrives Rajesh Sahni - novelist, habitual drinker, womanizer and atheist - in search of characters for his next book. Incapable of believing in the promise of salvation, and contemptuous of godmen, whom he often portrays as rogues and villains in his stories, Rajesh treats his experience in the ashram with scepticism. He flouts all the rules, celebrating temptation and indulging in every worldly desire that ...

This fascinating anthology about marriage today reveals the secrets in other people's lives, and the truths about our own. Examines relationships from varied angles--creating a magical fictional mirror that lets readers see inside strange houses and into familiar hearts.

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In the Company of Women explains how indirect, or "relational, " aggression can hurt women and hinder them from achieving success and harmony in their adult lives. Gender studies have shown that when a goal is in sight, men generally use direct action to attain it. Women, on the other hand, have been socialized to express aggressive actions through indirect means-using behavior such as shunning, stigmatizing, and With startling insights into t...