Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and jocular octopi–who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination. Contains 40 stories, including "The Duck," "The Man and the Moose," and "Death and the Fruits of the Tree," as heard on NPR's This American Life, "The Book," as heard on Selected Shorts, and "The TV," as found in The New Yorker. A selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club. Winner of the 2011 Nobbie Award for Best Book of the Year. "This guy can write!" –Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451

About the Book HOW TWO PEOPLE FROM BANDRA BECAME URBAN FARMERS. When two spirited Bandra girls swap cappuccinos for cow dung, you know it's going to be a story worth telling. Two Bandra Girls Buy a Farm is a laugh-out-loud chronicle of what happens when city slickers with zero farming experience decide to 'go organic' in the unpredictable heart of Raigad.When Arti said yes to her friend Suzann's hare-brained scheme of buying land, she was pumped with post-lockdown confidence in her green thumb. Tomatoes and chillies were spilling out of her Bandra balcony garden, just like her enthusiasm for the farming life.From negotiating with sceptical villagers and unruly cows, every misstep becomes a lesson, and every harvest a tiny miracle. Yet beneath the comedy of errors lies something a fresh look at what it truly means to work with one's hands, live close to the land and make a small but genuine difference in the world.Witty, warm and wonderfully grounded, Arti's account of her adventures and misadventures with farming is for anyone who's ever dreamed of escaping the city-or at least laughing at someone else's attempt to do so.About the Author Arti Dwarkadas began her career in advertising before joining the dotcom revolution as creative director at rediff.com and later leading OgilvyInteractive India. A certified patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu, London, and a long-time urban balcony gardener, she co- founded Two Bandra Girls Organic Farm in rural Maharashtra in 2021. The ten-acre organic venture reshaped her understanding of food, sustainability and rural life.A lifelong storyteller, she has written extensively on food, travel and the restaurant scene. Two Bandra Girls Buy a Farm brings together her worlds of creativity, observation and hands-on learning, and is her debut book-one that reflects her enduring love for building something from the ground up, whether it's a brand, a story or a tomato plant. She lives in Mumbai with her husband, Sunil.

USA Today Bestselling author Rebecca Thorne delights in a brand new cozy science-fiction series...for fans of Martha Wells and Olivia Waite! Features original inside art! Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now… but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex… ah, captain… said. Except Torian’s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic computer with a snarky attitude and serious abandonment issues. The target of its loathing? The immortal alien who built it (and then parked the starship, with Moss inside, and forgot about it). The same alien who just found Torian and accused her of “stealing” the ship. It’s entirely possible that Amelia was right about this meteoric stupidity.

A movie censor murdered, a leading lady vanished—the glamour and intrigue of India’s silent film era come to life in the thrilling fifth installment of the award-winning Perveen Mistry series. This twisty dive into the beginnings of Bollywood is perfect for fans of immersive historical mysteries.India, 1922: Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, is on the verge of securing her biggest client Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the hottest box office ticket in Indian cinema. In the public eye, Rochana is notorious for her beauty and her daring stunts—behind the scenes, she has recently left the Calcutta studio that made her famous, and the studio owner is enraged by what he claims is a breach of contract. Rochana needs Perveen’s legal help to extricate Champa Films from the impending controversy.With her work cut out for her, Perveen attends a screening party at the Champa Films’ mansion-cum-studio to study Rochana’s glamorous world. She brings her film-fanatic best friend, Alice Hobson-Jones, the white English daughter of the British Raj governor, as her companion. But in the aftermath of the party, one of the party guests, a Bombay film censor, is found dead on the property. To make matters worse, Rochana has disappeared.Now with a different legal obligation to her clients—to protect them in the face of a developing murder case—Perveen begins to investigate, peeling back the glitz to reveal a salacious web of blackmail, deceit, and romantic affairs. Perveen has her own her relationship with a handsome former civil service officer, which is becoming harder to hide by the day. For the first time in their friendship, Alice seems to be keeping a secret from Perveen, too, and Perveen begins to suspect that Alice is hiding key information about the night of the murder. Will Perveen be able to detangle the truth from lies while protecting herself—and her closest friend?

Some repairs are timeless. Strange things are happening in the heart of Delhi. At Dadaji’s repair shop in Chandni Chowk, every broken object that passes through its seasoned teak doors is being transformed into something much...more. A two-part novella, One Arm Shorter Than The Other weaves mysteries of fantasy with sci-fi possibilities.

A movie censor murdered, a leading lady vanished—the glamour and intrigue of India’s silent film era come to life in the thrilling fifth installment of the award-winning Perveen Mistry series. This twisty dive into the beginnings of Bollywood is perfect for fans of immersive historical mysteries.India, 1922: Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, is on the verge of securing her biggest client Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the hottest box office ticket in Indian cinema. In the public eye, Rochana is notorious for her beauty and her daring stunts—behind the scenes, she has recently left the Calcutta studio that made her famous, and the studio owner is enraged by what he claims is a breach of contract. Rochana needs Perveen’s legal help to extricate Champa Films from the impending controversy.With her work cut out for her, Perveen attends a screening party at the Champa Films’ mansion-cum-studio to study Rochana’s glamorous world. She brings her film-fanatic best friend, Alice Hobson-Jones, the white English daughter of the British Raj governor, as her companion. But in the aftermath of the party, one of the party guests, a Bombay film censor, is found dead on the property. To make matters worse, Rochana has disappeared.Now with a different legal obligation to her clients—to protect them in the face of a developing murder case—Perveen begins to investigate, peeling back the glitz to reveal a salacious web of blackmail, deceit, and romantic affairs. Perveen has her own her relationship with a handsome former civil service officer, which is becoming harder to hide by the day. For the first time in their friendship, Alice seems to be keeping a secret from Perveen, too, and Perveen begins to suspect that Alice is hiding key information about the night of the murder. Will Perveen be able to detangle the truth from lies while protecting herself—and her closest friend?