A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India's railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world through their short stories. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.The multiple Locus Award-winning annual compilation of the year’s best science fiction storiescontentsSUMMATION: 2012WEEP FOR DAY • Indrapramit DasTHE MAN • Paul McAuleyTHE STARS DO NOT LIE • Jay LakeTHE MEMCORDIST • Lavie TidharTHE GIRL-THING WHO WENT OUT FOR SUSHI • Pat CadiganHOLMES SHERLOCK • Eleanor ArnasonNIGHTFALL ON THE PEAK OF ETERNAL LIGHT • Richard A. Lovett and William GleasonCLOSE ENCOUNTERS • Andy DuncanTHE FINITE CANVAS • Brit MandeloSTEAMGOTHIC • Sean McMullenIN THE HOUSE OF ARYAMAN, A LONELY SIGNAL BURNS • Elizabeth BearMACY MINNOT’S LAST CHRISTMAS ON DIONE, RING RACING, FIDDLER’S GREEN, THE POTTER’S GARDEN • Paul McAuleyTWENTY LIGHTS TO “THE LAND OF SNOW” • Michael BishopASTROPHILIA • Carrie VaughnWHAT DID TESSIMOND TELL YOU? • Adam RobertsOLD PAINT • Megan LindholmCHITAI HEIKI KORONBIN • David MolesKATABASIS • Robert ReedTHE WATER THIEF • Alastair ReynoldsNIGHTSIDE ON CALLISTO • Linda NagataUNDER THE EAVES • Lavie TidharSUDDEN, BROKEN, AND UNEXPECTED • Steven PopkesFIREBORN • Robert Charles WilsonRUMINATIONS IN AN ALIEN TONGUE • Vandana SinghTYCHE AND THE ANTS • Hannu RajaniemiTHE WRECK OF THE “CHARLES DEXTER WARD” • Sarah Monette and Elizabeth BearINVISIBLE MEN • Christopher BarzakSHIP’S BROTHER • Aliette de BodardEATER-OF-BONE • Robert ReedHONORABLE MENTIONS: 2012

Firefly Summer is an enchanting poetic recreation of life in rural Puerto Rico at the turn of the century. Returning home to her parents' plantation for the holidays, a young student rediscovers the quaint customs, music and lore of country folk, and the lush verdant beauty and lure of the tropical hills. Teresa is honored when her family initiates her in their traditional rites and celebrations that mark the seasons of the year as well as the stages in people's lives.However this idyllic journey is not without intrigue. Unknown to Teresa and her best friend from school, there is a real-life mystery unraveling concerning the foreman of the plantation who was raised by the family since early childhood. In the course of their sleuthing, the three young people discover the challenges of approaching adulthood. The events of the summer bind the trio in a lasting friendship.

This short story is about more than just a haunted house. Those who enter are forever changed and who knows whether the change is good or bad. You choose.

Opening Day is a 2012 B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree. Girls are coming through an Upstate New York fishing village, but they aren't all coming out--alive! Out fishing, Police Chief Matt Davis stumbles upon the remains of a murder victim, killed approximately six months earlier. With no evidence, no ID, and no clues, it's up to Matt to not only find the murderer, but to discover the victim's identity.

The timeless classic novel of exile, courage and survival. Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, including Watership Down (1974), Shardik (1976), The Plague Dogs (1978), The Girl in a Swing (1980), Maia (1985), and Traveller (1988), as well as several works of nonfiction, including his autobiographical The Day Gone By (1991). He and his wife live in the south of England.

Bella Fantini is a modern-day witch who must leave her magic behind when she time travels back to 1877 Kansas to prevent a curse from being placed on her family. Sheriff Jedidiah McNeil isn’t happy about the beautiful stranger who is wrecking havoc in his peaceful town. Will Bella succeed and save her family? Can Jedidiah convince her to give up her magic in exchange for love?

Once branded the bastard child of the Earl of Wyvern, Geraint Penderyn returns home to Tegfan after a 10-year absence to find toll gates across public roads and many of his farmers living in squalor. As a ragged impoverished boy, he had been one with the villagers. Now, as the new Earl, he's met with hostility and resentment, especially from his childhood sweetheart, Marged Evans. To make things right with his people (and to win back Marged), he masquerades as a "Rebecca," one of the bewigged, white-cloaked leaders of the 1842 riots against Welsh toll roads. Disguised as a man, Marged rides as one of Rebecca's "daughters," and, as to be expected, falls in love with the man behind the mask.

Shooting the Sphinx: a unique political thriller about an American filmmaker who becomes involved in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 by Avram Noble Ludwig.In Hollywood, Ari Basher is the stuff of legends, the man who always gets the impossible-to-film shots. In Cairo, however, he faces the most difficult and dangerous challenge of his career: he must photograph, from mere feet away, the face of the imperishable Sphinx. The film depends on it, but if Ari damages the ancient Sphinx, he could end up in an Egyptian prison for life or even dead. Compounding his troubles, Ari has saved a dark-haired revolutionary named Farah from being raped by government thugs, and she has turned his life around. Now he is caught in a web of intrigue, torn between his need to work with the military dictatorship to get the shot and his desire for this passionate revolutionary. Losing her is not an option.Will Ari join in the liberation of Egypt? Will he and Farah escape the...