A collection that includes seven essays and two pieces of short fiction and captures both the small moments of daily existence and times when life and death hang in the balance, including the title work about a searing journey through India.

When Elvis impersonators start dying at the annual Elvis festival in Tupelo, Mississippi, Callie Valentine Jones and her cousin Lovie find themselves at the center of a murder investigation. Callie needs to find the real killer to prove Lovie's innocence, and she has to act fast before the wrong person is singing jailhouse blues.

"From South Korea to Nigeria to the USA, come celebrate festivals throughout the year! People around the world are celebrating. In Australia, it's Christmas in summer with barbecues on the beach. In Thailand, they're celebrating Songkran, the famous Buddhist water festival. Rhyming text and graphic illustrations pair perfectly and invite young readers to explore the world through mesmerizing festivals"--

From whale watching to squid jigging to making your own sea salt, this adventure guide to the iconic Pacific Northwest coast has something for vacationers and locals alike! Celebrate the wild beauty of the Northwest Coast as you learn how to catch and cook seasonal seafood, including recipes that can be prepared over a driftwood fire, enjoy beach activities for adults and kids, learn the basics of water sports including kayaking and paddleboarding,...

"Reluctantly volunteering her home after a haunted house exhibit burns down during her town's over-the-top Halloween festival activities, Meg Langslow is challenged to save the day upon discovering a real murder victim among the creepy displays"--

With the bookshop where she works about to close, Laura Horsley finds herself agreeing to help organize a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside. But when an innocent mistake leads the festival committee to believe that Laura is a personal friend of the author at the top of their wish-list, she finds herself travelling to Ireland to persuade the notorious recluse (and her literary hero) to come out of hiding.

A story teller from the local library is murdered in San Celina, California, only days before the town's story telling festival. Sleuth Benni Harper, curator of the folk art museum which is sponsoring the festival, discovers the victim doubled as another kind of story teller, a ghostwriter for the town's scandal sheet. By the author of Kansas Troubles.

"Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She's already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town's festivities. With her frosty mother-in-law, Fiona, visiting for the holidays, Amy definitely...

Offered an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival, Adri throws caution, her prestigious summer internship, and her parents goodwill to the wind. Her life has been planned and scheduled in accordance to her parents' law school dreams, and Adri wants a summer of freedom. When the horde of affluent, entitled teen party-goers arrive at the island paradise, there's barely any food, nowhere to stay, and not nearly enough porta-potties....

Illustrations and rhyming text depict the fiesta of La Tomatina, during which the small town of Bunol, Spain, becomes the site of a massive, tomato-throwing food fight. Includes facts about the festival and glossary of Spanish words.