Fiction - Cultural Heritage

"Leah Abrams grapples with how to live, work, and fall in love morally in a time of global upheaval. Moving, smart, and completely winning."--Erin Somers, author of The Ten Year Affair"A modern comic Jewish voice. Dated is a rollicking literary sitcom and generous family...

A collection of ten short stories, all previously published in online journals and several anthologies. The publication credits are listed at the end of the manuscript under "Acknowledgments."Author: Casey RobbISBN-13: 9798902522256Publisher: Casey RobbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2026Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Abby Levy has all the hallmarks of a comfortable suburban life - a loving marriage, two healthy children, and a fulfilling job as a Spanish translator. Then her nine-year-old son David comes home from school ill with symptoms of a serious illness. After doctor...

A Reconstruction-era novel that fuses blistering historical truth with unforgettable fiction. The war was over, but the chains weren't. Set in 1866 in the turbulent aftermath of the Civil War, UNBOUND immerses readers in the raw, volatile reality of Reconstruction Louisiana. It follows four...

Actress and filmmaker Rebecca Hall presents Passing, Nella Larsen's classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance. After a chance reunion in a Chicago hotel, Irene Redfield discovers that her childhood friend Clare Kendry has been hiding her Black heritage and passing as white. Though Clare...

Author: Abi DaréISBN-10: 059333986XISBN-13: 9780593339862Publisher: Diversified PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2020Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.20dLarge Print

The land has begun to forget her own song.In response, she calls - quietly, the way she calls when she needs to be remembered - and the ones who hear her are not the strongest or the fastest, but the ones whose hearts already...

A kingdom on the brink.A girl forced into exile.A choice that would shape a nation.Aoife is sixteen, the daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster, raised in a land where girls are taught to speak, inherit, and lead under Ireland's ancient Brehon laws....

Peyarilaan, a street orphan-turned-saviour, explores how devotion can turn suffocating, how tenderness can mutate into possession and how idealizing someone can be its own form of violence and reflects on the darker impulses of chosen love, the consequent emotional dependency and the illusion of...

"Black Soil" is a poignant historical novel that chronicles the lives of Irish immigrants carving out a new existence on the American frontier. Set against the vast, untamed landscape of northwestern Iowa in the mid-nineteenth century, the story follows the Connors family as they...

What do you do when faced with contrasting truths-the ecstasy of the present and the aches of the past? Kabir Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit, carries the scars of a childhood uprooted by the turmoil of 1990s Kashmir. Decades later, now a celebrated music producer...

Before kings. Before armies. Before gods demanded obedience. There was another way.Four survivors flee the burning of their village - a hunter, a wrestler, a smith, and a maker of marks. They carry nothing but each other and a belief that people are born...

AVAILABLE AGAIN: a highly anticipated new edition of 12 poetically ironic short stories of 19th-century Sicily by a realist master, translated and introduced by D.H. Lawrence. "Intoxicating... His finest work... How acutely Verga understood the tragic contradictions that still disturb our modern experience." --New...

National Bestseller Winner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Award, and shortlisted for The Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Childhood is renowned and critically acclaimed author André Alexis' stunning first novel. Originally published in 1998, Childhood...

In Color and Frequency: a black love story painted in color, vibrating in soul, rooted in belonging and becoming.When India meets Solomon, their connection is immediate...electric, and they ignite something neither of them expected.India Rampersaud, a dedicated and passionate painter, is beautiful, guarded, and...

It's 1978 on a remote island resort in the Bahamas. Carter has been provided with an island holiday and a beautiful travelling companion, Veronica. But as they find themselves alone, they soon realise that they are no longer on holiday - they have been...

A novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile; a love story borne of the legacy of violence from the Vietnam war and the North American Vietnamese diaspora. From the award-winning author of the international bestselling novel Ru. Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin...

This book is about survival, escaping from a hard death and having to travel to the ends of the earth to do so.People immigrated in the past, are doing it now, and will continue to do so into the future; the reason, often as...

Justice and Fire: A Juneteenth TaleThe war is over. But in the backwoods and bayous of the South, the chains still hold. The old cruelty just changed its clothes. Men in high places, bankers, sheriffs, officers, and preachers... have buried slavery beneath new names....

The Legend of Esperanza Bridge is a short story, set in the late 1800s of Appalachia, about two feuding villages and the events that occur to change longstanding resentment. The children of both communities have wisdom that eludes most of the adults. A couple...

Anjelina Bhaskaran, the blue eyed Anglo featured teen, wore her new frock and stood in front of the mirror smiling at her own image. But she wanted to cry, because Grace in mills & boon story cried too, when she got "the thing". She...

This story is about reconnection with one's roots, culture, and upbringing. Joy, the protagonist of the story hails from an Indian bengali family and is settled in Denmark with his mother, wife Shree and daughter named Misti. Though he belongs to a zamindar (landlords)...

Dive into an enthralling narrative of love, fate, and redemption set against the vibrant backdrop of Rajasthan, India. The plot unfolds as Avinash Bhati entrusts his son Vaibhav with the formidable task of breaking a centuries-old family curse. Vaibhav seeks assistance from Candice, a...

.......... "Dadu, if that was the condition of water how did so many people of the family manage to handle daily chores....... ?" asked Rakhi. "Yes, ........every drop of water had to be pumped out ..... or drawn from the nearby well......Now imagine how...

Ngacida opposes unity of South Sudan with Sudan because he believed that Arabs are gadabout people with a grim language that would not be understood or learned properly. He fears that unity with Arabs will discourage teaching of English language and encourage their civilization....

Bounty of Beauty is about a wealthy man called Mackuel who believes that his enormous herd of cattle was enough for his respect and to get anything he wants from the people. He always wants any occasion to be witnessed by his son Nguac....

What bemused him the most on such occasions was seeing the number of women who came praying for a son. They should be praying for a daughter like Indo. Why on earth would they want a son? Daughters had everything, clothes and food and...

Within the beautiful and outspoken Cogewea, there is sometimes unrest. A living dichotomy, the half-blood girl is caught between the world of her father, a European rancher; and that of her mother, a proud full-blooded Okanagan. When a battle for her affections sees suitors...

This fictional tale is about Betty Scott, who wanted to be a witch. Her wish came true over two hundred years ago when she encountered Lucifer, the devil himself, on Ahart Ridge in western Patrick County, Virginia. Jake Ahart, a local farmer, killed what...

Dive into the cosmic expanse with 'Celestial Chronicles: Ramayana Unveiled, ' the inaugural volume in the 'Eternal Epics' series. Within these pages lies a celestial odyssey-a transcendent exploration of the Ramayana's timeless wisdom across celestial realms.Embark on a celestial pilgrimage guided by cosmic sages,...

Disorder strikes during a celebratory ballgame in Chichen Itza for the Mayan ruler Pakal's birthday. Xóchitl's longtime friend has been taken prisoner in the fighting and forced to play a rigged game where the losers will be sacrificed to the gods. Before blood can...

Over one thousand years ago, central Mexico was on the brink of collapse. In the highlands, the Toltec civilization in Tula was at odds with the Mayan civilization in Chichen Itza. Xóchitl was the younger queen in Tula, a Purépecha princess by blood. Her...

After the smoke clears it becomes obvious that there is more than one way to heal after being burned. However, vengeance must be taken for loved ones lost. Both the civilizations of Tula and Chichen Itza have paid the ultimate price for the faults...

Suicide has rocked the royal family in Tula. People are missing. Chichen Itza is taking advantage of their opponent in their most vulnerable of moments without mercy. When Xóchitl is injured trying to defend her home, she's carried by the Purépecha back to her...

The Chichimecas have decided to back Tula in the fight against Chichen Itza, but the Toltec leadership is struggling under their king, Tecpancaltzin. Xóchitl is at odds with whether to side with her husband and his first queen to watch the war from the...

This book consists of poems of Bruce C. Autry written between 1996 and 2022; and the poems of his daughter Margaret Autry, written between 2020 and 2022 and the poems of his son Michael Autry. Mr. Autry has written a variety of sonnets and...

"The Way Life Is Meant To Be" can bring a desire for natives to go back to Maine. Sometimes that longing is nothing but a fantasy. Other times though, it's almost as if they are being called to return, like some magnetic force is...

Nkechi always wished to be an Ant and her wish was granted but not with a prize. The story teaches the child about taking responsibility and hard work. It takes us through the world of ants and how they exhibit leadership traits. This is...

Cortreva's Mysterious Shadow delves into the local history of Carter County Missouri and seeks to explain a phenomena that occurs along the hills. Native American legends of the Choctaw, Shawnee, and Cherokee coincide in this little novel.Author: Bobbie Roshone,Eunice PenningtonISBN-13: 9798734681077Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A story of hope in helplessness, courage in the carnage, of love and faith.between the rivers.Between two rivers is the world's largest river island - Majuli. For centuries, the surrounding water has shielded the island from external influences and thus here is developed a...

SCANDAL IN THE PALCE(A DRAMA) Palace is the sacred and revered place of the kingdom where the chosen and bona fide custodian of the people, customs and laws, as well as the representative of the gods, the king, dwells; it is, therefore, a place...

The Dark Bright Moon: Is historical fiction, it cannot claim authenticity, although it tries to stay close to Ojibwe customs and beliefs. The proud Native American culture if fairly represented in this uplifting story of a young man coming of age. The seven teaching...

A young child goes missing from an Italian-Australian festival in a Far North Queensland rural town where the cane fields meet the sea. The investigations and search that follow uncover more than just the truth about what happened to that little girl as the...

Cambridge researcher James is quite worried about the current pandemic when a fellow researcher Ramesh counsels him saying that such a phenomenon is not happening for the first time in the annals of history. Illustrating his point, Ramesh narrates a story about how the...

"Todo lo Divino y valorado viene del Cielo." In 1982, Texas-born Remy Esquivél married wealthy Mexican doctor Mauricio Preciado and lived with his parents in Monterrey, Mexico, while he finished medical school. A year later, they celebrate the birth of their son, Seth. However,...

Liberianisms are more than just wise sayings. They are a whole world of proverbs, packed with knowledge, wisdom of old, and quietly begging to be sought. The seeker has to peel away at the layers to get the meanings intended. Mathematically, three is more...

Gotte Spake Musica is divided into two sections. The first is set in the fictional town of Tremka. The setting is just as WWII is coming to an end. The local people have suffered from bitter winters, occupation of armed forces and the dwindling...

Enoch visit to Maasai Mara." is an African classic short story about mother, daughter struggle and fight against negative cultural practice of F.G.M. Faith Naipanoi has been denied education by her father Daniel Simba and forced into female circumcision before being married off to...

This book is dedicated to my families hometown of Monteleone DiPuglia, Italy. In here I share with you what it was like for me to grow up in an Italian family, about my parents who crossed the sea to reach America, and all the...

It is a universal truth that a woman in love with a man is capable of sacrifice. A sacrifice-cum-revenge that builds little suspicion, if any, or none at all. Yet, she still becomes a darling to the man's family. And when culture favours her...