Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Yan Lianke is one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary China--twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, as well as the winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize--and he has been lauded for his imaginative satire and perceptive cultural critique. The...

After numerous infidelities and a messy break-up, a burnt-out attorney joins the Peace Corps to reform and redeem himself. He finds peace in the serene plains and mountains of Tanzania, teaching villagers to fish--until he becomes attached to one of his young charges who's...

In the midst of a brutal invasion, Charwe discovers she is no ordinary woman-she is the living embodiment of Nehanda, the legendary guardian spirit who returns in her people's darkest hour.Set against the backdrop of Africa's colonial era and inspired by true events, this...

An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English. Dreaming of a better life for her son, Vasfi's mother encourages...

Fascinating scenes unfolded in the mind of Duncan Fitch, reporter for a Boston newspaper, about people who possess a quiet rage, a strong spirit and a good will that could be likened to none; people who bear grief and trust reason. There seems to...

In GARDENS OF PLENTY, Ron Arias immerses readers in a 16th-century world that is both mysterious and magical, exploring the rich culture of "Amexica" with a tenderness that is both persuasive and captivating. Following the publication of his previous work, The Wetback and Other...

A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club PickNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection "Mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell"Savas is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows." -Bryan Washington Asya and Manu are looking at apartments,...

In 1969 London socialite Katherine Fletcher is dispatched by her family to attend the funeral of her bachelor uncle in rural Kilkenny. She soon discovers that she has no idea who, if anyone, she can trust and that nothing is as it seems. In...

An intensely moving, lyrical, and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a...

Handyman, Ah Hung hasn't yet to bring home a girl. His mother decides to match make him to a woman with a goodly dowry. With no odd jobs and no money he is resigned to this solution. Having only done it one time long...

Dubbed, "The Great Enchantress", by art critic Robert Hughes, Barcelona was seducing visitors long before the city's rise to a tourist hotspot following the Olympic Games in 1992. Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell all once called the Catalan capital "home," while countless...

Racism is fraud. It's perpetrated by big league corporations and political entities to divide and conquer nations, and their cultural and ethnic identities in order to bring about a global order of mass slavery.Author: Castle HillISBN-10: 1540800504ISBN-13: 9781540800503Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2016Pages:...

Feel the atmosphere.Enjoy the descriptions of place, time and people of this Mediterranean island.Experience a mystery, a journey, a lover's dilemma or a family saga.This memorable collection of stories brings Rosanne Dingli's recollections of Malta vividly to life.Some are family anecdotes, some are folkloric,...

"Lyrical [and] haunting, Am?rica's liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering." -- Washington PostDeftly written and fiercely resilient, Am?rica's Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant...

She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one? "With hauntingly poetic prose, Molly X. Chang spins a tale at the intersection of science fiction,...

Named an ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024Named a BEST or MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Readers' Digest, Elle Magazine, CondeNast Traveler, Publishers' Weekly, Indigo, ZibbyMag, Goodreads, BookBub & more "A deeply moving, layered portrait of the hopes, dreams and fears a family...

A hidden treasure. A dangerous journey. An epic quest begins.Buckle up for The Treasure of Tundavala Gap, a breathtaking, globe-trotting thrill ride that will leave you gasping until the final, explosive secret is revealed. When brilliant PhD student Mateus and his best friend team...

ADVANCE READERS HAVE called The Gentler Gamester "Shakespeare set in a watermelon patch" and "Shakespeare with Spanish moss." The main character, an out of luck young man in Lowcountry Carolina, finds Dame Fortune's favor. In a series of unexpected events, she is ever turning...

A hidden treasure. A dangerous journey. An epic quest begins.Buckle up for The Treasure of Tundavala Gap, a breathtaking, globe-trotting thrill ride that will leave you gasping until the final, explosive secret is revealed. When brilliant PhD student Mateus and his best friend team...

In this "riveting [and] unforgettable" novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland--and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother (Jimin Han, author of The Apology). Angelina Lee feels like she doesn't belong. Newly...

Growing up in India, Kamini often found herself struggling to be noticed: noticed by her beloved, storytelling father, whose position as a railway officer took him away from home for long stretches of time; and noticed by her distant, distracted mother, Saroja, whose biting...

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for French-Language Fiction, Sugaring Off probes intimacy, denial, and how we are tied to others--whether those we love or those we exploit.On the surface, Adam and Marion are the embodiment of success: wealthy, attractive, in love. While...

Time and Time Again by James Hilton is a reflective novel that weaves together memory, love, and the passage of time. It follows Charles Anderson, a man caught between the past and present, as he revisits pivotal moments in his life, exploring the choices...

When the Atlas Lions Roar is set against the backdrop of 70s Morocco, a time when Rania and Manal were just children. The novel vividly captures the essence of their childhood trips to the Atlas region, which they initially didn't appreciate. It is only...

Meltdown at Nempa Brooks is a realistic fiction about some boisterous or mischievous activities that take place in our contemporary societies and the evil effects they have on our communities. This is a story of how Aku, a rural community, was nearly destroyed by...

Mia's secret comedy career, forbidden office crush, and a long-guarded family secret take center stage, threatening her newfound confidence and her one shot at fame in this hilarious, heartfelt coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Etaf Rum. Mia Almas has a...

ABC Down by the Bayou is a book about all the great culture and history of Louisiana connected to each letter of the alphabet. Each letter represents a small aspect of what Louisiana has to offer. It is a great alphabet book that highlights...

A darkly humorous saga set in post-9/11 America and the Middle East When All Else Fails begins on September 12th, 2001. It is the story of Hunayn, a luckless and lovelorn Iraqi college student living in Orlando, Florida, after having graduated from high school...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Helena NyblomISBN-10: 1409764303ISBN-13: 9781409764304Publisher: Ghose...

What if women could get rid of their guilt?Maya Patel has it all--her own start-up, a sexy, doting husband, influencer status, and now, a new baby. Or does she? Because behind closed doors, Maya's drowning. Her newborn's taking a toll on her marriage, her...

Author: Deepak BhootraISBN-13: 9798895448816Publisher: Notion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2024Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.81d

Jenny Jacobson woke up on a spring morning in 1850 thinking her family had forgotten that day was her birthday.Later that morning, she would find herself in a mule-drawn wagon containing all their worldly possessions, leaving their known world behind.They would be part of...

Sonia: Between Two Worlds by Stephen McKenna delves into the life of Sonia Dainton, torn between her aristocratic heritage and the modern world. This captivating novel explores themesof love, identity, and societal change, offering a poignant reflection on the clash between tradition and progress.Author:...

Take this book into your hands.Take these children into your heart.When their mother dies, eight children are scattered across coal country. Children went to work. They did hard jobs, worked long hours, for less pay, and lost not only limbs but lives in the...

"Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So observes an omniscient narrator in Ghazaleh Alizadeh's monumental novel The House of the Edrisis, offering a darkly comedic glimpse at the aftermath of an unnamed...

Raven Games is a novel focused on four characters: (1) David Elwin, who studies Grizzly bear populations in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada and who is drawn into the world of Haida spirituality by (2) Jamie Bear Mother's Daughter and (3) her Grandfather,...

Observed in Mexico and parts of the United States, El D?a de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebratory holiday. Los Muertos is the first anthology of fiction relating to or inspired by this bicultural tradition. Each of the two dozen Mexican...

A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice--but where love and justice prevail. The unidentifiable remains of a body are discovered in a field in Shadow Heights, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa....

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles's Koreatown A Penguin Classic Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior...

Harvey Fergusson's novel The Blood of the Conquerors tells the story of a young man who is torn between two worlds. On one hand, he is a proud member of the Navajo tribe; on the other, he is studying to become a doctor in...

PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Slate - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what...

Bottles of homemade plum wine link two worlds, two eras, and two lives through the eyes of Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching at a Tokyo university. When her surrogate mother, Michi, dies, Barbara inherits an extraordinary gift: a tansu chest filled with bottles...

Author: Allie NavaISBN-10: 1965253059ISBN-13: 9781965253052Publisher: Dartfrog BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2024Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Author: Allie NavaISBN-10: 1965253067ISBN-13: 9781965253069Publisher: Dartfrog BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2024Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d

In this unforgettable novel from the award-winning author of Brass, twins growing up in America in 1999 unravel larger truths about identity and sibling bonds when one gets wrapped up in the war in Kosovo Growing up in Connecticut, adopted twins Drita and Petrit...

Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is a portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. This classic of Scottish twentieth-century...

A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal. Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents'. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the...

Jamaican-born Barbara Makeda Blake-Hannah has been a Rastafarian since the 1970s and is amember of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. As well as JOSEPH - A RASTA REGGAE FABLE, a novel inspired by the life of Bob Marley, Hannah wrote 'Rastafari - The New Creation',...

From the bestselling Italian author comes a novel based on the true story of a priest who refused to surrender... The school year is finished, exams are over and summer stretches before seventeen-year-old Federico, full of promise and opportunity. But then he accepts a...

Among the most "banned" books in the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and...