Fiction - Cultural Heritage

The Dawn of Her Resistance is a fast-paced fiction that vividly brings to life the rich culture, tradition, and history of the Ibom and Akpa Kingdoms. Set in the 17th century, the story follows a determined young native girl who finds herself at odds...

Kamiri, a dirt-poor migrant raised in tribal culture, is drawn to the city, where he joins his brother in the illegal drugs trade. Disillusioned, Kamiri enters professional football, but his jealous brother shoots Kamiri in the knee, forcing him to begin work as a...

This unique literary mystery set in Milwaukee's eclectic Riverwest neighborhood during the 2008 recession, weaves together the tale of two immigrant sisters with very different ideas of home.Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna...

The hero and heroine of Honor or Obey are just normal individuals going about their daily routine when actions thrust them into a world of deceit, corruption, and revenge.The beginning of this fascinating crime drama is based on a true story, as retold by...

From a village in the Land of Goshen, a brilliant but physically challenged boy named Yoram manages to make his way into the heart of ancient Egypt. Firsthand, he witnesses the changing culture of the Children of Israel and the different mindsets of the...

Over the summer of 1911 in the vast outer reaches of the Ukraine, a place where few people live, a wild eighteen-year-old Gypsy girl named Natasha is allowed to run free. She meets Nick Rostov, a Russian boy, and falls in love with him...

Leaving their parents behind in their beloved homeland of Ireland, John Holmes and his brother, Robert, set sail to the New World in search of a new life of freedom from oppression. It is 1757, and John holds a degree from the University of...

Meryam is a Jewish woman who saw the horrors of the Holocaust and now travels to India to meet her intended. Against all odds, she has decided to marry a Hindu man named Suresh. Their decision did not come lightly-and it will have serious...

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood friends--a young doctor and a newly married bride--must balance the expectations of their culture and...

A song for Eyram is a novel about family secrets, the taboos of the past and the incredible power of love and forgiveness.From the outside, Gerald lives a charmed life. He is employed in a prestigious company, strong family ties and colleagues that adore...

Evie Janelle Seven years ago, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. I was lost and didn't know it, until destiny led me to "the one."From the moment I met Ethan Cross, I turned over my heart...

Nadia is the oldest child, an orphan and a refugee. Even though her stepfather is a loving man and her stepmother is tolerant, she feels solely responsible for her brother and sister. So it's no surprise to anyone that when her stepfather falls ill...

Deeply involving....Rings so true. -- Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of RoomFrom the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family's growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy."The Shape of Family...

In the best Rabelaisian tradition, this brilliant satire weaves a tale of improbabilities around the seat of the last great taboo. Oilei Bomboki wakes one morning with an excruciating pain that sends him anxiously searching for a cure. Unsuccessful treatments at the hands of...

Athens Tales is a portrait of Greece's capital through the city's own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a roughly chronological course from...

What if the cure for every disease was in the hands of a nineteen-year-old genius?Dr. Jabari Thomas has spent his life racing against time. Brilliant, driven, and haunted by a promise he made as a child at his mother's deathbed, he has finally achieved...

The Conjure Woman's Black Bookby Kailan PitreIn the deep hush of midnight, the Conjure Woman opens her Black Book. Within its pages are secrets whispered by rivers, carried by winds, and guarded by ancestral fire.This is not a manual-it is a living grimoire. Blending...

What does it mean to belong in a country built on both opportunity and exclusion? The Lost American Dream confronts this question with heart, humour, and unflinching insight.From the working-class streets of 1950s Rome, New York, to the ivy-covered halls of Georgetown University, this...

Unstoppable Me is a book with affirmations for Black women, poems, and short stories that remind them to take the time to love themselve before they can pour love into someone else. Author: LeeannISBN-13: 9798232329013Publisher: LeeannLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2025Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

This is the story of three young dreamers - and many others - caught in the unforgiving maze of Bollywood, where the price of stardom is often innocence, and survival is real success.Author: Varun SinghISBN-10: 9365541786ISBN-13: 9789365541786Publisher: Orangebooks PublicationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2025Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize:...

Isla Merrick swore she'd never return to Windhaven, the sleepy coastal town where her happiest memories intertwined with the deepest scars of her heart. But when she inherits The Tidesong Inn-a weathered, salt-kissed relic perched on the cliffs-she's forced to confront the ghosts of...

Tender Years is the touching story of a boy named Eumu, who was born to a Korean family in Osaka, Japan, during World War II. When his mother dies of TB when he is less than three years old, his grandmother abducts him, taking...

In a city torn by revolution, his heart is caught between love, loyalty, and the price of freedom. In 1959 Havana, middle-class student activist Fernando fights against the corrupt, U.S.-backed Batista regime. Initially elated by the success of Castro's Communist Revolution, Fernando's excitement soon...

Neal Burgess, a semi-retired, middle-aged computer analyst from California, had just cashed in from a start-up company he helped bring to life. He bought the sailboat of his dreams and was enjoying his new live-a-board lifestyle in a small marina in southern Alabama intending...

As the global pandemic Covid-19 takes hold of England, one woman in her sixties looks back over the impact that the events of her own life and those of her ancestors have had upon the ways in which she has lived her life and...

What does it mean to belong in a country built on both opportunity and exclusion? The Lost American Dream confronts this question with heart, humour, and unflinching insight.From the working-class streets of 1950s Rome, New York, to the ivy-covered halls of Georgetown University, this...

Author: Shck TchamnaISBN-13: 9798232424275Publisher: Shck TchamnaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d

Author: Michael GecziISBN-13: 9798231526505Publisher: Michael GecziLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Author: Morgan RadfordISBN-10: 0063457830ISBN-13: 9780063457836Publisher: Amistad PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2026Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs

A powerful memoir of survival, silence, and the spirit of a Navajo girl caught between worlds.When Florence is taken from the comfort of her grandparents' home and placed in the Red Sands Residential Dormitory, she enters a system built to erase her language, culture,...

Just graduated from high school and waiting to start college at Oxford, Lily lives under the scrutiny of her volatile Singaporean mother, May, and is unable to find kinship with her elusive British father, Charlie. When May suspects that Charlie is having an affair,...

"Pelle the Conqueror, Volume 4" by Martin Anderson Nexo offers a compelling glimpse into immigrant life in Denmark through the lens of social realism. This historically significant work explores the struggles and triumphs of the working class, painting a vivid portrait of a bygone...

Author: Wm HowardISBN-13: 9798232608569Publisher: Wmwriter PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Most kids dream to be doctors and lawyers or maybe even ballplayers. But to Deyandre, his biggest dream was just to be relevant, to make a living out of the simplest things that life would prevail. This story takes you back in time to...

A heartwarming historical fiction novel that begins with a ship, a seed, and a silent promise.In 1913, Yusuf and Anya arrive in New York City with nothing but hope, a few heirlooms, and the weight of an unspoken past. As they navigate tenement life,...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War, now in a new paperback edition. "Julian Zabalbeascoa is the real deal, a major talent, and the story he's telling...

Early 1939 Poland. A precarious position for any Jewish family, for the news out of Nazi Germany is frightening. Joshua Stern lives with his family in Warsaw. His father, Avraham, is the head of the ecumenical Warsaw Cultural Center and Joshua is a professor...

By Antonio Tabucchi, one of the most renowned voices in European literature and the foremost Italian writer of his generation, The Woman of Porto Pim is made up of enchanting, hallucinatory fragments that take place on the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal....

In this gripping prequel to The Red Canoe, Buck navigates family, trauma and star-crossed romance in his search to track down his wayward brother.In this prequel to 2022's The Red Canoe, Buck, aka Michael Fineday, aka Red Deer is on his way to track...

An exploration of racial prejudice, sexual predation and the unrelenting pursuit of justice, The Red Canoe tells the story of carpenter Buck whose life is flipped upside down when a teenage girl shows up at his door. Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name...

"The Able McLaughlins" by Margaret Wilson offers a sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of early 20th century rural America. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life a timeless story of Scottish American heritage. Exploring themes of family life and cultural identity, this...

"A Christian Woman" by Emilia Pardo Bazán offers a compelling glimpse into 19th-century Spanish society through the lives of women. This meticulously prepared translation brings to English readers a vital work of Spanish literature, exploring themes of faith, societal expectations, and the complex roles...

"How good it is to hear a Darug voice speaking of Darug history."--Kate Grenville, author of The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth PrizeBlending the mythical power of Téa Obreht and the epic scope of Min Jin Lee, a searing historical novel that tells...

The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.Author: Jane GardamISBN-10: 0349122547ISBN-13: 9780349122540Publisher: Abacus (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2009Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w...

Outhouse Mentality is a collection of short, character-driven stories rooted in Hawai'i's sugar plantation era. Told with humor, insight, and deep cultural understanding, these stories reveal the everyday wisdom, pride, and quiet resistance of people who lived with little-but meant much. Each tale shines...

Dive into the heart of Chief of War, Apple TV+'s ambitious 2025 series, with this sharp, witty, and spoiler-free review by Debbie Barnes. Spanning 5,000 words, this critical companion unpacks the nine-episode saga starring Jason Momoa, set against the vibrant backdrop of 18th-century Hawaii....

A Quiet Storm is a coming-of-age story about Estevan, who was adopted in infancy by the Vela family, who moved from Santa Monica, California, to San Quintín in Baja. The metaphorical storm represents all the trials and tribulations that Estevan must navigate to become...

The innate need for family connection and shared cultural traditions is rooted in our biology. This sense of belonging is integral to our survival. The concept of blood memory, where we feel a connection to ancestors and their experiences, is a driving force for...

Internationally bestselling author Kritika H. Rao weaves a stunning tale of love, seduction, and betrayal in this enchanting and romantic conclusion to the Divine Dancers duology that started with The Legend of MenekaAfter completing her dangerous mission to seduce Sage Kaushika--and unexpectedly finding love...

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