Fiction - Cultural Heritage

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a "masterpiece" about a composer returning to his beloved homeland after WWII (Kirkus, starred review). The year is 1947. Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life once revolved around music and love, is finally returning home. En route...

Author: Wendy HoldenISBN-10: 0063398214ISBN-13: 9780063398214Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2025Pages: 368Format: Paperback

A classic tale of rural life and the struggle for survival, set in the Swiss countryside in the early nineteenth century. With its vivid characters and evocative descriptions, this book is an unforgettable portrait of a bygone era.This work has been selected by scholars...

When Police Chief Alton Gravely and Officer Carothers escalate the feud between "Torreya's finest" and conjure woman Eulalie Jenkins by running her off the road into a north Florida swamp, the borrowed pickup truck is salvaged but Eulalie is missing and presumed dead. Her...

The global scramble for energy has made a river in California's High Sierra ripe for damming. Mary Bluestone, woodcarver and longtime resident of a remote mountain town, impulsively puts herself between the river and the dam, becoming a protester in spite of herself. Mary's...

Curls, Curls, Curls takes young readers on a delightful journey with Laylah, an African American girl who embraces and celebrates her curly hair. The book explores Laylah's experiences and emotions as she navigates the uniqueness of her hair, promoting self-confidence and self-acceptance. The story...

A collection of three medieval historical novels by John Broughton, now in one volume!Sward And Sword: Amidst the bloodshed of 11th century combat and conquest, Saxon Godwine elevates himself from landless youth to trusted confidante of the most powerful man in England. But the...

SANDCASTLES IN THE RAIN delves into the oppression and injustice Sydney experiences in the courtroom. The controversial sexual assault trial exposes the classism, misogyny, and victim-shaming prevalent during one of the most self-indulgent periods in history. A doomed love affair blossoms despite tragic consequences....

A wrenching love story and literary debut following two strangers whose paths converge in a series of seemingly chance encounters and shared histories On a bus moving across rural landscapes from town to town, two young people are escaping with nothing to hold except...

Alone in a world that underestimates her, Keiko must wield her sword to seek the justice and honor her family deserves.When Keiko is left to fend for herself, she faces a daunting task: reclaiming her family's legacy and reputation. But as a woman in...

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL auē (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress. Taukiri was born into...

"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly. . . . Hurston believed in the transformative power of storytelling,...

Author: Rajeev BectorISBN-13: 9798230967774Publisher: Rajeev BectorLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2025Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

A superb collection from one of Canada's acclaimed short story writers. Cyril Dabydeen's Forgotten Exiles presents vibrant, humorous, and emotionally charged stories that explore displacement, identity, and belonging. Drawing on his Guyanese and Caribbean roots, Dabydeen reflects on his life in the 1970s, from...

The author's first collection Weather Permitting & Other Stories was centred on the predicament of new immigrants who are coping with the challenges they face immediately upon arrival in Canada. In this new collection, the focus is on the other side of immigration, exploring...

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...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai's extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of...

'A stirring, magical, and emotional novel about family, belonging, marriage, race, and culture ... The best novels are never long enough, and you won't want After the Rain to end' The Australian'A staggering soulful achievement' The Australian Women's WeeklyMalti Fortune is uneasy. She has...

CATAWBA COUSINS SERIES is a ten book collection of fifty years worth of short stories, true stories, poems, songs, and slightly warped nursery rhymes written by Maw Maw D for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Some of the stories revolve around their Native American...

Author: Nejoud Al-YagoutISBN-10: 1642376086ISBN-13: 9781642376081Publisher: Gatekeeper PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2019Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

From one of the writers of the twentieth-century Native American Literary Renaissance comes a remarkable tale about how to acknowledge the past and take a chance on the future. Rooted in tribal-world consciousness, That Guy Wolf Dancing is the story of a young tribal...

Linh Dinh is already one of the secret masters of short fiction. Love Like Hate is something like a traditional cross-cultural novel that's been shocked into life by Dinh's uncanny ability to tell us stories we didn't even know we wanted to hear. --...

With Book Club Guide and Chinese excerpts, Vivian Yang's award-winning novel depicting the turmoil of 20th-century Chinese and Russian diasporas is called by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY as "an engaging exploration of a world unknown to most Westerners. ... Readers will find this fascinating novel very...

The Secrets of an Ancient Legend Come Alive Adventurous, imaginative, and brave, Kawehi has enjoyed her life on the island of Kaua'i, and she especially loves the time she spends with Kahoku, her older brother. But when a shocking event unexpectedly turns her world...

Author: Mansi ShahISBN-10: 1420521411ISBN-13: 9781420521412Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2025Format: Library BindingLarge Print

It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independence is a battle fought much closer to...

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan's women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in...

I, Djuze', the voice of prophets resounds, In the Holy Scriptures, their wisdom is profound, As I stand before you, a gentle reminder, Of the sacred texts and prophets, kindled with fire. Author: Djuze' D'ErribaISBN-10: 1966074182ISBN-13: 9781966074182Publisher: MindStir MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize:...

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAYNPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A vibrant coming-of-age story." -- Charmaine Wilkerson"I was completely immersed." -- Nita ProseFrom the acclaimed author of Wahala, a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: Split between England and...

La Isla (The Island) Within Me, written by Marisa Gutierrez-Capello and illustrated by Endar Novianto, celebrates tradition and culture told through the eyes of a little girl. Camila embraces her Dominican heritage and wants to share and celebrate it with the world. This story...

A yoga teacher finds new life in India-just not the one she was expecting. Nearing thirty, Amanda thought she'd be someone else by now. Instead, she's an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out "For Idiots" travel guides. True, she has a sexy photographer boyfriend, but...

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?...

After Attorney Kwame Agyei-Poku wins the heart of a beautiful young British woman, they marry and have a daughter together. With his position in the Ministry of Justice, Kwame and his family live in a large manor with servants-a far cry from his childhood...

In 2001 Vishram Janappan, living in San Francisco, returns to Madras, India, to settle his mother's affairs after her death. On the surface Vishram's life couldn't be going better. He's a successful architect in San Francisco with a beautiful home and married to a...

""This powerful, heart-wrenching novel follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. Reuven's story typifies that of millions of others experiencing the horrors and deprivations suffered by Jews in WWII and those who tried to help them. And yet,...

"Dazai's best novel [...] the story focuses on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior" --The New York Times This book is a completely new translation of Dazai's classic novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece. Set in...

The Tailor of Semenov Part One - After escaping the brutal murder of her entire family at the hands of bloodthirsty revolutionaries, Maria Romanov flees through the Siberian woods. When she meets a pair of young Jews heading for the remote village of Semenov,...

In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among the human cargo is an artefact harbouring a sloth with a fascinating yet terrifying secret: the ability...

October 1985, Ash Misra leaves a blood-stained Delhi for Oxford University. Haunted by a terrible secret, he just wants to forget. Music and fresh violence bring him to fellow student and amateur violinist, Isabella Angus, but duty and the burden of history keep them...

It's 1942. The world's at war, and even small-town America is awash in fear. . .and hatred. Sis Greggory's beloved brother, Danny, is serving in North Africa. The war news is bad; the Axis powers seem invincible. Where is Danny? They can only wonder....

Blue Earth is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its secrets. Carver Heinz loses both farm and family in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed with Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a...

a story built around the capture of Fort Vincennes (now Vincennes, Indiana) from the British in 1779 during the War of the American Revolution. Vincennes was originally a French fort, and the book purports to tell the story of a beautiful but willlful orphaned...

A breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild...

Reina Maruyama has always had sweet memories of her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. But when her father dies and her mother relocates her to Tokyo, life for Reina is turned on its head. Longing for the home she lost, she struggles to adjust, until...

Alida is from the mountains of northern Albania, where she grows up with her family: her father, her mother, and two twin sisters. The book is set in the historical period of Enver Oxa, but in the northern countryside of Albania people are raised...

A blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction "An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author...

The Bird Boy's Song is a retelling of the common Malawian folk story. "The Orphan and the Slave". The story recounts a slave's usurpation of his master's place, which he enjoys for a short time, until he is unmasked. The author used modern storytelling...

David Wilson moves to town. A clever remark of his is misunderstood, and locals brand him a "pudd'nhead" - a nitwit.Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 1507803192ISBN-13: 9781507803196Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2015Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.30d

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.Winner of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr's captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s Missouri river...

Set at the crossroads of Turkish, Persian and Russian cultures under the red flag of Communism in the late 1970s, The Orphan Sky reveals one woman's struggle to reconcile her ideals with the corrupt world around her, and to decide whether to betray her...