Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Iord is I ored somewhere down the line in steel, in iron. Iord is I spoke, I speak, I am complete. I think as a treat. My spokes have become sharp as I bark for I am nothing but a dog, the husky of...

A picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard lawyer Eddie Loperena's Newyorican life in "the country I was offered."Brought to New York from Puerto Rico when he was seven, Eddie Loperena grew up dreaming of returning to his island paradise.As he approaches forty, the...

Written by A. W. Stripling, Jr. Edits by Beverly Simmons Cover Design by Jeannie Ruiz Since the time of Aristotle, political philosophers have noted that those who live in cities have a different sensibility than those who live in the countryside. The Cyclist Gabriel...

Molly Thompson is a country girl, through and through. Molly becomes a wanderer when she reaches the age of 60 and keeps the roads hot from April to December every year selling her crocheted angels. She believes the angels she designs and creates from...

Glori Simmons's new book, Carry You, is a timely collection of linked short stories that examines how war shapes and distorts our understanding of family, friends, country, and self. Simmons draws out the humanity of her characters, their flaws and failings, their hopes and...

Riveting stories from the heart of the Vancouver Sikh experience. Set among people who emigrated to Canada in the late twentieth century, facing racial animosity and economic insecurity, and moving forward as their lives became more settled, Fauji Banta Singh gives us rare glimpses...

Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely. Set in Goulburn and its surrounds, where Foster resides, The Contemptuary is a lament for a dying faith, a commentary on...

Nothing is quite what it seems in this tall tale; dubious science meets equally dubious myth making. The myth of the Tiger-wolf (Thylacine alpine) is it, as they say, a fraud? The fantastic adventures of the "Green Avenger" cartoon, drawn by Nat Klein, just...

The Girl Who Helped Ned Kelly does not make a hero of the bushranger, nor does it condemm him. But the author draws with a vivid pen the characters of Old Man Jackson who lost his life while assisting Ned Kelly; of Kate Kelly,...

The dots on the plains far below were gazelles, zebras, elephants, buffalo and there were probably leopards in the thorn trees, and a lion pride or two. She felt the stirrings of an even deeper passion for Africa and, with it, a longing for...

First published in French in 1929, this novel is set in Sydney in 1910, before the couple leave the city for the tranquil life on a deserted island on the north Queensland coast. Their idyllic life - man, woman and dog Wolf - is...

Oh Lucky Country (Paese fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist proportions that its swirling narrative boils over into a maelstrom, washing away all migrant clichés. It is a witty, tragi-comic view of Australian society, culture and prejudice.This...

Malky Dalgleish and four highland Scots, who befriend him on the battlefield at Dunbar, arrive in South Sheels in November 1650, as indentured servants to work in the salt-panns. After Cromwell's victory in the battle, they had been marched from Dunbar to Durham in...

In a violently divided Northern Ireland, two families confront fear, survival, and their fragile hope for something more . . . Belfast, 1972. On the Crumlin Road, the sectarian Troubles have forced Tom Martin to take drastic measures to protect his family. Across the...

Powerful stories of Zimbabweans moving on from the past, loss, and long-held beliefs.Moving On gathers twenty of Zimbabwe's finest storytellers, exploring themes of resilience and change. Characters grapple with the chains of the past, the loss of loved ones, and the search for a...

Derek doesn't have much going for him. He only puts up with the long hours minding his brother's strawberry stall because at night he can become a different person... calling himself 'Hank', donning a Stetson and fronting a country-and-western band. Derek has modelled his...

Tom Duncan, a Scot, joins the South Shields Police fresh from the trenches after the Great War. Little does he realise, when he first walks down the five stone steps into Keppel Street Police HQ (pictured opposite), that fifty years later he will be...

Set in 1980s Britain against the backdrop of ecological crisis, The Curve of the Land is a circumspect novel about our modern relationship with the Earth, which in this case is represented by the landscapes of western Britain. Jessica, an ardent but unfulfilled activist,...

On Winsley Hill is set in a very real location, a plateau near Bath, England. Within the chronicles of old light ever stirring on the hill is the story of Rosie Chant, a young farmworker who, aged 17 in 1908, falls in love with...

"The all-seeing eye and the all-listening ear, roving all over the island, stopping here and there to listen in on conversations." This, as Jacqueline Bishop writes in her introduction, is what Hazel Campbell has been doing for almost fifty years - and there are...

On Route 66 is dedicated to the legendary road. It's a book about people. People on the move. In a series of twelve short stories, Daniel Wyatt evokes that great and wonderful era in the good ol' US of A, when the open road...

"Have you ever then woken up thirty years into your own past with a hazy memory that someone has just predicted your imminent death, but you don't know why or how? It does have a tendency to sharpen the mind..."Jack is sixty, scouse, irritable,...

Can a love so strong, so deep, and so powerful exist that your descendants would feel it and connect to it hundreds of years later? Or do they need a little guidance to lead them toward their destiny? Ariana Romero, from the oldest town...

The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant's life in Germany. The chapters of this multi-layered novel form...

YIELDING: Life UnraveledWhat do you do when you seem to have it all together, but inside you're a mass of contradictions? If you are Viv, you run and hide as fast as you can! Viv is a wife, mother and teacher, who breaks down...

Wallingford in Oxfordshire, England is over 1,000 years old and prior to 1974 was in the Royal County of Berkshire. Some ruins of the Castle built by William the Conqueror still stand. There have long been stories about secret, hidden underground passages and tunnels...

An anthropologist working for an American University must return to Eastern Canada, the site of his greatest failure, in search of an ancient relic that holds the key to the world as we know it. Jona is obsessed with his work. An archaeologist and...

At times a comedy of terrors, pitting the severe pogrom pain of one side of our narrator's family against the other's imagined holocaust horrors in a contest of who suffered more, the consequences are deadly serious: when long-ago traumas trigger ones even more devastating...

Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices, divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors. Batya Lightenberg, a Canadian wife and mother tries to live a normal life in oblivion of her troubled past while carrying a legacy of guilt and buried secrets inherited...

A vibrant collection exploring the Polish-Canadian experience through fiction.Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction showcases the diverse voices of Polish-Canadian writers, offering a unique perspective on immigration, cultural identity, and the search for belonging. This anthology features award-winning authors and emerging talents, weaving together...

Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. "This is a work that wears its significant research very lightly and provides the reader with a tremendously original and imaginative set of pictures about the ideas of creativity and using language to...

Raw, forceful, and intensely masculine, this is a powerful novel of land, blood, and history. Set in the mythic remote country of the Top End in Australia's Northern Territory, Other Country tells the story of two young brothers, Ace and Billy, and their struggle...

Aging and homesick, Nur Ali is living in America, seeking asylum. Though exiled from his Swat, Pakistan, homeland and inaccurately labeled as a Taliban sympathizer by the US government, he's determined to keep his position as family patriarch. So Nur Ali leads and provides...

Join CRESCENT CITY KITTY AND BONE-A-PART as the find out what true friendship is. Our favorite friends have found themselves adrift by accident trying to help some of their less fortunate friends at the Ferry Station next door to the abandoned World Trade Center....

It was never meant to be a book; I guess Lewis Alexis's life has inspired me a lot. He became part of me-his thoughts matched with my words to find the particular meaning of life, to find where his freedom lies. I just sometimes...

Eze Donald Akudike, now retired from a successful career in business, lives with his wife, Ugomma, in their hometown of Umuoha, Nigeria. Long ago, when the two of them were students in England, they lost their daughter, Adaku, to social services. Now, twenty-four years...

Discover the epic saga of the oldest, continuous hereditary monarchy in the world-the 2600 years old, Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan. "The Goddesses of Japan" is a history-based book that takes you on a journey through the country's rich past, narrated by unsung heroines-goddess, sovereign,...

This novel, SHARDS OF MEMORY - Oral History in a Heartbeat, presents a heartwarming experience of emotional healing through storytelling, with a touch of romance and mystery woven throughout.Young Gahlen spends an inordinate amount of time with both sets of grandparents after a tragic...

When the product of a dysfunctional family inherits a large estate he finds it comes with a load of debt. His socialite mother tries to force him to marry an heiress she considers suitable for his position. He never understood why his father shut...

A German family in Arkansas is one on which to spend attention. The Wertheimers are of a small town of exciting summers and dreadful autumns, great authors and miserable schoolteachers, and nights lit up by fire and stars.Author: Derek HarrisonISBN-10: 1716558395ISBN-13: 9781716558399Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Cherokee Tears is a uniquely American story that spans two generations of time. A young Cherokee mother dies of pneumonia and her bereft husband abandons their four young daughters in the care of the state adoption agencies that places each child in a non...

Cornucopia offers an exciting literary adventure that will captivate readers with its vivid poetic use of language. The novel poses an unusual example because of its flowing cinematic narrative style, which depicts seeing, experiencing, and feeling. Rather than simply "telling," it "shows." Instead of...

Những bài viết trong tập sách đánh dấu một quãng thời gian viết của chúng tôi. Một cố gắng chủ quan, rời rạc, về một số vấn đề của văn-học bầng chữ Quốc-ngữ thời đầu và miền Nam lục-tỉnh, không hẳn có tính cách...

A Native American woman's struggle to substantiate foul play after being told her daughter (two weeks Into her 13th birthday) has committed suicide In an unmonitored Women's Cell at the County Jail. Experience the treatment given to American Indians when little was done to...

Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your palate long after you...

In support of dreaming into existence a more quintessential way of being, the four friends have been learning from Grandmother Xochitl and from Mother Earth Herself. Journeys of soul and spirit have shown them an array of marvels that usually remain unseen. Wu, Daphne,...

The American West is on fire, but, deep in a forest pocket, a young woman survives elemental disaster by denning with a bear. Anya, a Korean-American orphan, adapts to life in the forest as weather extremes heighten, social cohesion crumbles and militias dominate the...

During Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity in the winter of 2013-14, Dr. Natalka Slovyanka, a beautiful, young psychiatrist from Donbas, tries to cure her mysterious patient of his ''philosophical intoxication.'' Telesyk is a storyteller who hears voices in the wind. His mind drifts between the...

A sweeping tale of 19th-century Texas... Texas history on a broad, complex scale --Kirkus ReviewsWhen young Shelby Whitmire spies a flatboat coming down the Mississippi to Natchez, he doesn't know that two aboard are on the run to Mexico's Texas territory. How could the...

What is real freedom? True friendship? The value of life? And what impact would life make on a child forced to work like a man since age 11?Blue Moon Bailey, son of a devoted God-fearing mother and useless alcoholic father grew up during the...