Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in...

- Award-winning author: Author Terry Roberts has won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, Sir Walter Raleigh Award, Clark Cox Award for Fiction, and was a James Still Award Finalist. - Regional Expert: Terry Roberts has extensive knowledge of the region he writes,...

Every woman has her breaking point. Has Scarlet reached hers? In this beautifully crafted tale of redemption and renewal, Scarlet must choose between staying in the shadows of weighty family secrets, or stepping out into the light, and thus risking it all. Can she...

Eugenie Grandet by Honore De Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Classic Books EugAuthor: Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Honore De BalzacISBN-10: 1534798366ISBN-13: 9781534798366Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2016Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.30d

Jane Porter (17 January 1776 - 24 May 1850) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Jane Porter was born in Durham as the third of the five children of William Porter and Jane n e Blenkinsop. Tall and beautiful as she...

"Where are you from?" This is a common enough question when people meet and start to get to know one another. And many of us would have no difficulty responding to such a simple query, but for Third Culture Kids the answer is more...

With a father who is chief of a village of almost two hundred Aleut people, Anna Hasson grows up a real Aleut princess. But everything changes when she turns fourteen. A year after Anna is kidnapped outside her seaside home and thrust into the...

The Illustrated Aladdin' is a collection of exquisite illustrations gathered together in one beautiful book for all to love and treasure. Escape to the world of The Arabian Nights as we cast a new light on this enchanting and enduring fairy tale. The classic...

Joseph's jacobs wonderful collection of original English fairy tales. These stories are some of the most famous and best-loved fairy tales from English folklore, including such stories as 'Tom Tit Tot', 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and others. "English Fairy Tales" is sure to be...

Author: David LeeISBN-10: 1499042760ISBN-13: 9781499042764Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2014Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

Trees are common archetypes among all cultures around the world. In fact, Sacred Trees are found not only in the Celtic one but also in the Norse, Hindu, and Egyptian, to name a few... Even on Christian traditions we can certainly trace the questionable...

A journey of conquest, tradition building stretching across the ages among various kindred tales.Author: Julien CoallierISBN-10: 1494486970ISBN-13: 9781494486976Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2013Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.13d

This book is dedicated to the present generation of American children whose lives are enriched by the multi-cultural diversity of people coming from all over the world. In particular, this book focuses on the traditions and customs of Filipino culture and how Filipino American...

It is 1880 when the widow Sarah McAllfry is approached by the son of a former slave who asks her to teach him in her all-white schoolhouse. As a cold resolve claims Sarah, she decides that education is a right for every citizen in...

What happens when one's internal profile is not always in harmony with the external world? Satyananda is a square peg in a round hole Born, raised and educated in India, Satyananda fails in his attempts to create an idealistic space for himself in his...

It is the year 1850. Santos Vega, a hard working mayor, is left murdered, hanging on a tree on the eve of All Saints' Day by a sadistic cult leader known as "The Coyote." The Coyote and his evil Witch sister, along with their...

Three men race against time to take possession of a sacred 5,000-year-old Buddhist sculpture: Khalid, a leading Pakistani antiquities dealer, arranges for the illegal importation of the statue from neighbouring Afghanistan. Ghalib, a wealthy art collector with political aspirations, has purchased the statue for...

Masterfully evoking the breathtaking beauty of India, Manisha Jolie Amin's lyrical debut novel follows a young boy whose life takes an unexpected turn when he is sent to live with a reclusive but renowned musician. "Kalu picked up the flute by his side and...

'From the rail I looked down at Sashie's upturned face and the brilliant, early tropical sunlight made me think of the lights upon the stage of a theatre long ago . . .' With these thoughts Janet Sandison says goodbye to the West Indian...

'One wants to believe that everything lasts for ever, but it doesn't, ' said Twice. 'One has to move on . . .' Janet and her husband 'Twice' Alexander are on a homeleave visit from St. Jago in the Caribbean. Motoring down from Reachfar...

This collection, Legendary Stories of Wales is written by E. M. Wilkie, and illustrated with the stunning drawings of Honor Appleton. It contains a total of fifty-seven classic Welsh tales, 'told through the ages' - including those inspired by Ancient Greece and Rome, the...

Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father has cheated, supplying a different girl's photograph, and Kasu Marimuthu, furious, threatens to send her home in disgrace. Gradually husband and wife reach an agreement, and...

Sense and Sensibility is a romantic novel and a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. It follows the young ladies to their...

Anton Checkhov's The Wife and Other Stories is one of his many collection of short stories. Inlcuded are: The Wife, Difficult People, The Grasshopper, A Dreary Story, The Privy Councillor, The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, About Love, The Lottery Ticket. Anton was a...

A fictitious novel about the countless tasks that one's mind is constantly engaged in.... and how the mind compliments personal ambitions and character.Author: Raymond H. WhitelockecrawfordISBN-10: 148129136XISBN-13: 9781481291361Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2014Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.19d

Scientist and engineer Lauren Giulio knows she cannot ignore her inner voice anymore. Determined to unravel the mystery surrounding her deceased father's childhood and uncover the events that lured both her father and her down a path contrary to cultural and social attitudes, Lauren...

A Jewish Family's Epic of Hope, Tragedy, and SurvivalEaster Sunday, 1903 ushered in three days of government-sanctioned brutality on the Jews of Kishinev, Russia. In the aftermath of slaughter, rape, and destruction, Meyer and Sadie Raisky escape to New York City with their thirteen-year-old...

In 1875, teenager Lucy Nickerson slips into a haymow dalliance with family farmer Morgan Dinkins, a liaison that brings Rob Nickerson into the world with the unpromising prospects of a woods colt-the child of an unwed maiden of the mountains. But it's the pious...

From the Amazon to America Lais, a native South American girl, has grown up in the fascinating Amazon rainforest, nurtured by her tribal culture, and living in harmony with nature. But the world is changing, and her jungle paradise is suddenly a target for...

A Struggling Writer Finds Inspiration in Family History... Deborah's career is at a dead end. After a splashy debut with her first novel, she's languished as a freelancer, her potential unfulfilled. But the death of an elderly aunt provides unexpected source material, as she...

Pudd'nhead Wilson is a clever lawyer who, due to a misinterpreted remark, is viewed as the village idiot by the Missouri frontier community in which he lives. His story, as told by America's greatest humorist Mark Twain, is a side-splitting social satire as well...

Winner of the Icelandic Literature PrizeSingle mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical appearance is unique among Icelanders: so small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her father, so strange she nearly...

This is volume II of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 1835 historical romance "The Linwoods; or Sixty Years Since in America". Set during the American Revolution, it uses day-to-day city life to explore the American character, defined by its relationship with Britain and France. The novel...

Although Stevenson is perhaps most famous for "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "The New Arabian Nights" was his first published collection of fiction. First published in 1916, It is an English-translation of the "One Thousand and...

The classic Middle Eastern story of Aladdin is presented here in this modern edition, beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane. The famous tale is part of the widely-known collection "One Thousand and One Nights", added in the 18th century by Frenchman Antoine Galland. It tells...

This classic fairy tale anthology was collated from South Asian and Middle Eastern folk stories and features much-loved tales, including Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Anthologised over hundreds of years by scholars, authors, and translators from Asia and North Africa, The Arabian Nights is...

First published in 1911, this fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. With beautiful illustrations by Edmund Dulac, this timeless collection makes...

This volume contains a collection of short stories by numerous notable French authors, including Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Francois Coppee, Guy de Maupassant, Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, and others. This fantastic, English-language anthology is highly recommended for those with an...

When the body of a young woman is discovered in the Lane of Many Heads, an alley in modern-day Mecca, no one will claim it, as they are ashamed of her nakedness. As Detective Nasser pursues his investigation of the case, seemingly all of...

This author's works have been praised by numerous celebrities, the most notable being Nelson Mandella who described two of his African stories as 'Wonderful', the late Princess Diana who used to read two of his books to the Princes William and Harry when they...

A mother's devotion. A daughter's search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South.In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled...

The first installment in an epic historical trilogy by Helen Bryan, the bestselling author of War Brides and The Sisterhood, The Valley is a sweeping, unforgettable tale of hardship, tenacity, love, and heartache.Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable Sophia Grafton, a viscount's orphaned daughter, sails...

From the international bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul comes a novel based on true events that explores the depths of pride, devotion, and persistence as four generations of a family struggle to forge their destinies.As Hitler's reign of terror begins to loom...

This first of Jane Austen's published novels is the story of two starkly different English sisters: Elinor Dashwood, the epitome of prudence and self-control, and her younger, more impetuous sister Marianne, who embodies emotion, openness, and sheer enthusiasm. To each comes the sorrow of...

Bestselling author Rochelle Alers welcomes readers back to romantic New Orleans in her warm and sexy series about four very different women embarking on a new adventure . . . Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you....

Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal--or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs we do for the right reasons, and the ways we struggle to reconcile the truth. Journalist Zoie Crawford had to leave New...

This collection by Jamaican-born writer, Barbara Paul-Emile, presents stories that focus on the vicissitudes of daily life as experienced by people in small towns and rural districts in the Caribbean islands. These tales deal with personal dilemmas, psychic crossroads, and social issues as shaped...

"A poor archer in medieval Poland takes aim at the love of his life in this epic novel from Martin. The anxious Aleksy Gazdecki, a young farmhand, embodies the ethnic and political tensions of Europe during the reign of the Ottoman Empire. The believability...

Festival in Therma is a moving collection of stories that attempts to find the past and try to make sense of it by renewing connections with the culture of the Aegean islands, to experience that which seems lost for following generations in America. The...

The Rhino in the Paddock by Tito Alai is a funny and affecting coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of great political and cultural change. It tells the tale of Kenya's postcolonial transition during the 1970s as seen through the eyes of an African...