Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Together, the five stories and novella in this collection follow the lives of first- and second-generation Indian Americans living in contemporary California. The characters share a similar sensibility: a sense that immigration is a distant memory, yet an experience that continues to shape the...

'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely enclosed behind her desk at school. They come to start a conversation that is both taboo and a normal part of life. A small, intimate group ... precious stones decorate...

Karen's extensively researched descriptions of her ancestors' journey from Norway to Amerika, reflect the experiences of many Norwegian emigrants in the mid-1800s. On July 23, 1968 the Nasett family farmhouse, built in 1845, is leveled by fire that claims the lives of four family...

High school student Norman "Zebra" Smith, half British & half Ghanaian, lives at the crossroads of race and identification. In response to racial slurs from other students, Norman embraces hybridity and forms a Rainbow Alliance with other ethnic minority students against black & white...

From the author of the prize-winning The Rainy Season--a "sophisticated and suspenseful" (The New York Times Book Review) novel of love, fear, divided loyalties, ruined friendships, and personal sacrifice--against a backdrop of war in the Holy Land.One rainy night at a Jerusalem checkpoint, Israeli...

"From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again." -Maggie O'Farrell "This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying...

By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him...

Shortlisted for the 2015 QBR Wheatley Book Award - First Fiction. If you had told Deka in 2005, as she sat on a plane bound for America, that she would one day wish to be in Nigeria, she would have spat in your face....

Author: Esmeralda Garc僘 ﾁvilaISBN-10: 1493196537ISBN-13: 9781493196531Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2015Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

NOT ALL BLOOD RELATIVES ARE TRUSTWORTHY.THE MOST BIZARRE FAMILY REUNION WILL HAVE AN UNEXPECTED TURN.Everything in life has consequences. Three days ago, Jako was just a normal man with a normal life. A father providing and taking care of his family. Today, the fate...

There is a new war being waged in the New West. In places like Big Scratch, Montana, where everything environmental is seen as a threat to jobs and prosperity, land developers and oil and mining companies chop up big ranches, leaving behind a mountain...

Fakeer is an immigrant doctor of humble beginnings who comes to America from Pakistan. He arrives full of hope and ambition, but a new country means new challenges, perhaps the most difficult being cultural reconciliation and adjustment. However, Fakeer's life in the United States...

New Year's Day 1900......her husband has disappeared.Has a new love taken him away?Rose Sullivan left her home in County Cork and sailed to Philadelphia to find work. She also found love with a charming Irish rogue who had the sweetest kisses.But he had a...

Young Australian journalist Sara-Jane goes to Sicily and discovers that she has an 18 year-old brother, Sante, living there. This is the story of two young people on a journey extending over two continents, that uncovers some shocking secrets. Set in Australia and Sicily,...

Hyphenated Identities & Dislocated Homes in Hannif Koraichi's The Black Album & Hanan al-Shaykh's . My thesis deals with the notions of " Homes " and "identity" in the diasporic novels of Hanif kureishi's The Black Album and Hanan Al-Shaykh's Only In London. Obviously,...

This lovely short story written in 1904 gives us a snapshot of life in a Norwegian immigrant community. The protagonist, like the author, is a first-generation American; the scene is a small settlement in Minnesota. The story reflects the young author's attachment to his...

When Doctor Katie Walsh returns to South Boston and resumes old friendships from her younger days, her world is turned upside down by events beyond her control. Searching for answers, her personal beliefs are shaken to the depths of despair and she's consumed by...

"The Arabian Nights" is a 1910 English-language translation of "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It was anthologised over hundreds of years by a variety of scholars, authors, and...

Everyone has their favorite film and movie quotes. They're the lines that stay with us long after the end credits have rolled, the things we say to friends, family and colleagues when we want to make a point or raise a smile - indeed,...

This charming early work, first published in 1901, is the seventh book in a series of twelve 'coloured' fairy books published by Andrew Lang. The 35 stories in this volume have been collected from Russia, Romania, Lithuania, Japan, Serbia, Africa, Portugal and others.Author: Andrew...

The Heretics of St. Possenti is the tale of the founding of a new monastic order, a refuge for men suffering from their violent experiences in wars past. But the Order is not a panicked retreat from the reality of an unsympathetic and over-scaled...

This vintage book contains Joseph Jacobs' 1916 collection of fairy tales, "European Folk and Fairy Tales", features over two dozen stories taken from popular oral tradition united with John D. Batten's black and white drawings. Heavily influenced by the Brothers Grimm and the romantic...

Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesb in this spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family's reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the...

The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew. After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person...

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: A. J. GlinskiISBN-10: 1443751642ISBN-13: 9781443751643Publisher:...

- The long expedition's spiritual pendulum had gained momentum well before the earthquakes. -The first of the three devastating earthquakes struck the central Mississippi Valley of North America, cataclysmically wreaking havoc on the Mississippi River basin. The 1811 temblor was unprecedented for that area,...

From a legendary writer both beloved and banished by Iraq -- a fine work of Arabic literature in the vein of Naguib Mahfouz and Elias Khoury, and a magical and moving comic novel about the birth of modern Iraq. Kirkuk, Iraq, the 1950s. The...

Arriving to visit his son Ala in the heavily Palestinian neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Omar Yussef discovers the beheaded body of one of the boy's roommates. When Ala is arrested as a suspect, Omar Yussef must investigate to prove his son's innocence, uncovering...

This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of Jātaka tales. However, the author confesses to 'ruthlessly' altering them for the amusement of children and occasionally borrowing a 'phrase or a versicle'. He opens the book with a warning; "To this...

This fascinating saga of four generations spanning 100 years and narrated by the town historian centers on the families living in a small Southern town. Although this seems like the typical community, dark factors are at play. Crimson and Scarlet delves into the unknown...

Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nassim, now married to his former love Hind, and old friends from the leftist political...

For centuries, our forefathers relied on proverbs to educate, clarify, and make people learn about life.These proverbs have been passed down through generations and are still extensively used as an essential part of our culture throughout Africa today. This book contains a collection of...

Meet the Manoukians-a dysfunctional Armenian family--and the fraying rope that binds them.Set in Queens, New York, while a father deteriorates from terminal illness, three sisters contend with one another, their self-destructive pasts, and their indomitable mother as they face the loss of the one...

After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta's life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings....

A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker A billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende's death, and they must confront their own dark histories to find a path forward--for themselves and for our ravaged planet. An...

A one-of-a-kind novel that plunges readers into the secrets of Afro-Cuban Santeria--a world of fascinating beauty, pulsating rhythms, and great mystery. Gabrielle Segovia, Ph.D., is struggling to build a career as a Latina scientist, cope with her third miscarriage, and resuscitate her marriage to...

In this semi-autobiographical novel of the early twentieth century, Erik leaves his home and a bleak life in Denmark permanently. He also abandoned his failure as an artist, when he immigrated to America. He became a hard-working farmhand on a rural homestead in South...

"Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self--woman, artist, daughter--is filtered and known." --Ocean Vuong A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in...

Alexis is living the good life in San Francisco: a prestigious job as an art curator for the San Francisco Museum of Art, a budding romance with a fellow garden lover, and trips to Europe to immerse herself in history. But when Alexis is...

An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award-winning author of Blue-Skinned Gods In "Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc," a millennial English professor finds viral fame on TikTok, but her newfound notoriety...

Visit the Polynesian world of "Tribal Girl". Learn all her daily chores, adventures, games, and explore her life through culture and dance! Featuring Felt Art Doll by #1 Etsy Doll Creator, Whisper of the Pipit.Author: Melissa L. BergerISBN-10: 8375813281ISBN-13: 9798375813288Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2023Pages:...

Secrets-long forgotten and newly discovered-converge at a gathering of family and friends at Otyrburn, a worn-at-the-edges family estate in Scotland, where three women shake the past, rattle the future, and redefine the meaning of family.Author: Jo BruniniISBN-10: 898612050XISBN-13: 9798986120508Publisher: Idle Ridge PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2022Pages:...

A JAMAICAN LADY is a work of fiction based in truth. It is a story about two people who are from different races, different backgrounds, different countries and different eras. Still, Tiana and Phillip develop a special relationship during a time of enormous grief....

Evangely and her family make a courageous decision to leave their home in El Progreso, Honduras to join their father, who has been gone for 6 years and living in America. Will they survive the dangerous journey so that their family can be united...

Set in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, an isolated community races against time to meet the challenges of a gold mining venture being thrust upon it. Legends of the past combine with current political intrigue as the community faces everyday challenges which seek...

A handsome young Roman actor stands at the dawn of his career. A chance meeting on the Metro introduces him to a circle of Anglo expats who find in him the embodiment of their dreams and doubts about Italy and its people. As a...

It's 1776, and England is in the grip of a phenomenon that will become to be known as 'Canal Mania'.In the next fifty years or so, thousands of miles of these man-made waterways will criss-cross the country, opening up trade on a scale previously...

A small business owner, Amos Dunn, has been found murdered in the lowcountry town of Morgan, South Carolina. The initial reaction of the local police is that the robbery of Dunn's convenience store got out of hand resulting in the owner's death. The robbery...

Abu is a curious 10yr old with a rich family legacy and so, this book, "The Lesson - Abu's Curiosity" is a children's book about a young boy living in Brooklyn who discovers the traditional West African drum called Djembe. Through his Uncle's lessons...

One man's journey toward a better life.When the wife of a plantation owner dies on a fateful night in 1887, John Billingsly makes the gut-wrenching decision to leave his mother and everything he knows to flee their slave cabin in Richmond, Virginia. Instructed by...