Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Amid the Philippine-American War in 1901, a young teacher from Iowa, Eleanor Karsten, sails on the US Army Transport Thomas to America's new territory, the Philippine Islands. In response to President McKinley's call to help implement the policy of "benevolent assimilation of Filipinos," she...

When the Greek army calls retreat near the Albanian border before the Nazi invasion of Greece, Tasso rushes home to protect his family. Badly injured, he is near death when two good Samaritans help him get home, but his happy reunion is interrupted when...

Author: Jonathan EvisonISBN-10: 1665135875ISBN-13: 9781665135870Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs

"...she's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro." Mirroring Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro...

A breathtaking story of unfulfilled dreams, unexpected second chances, and love in a present-day France turning against itself, from the Goncourt Prize-winning author of And Their Children After Them. H駘鈩e is approaching 40. Born in a small town in the east of France, she...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "An incredible debut full of rich atmosphere, clever world building, opposing magic, and sizzling romance, The Hurricane Wars is my newest obsession."-- KERRI MANISCALCO, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Throne of the Fallen"I physically could not stop...

The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence - "Mar?s's best work." --El Pa? "Compelling, hypnotic, and exciting at the same time." --Los Angeles Review of Books Retired spy Tom疽...

Translated into English for the first time, this novel tells the story of two young Jewish lovers in 18th-century Poland who are torn apart by their families' feud. Will they find a way to be together, or will tradition and prejudice keep them apart...

"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events."--Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel...

Following an unprecedented explosion of literary talent in Newfoundland over the past twenty years, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Short Fiction assembles the very best work by the island's most accomplished fiction writers. Featuring selections by Michael Crummey, Jessica Grant, Lisa Moore, and...

This classic novel by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev depicts the intergenerational conflicts between a group of young radicals and their conservative fathers in mid-19th century Russia. Turgenev's masterful portrayal of the characters' emotional struggles and philosophical debates has made this work a timeless...

"Behind You Is the Sea fearlessly confronts stereotypes about Palestinian culture, weaving a remarkable portrait of life's intricate moments, from joyous weddings to heart-wrenching funerals, from shattered hearts to hidden truths--I wept and grew alongside this family. This is a story that challenges perceptions,...

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumphfor Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger....

From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures--George Orwell--and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair,...

Molly McMurphy, a recent college grad whose endless curiosity fuels her consulting researcher business, has been tasked by seemingly unrelated clients to explore a series of interlocking clues within historical and literary documents and artifacts. She soon finds herself on a path to uncovering...

Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. "Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they'll feel lucky to have met."--Harper's...

Author: Sue Lynn TanISBN-10: 006303137XISBN-13: 9780063031371Publisher: Harper VoyagerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2023Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.40w x 1.60d

This encounter with the past, and the discovery of his father Benny's diaries, leads Simon Pomeranski back to his childhood and the post-war days of the Astorians, a small group of criminals and traders in 'swag' who ran their business from Brixton Market and...

In the small Palestinian farming village of Beit Daras, the women of the Baraka family inspire awe. Nazmiyeh is brazen and fiercely protective of her clairvoyant little sister, Mariam, with her mismatched eyes, and of their mother, Um Mahmoud, known for the fearsome djinn...

In the haunting backdrop of a world in turmoil, love, loyalty, and lineage converge in this gripping sequel.As the specter of Nazism looms over Germany, Margot finds herself torn between two men-Ben, the Jewish doctor who sees her potential, and Max, her childhood confidant...

Ever present in the Agent's mind is her promise that she would keep Kiddo safe. A year after the fateful events in Diablo, she finally catches up with the WCE operative who kidnapped her child. During this interrogation, the Agent learns that the WCE...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living Arab writer. His books have had great success in this country, particularly The Cairo Trilogy. Fans of the famed trilogy will be delighted with The Harafish, an epic...

THE PAPER ROUTE is a triple award winning murder mystery wrapped in a family saga. It moves from mid-century mill-town, Lowell, Massachusetts to Beat Generation Greenwich Village. The protagonist is a paper girl who, in the course of her daily delivery of the newspaper,...

Straddling Black and White follows the story of brave, fourteen-year-old Azmera, who takes part in the mass immigration of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel in the 1980s. Azmera embarks on the treacherous journey to join her father in Israel, leaving her pregnant mother and four...

Author: Charles EganISBN-10: 1781325707ISBN-13: 9781781325704Publisher: Silverwood BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2012Pages: 418Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

A multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional family expectations to find happiness.Author: Alisa GanievaISBN-10: 1941920594ISBN-13: 9781941920596Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/11/2018

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A beautiful exploration of the often complex parameters of freedom, prejudice, and individual sense of self. Chibundu Onuzo has written a captivating story about a mixed-race British woman who goes in search...

"The Magpie Funeral is a story of seeking: family, culture, but most of all, understanding-to understand others, and to be understood. The characters that make up Adam Galanski's tender-hearted, quiet novella find themselves attempting to communicate to one another, but because of their language...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best MysteryFossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new installment of New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series.An unexpected death on a...

"Around these parts, the publication of a new George Dawes Green novel is an event. ... Green leans all the way into Southern Gothic, but the main grotesquerie is the city's history, built on the backs of enslaved people. His prose is languid, even...

Being the new kid is always hard, but try starting the year with a name like Mohammed Omar Mohammed Abu Srour, with a homemade lunch of humus and za'atar. On top of that, on the very first day of school, a kid tells his...

Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas's most daring narrative is now available in this major new translation by Tina A. Kover. Filled with intrigue, romance, and deadly vengeance, Georges is the story of a wealthy mulatto boy who is driven from his...

A haunting meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters. Zeldis offers a fascinating look into historic New York City and New Orleans, and her skill as a storyteller is matched by her compassion for her characters. What a beautiful read.--Fiona Davis, New York...

Author: Jokha AlharthiISBN-10: 8200646459ISBN-13: 9798200646456Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs

A young Croatian woman travels to Medugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, site of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, where she meets an angel and witnesses a miracle. Twenty years later, after living in a cloistered convent, she travels to Rome where her habit of...

The weaver's shuttle turns at the death of Gia Falcini's mother, when Gia's estranged father in Italy sends a scarf whose unusual qualities could revive Gia's ailing fabric shop in Boston's North End. Goaded by conflicting desires, Gia journeys to her father's village and...

Years after the death of her mother, Mareika Doerksen moves through her adolescence with feelings of loss, confusion, and isolation as she seems somewhere between not being a child and not being a complete woman. Her father, a Mennonite only ethnically and socially, and...

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MOST SECRET MEMORY OF MENA polyphonic tale of immigration and community by "the most promising Senegalese writer of his generation" (Le Monde) and winner of the 2021 Prix GoncourtSeventy-two...

in Africa at large, especially in Nigeria, the use of alligator is said to be the top notch being that alligator pepper also known as ose oji in igbo dialect, is a tiny seed which is believed that it doesn't embark on a shameful...

Who can we humans ask for help to deal with the life-threatening, eco-spiritual climate crisis that is right in our faces? Hawaii answers... if you listen.Norah and Cassandra, longtime friends, and esteemed university professors, believe that human's self-destructive actions towards the environment are leading...

There was...and there was not.In these stories inspired by Palestinian folklore, a daughter of darkness, a djinn, pours out her soul to the moon. Time travelers discover that the battle of Meggido was not quite what they expected. A prince meets his soulmate in...

A stunningly original, stylistically brilliant, and brutally honest novel from an award-winning Bosnian refugee and writer who, decades after escaping his war-torn home country looks back on his childhood, imploded relationships, and battles with addiction--offering powerful insight into the human cost of conflict. It's...

**A 2023 NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST Notable Book and a BOSTON GLOBE Best Book of the Year** From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely novel--called "smart, witty" by the New York Times Book Review,...

Published just two years before José Rizal's national epic, Touch Me Not, Pedro A. Paterno's Nínay is a cultural novel that portrays Philippine society to an international non-Filipino audience.Considered to be the first novel published by a Native Filipino author, Nínay follows the life,...

It's 1850 and New South Wales, Australia is awash with gold. Bushrangers are in the press, their names on everyone's lips: Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John Peisley, Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt. They roam free, uninhibited, spending big in the shanties. The girls love them,...

The Solidarity of Friendship in Hard Times Step back in time to 1918 and experience the struggles, triumphs, and enduring friendships of women in a small West Virginia town. Winkler has grown from a close-knit community to a bustling coal mining town filled with...

A dazzling novel about the tumultuous relationship between two sisters, a shocking loss that changes everything, and the life-altering adventure that follows. Morgan and Riley Brighton are joint heirs to Kaleidoscope: a glittering, 'global bohemian' shopping empire--created in sleepy Oregon and catapulted into haute...

Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, Andr Alexis's prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood - or perhaps the loss of childhood - of Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of his life. Raised in a Southern Ontario town in the '50s...

As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at...

"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...