Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Thresh is an archaic word appearing in the English language sometime in the 12th century, referring to the material left after threshing the grain from harvested crops. For centuries, dirt-floor cottages were strewn with thresh, creating a barrier between foot and floor to absorb...

Author: Sanjeev Sanyal Rajesh SinghISBN-10: 9355207905ISBN-13: 9789355207906Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2022Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

"Unnervingly funny and subversive . . . this account of life under authoritarian siege is fiercely local and incontestably universal, harrowing and mutinously entertaining: a sure-fire Booker contender."--The GuardianFrom the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language,...

This inspiring book explores the lives of the women in the Samoan Women's Mau resistance movement and the warriors who fought against the NewZealand colonisers to achieve Samoa's independence. Sina's tattoo, the malu is a rite of passage she endures after the death of...

A child born without the name of his father. A mother burdened by a secret. A family tested by revolution, exile, and the brutal machinery of history. Father, Unknown: Revisited is a sweeping, immersive historical novel that follows Marcel Juin from his illegitimate birth...

Contested Heritage: Global Perspectives on Stakeholders' (Dis)Harmony at Heritage Locales explores the intricate relationships surrounding heritage, emphasizing the diverse, often contradictory, meanings attributed to heritage sites, historic towns, and museum objects by various stakeholders.The book is structured into four parts, beginning with foundational contributions...

The saga of the McLeod sisters comes to a nail-biting conclusion! Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Isabel Allende, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Imogen Martin. Hollywood promises fame and fortune ... but what will it take in return? 1925 The war in Europe is...

What if financial wisdom could be learned not from dry textbooks, but through an engaging story that mirrors your own struggles?Financial Freedom 101: A Journey to Wealth and Independence is more than a guide-it's a powerful narrative that combines the lessons of personal finance...

A Belletrist Book Club Pick."A sumptuous treat." -Bolu Babalola, author of Honey and SpiceSweetbitter meets The Bear in this "intoxicating look at the world of wine."(TIME)A TIME, Town & Country, NPR, Marie Claire, and Ms. Magazine Best of the Summer. Four wine experts arrive...

A story of love and community, written by the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the 20th century's greatest authors, and a woman who truly understands her characters' motivations. Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the...

Roy wanted to marry Callie Jane, but she wanted to think about it. It wasn't their first fight or even the first time Roy told her how lucky she was to have him. When the call came that Callie's brother had died, Roy wanted...

Mahir Salih's novel weaves history with personal struggle, telling an intimate yet sweeping story. During World War II, Nyla, a pregnant Iraqi woman, and her husband Amin flee Berlin amid Allied bombings. Along the way, they shelter Hilda, a Jewish widow hiding from the...

Newly crowned King and Queen, Michael and Sarah Kent-Hughes are ready to get down to business, serving the people of the United Kingdom to the best of their abilities. Unknown to them, looming scandals in the Church of England and beyond are about to...

Behind the Scenes: A Collection of Short Stories features ten short stories that depict contemporary life situations during the hyper-inflationary period of Zimbabwe, Africa. It tells how people of different walks of life responded to the economic situation, while showing the effects of the...

In the 1860s in the Colony of Victoria, Tabu an aborigine goes 'walkabout' after a violent tribal fight during which his brother is killed. He rescues the wife of a drover/farmer - Michael, who is an escaped convict. He hires Tabu to help him...

A South African suspense romance novel with soul."Brilliant. Top notch suspense writing. Extraordinary descriptive ability. Talent in bucket loads." "Reminiscent of Joy Packer and early Wilbur Smith." South Africa 1994: A triumphant Nelson Mandela is voted in as the first black President of the...

In a village in the Dalmatian hinterland, a once-in-a-generation event is about to take place. The time has come for the Jerkovic clan, whose holy lineage goes back twenty-four generations, to assemble and select a new student among its youth and send him off...

A Cultural Heritage Literary Novel: . . . her camera reveals unforseen secrets of a ruthless desert No stranger to challenge; the freelance American-Israeli documentary photographer, embarks on an adventure-filled, hazardous journey to photograph the Bedouin of Sinai. Ayishah meets her charismatic desert guide,...

When two young men from very different backgrounds meet during a tech internship, it sparks an intense friendship--and even more intense competition--in this sweeping novel of privilege, identity, and ambition from the acclaimed author of What We Were Promised. As the oldest son of...

In the quiet hills of Appalachia, a woman opens an old memory book and begins tracing the powerful story of her ancestors. Through the life of her great-grandfather, Uncle Billy, she uncovers a past shaped by hardship, faith, and the enduring spirit of the...

Author: Irene ZabytkoISBN-13: 9798998954757Publisher: Galiot PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2026Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.86d

Author: Anzia YezierskaISBN-10: 1025315618ISBN-13: 9781025315614Publisher: Tradd Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2026Pages: 322Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

For fans of Alka Joshi and Marjan Kamali, a gripping historical novel set in 1950s Turkey about a young woman who flees an arranged marriage to pursue independence in Istanbul, where she finds forbidden love with an American airman. In 1950s Turkey, against the...

Set against the stark contrasts of Jamaican society and the hidden costs of migration, Escaping Babylon is a powerful novel about faith, love, and survival.Makeda, a former student nurse from rural Portland, places her trust in Sanka, a charismatic woodcarver whose Rastafarian ideals promise...

A gorgeous deluxe edition for the tenth anniversary of Nobel Laureate Han Kang's sensational, genre-defying bombshell of a novel, her first in English, now with a new afterword from the original Korean edition "[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility...

Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland is a sweeping, multi-generational saga inspired by true family history, tracing a Norwegian immigrant family's journey from the rugged valleys of Norway to the windswept prairies of Nebraska. Rooted in the author's own heritage, the story follows Kittil and Marte...

"Red Likker" is a sweeping historical novel that captures the spirit and evolution of the Kentucky bourbon industry through the eyes of the Morgan family. Spanning multiple generations, the narrative traces the rise of the distilling craft from its pioneer roots to its transformation...

"Ballygullion" is a beloved collection of humorous short stories that vividly brings to life the fictional town of the same name in Northern Ireland. Written by the celebrated Irish author Lynn Doyle, these tales offer a masterful blend of wit, satire, and affectionate character...

Love of Three Lifetimes follows two blips of sentience who find each other again and again across many miles and centuries. A temple dog who adores her monk master. A sugarcane farmer in love with a traveling singer. A servant girl becomes a Buddhist...

An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.In the English countryside--decimated by heat and drought--Penelope archives what remains of...

Miriam Colwell's Contentment Cove-her fourth novel set in Maine and her first in more than five decades-is a riveting story of class distinctions in a 1950s Down East coastal village during a time of cultural change. Dot-Fran, Hilary, and Mina are three residents of...

Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise. The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor,...

It must be a ghost!A six-year-old Stone Age Papuan boy, Benjad, is thrust into the modern world when a soldier- turned-missionary and his wife rescue him from an evil shaman who has killed his parents. The shaman, enraged, plots the murders of both the...

Ah Jubah! A PleaPrayerPromise is a revolution in ink. This rich curvilinear novel chronicles the emergence of six collectives who unite through time and space for the liberation and elevation the Pan African world. Ah Jubah! features Kandace and Cynthia who open a soul...

1981. Coventry, city of Two Tone and Ska, is riven with battles between skinheads and young Asians. Photographer Baz - 'too Paki to be white, too gora to be desi' - is capturing the conflict on film. Unemployed graduate Maia-serial champion of liberal causes-is...

Jack was a normal lad. Unassuming, a son of a fisherman, barely a boy let alone a man. But when a late-night walk along the St Ives' quay results in Jack being nabbed by the Navy, he has to work long and hard to...

Short stories about exploring the unknown. Tom Henighan's numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry include The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture, The Well of Time, and the YA novel Viking Quest (2001). He lives in Ottawa, and teaches at Carleton University.Author:...

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...

When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what's in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to...

It's on the wild Irish dawn of a raw March day, 1845, her caul split, her water spilt, the 15-year-old motherless lass begins her labor. And it's night follows day in skirling cries to God and His holy angels, and the midwife's tireless urges...

"Colour Blind tells the story of two wars affecting Australia a hundred years ago: World War I that everyone knows about, and the lesser known one, the battles that past generations of Aboriginal Australians faced. Not the British Invasion, but the struggle more than...

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are...

A stunning work of fiction about contemporary immigrant life from a dazzling new writer. It's New Year's Eve 1982. At Victor and Nandini's home, family and friends gather to celebrate. Whiskey and arrack have been poured, poppadoms are freshly fried, and baila music is...

Winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature Prizewinning writer Maryse Condé reimagines Emily Brontë's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Razyé and Cathy, the half-Creole daughter of the man who takes Razyé in and raises him, but...

Author: Lindsey KinsellaISBN-13: 9798233400872Publisher: Lindsey KinsellaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2026Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37d

On All Saints Day in 1985, Carmela Donitella, youngest of a large Sicilian-American family, discovers a local tough taking advantage of her father. His dream of founding an orphanage is at risk. Determined to find a solution, she enlists the Sister Mob, aka her...

YOUR MEMORY IS CURRENCY. THE SPIRE IS BROKERING A HARVEST.In the year 2047, the city of Lumina-Azania did not fall to war or famine. It fell to a calculation. During the event now known as Lumina Night, the sky fractured into a jagged needle...

Inspired by true events in WWII and post-war Denmark - A Top Pick for Danish Libraries, now available in English. A story of trauma, resilience, hope, and love.Kirsten Marie Pedersen wants more from life than the narrow prospects offered in 1940s CopenhagenHer father is...

Author: Airana NgarewaISBN-10: 1869718313ISBN-13: 9781869718312Publisher: Hachette AustraliaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2026Pages: 352Format: Paperback

"Welcome to the electrifying underworld of California's Depression-era taxi dance halls, where a dance could cost you a dime, a chance at romance, or a bullet in your back." --Rick Bonus, Professor and Chair at the Dept. of American Ethnic Studies in the Univ....