Fiction - Cultural Heritage

I, Djuze', the voice of prophets resounds, In the Holy Scriptures, their wisdom is profound, As I stand before you, a gentle reminder, Of the sacred texts and prophets, kindled with fire. Author: Djuze' D'ErribaISBN-10: 1966074182ISBN-13: 9781966074182Publisher: MindStir MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize:...

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAYNPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A vibrant coming-of-age story." -- Charmaine Wilkerson"I was completely immersed." -- Nita ProseFrom the acclaimed author of Wahala, a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: Split between England and...

La Isla (The Island) Within Me, written by Marisa Gutierrez-Capello and illustrated by Endar Novianto, celebrates tradition and culture told through the eyes of a little girl. Camila embraces her Dominican heritage and wants to share and celebrate it with the world. This story...

A yoga teacher finds new life in India-just not the one she was expecting. Nearing thirty, Amanda thought she'd be someone else by now. Instead, she's an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out "For Idiots" travel guides. True, she has a sexy photographer boyfriend, but...

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?...

After Attorney Kwame Agyei-Poku wins the heart of a beautiful young British woman, they marry and have a daughter together. With his position in the Ministry of Justice, Kwame and his family live in a large manor with servants-a far cry from his childhood...

In 2001 Vishram Janappan, living in San Francisco, returns to Madras, India, to settle his mother's affairs after her death. On the surface Vishram's life couldn't be going better. He's a successful architect in San Francisco with a beautiful home and married to a...

""This powerful, heart-wrenching novel follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. Reuven's story typifies that of millions of others experiencing the horrors and deprivations suffered by Jews in WWII and those who tried to help them. And yet,...

"Dazai's best novel [...] the story focuses on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior" --The New York Times This book is a completely new translation of Dazai's classic novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece. Set in...

The Tailor of Semenov Part One - After escaping the brutal murder of her entire family at the hands of bloodthirsty revolutionaries, Maria Romanov flees through the Siberian woods. When she meets a pair of young Jews heading for the remote village of Semenov,...

In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among the human cargo is an artefact harbouring a sloth with a fascinating yet terrifying secret: the ability...

October 1985, Ash Misra leaves a blood-stained Delhi for Oxford University. Haunted by a terrible secret, he just wants to forget. Music and fresh violence bring him to fellow student and amateur violinist, Isabella Angus, but duty and the burden of history keep them...

It's 1942. The world's at war, and even small-town America is awash in fear. . .and hatred. Sis Greggory's beloved brother, Danny, is serving in North Africa. The war news is bad; the Axis powers seem invincible. Where is Danny? They can only wonder....

Blue Earth is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its secrets. Carver Heinz loses both farm and family in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed with Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a...

a story built around the capture of Fort Vincennes (now Vincennes, Indiana) from the British in 1779 during the War of the American Revolution. Vincennes was originally a French fort, and the book purports to tell the story of a beautiful but willlful orphaned...

A breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild...

Reina Maruyama has always had sweet memories of her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. But when her father dies and her mother relocates her to Tokyo, life for Reina is turned on its head. Longing for the home she lost, she struggles to adjust, until...

Alida is from the mountains of northern Albania, where she grows up with her family: her father, her mother, and two twin sisters. The book is set in the historical period of Enver Oxa, but in the northern countryside of Albania people are raised...

A blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction "An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author...

The Bird Boy's Song is a retelling of the common Malawian folk story. "The Orphan and the Slave". The story recounts a slave's usurpation of his master's place, which he enjoys for a short time, until he is unmasked. The author used modern storytelling...

David Wilson moves to town. A clever remark of his is misunderstood, and locals brand him a "pudd'nhead" - a nitwit.Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 1507803192ISBN-13: 9781507803196Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2015Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.30d

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.Winner of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr's captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s Missouri river...

Set at the crossroads of Turkish, Persian and Russian cultures under the red flag of Communism in the late 1970s, The Orphan Sky reveals one woman's struggle to reconcile her ideals with the corrupt world around her, and to decide whether to betray her...

Children of the Sacred Current invites readers into a sweeping, multigenerational journey through the mystical and turbulent history of Tahiti. For over a century, the Maeva women have carried a powerful legacy: the ability to touch the sacred current, a hidden force that connects...

"Anne Hillerman is a star."--J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling authorFrom New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.Joe...

""This powerful, heart-wrenching novel follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. Reuven's story typifies that of millions of others experiencing the horrors and deprivations suffered by Jews in WWII and those who tried to help them. And yet,...

This story is based in the South. A single mother meets the love of her life in a park. There is an instant connection. They fall in love, deep, amazing love. Her young son also loves the man, and the family atmosphere that has...

Drawing upon a long-suppressed episode in American history, when thousands of German immigrants were rounded up and interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor, In Our Midst tells the story of one family's fight to cling to the ideals of freedom and opportunity that...

Govinda Samanta: Or the History of a Bengal Raiyat (1874) is a novel by Lal Behari Dey. Inspired by a lifetime dedicated to serving the poor and oppressed, Lal Behari Dey wrote Govinda Samanta in order to portray the life of Bengali peasants in...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. A LARGE PRINT EDITION includes text at a size much larger than a typical paperback. The biggest difference in a LARGE PRINT BOOK is the size of the text, which is much larger than a standard print edition. This larger text...

A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams, a place from which he will be able to wrest a stone that will give him untold power. His is a dangerous quest--not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses,...

When the United States was still neutral before WWII, a house of suspected Nazi spies was blown up in a small town in Maine. One of the young men who committed the crime ran to an island off the coast and got a job,...

Author: Stephen O'ConnorISBN-10: 1662957386ISBN-13: 9781662957383Publisher: Gatekeeper PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.61d

An empowering, uplifting tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their extraordinary journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love and triumph. 1800s China. Tightly bound feet, or "golden lilies," are the mark of an honorable woman, eclipsing beauty, a rich dowry and even...

From New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky, a delectable novel about one Greek family's diner, its colorful ensemble of regulars, and the Upper West Side-wide race to interpret a perplexing historical recipe for Cato's Roman cheesecake amid a rapidly gentrifying community. The Katsikas have...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins--and in the wild, propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' True Grit--comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue...

Author: Wendy HoldenISBN-10: 0063398257ISBN-13: 9780063398252Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2025Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

Books will always be a refuge.Madrid, 1934. The winds of change are blowing in the Spain of the Second Republic when B?rbara, a young German woman who has managed to flee Berlin after the victory of the Nazi party in the elections, opens a...

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life."--from the Nobel Prize citation SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - A "formally daring, emotionally devastating,...

Books will always be a refuge.Madrid, 1934. The winds of change are blowing in the Spain of the Second Republic when B?rbara, a young German woman who has managed to flee Berlin after the victory of the Nazi party in the elections, opens a...

Author: Alexandra CurryISBN-10: 1101984724ISBN-13: 9781101984727Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2016Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00d

A strange unchartered world awaits Monte Scott, a young and inexperienced vocational rehabilitation counselor assigned to work at a residential school for the blind. From the first moments, his life is challenged and changed by confrontation with students, teachers and events in ways previously...

Please be advised: This book is for mature readers. Jordan DeMarco has a taste for revenge. After getting even for a scandalous betrayal, he heads back home to Boston for the holidays, where his hot-tempered grandfather, melodramatic mother, opinionated sister, and the ghostly memory...

East of Edin is a fictional account of Cain's (Kayin) travels from the Garden of Eden (Edin) to the Land of Nod (Nud). The book outlines the challenges and trials which a primitive man might have faced on a long and dangerous trip. East...

In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country.Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was...

The prize-winning international bestseller--800,000 copies sold in Brazil Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.' "Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know...

A riveting, emotionally-charged tale of forbidden love, centered on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago. In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound Independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a...

Plain View Farm Journals is a delightful book, filled with the Stadems' and Ginthers' account of their lives and the history of their origins in Norway, and their immigration to America. Immediately, you will see strong spiritual influence that permeated these families, which was...

In the windswept realms of the Viking Age, where power was seized by the blade and kingdoms rose and fell in the clash of steel, one name resounded with a blend of fear and respect: Eirik Bloodaxe. The Epic of Eirik Bloodaxe unravels the...

Embark on an enchanting journey through language and legend with "Learn German with Heroes and Legends." This captivating B1-level German reader brings to life the tales of Siegfried, Beowulf, El Cid, Roland, and many more, all while enhancing your German language skills.What's Inside?Epic Adventures:...