Fiction - Cultural Heritage

A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white, alternately beautiful and tender, cruel and unsettling.--GuardianAustralia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores...

Bestselling author S. A. Chakraborty's acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy gets expanded with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events of The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper, and The Empire of Gold, all from the perspective of characters both...

To protect her secrets, a woman refuses to acknowledge the child she left behind fifty years ago and a half a world away. Claire travels halfway across the globe from Southern California to Ireland to find the reasons Norah, her biological mother, gave her...

A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path--where choices come with...

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková.Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the...

Sometimes immigrants must share their experience with the people who are fortunate enough to reside in their countries of birth. Not just to take off the load from their shoulders, but to make the others aware of the plight of hundreds of millions who...

Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life is a classic novel of Indian literature which provides an early feminist perspective on issues of religion, class, and gender in nineteenth century India.Written in beautiful, meditative prose, Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life is the story of...

The only stage play edition of Susan Carol McCarthy's explosive true story of the stranglehold on Florida by the KKK in the early 1950s. Reviewed and approved for the stage by Susan Carol McCarthy, this stage version allows your theatre group to share the...

Low is a novel about family, identity, illness, love and loss. Lyrical, personal prose draws readers into the world of Adriana Song. We feel our way through Low with her as she navigates lopsided friendships, failed romances and tries to to weather the storm...

When Chandni Rai turned thirteen, two things happened to change the course of her entire life. Her father died suddenly. And, she discovered a clue to the mystery of her missing grandmother who had been a child-bride - a piece of paper stuck behind...

Joan is on the brink. Cough drop addict, school bus driver, mixed race daughter of a Maoist English father and Chinese-Canadian mother, Joan struggles for meaning after a friend's death reveals a secret life. Migration Songs is a lost letter from your past, an...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"Painful, refractive, beautiful . . . Goldman is beloved."--New York Review of BooksIn Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman's "brilliantly constructed auto-fiction" (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges...

Light-skinned Black woman Irene Redfield encounters an old childhood friend - Clare - who is now passing as a White woman. Clare is married to a racist White man, who doesn't know she has African American blood. In spite of the danger of being...

There are some who believe that the honor of a samurai is reserved for men. But they are wrong. Keiko was born the daughter of a samurai. But as a mere younger sister, her future was to run errands for her lovely elder sister...

A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins--Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barragán, traversing late 20th Century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricity of an...

At the end of the beginning, and the beginning of the end, a journey will come full circle... When Keiko suffers a terrible, personal loss, she believes that she has been reduced to nothing and can no longer wield her samurai sword. In order...

Men speak of sacrifice, but only a woman who has lost everything truly knows what the word means. It is said that the gods become offended when mere humans try to usurp their supremacy in directing earthly affairs. Keiko learns this in a way...

When Keiko chooses duty over love, she wonders if the code of the samurai is worth the heartache. Leaving Edo to save the life of a man she once loved, Keiko must give up everything she has worked for. She vows one day to...

Những bài viết trong tập sách đánh dấu một quãng thời gian viết của chúng tôi. Một cố gắng chủ quan, rời rạc, về một số vấn đề của văn-học bầng chữ Quốc-ngữ thời đầu và miền Nam lục-tỉnh, không hẳn có tính cách...

An award-winning Haitian novel about silence, beauty, and the solidarity of tears.Airports are distillations of the world. I like thinking of them that way. The hope of leaving and the desire to come home, existing side by side. Any voyage is possible. My mind...

This is the mesmerizing story of John Yogacara Asanga. A direct descendant of the eponymous saint Asanga, John is yet to realize his destiny. For now, he is just a young man grappling with his part-Indianness in an American world. Through the pages of...

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has...

A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has...

Throughout her life, Cecilia Poetry has listened to her father rave about his home country, Indonesia. After his death, Cecilia decides to move to Jakarta and explore the beautiful life that her father had envisioned for her.When Cecilia moves in with her wealthy grandparents,...

Home. Is it a place or a feeling?When Anu and her family move to a small village in the English countryside, she is desperate to put down roots in her new community. To her dismay, not everyone is welcoming. Is it her? Must she...

This story received Chinese National Best Network Novel Award for 2019.In the fictional Chinese city of Nandu, the ancient walls have enclosed the neighborhood of Changganli for 600 years. In the 1950s, as the citizens wanted to develop as fast as possible, "relics" like...

When Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint 'The Last Supper', he believes it will seal his reputation as the finest artist in Italy.Yet all does not go as planned. The notorious Papal emissary, Father Rodrigo of Salamanca accuses him of blasphemy over his...

When Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint 'The Last Supper', he believes it will seal his reputation as the finest artist in Italy.Yet all does not go as planned. The notorious Papal emissary, Father Rodrigo of Salamanca accuses him of blasphemy over his...

Trials and Triumphs: Dilemma of African WomenBy: Monica ZunnyIn this book the writer highlights some of the salient and true dilemmas that the average West African woman faces. Trials and Triumphs: Dilemma of African Women is set in the West African country of Nigeria...

DescriptionThe hills of Nandagiri,1920: the Irish Kildare Regiment is part of the vastmachinery that holds together the British Empire for the Crown of England.Back home in Ireland, the Irish War for Independence is raging and is metwith a ruthless backlash; the Black and Tans-an...

Author: Tsitsi DangarembgaISBN-10: 1665139749ISBN-13: 9781665139748Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Author: Jonathan EvisonISBN-10: 1665135883ISBN-13: 9781665135887Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d

A magisterial epic, an intimate yet sweeping novel that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about...

In a German Pension captures the youthful views of esteemed writer, Katherine Mansfield, who jumpstarted her illustrious career with a series of remarkable short stories. It showcases her growth and scope as a formidable nineteenth century writer.A captivating collection of short stories centering the...

In the pre-colonial African society, moral lessons, norms and values are taught through storytelling. For instance, an African parents would not tell their child why bullying is bad, rather they would tell a story about the horrible things that happen to a child that...

The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers. -- Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling...

The 1970s. Austin, Texas. In which two Mexican brothers from South Tejas move to Austin to seek a degree from the famous University of Texas. While there, they become radically sensitive to the separation of "whites" and browns" in the overall scheme of things....

Martin Vopěnka's novel, The Back of Beyond-Travels with Benjamin, is the story of a middle-aged man, who-despite his professional success and affluence-lacks fulfillment. After the tragic death of his wife, he is left alone with his eight-year-old son and quickly realizes that if he...

It is summer, 1884. Most folks in the fledgling community of Blaris in western Manitoba have had two to three years to establish their subsistence farms. All have the long-term view that when there are railroads to carry their grains and livestock to market,...

Xoana is the descendant of hard-working women, starting with Pepa the Mole, her great-great-great-grandmother, who went around with a peddler, Maricallo, who played the violin and sang coplas, romantic songs, at the fairs in Galicia. At one fair, in Monterroso, she was raped under...

Over the past centuries, many Gaelic/Celtic cultural tales and beliefs have been relegated to the status of children's stories or cartoonish caricature, misunderstood and misinterpreted for as long as most of us can remember.This third collection of short stories follows on from the previous...

This book celebrates traditions from around the world. It will guide children to see how although humans may be physically diverse, we share many qualities. It teaches unity and appreciation of differences.Author: Yujie Studios, Dina Al-SabawiISBN-10: 8698677258ISBN-13: 9798698677253Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2020Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Luna hungers for adventure. Lucien has chosen a solitary professional life. She's breaking away from her sheltered existence, while he's a widely-travelled but disillusioned young architect. Drawn together by her intimate journal that he found abandoned in a café, these two strangers begin to...

From an award-winning author comes a historical novel of forbidden love in a time of social upheaval.Newark, 1968. Junior Friscella, Montclair State football star and Italian North Ward hero, has a bright future ahead of him. His family and friends adore him. He doesn't...

Follow the magic. Follow the pink. Fairy Cornbread brings readers into Zoe's world, introducing concepts of family, giving, and courage, all with a drop of magic and a sprinkle of suspense. It's a fun and engaging picture book featuring a modern day African-American family....

Deeply-rooted in Southern culture, Three Plays: Lawing and Jawing, Forty Yards, and Woofing is a humorous look at the Black experience from three distinct perspectives. From a cantankerous judge to a stubborn husband, each story highlights the minutia and pressures of the daily grind....

RogueOps deploy high tech specialists into the killing fields of international intrigue. Military assassins and snipers airlift across the globe on Hawke's Gulfstream jets, Sikorsky helicopters and PBY amphibians. Intercept teams set sail on his 214-foot weaponized, tactical sailing yachts.Target 1Hunt down a lost...

Kevin and Anthony get a call to come home for a reunion at the church with all of their peers. Not really knowing what is going on they come home to find their classmates have many things going on. They get a loving reception...

As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with...

This is the sixth book in the definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation of one of the rare English translations of the full epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart...