Fiction - Cultural Heritage

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...

Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. Always a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, the widow is unmoored by her loneliness, fearing the slightest...

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...

Dreamcatcher is a woman's immigrant journey in America during the nineties-one that opens her to a new world where a larger-than-life call awaits.Shila's stable life in India crumbles the day her husband, Asim, declares he's going to America. She follows Asim to the faraway...

Arguably her most experimental work, "The Waves" is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf that comprises soliloquies by six characters punctuated by third-person descriptions of a coastal scene. Through her characters, Woolf examines the concepts of self, individuality, and community in a poignant and...

From their privileged childhood in Egypt, the paths of once-inseparable twins Taher and Aisha diverge early: When the USSR invades Afghanistan, Taher abandons their shared plans to study medicine in Europe, instead joining their cousin, Ahmed, as a medic for the mujahideen fighting the...

Virginia Woolf's development and evolution as a writer are highlighted in these 23 exceptional short stories. This collection pores over the intimate details of life in beautiful poetic prose. These brilliant pieces of short fiction incapsulate classic 20th century modernism. Particularly celebrated stories, such...

When the Lord cast out Lucifer and the rebellious angels, some of the angels fell to Earth rather than Hell, and their bodies shattered into thousands of tiny pieces. From these angelic shards rose the little people: The trolls, the alderfolk, the river-dwelling n...

Found alive after the massacre at Wounded Knee, twelve-year-old John Iron Horse is determined not to end up like so many others of his people. Then he learns the motto of the school he's required to attend: "Kill the Indian, save the man."Carter Heath...

First book in the Alexa Glock Mystery series! For a normal tourist, finding a body in a geothermal pool in New Zealand might ruin a vacation. Forensic specialist Alexa Glock, however, sees a chance to help local law enforcement with a baffling case. But...

Found alive after the massacre at Wounded Knee, twelve-year-old John Iron Horse is determined not to end up like so many others of his people. Then he learns the motto of the school he's required to attend: "Kill the Indian, save the man."Carter Heath...

The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by John Ford. Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful--before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a...

"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...

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...

A stranger with a magical fife promises to rid the rat-infested town of Hamelin of its vermin for the sum of one hundred Rhine ducats. Viktor Dyk's rendition of the medieval Saxon legend of the pied piper masterfully blends lyrical prose with early twentieth...

Clarissa Martinez, an Asian/Caucasian young woman has lived in seven different countries by the time she turns twenty and feels no lasting connection with any place. She thinks it's time to settle somewhere she could eventually call home. But where?She decides to live in...

A unique Irish detective thriller. A rare insight into Gaelic culture. Nobody knows much about reclusive Irish historian Muiris (Mos) O'S illeabh in except that he doesn't share his secrets freely. Mos, however, has a "sixth sense for history, a unique talent for finding...

When Americans created civilization from wilderness, there were those who followed the rules and those who created their own-an enduring conflict between liberty and virtue that formed a new land.Five years have passed since the death of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh. The native peoples...

Be among the first readers to meet New York book editor Savannah Brennan Scott and her colorful Irish family. When Savannah returns home to coastal Georgia for her Cousin Michael's wedding without her husband Derek, she knows tongues will surely wag. The Brennan's are...

New friends. New beginnings. Old secrets... 'Sweet and heartwarming' - Bestselling author MARIAN KEYES'The word "uplifting" was invented for this tender and poignant story. It's a beautifully written debut, a must-read' - Bestselling author JUDY LEIGHThough they come from the same small Irish village,...

Hamama is the memoir of a spirited girl fighting to find her place in 1930s Yemen. It traces her arduous journey to the Land of Israel and the many challenges she faces in the struggling new country. When Hamama is a young girl, her...