Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Like Elena Ferrante, this author tells a gripping story of friendship, struggle, love, and social turmoil, with two women at its center, against the background of American society (1960's to 2012). From the hippie movement to the 9/11 attack and beyond, this novel reveals...

After living in the United States for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world.The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the...

This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review). Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world....

"A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman's coming-of-age. The story opens with Meena, a 14-year-old girl from Darbhanga, preparing for her wedding to Manmohan, a 21-year-old Nepalese student. . . . Many Indian and Nepali stories, songs, and myths anchor the narrative, and by...

This immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick Honor is a Book Riot Best Book of 2023. When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his...

"Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can't help but feel it's disturbingly real."--Christopher MooreIn this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the...

"Divakaruni tells the story of India's independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws. I cheered for them and cried with them as they move through the history of their country that is...

Seventeen year-old Larry Kinsella knows nothing of life beyond the city of Vancouver and when he first meets Benita Pigeon, a member of the Carrier Nation, he is drawn to her by their differences. Their brief, often tumultuous, relationship is brought to a calamitous...

What is legitimized and normalized by the discrimination and institutionalized violence the de la Cruz family is forced to face? Miguelito might survive in his new adopted country, but at what price?The novel opens with the death of Manuel de la Cruz who is...

First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts...

The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman's struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn't be better....

First she changed England. Then she changed the world.For all fifteen years of her life, Pauline de Pamiers has witnessed an attack on her family, friends, and faith. It's the early thirteenth century and the Pope and King of France are conducting a Crusade...

After the dance was concluded, the whole party was entertained with brawn and beef, and stout home-brewed. The Squire himself mingled among the rustics, and was received with awkward demonstrations of deference and regard. -from "Christmas Day" Warmly convivial and delightfully festival, this charming...

"Reinbou is a gem [and] I feel as if I've found a treasure at the end of a reader's rainbow." --Julia Alvarez, author of The Cemetery of Untold Stories and the international bestseller In the Time of the Butterflies "Cabiya evokes the Dominican Republic's...

The Far West. The Scent of Lemons Italian saga continues with two Sicilian immigrant brothers' choices in America: the one that did and the one that didn't. While Baldassare Licata, the oldest, struggles to make an honest living for his growing family, Nick, the...

In Nancy Agabian's The Fear of Large and Small Nations, feminist writer and teacher Natalee--aka Na--flees the conservative fearmongering of George W. Bush's America to reclaim her cultural roots in post-Soviet Armenia. As she contends with rigid gender roles and rampant homophobia, learning the...

Narrated by Jessica Matten, star of the AMC series DARK WINDS, based on the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novels"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...

Jason Chase, a man filled with personal demons, only wanted to finish his manuscript. But all his carefully laid plans disappear when a stranger showed up at his front door claiming to be his long-lost father. The stranger claims that Jason must come to...

As a girl on the brink of womanhood in 1960s India, Shanti Bamzai has big dreams. Rather than enter into an arranged marriage like her sister, Shanti embarks on a journey into the unknown, leaving her family home behind for an education and a...

Fossil 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 lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for...

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...

Bill Roorbach is back with an intensely immersive love story undone by the foolhardiness of youth and the ways in which race and class can dictate one's life. When Cindra Zoeller, 16, is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she is a young,...

Kate is a neuroscientist who covets logic and order, unless she's sleeping with her married lab director, and then logic goes out the window. So does her orderly life in Manhattan when she's fired over the affair and Kate's mother presses her to accept...

It's Christmas time in the Pennsylvania Dutch town of Marienstadt and everything is sparkling. You are invited to come spend the holidays in a community of people where tradition is strong and love is all around. When The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt's Wood was...

Ishrat and Bari, both second generation Asian immigrants, struggle to cope with their ethnicity, cultural heritage, and identity in 1990s Britain. Leaving behind the comfort of cultural values which bind their community together they search for a sense of belonging in a country they...

"American Folklores: Part Two: Cryptids and Monsters in American Folklore" is afascinating exploration of the mythical creatures that populate the folklore ofAmerica. The book delves into the origins and legends of a wide range of cryptidsand monsters, including Mothman, Chupacabra, Bigfoot, and the Loch...

Diamond Donnie Ross is at the centre of this remarkable story of a coal-mining community in Cape Breton in the 1920s. Black Around the Eyes evokes the men and women, the joys and grief, the stark beauty and harsh struggles of that time and...

"American Folklores Part One: Classic American Folklores" is a book that explores ten classic American folk tales that have been passed down from generation to generation. The book starts with an introduction to American folklore and how it has influenced American culture over time....

The Next Generation. The Scent of Lemons Italian saga resumes as Nick Licata leads the mafia in Los Angeles. As his empire grows, so does his desire to initiate more family in the business. Loyalty to family and loyalty to truth become blurred and...

"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly...

A girl trapped by the colour of her skin. A politician desperate to regain power. A family ripped apart. 16-year-old Pullamma, with her dark skin, has resigned herself to a limited future in her remote South Indian village. For this reason, she's obliged her...

Penelope's big-city dreams aren't turning out exactly as she planned. When she moved away from her family and their small business, she envisioned a life creating fantastical events and taking advantage of all the things New York has to offer. She certainly didn't see...

The Pearl of the Antilles, Cubans carry their heart and spirit in everything they do. Even as the world around them changes, the fabric of the land remains the same. From the shifting currents of the Caribbean to the swaying stalks of sugarcane, Cuba...

"A compellingly heartbreaking debut novel about the echoes of Partition and four friends whose dark secrets lead to a life-changing night that comes back to haunt them decades later"--Author: Nigar AlamISBN-10: 0593544072ISBN-13: 9780593544075Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2023Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.40w...

A gripping action story with a vein of star-crossed romanceIn this prequel to 2022's THE RED CANOE, Buck, aka Michael Fineday, aka Red Deer is on his way to track down his wayward brother in the Twin Cities, when he's trapped in a snowstorm...

France in 1720 was gripped by an economic obsession. Pierre Mayeux unexpectedly got caught up in the mania. The 14th Colony is based on a true story about the father of a surname in the Louisiana Colony. Pierre suddenly finds himself, literally and figuratively,...

Acclaimed children's author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanian family.Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents' turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man...

In 1914, a young Ukrainian family faces an uncertain future. With growing political unrest in the region, they are forced to make a difficult decision between remaining in their beloved homeland or reaching for a better life across the cold Atlantic. In the end,...

Patti is a busy Senior Probation Officer working in Camden, London, with a teenager off to university the following year. Charmaine is a stressed out mum of twin toddlers and Rose is a Pastor's wife with five daughters. Life gets complicated when they meet...

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...

From the author of THE HENNA ARTIST.The final chapter in Alka Joshi's New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha's budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past....

Part 2 of the story continues...Patti, Charmaine and Rose form an alliance in Jamaica and agree to support each other when they return to the UK. But with warnings from celestial beings and Veronica dreaming about 'fish', are the women able to bring their...

Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with "a devil in her head" about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life.Twenty...

On a brief visit to Cairo to support an investigation her fiancé, a Jewish American journalist, has undertaken, Salma is caught up in the machinations of a new, radical Islamist group with a vendetta against her father, a man with his own dark side....

Reeling from his memories from the battlefields of Europe in World War I, Marine Corps Sergeant Hiram Tobit returns to the remote Appalachian mountains of his youth to recruit a new generation of woodsmen to serve the nation's armed forces. His native country, however,...

A captivating debut following a cross-country road trip that will make you believe in the goodness of people, Off the Books sheds light on the power in humanity during the most troubled of times. Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction...

The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A...

"A surreal, riveting, keep-the-lights-on masterwork of horror . . . I will be haunted by this book for years to come." --Kim Fu, author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly....

Seemingly disparate lives are brought together in a clever, prism-like plot in this award-winning novel. The story is based on three people--Ali, Dogan, and Olcay--and vividly depicts the struggle between the older generation who were content with the new (post-Ottoman) Turkey and who are...

In 1899, an abandoned young wife and a homeless girl team up to survive in a remote sawmill town in the Appalachian Mountains. The young woman's name is May Rose Long, but in the town where she seeks refuge, she's slandered as "the girl...