Fiction - Cultural Heritage

A miraculous fish appears to an old woman in a small town in Northeast Brazil -- and so begins a series of comical, poignant, beautiful, and bizarre tales imagined by a remarkable storyteller whose singular voice resonates with lyrical grace.Featuring an unforgettable cast of...

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD The Words in My Hand is the reimagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th century Amsterdam working for an English...

Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15. Bright, hilarious, and sensitive...

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their...

Besserman's haunting novel of a modern day Kabbalah encounter is a cautionary tale about the spiritual/religious world as it exists today.Author: Perle BessermanISBN-10: 1939681928ISBN-13: 9781939681928Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

A mother's last words, a father's final message, and a strange painting: Michael Kent-Hughes faces personal tragedy, one that leads to long-lasting damage to the relationship with his youngest child, Prince Thomas. As the young boy grows to adulthood and the estrangement from his...

Have you ever made one simple decision that changed EVERYTHING? Even the smallest choice can have radical consequences as we see in this captivating story of our fierce heroine, Fanaye. At the height of Mussolini's fascist invasion of Ethiopia, a feisty thirteen-year-old village girl...

Winner of the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best First Novel "Dawes offers vibrant characters and locales in this diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness between two troubled people." --BooklistKofi, a Jamaican reggae musician, and...

If you found the history you learned as a child, erased your people from the story, what would you do, or say and who would you say it to?This compelling and thought provoking question is at the root of the noteworthy and inspiring book,...

When free-spirited painter Julie Fincher discovers that her fiancé is a gold-digger, she reluctantly decides to go ahead with the wedding to please her ailing father. Sadly, the family's beloved ninety-two-year-old Lady Edwina Greymore passes away the day before the wedding and everything changes....

Man and His Surroundings is a collection of novellas that are unconnected by one plot, but which altogether constitute a piercing examination of Soviet and post-Soviet culture. The novellas are hilarious and poignant, satirical and philosophical, and they impart a better intuitive understanding of...

In Nazi-occupied Rome, the lives of two women collide in an arena of deception, greed, and sacrifice. While political cartoonist Angelina Rosini zigzags through a labyrinth of compassionate allies and cunning spies, Lidia Corsini quenches her greed by turning in Jews to the Nazis....

When free-spirited painter Julie Fincher discovers that her fiancé is a gold-digger, she reluctantly decides to go ahead with the wedding to please her ailing father. Sadly, the family's beloved ninety-two-year-old Lady Edwina Greymore passes away the day before the wedding and everything changes....

Published just two years before José Rizal's national epic, Touch Me Not, Pedro A. Paterno's Nínay is a cultural novel that portrays Philippine society to an international non-Filipino audience.Considered to be the first novel published by a Native Filipino author, Nínay follows the life,...

"Monday or Tuesday" is a short story collection that was written by one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, between 1917-1921. This collection was published by The Hogarth Press, London, and it included eight stories. All of the eight...

A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning...

A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner"Propulsive and complex, this is agorgeously written debut."--KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)In The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories....

READ WITH JENNA'S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK - A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - 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...

Religious fanaticism, organized crime and a little bit of rock 'n' roll come together in this singular debut novel about intergenerational trauma and confronting the past.Seven years after a brutal encounter with the Hells Angels, two ex-lovers, Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin, return to...

What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval...

Living effectively in a traditional African society requires a mastery of the nuances of communication. This is an article of existence made imperative by the time settled character of the African society. Tradition has always been the soul of the African society and rich...

It is the final year of the twentieth century and King Sidi is dying . . . Mohamed has been the king's fool for thirty-five year, his closest counsel, privy to his deepest secrets and most intimate thoughts. It is an honoured position for...

"Jace The Armenian Boy Who...LOVES Healthy Habits" is a children's book that explores the experiences of a young Armenian-American boy named Jace. The book follows Jace's journey as he learns about his rich cultural heritage from his parents and how to embrace it while...

Set in Virginia, this novel evokes the irony of change in the rural South. Dorinda Oakley is a passionate, intelligent, and independent young woman struggling to define herself.Author: Ellen GlasgowISBN-10: 015610685XISBN-13: 9780156106856Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/1985Pages: 540Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.64w x 1.30d

* A Best Book of the Year --NPR* An October 2023 ABA "Indie Next List" Pick.* A Publishers Weekly's "Writers to Watch" (Fall 2023)An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores...

The follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The President's Gardens "Al-Ramli is a remarkable storyteller, and in Daughter of the Tigris he creates a dynamic, intricately plotted narrative, brimming with stories and a host of memorable characters" Susannah Tarbush, Banipal On the sixth day of...

From the bestselling author of The Girl In The Picture comes a beautiful new timeslip novel.Berkshire, 1944When Will Bates offers to take ATA pilot Lilian Miles to the dance, he sends her heart into a flutter. But as their relationship progresses, Lilian can't help...

Eleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation. Salvatore Pane's The Neorealist in Winter is a collection of eleven short stories that explore what it means to be human in an age of media oversaturation. Utilizing methods of...

The Chameleon is the tale of Rorke Wilde, who grows up in Rhodesia. Rorke's need to mimic his pet chameleon, if he is to survive the racial discourse in a country divided by apartheid during the 1970s.Rorke's father works in the British South Africa...

The first English-language story collection from one of Iran's most important living fiction writers (Guardian) In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern...

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...

Ten-year-old Lydia's life is upended in 1915 when soldiers storm her village at the start of the Armenian Genocide. Separated from her parents and younger brother, Lydia is marched from her home in Zeitun, through the desert, and into Syria. She's sold into slavery,...

An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok). The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving novel that tells the intertwined stories of an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man--all of whom are forced to grapple with secrets they kept during and after the...

SURVIVORS OF THE DUMPING GROUNDS After abject suffering, the loss of their family, and the misery of the workhouse, during the Great Hunger, Irish orphans Maeve and Emer Dannaher are sentenced to indentured service to a strange continent on the other side of the...

This gorgeous book is a collection of 43 Indian folk-tales superbly illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. These tales were originally collected by William Crooke but are retold here by W. D. Rouse to delight children. Rouse has chosen to keep this selection confined to...

November 2017 LibraryReads PickIn the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-McCoy's U.S. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community and her own life in this touching, enchanting novel set on Ireland's stunning...

The Selected Papers From the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena presents two tales of family misadventures penned by Kate Maruyama.SAFERLos Angeles is in lockdown, "Safer at home," so Soledad, a college student, jumps at the opportunity to be live-in caretaker for Story,...

Internationally acclaimed poet Lang Leav's debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling coming of age narrative set against the backdrop of anti-Asian sentiment sweeping Australia in the late 90's. A stirring portrayal of guilt, loss, and memory,...

November 2017 LibraryReads PickIn the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-McCoy's U.S. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community and her own life in this touching, enchanting novel set on Ireland's stunning...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the "sweet celestial confusion" of Soutine's painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life...

Blinded in an automobile accident the very first night of her honeymoon, Philadelphia native Cassidy Grant goes to live at Waverly Hall in a rural, southern town in Georgia. Cassidy had married Chad Waverly after a courtship of only a couple of weeks at...

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of...

Like many other contemporary Cape Cod communities, Mashpee is a place divided among lines-affluence, race, heritage, and history. It will take nothing less than the selfless actions of a few pioneers to change the unchangeable. Tobin Horvarth knows the pain of life in such...

"He'll eat more than his share and leave a mess wherever he goes!" LaDelle Harris, a fiery fifty-one-year-old widow and the head librarian at the Tuskegee Institute, likes things her way-orderly and trouble-free. So, the last thing she wants is to take care of...

"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...

In 1906 while the Namas, indigenous first people of Namibia, were engaged in a war with the German colonial Schutztruppe, the Luchtensteins, an immigrant family, arrived by ship in Luderitzbucht. They then left by ox wagon to a new home, three hundred kilometres into...

After losing both parents in tragic incidents, Lucero has decided to run away from authorities before they come for her and place her in an orphanage. It is then that a mysterious woman appears at her doorstep and a series of events that change...

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...

"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...