Cultural Heritage
A Call From Jersey
By: P. F. Kluge
With A Call From New Jersey Kluge has outdone himself with a long view of the American experience and the steady mutation of the American dream. Set in the1980's it follows the life of Hans Greifinger, a German-American who immigrated to the United...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 352
A Noble Killing (Inspector Ikmen Mysteries)
By: Barbara Nadel
The brilliant 13th crime novel from the Donna Leon of Istanbul delves into the shocking world of honor killingIn Turkey, the police are called to the scene of what seems to be the honor killing of a young girl. Burned alive, she is not the...
Published: Aug 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 384
Black Orchids
By: Gillian Slovo
A moving love story and family epic that takes on issues of race and the politics of belonging When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 376
Black Sunlight
By: Dambudzo Marechera
"I really tried to put terrorism into a historical perspective, neither applauding their acts nor condemning them. The photographer does not take sides; he just takes the press photographs." In an unspecified setting the...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Everything Asian
By: Sung J. Woo
You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either. You're seeing your father for the first time in five...
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 336
How I Lost the War
By: Filippo Bologna
RTime runs slowly in a sleepy Tuscan village once renowned for its thermal baths ... until the arrival of Ottone Gattai, a ruthless businessman who has come to this idyllic countryside to revive the legendary baths as an ultra-modern tourist resort....
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 275
Joseph and the Tamanawis Spirit
By: Dawn Lawrence
When strange things begin happening on the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay, Washington, Fawn and Dennis Miller suspect an evil spirit is leading Nicolai Vain down a dangerous path. When Dennis and Fawn's son, Joseph TaHayYasib Miller, becomes Nicolai's...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 242
Only a Girl
By: Lian Gouw
In "Only a Girl" three generations of Chinese women struggle for identity against a political backdrop of the World Depression, World War II, and the Indonesian Revolution. Nanna, the matriarch of the family, strives to preserve the family's...
Published: Jun 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 298
People With No Camel
By: Roya Movafegh
Based on a true story, "The People With No Camel", weaves two journeys of freedom: A ten year old girl escapes Iran in 1981 with her family, due to the heavy persecutions they face as Baha'is, carrying nothing but three little handbags, new...
Published: Aug 2010
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 199
Poacher's Faith: A Novel
By: Marc Seguin
Half Mohawk, half Caucasian, Marc Morris is a deeply bitter, disillusioned young man searching for purpose. He hunts and kills animals so he won't kill men, and yet he has...
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 160
Recipe for Life
By: Nicky Pellegrino
Inviting, sun-drenched writing in the vein of Adrianna Trigianni or Joanne Harris A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends, and a little food—but life is rarely straightforward. Alice wants to make the...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 368
Robert, Last Name Unknown
By: Robert Corrales
A baby boy is born at an orphanage, with only the instructions to call him Robert. No last name. The baby grows up to be a young man, self-taught, with bright ideas, who runs away to find himself. The young girl who loves him helps him escape...
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 379
Shadows and Walls
By: Meade Saeedi
Tahirih is a young, uneducated, but highly curious woman living in late-nineteenth-century Persia where 90 percent of the population is illiterate. She desperately wants to learn to read but is forbidden by her husband to do so. This is her...
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 358
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
By: Howard Goldblatt
WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red...
Published: Nov 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 224
Singing Spears (Retallick series)
By: E. V. Thompson
Daniel Retallick has grown to manhood during the years of flood tide in the chronicles of Africa. The son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, he settles with his wife and children on a homestead in a valley of Matabeleland. But the years are the...
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 448
The Day I Killed Sasquatch
By: Dale Keith Moore
You must be the one who shot me.' He waited for my response.
Published: May 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 304
The House of the Mosque
By: Kader Abdolah
A sweeping, compelling story bringing to life the Iranian Revolution, from an author who experienced it first hand. It is Iran in 1969. In the house of the mosque, the family of...
Published: Mar 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 400
The Iguana Tree: A Novel
By: Michel Stone
Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant...
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 220
The Japanese Lover
By: Rani Manicka
A breathtaking and absorbing novel set in Malaysia propelled by the superb storytelling instinct of the author of THE RICE MOTHER.Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father has...
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 448
The Lost Words
By: Oya Baydar
One of the most acclaimed and powerful novels of modern Turkey is set across Europe, but retains the Turkish-Kurdish conflict at its heart A mixture of thriller, love story, political, and psycho-philosophical novel, this is a sobering,...
Published: Aug 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 240
Toronto at Dreamer's Rock: Education is Our Right Two One-Act Plays
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
In these two plays, Drew Hayden Taylor delves into the past and speculates about the future as he examines the dilemmas facing young Native Canadians. Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock is a moving portrayal of a teenage boy who is torn...
Published: Jun 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 144
Under the Moonlit Sky
By: Nav K. Gill
It's the spring of 1984 in British Columbia and life is just getting exciting for the young and beautiful Esha. Nothing is more important than her dreams of being a celebrated athlete, partying with her friends, and charming the boys. The secret that...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 288
Whispers
By: Valeriana Bandeh
Whispers is an anthology of multicultural short stories that arouse the senses and create nostalgia. The stories are marinated in cultural spices and blanched in vernacular, humor and questions of destiny. Everyone has a story. Everyone knows someone...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 136
Life, Church, Love
By: Jane Weeks Pond
This sweeping novel of the post-civil war South opens with a death but continues on as the tale of innumerable human lives. Based on the true story of real-life southern families, Life, Church, Love takes the reader into an uncertain new century...
Published: Sep 2012
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 674
Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
By: Troy Blacklaws
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Published: Mar 2013
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 230
The World Through the Eyes of Angels
By: Mahmoud Saeed
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Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Pages: 200