Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Cover of The Sheep Walker’s Daughter
by Sydney Avey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

This is a gem of a book, telling the story about knowing and understanding, about past hurt and present secrets told in a beautiful, rich prose. – Janka, Goodreads Does it really matter where you come from? In 1953, a war widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity...
Cover of Ecuador History
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016

History of Ecuador. Throughout its history, Ecuador has displayed a continuity in traditional cultural and economic patterns as well as in social and political interaction among the country's highly heterogeneous social groupings. Modern patterns overlay the traditional, making present-day Ecuador...
Cover of The Good Oak
by Martin Etchart
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Thirteen-year-old Matt Echbar is angry at the world. His widowed father is too busy for him, and his grandfather is an embarrassment, an unschooled Basque shepherd whose language and customs are completely alien to Matt’s all-American lifestyle. Things get worse when the grandfather steals a flock...
Cover of Seasonal
by Betty Belanus
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Rob Anderson's job as Seasonal Folklorist in the idyllic setting of East Tennessee leads to adventure and romance as he uncovers layer after layer of the legend of local murderer and outlaw Boyd Jenkins. By asking the right questions, Rob and the beautiful Ruthie Taggart find the truth behind Jenkins'...
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Odessa, Odessa

A Novel

by Barbara Artson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

KEY SELLING POINTS: • The majority of historical fiction buyers are women interested in stories about family and fulfillment. • The book subject will appeal to the Jewish niche market. • Jewish readers are represented by education not population, with special interest in stories of identity...
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Indigenous

Poems

by Jennifer Reeser
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019

Jennifer Reeser’s Indigenous is, by turns, a celebration of her Native American heritage and a lamentation decrying the social injustice and tragedies endured. Through Reeser’s sublime craft and formal prowess, ancestral memories and spirits—both the immediate and the historical—are visited...
Cover of Island of a Thousand Mirrors
by Nayomi Munaweera
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by...
Cover of Homeland and Other Stories
by Barbara Kingsolver
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver delivers a collection of 12 original tales in Homeland and Other Stories that are every bit as emotionally resonant, humorous, and heartfelt as her much-beloved novels. In settings ranging from eastern Kentucky to northern California and...
Cover of The I. L. Peretz Reader
by I. L. Peretz
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

These short works from a master of Jewish literature offer “a brilliantly evocative tribute to a bygone era” (Publishers Weekly). Isaac Leybush Peretz is one of the most influential figures of modern Jewish culture. Born in Poland and dedicated to Yiddish culture, he recognized that Jews...
Cover of Kalyana
by Rajni Mala Khelawan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage, vividly telling tales of mischievous Krishna and powerful Mother...
Cover of Manek Mischiefs: Of Patriarchs, Playboys and Paramours
by Lee Su Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

After Kebaya Tales and Sarong Secrets comes a rich, gutsy collection of short stories immersing the reader into the vivid, multi-hued world of the Peranakans. Here, the babas take centre stage: masculine perspectives, voices and protagonists are put under the spotlight, even as fiery and headstrong...
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The Sorrows

A Grand Retelling of 'The Three Sorrows'

by Randy Lee Eickhoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

The Ulster Cycle continues with The Sorrows, three stories that dramatically portray Ireland's cultural heritage. The first, "The Fate of the Children of Tuirenn," is a tragic tale in which three brothers must pay a blood fine for murdering an enemy of their clan-a reflection of the great...
Cover of Tajikistan History
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016

Tajikistan, literally the "land of the Tajiks," has ancient cultural roots. The people now known as the Tajiks are the Persian speakers of Central Asia, some of whose ancestors inhabited Central Asia (including present-day Afghanistan and western China) at the dawn of history. Despite the long heritage...
Cover of Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti
by Kunzang Choden
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013

Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti is a collection of twenty-two stories set in four different regions of Bhutan. The presence of the yeti is ubiquitous to the kingdoms of the Himalayas, where beliefs and attitudes related to it go beyond scientific judgment and analysis. The Bhutanese consider the yeti,...
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