Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

On a warm July morning in 1998, a man leaves for work ... and never returns. After the mysterious disappearance of her husband, a woman writes a series of letters in a desperate attempt to make sense of the calamity of a missing spouse. These letters, set in 1990s Nigeria, provide insight into...

By the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers in New York's Southern Tier lies a verdant valley called the Triple Cities. The shoe factories that originally drew thousands of immigrants from across Europe have long moved on. What remains are the distinct ethnic flavors of...

Una novela sobre tres generaciones de una familia judía en Buenos Aires, poblada por mujeres de vida alegre, estafadores, y políticos menores. Una sátira demoledora, que transcurre durante la primera época del gobierno de Juan Perón. El crítico Ángel Rama ha dicho de la narrativa de Szichman:...

- Award-winning author: Author Terry Roberts has won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, Sir Walter Raleigh Award, Clark Cox Award for Fiction, and was a James Still Award Finalist. - Regional Expert: Terry Roberts has extensive knowledge of the region he writes, and has strong family ties...

The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional caliber whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse...

"A brilliant first novel . . . shockingly good." —Rose Tremain, Daily Telegraph Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead,...

“Great story, totally unputdownable! A story that drew me in from the start. I felt like this was a dear friend telling me about her life and found it hard to put the book down. It’s hard to find good reads on Voelva magic - this is one for sure.“ ~ Graureiher “I highly recommend this...

Ferenc Balasz, a young KGB agent tries to keep America from interfering while his superiors in Moscow attempt to control the fall of Communism and avoid a confrontation in Berlin at the Wall like the one that happened in Tiananmen Square. Balasz’s plan to temporarily cripple America’s military...

Shuki is home, and enjoying being home. He loves his wives, he loves his children, and he loves Elei. To the Daouds, he is someone special, theirs to love and to protect, as their father, the Old Master Hassanel, laid down in his will. To Shuki, the Daouds’ home is his home, though he does...

Known as The Dean of American Letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was a realist author and literary critic best known for his tenure as one of the most influential editors of the Atlantic Monthly, which is still an important publication today. And though Howells is known mostly for his work...

Veola Cook is on a mission to solve some strange and spooky events that began before dawn on Easter in her neighborhood. While investigating, one of her neighbors calls her the nosiest old woman in Parkerville, Texas, and hangs up on her. But Veola remains undaunted, determined to keep questioning...

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English writer and poet who is most well known for his contributions to the naturalism movement. Hardys work also had traces of the Romantic and Enlightenment periods which had preceded him, even though his protagonists are often depicted as tragic...

The meeting between a group of emigrants and a mysterious, wandering actress in an empty train station sets the stage for Bae Suah's fragmentary yet lyrical meditation on language, travel, and memory. As the actress recounts the fascinating story of her stateless existence, an unreliable narrator...

Written on Stone is an epic tale which comes alive across the enormous abyss of time. It explores the psyche and spirit of a people who are forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. The Ainu of Japan, and others who come from Siberia, Tibet, and Mongolia, travel the ice corridors to...