Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books
Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook
60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....
by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
**Kirkus Best Books of 2018
"Chaya Bhuvaneswar's debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold, smart, exciting new voice, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor."
-Lauren Groff, author of...
by Reine Bautista Mercado
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Can you imagine a world before patriarchy?
This short story portrays a world during the pre-colonial times in the Philippines in which men and women shared equal standing in society and ruled the people with equal power as the male chieftain of the village led the people together with the babaylan,...
The Adulterers
Collection of Classic Erotica, #13
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
Ah, yes. The Adulterators, the thrilling account of a couple of desperadoes whose violation of the Pure Food and Drug Act brought a nauseated nation to its knees, and— Oh, it's The Adulterers? Oh. Well, never mind.
The Adulterers was my second effort for Bill Hamling's Nightstand Books. Like...
Moondogs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.
Mourning the recent loss of his mother,...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure. Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose, this is Dumas’s most daring work, in which his themes of intrigue and romance are illuminated by the issues of...
Australian Literature
An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Spanning more than a century, Australian Literature crystallizes a spirit, style, and ethos found nowhere else in world literature. These captivating selections in Australian Literature come from major voices, both famous and lesser known, and encompass short stories, memoirs, novels and aboriginal...
The Spirit Keepers
The Spirit Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
THE SPIRIT KEEPERS: A Native American Romantic Mystery
As of January 2014, any income from the sale of The Spirit Keepers will be donated to help support the Zuni Pueblo Youth Enrichment Program
Can you escape the wrath of the spirits?
After relinquishing her infant...
Links
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature.
Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip—his last residence there was a jail cell....
Don Vicente
Two Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dusk, traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
A pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best known for her cutting contemplation of fashionable New York, Ethan Frome and Summer are set in small...
The Days of the Rainbow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Nico, the son of a noted Chilean philosophy professor, witnesses his father’s arrest while he is teaching a class. Bettini, the father of Nico’s best friend, is a leftist advertising executive who has been blacklisted and is out of work after having been imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet’s...
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Una novela entrañable y fresca en la que las mujeres dejan de lado sus tradiciones y dejan volar su imaginación y sensualidad hasta rincones insospechados.
«A ratos erótica, a ratos romántica, esta deliciosa historia de mujeres que desafían las estructuras patriarcales es fascinante.»
Kirkus...
by Nick Joaquin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**Celebrating the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U.S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin’s seminal works, with a foreword by PEN/Open Book Award–winner Gina Apostol
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice**
Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest...