Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Прославленный автор научно-популярных книг Марк Курлански написал портрет Гаваны с любовью и знанием дела, основываясь на множестве источников и на собственных впечатлениях....

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First...

The First National Black Playwrights Conference and Workshop held in Canberra in January 1987 was a hectic affair. More than one participant called on Mudrooroo to use the proceedings (in the sense of what was happening) and the stories going around in a book. Doin Wildcat was that book. It has been...

Nostalgie et tendresse à la Mer du NordIdesbald est clochard à Bruxelles. Il s’abrite souvent dans une bibliothèque où, grâce à la bonne volonté d’un employé accueillant, il crée un blog et y écrit des histoires entendues ou inventées lors de ses errances. On y rencontre des protagonistes...

Extrait : "Il n'est personne qui ne voie le fait capital du temps. Par un concours singulier de circonstances sociales, religieuses, économiques, l'homme vit séparé de la femme. En cela de plus en plus. Ils ne sont pas seulement dans des voies différentes et parallèles, ils semblent deux voyageurs...

Auf einer Schiffsreise lernen der verwitwete Maler Heinz Wartegg und seine Tochter Roberta die stellungslose Gesellschafterin Linda Rittberg kennen. Während Roberta die Gesellschafterin aus tiefster Seele ablehnt, verliebt sich ihr Vater in Linda und heiratet sie. Roberta ist verzweifelt. Linda aber...

50 m de long, 15 de large sur 5 de profondeur. Telles étaient les dimensions du lac qui se forma naturellement dans ce quartier excentré de la ville de Lyon. Les Brotteaux n'étaient encore qu'un vaste espace de prairies et bras morts du Rhône.Mais ce lac qui apparut spontanément s'ancra...

San Francisco, California is a might magical town. This 3-novel combo begins with a novel Publisher's Weekly termed "courageous, thought-provoking." In it, 11-year-old Amelia Monet escapes from the father who has custody to begin a new life and identity in San Francisco, LIVING IN SECRET...

Living Under German Occupation During World War IIAny association with partisans can lead to death under Nazi occupation. And teenager Natalya has forged a very close link indeed.When her lover, and secret husband, is betrayed and ambushed, she must flee her home in Ukraine to avoid...

A little girl is orphaned in the Boxing Day Tsunami. No one knows who she is or what language she speaks. An aid worker visiting the orphanage discovers her name and wants to reunite her with family members, but the orphanage is in rebel held territory. A ransom is demanded. Aid worker Claire enlists...

Will the Kaplan family and their fellow travelers, a trapper, and a Native American be able to get past their culture clashes as they struggle to survive the 19th century Pacific Northwest? Dr. Beckham and his wife follow the Oregon Trail to Portland enduring extreme heat, cold and natural...

In days gone by, before man left footprints in the sands of Africa, there were tiny people called the Abatwa who lived with ants.It is a hard life filled with dangers and difficulties. There are enemies both above and below ground. For all we know, they may still share their lives with ants.Tola is...

Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework assignments include writing essays on the role of the workers...

À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de l'Égypte.Dans l’imaginaire arabe, l’Égypte est le pays des écrivains par excellence. Un proverbe, répandu en Orient, précise : « Le Caire écrit, Beyrouth imprime et Bagdad lit. » C’est en Égypte que la littérature arabe contemporaine...