Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

"This fast-paced story of a family secret will keep readers turning pages."—Krys Lee, author of Drifting House Allison flies to Seoul to discover the truth about her adopted sister. A tangled history of love and deception reunites two sisters whose fates were shaped by a long-lost...

1922 ist die Welt in der maghrebinischen Stadt Nahbès zu aller Zufriedenheit aufgeteilt. Bis ein amerikanisches Filmteam wie ein Meteor in dem Wüstenort einschlägt. Für einen Moment begegnen sich die Amerikanerin Kathryn und Raouf, der Sohn des Caïd, die junge Witwe Ranja, der altersmilde Kolonialist...

Mudbug Tales, A Novel In Flashes, wit' RecipesThe vignettes that follow tell, in Cajun dialect, the stories of the wonderful people who populate a piece of Acadiana, in South Louisiana. They are fictions set in the imaginary town of Pigeonaire on the real Bayou Teche. The book is in two...

Lucy” by Jamaica Kincaid was first published in 1990. The story of the novella revolves around the titular character ‘Lucy.’The novel opens in medias res. Lucy is born and brought up in the West Indies. She moves to the United States to become an au pair for a wealthy white family. Lucy’s...

Occupant différentes maisons familiales successives au cours de sa jeunesse, Olympe se construit dans ces lieux chargés d’histoire, d’émotions et de visages. Mue par une nostalgie doucereuse et une curiosité bienveillante, elle ne se lasse pas d’écrire sur sa famille, son sujet préféré.

Les 21 juors d'un neurasthénique (1901) suivi de La 628-E8 (1907) Octave Mirbeau décrit la société à travers les curistes d'une station thermale et à travers les notes de voyage à travers la France, la Belgique, la Hollande et l'Allemagne. Les deux textes montrent l'humour et la tendresse de l'auteur.

Mr. Collins is a funny writer [who puts] his finger on exactly what—makes Japan bewildering, endearing, amusing, inspiring." —The New York Times." There has been a murder in the posh locker room of the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club. After a bad set of doubles, popular nice guy Shig Manabe...

Middlemarch: Complete 8 Books By George Eliot, first published in 1874. The pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. The epic novel has been called one of the greatest works of English literature. The novel is comprised of four plots, all featuring residents of Middlemarch. It is her...

In the second book of Samuel, the tragedies of the children of King David unfold. Tamar is raped by her brother Amnon. "The Good Brother" imagines Tamar, Amnon, and Absalom in a modern-day setting, and tells the story of Tamar's halting, stunted attempts at recovery after Amnon's attack,...

For the first time, English readers have access to Soseki’s Spring Miscellany. Originally published as Eijitu Shohin in serial form in the Asahi newspaper in 1909, before appearing in book form, Spring Miscellany is an pastiche of twenty-five sketches, referred to as shohin (little items), heir...

Des destins qui se rencontrent, s’entrelacent et parfois se délient. Deux amis d’enfance, fils de parents aisés, unis pour faire les quatre cents coups et prêts à s’empoigner pour la conquête d’un jupon, voient leur avenir professionnel tranquillement se dessiner. Damien a intégré...

Die Ereignisse auf Gravenstein spitzen sich dramatisch zu, als Klaus von Weyersberg sich seinen Verwandten zu erkennen gibt. Während Iduna ihm unverhohlen einen Heiratsantrag macht, sinnt Kurt von Weyersberg darüber nach, wie er Klaus unschädlich machen kann. Sein Versuch, die Papiere seines Neffen,...

After the devastation of being left by his fiancé, just hours before his wedding, Aziz, an American-born Turkish Cypriot, relocated to London to start a new life. Just as he starts to get his life back on track, he receives news that his elderly Cypriot grandfather had passed away during a visit...

Klaus von Weyersberg gehörte einer Polarexpedition an, die im Ewigen Eis verschollen ist. Da niemand an seinem Tod zweifelt, fällt das reiche Gut Gravenstein dem Vetter seines Vaters, Kurt von Weyersberg, zu. Nach zehn Jahren soll es endgültig in dessen Besitz übergehen. Doch wie ein Wunder hat...