Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

A romantic adventure set in Turkey poses questions about human rights, risk and the requirements for love.Professionally edited and reviewed.A Canadian backpacker falls face-flat in love with a charismatic carpet salesman while on holiday in Cappadocia, Turkey. Leigh doesn’t learn of Ahmet’s...

A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov's...

Les Petites histoires de la vieille : Pyrénées - Rares sont les ouvrages qui vont chercher ce qui se cache derrière cette terre de cartes postales. Or notre vieux terroir possède bien des trésors, bien des légendes. Personne ne sait où habite « La Vieille », mais elle accepte de raconter...

Stéphane Ternoise (http://www.ternoise.com) est originaire du nord. Il écrit rarement en chti. Mais suffisamment pour présenter en 93 pages une oeuvre originale. Des chansons et des histoires : canchons et cafougnettes. En chti : Min patois i plairo pas à tout l'monte : é m'n'écriture...

Chelmsford 2012 - Many Hearts One MindThe first novel in a two part series.In 2012 the Olympics came to London. After two dry winters the government declared a drought. Then it started raining and didn't stop for four months.The Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, Chelmsford was granted...

Sologne, Les petites histoires de la vieille - Rares sont les ouvrages qui vont chercher ce qui se cache derrière cette terre de cartes postales. Or le vieux terroir de Sologne possède bien des trésors, bien des légendes. Personne ne sait où habite la "Vieille", mais elle accepte de...

Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but she would never return. Now an old woman, Ruqayya looks back on a long life in exile,...

Thousands of families faced the realization that after the Newfoundland government declared a moratorium on cod fishing their lives would never be the same. Generations of fishing families were torn apart when the young men and women were forced to find employment out west. This is a story of one...

Extrait: "Un matin du mois d'août 1873, une voiture de place, qui venait de l'intérieur de Paris, s'arrêta à la porte de Vincennes, devant la grille de l'octroi. Deux hommes mirent pied à terre. L'un deux dit au cocher: – Nous avons quelqu'un à voir à Vincennes, vous allez nous attendre ici....

Conrad's first novel. Kaspar Almayer is a Dutch trader operating out of Borneo in the late 19th century. He has a daughter with a local woman, and names her Nina. Almayer is convinced he can locate a remote gold mine and thereby become a millionaire, until tragedy strikes his little family.

When Lee Ann Revell, a newspaper reporter for the Charleston Courier, receives an assignment to interview Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz for a story on latch-key kids in 1999, she feels an immediate attraction to the tall, dark, and handsome man. Lee Ann and the Rabbi are opposites. He, of course is...

»Dass das Leben einem Purzelbaum sehr ähnlich ist, merkt man erst, wenn man sich im letzten Drittel befindet. Die Zeit dreht sich, so kommt es einem vor, immer schneller. Eben hatte ich doch die Weihnachtssachen erst in den Keller gepackt, und nun steht schon wieder ein Baum im Zimmer zum Anputzen...

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...

Une aventure humaine hors du commun sur fond de mythologie polynésienne et un destin lié à l'océan à découvrir absolument ! Un curieux parcours réunit une perle magnifique et une jeune métisse déracinée dans un pays hostile. Rien ne serait possible sans l'aide d'une femme mystérieuse,...