Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Across the month of August and September 2013, artist/writer Brian L. Ragsdale wrote a series of prose and poetry. Themes of the poems emerge from daily experiences, wanderings, musings, and childhood memories.Something happened to the author when he grew up on Sable street, and now looking...

Adesuwa and Uyi are young and in love, but their relationship must remain in the dark as her parents may not approve of him as a worthy suitor. He’s a poor farmer. Uyi struggles to save up some money before summoning the courage to ask for Adesuwa's hand in marriage. He gives her a stipulated...

“Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson was first published in 2004. It was the second novel written by the author. Her first novel was “Housekeeping” and it had been published in 1980.When the novel “Gilead” was published, it was greatly admired by both critics and readers. The book was...

“Dicey’s Song” by Cynthia Voigt was a highly successful novel. It was an instant success when it was first published. The book received the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children’s literature in the year 1983.Cynthia Voigt, the author of the present novel, was the second...

All Johnny Manno wants to do is dance and drive his car. But his son Michael worries because Johnny keeps wrecking the car and those young women he hangs with could be taking advantage of the old man. But getting the keys away from Johnny or telling him who he should hang with is another matter. Johnny...

Eine Frau in den Wirren der Revolution. Frankfurt 1848. Die Stadt ist in heller Aufregung. Die Nationalversammlung tagt in der Paulskirche. Auch der Verleger Joseph Rütten wird von dieser Aufbruchsstimmung angesteckt. Mit seinem Geschäftspartner Zacharias Löwenthal möchte er all die wesentlichen...

Drawn from Florida history, folklore, and fiction, this collection of stories tailor-made for telling will entertain, inspire, and astound readers and listeners of all ages. Cracker Jack is up to his old tricks: putting one over on his Yankee schoolteacher; confounding a census taker; and convincing...

Una struggente raccolta di poesie imperniata sull'unico sentimento capace di dominare il mondo: l'amore, come filosofia, cura e libertà. Una raccolta poetica capace di trasmettere emozioni e di regalare sprazzi di assoluta sincerità e malinconica illusione. Non è un caso che l'autore sia uno studioso...

Francis McNally is back. The PI we met in Dark Time (2014), the one who promised results in an earlier case but failed to deliver and has been beating himself up ever since, gets a chance to redeem himself. But to solve this assignment he will have to travel to the northernmost reaches of Canada—to...

Préparez-vous pour un voyage envoûtant au cœur de l'Île Maurice... Une scénariste se rend à l’Île Maurice pour préparer un film sur Malcolm de Chazal, le grand poète mauricien. Une fois sur place, elle rencontre un personnage intrigant, venu d’un autre temps. Qui se cache derrière...

Small Town is a fictional story of a familys generational navigation through the Jim Crow South. The book is a collection of fictional stories woven together to describe the lives, times, and struggles of a black family living in the Deep South in a climate of racial animus. Three generations of family...

Twenty-two-year-old Maryam, a Saudi woman living comfortably with her parents in Medina, is old enough to get married and old enough to get a job. She is also old enough to pursue postgraduate studies in English in Leeds in the United Kingdombut that option fuels her dilemma. Her hesitation to study...

The little town was Serenity: in name and nature. Then the railroad and miners came, dragging violence and death behind them. Renamed Hell, the sleepy town changed under the rule of Ike Cordis. Known as The Devil, Cordis controlled The Three Horsemen, the fastest guns in town. Long forgotten was the fourth horseman - a man riding a blue roan. A man determined to make The Devil burn in Hell!

In 1989, the nearly centenarian Yakovakis, an artist of shadow puppetry, is murdered in his artist's haunt. At the same time, a bas-relief depicting a demon disappears from his collection. The search for suspects begins with his circle of friends. But after his funeral, members of this circle, his...