Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

"The Book About Nothing" is a collaboration by Michael-Peace Kenneth and Nissi Utho. The Book touches pressing issues in society today, things that cover everything, yet are not addressed enough. The book is a good read for people of all ages.

It is one thing to dream and another to achieve our aspirations; nature has a way of programming our fate without neglecting the effects of human element. Thomas finds himself in a twist, he is accused of stealing. He has to convince an angry mob when his only witness is the accuser. His utterances will determine whether he will live or die.

Upfield's first published novel 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne...

Never trust the words of an astrologer. Memories of the past follow Omar at every turn. His mind often refuses to fathom the fact that he’s lost so much. Despite the pain and heartache, he’s intent on providing for Mohamed and Sara, two children he’s taken under his wing. They mean more...

Queen Maeve has declared war upon the province of Ulster in an effort to take possession of the Brown Bull of Cooley. Ultimately, this is an attempt to match the wealth of her husband, King Ailill of Connacht, who owns a magnificent white bull. Only Cuchulainn, a boy warrior, stands between Ulster...

The 1920s in the United States were known as the Roaring Twenties and the ultimate Jazz Age for the nation, a time that glorified hard and fast living. And nobody personified it or wrote so descriptively about it as F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose name became synonymous with the times after penning...

Eugenio Díaz Castro abordó en Manuela temas colombianos, desde una óptica nacional y con la intención clara de resaltar los valores de la nacionalidad: algunos críticos la consideran la primera novela costumbrista de América Latina. Manuela es una novela con personajes de carne y hueso, retratos...

"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."--Phoebe Lou Adams, The Atlantic Patrick Leigh Fermor’s...

“Where do Christmas lights come from?” The tiny bulbs of color that burn on a Christmas tree, or outside a house to shine in the night; does anyone really know where they originate? What if someone told you they weren’t intended for Christmas at all, but really for a miracle? That they...

The Feast is a modern translation of Fled Bricrend, one of Ireland's most thrilling and humorous legends. Three men, each striving to be named Champion of Conchobor's realm, enter into a battle of wits and words in an effort to enjoy the privileges accorded to the national champion. As the heroic...

David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1985 March 2, 1930) was an English writer. Much of Lawrences work was based off his family life which featured tension between his father, a coal mine worker, and his mother who was a schoolmistress. Lawrences opinions as well as the sexual content of some of his...

Caught in the Current takes the reader on a magical mystery tour of Eastern and Western Europe during the summer of 1970, a tumultuous period of free love, equal rights demonstrations, and Vietnam antiwar protests in America, but an equally revolutionary period in Alecs life. Raised in Chicago as Ukrainian,...

CITY OF SORROWS is an emotionally intense story about how relationships can get complicated, and how life is not always the way we want it to be . . .Under normal circumstances, they never would have met. Rajiv is an Indian immigrant, Andrés a wealthy Spaniard, and Diego a poor Gypsy from...

‘Folk Tales of Bengal’ is a wonderful collection of classic stories, containing thirty-two colour illustrations, by Warwick Goble. The narratives were collated by the Reverend Lal Behari Day (1824 – 1892); a Bengali Indian journalist, who converted to Christianity, and became a Christian missionary...