Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. A Girl of the Limberlost, written by American naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, is the sequel to Freckles. The book is considered a classic of Indiana literature.

A woman in an arranged marriage is liberated by a desire that threatens her family and future An only child raised to become a dutiful wife, Astha is filled with unnamed longings and untapped potential. In the privacy of her middle-class Indian home, she dreams of the lover who will touch her...

The Lion's Binding Oath will be one of the first (if not the first) collections of stories published in English by a Somali writer and set entirely in Somalia. Ahmed Ismail Yusuf is strongly connected to the Somali diaspora living throughout the United States and Canada. Somalis in the United...

After attending college in Lebanon, Fawzia returns home to Jeddah and takes up secretly with her forbidden college sweetheart. When her reckless behavior leads to family tragedy, she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a mysterious old storyteller, the niece of a legendary tribal chief. Narrated...

A historical saga set in Benghazi. “A Hitchcockian whodunit of double-crosses and double identities in which almost no one is who he is thought to be” (Los Angeles Review of Books). The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina’s epic, The Confines of the Shadow, a sequence...

Katie Mitchell is a well brought up Catholic girl in the dark ages of the nineteen fifties. Her father loves her very much. Her mother values piety and chastity above all.This is a brave and funny novel about falling rapturously in love and being condemned for it; about wakening sensibility and constraint, and about finding oneself growing up in spite of the voices that say 'no'.

Extrait : "Nicolas-Edme Restif naquit le 23 octobre 1734 à Sacy près Vermenton, dans le département de l'Yonne, ancienne province de Bourgogne. Son père, qu'il a peint sous les couleurs les plus avantageuses dans un livre qui tranche beaucoup sur le ton ordinaire de ses productions, était cultivateur...

“A beautiful, daring, challenging novel” of a young Muslim immigrant—from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator (The Guardian). Leila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman—once privileged and secular...

Now Samiha has reached the age of fifteen and Nader, the firstborn son, forces her to leave school. How will she cope with this situation while her elder sister has completed her studies and accepts an arranged marriage? Resentment against Nader's controlling attitude creates constant tension in the...

If you live your whole life being who everyone else wants you to be, how do you know who you really are? Nineteen-year-old Aaron Rutherford is already reeling from the loss of his mother, when the unexpected revelation of a dark secret from her past changes his world forever. Forced to question everything...

"A Brilliantly Written Thriller" "Emotional thriller" "Fast-paced emotional rollercoaster ride!" A Gripping International Crime Thriller from author Janet Pywell's Culture Crime Series. She is rebellious. She is talented. She is vulnerable. Mikky...

Extrait : "Lorsqu'un enfant naît de nuit, et qu'il fait claire lune, la plus ancienne des vieilles femmes qui assistent l'accouchée court se poster sur le seuil de la porte pour examiner l'état du ciel, au moment précis où le nouveau-né fait son apparition dans la vie. Si les nuages enserrent à...

Life is not always as it seems on the surface… Like everyone raised in the idyllic seaside town of The Burrow, the ocean played a large role in Rose Barros’ life. She lived her life to the rhythm of the tides until a near-death experience changed her love for the water to a soul-deep terror, driving...

Extrait : "Or écoutez d'abord la triste et bien attachante histoire de la chambre d'amour que les jeunes filles des environs de Biarritz se redisent, le soir, en frissonnant bien fort – les pauvrettes ! Ecoutez-la, si du moins vous avez vraiment aimé de l'amour sont le souvenir seul fait trembler...