Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, Charmed Particles tells the intertwined stories of two families. Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India now working at the National...

Welcome to the Tokyo American Club, playground of the city's elite, where, In the middle of the annual dinner, club manager Pete Peterson's head has been found bobbing In the swimming pool. A headless torso is alongside it: the trouble is, the body doesn't match the head. Captain Tim Kawamura of the...

There are quite a few synonyms of “Contrast” like Dissimilarity, Variation, Gap, Difference, Divergence, Unlikeness, Disparity etc. I want to add one more word in this list “India”. This crazy country is beautiful, vibrant & deep. When you think that you know a lot about India it presents...

Una noche una recién nacida, carcomida por la viruela, aparece en la puerta de la casa de los García. Ellos son una familia boyacense desplazada por las guerras civiles de finales del siglo XIX. Mientras la familia se hace un lugar en la vida social y política de una Bogotá en desarrollo, la pequeña...

Quando a Roma viene rubato un famoso dipinto in prestito dal Louvre – un paesaggio con una coppia mitologica, Cefalo e Procri – Flavia Di Stefano, facente funzione di capo del Nucleo investigativo per la tutela del patrimonio artistico, riceve l’ordine di recuperarlo a tutti i costi, ma senza mettere...

A hilarious tale of cheap drugs, cheap sex and teaching English - on the cheap! The first edition of "I Woke Up Feeling Thailand" was written between 2002 and 2004, after the author returned from an eye-opening stint observing the lifestyles of English teachers in the Kingdom of Siam. After...

Un florilège de mythes, de contes et de légendes permet de pénétrer dans l'imaginaire des pays de l'IndeLes grands savants du XIXe siècle étaient convaincus que tous les mythes et les contes ont vu le jour en Inde et sont arrivés en Europe dans un passé immémorial. Cette passion pour le patrimoine...

Narvla’s life is as precisely choreographed as the routines that have made her a national step-dancing champion. She has a loyal best friend, a devoted boyfriend, and a lock on admission to her dream college, the University of Notre Dame. Until her mother is named U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, and...

Levi Conley has spent his life making a hard living off the water. Fishing defines who he is. But after being betrayed by his business partners, who are also his brothers, he flees out west for the “big bucks” promised by work as an apprentice welder. The work is well-paid, as promised, but it...

TAKE A CHANCE ON ME is a novella & it's Book 1 in Marilyn Brant’s Mirabelle Harbor series. This book and ALL of the contemporary romances in this series can be enjoyed as stand-alone stories. Welcome to Mirabelle Harbor! In this scenic suburb on Chicago’s North Shore, overlooking the...

Filipinos and Chinese have a rich, vibrant literature when it comes to speculative fiction. But what about the fiction of the Filipino-Chinese, who draw their roots from both cultures? This is what this anthology attempts to answer. Featuring stories that deal with voyeur ghosts, taboo lovers, a town...

15,000-copy paperback printing, along with 5,000-copy hardcover run Bernice L. McFadden remains one of our best-selling novelists Her previous novel won the prestigious NAACP Image Award (other finalists in her category included: Jacqueline Woodson, Colson Whitehead, Yvvette Edwards,...

Alexander Pushkin was a Russian writer during the Romantic era.  Pushkin is considered to be Russia’s greatest poet and a major influence on modern Russian literature.  This edition of Pushkin’s The Daughter of the Commandant includes a table of contents.

Nectar tells of the atrocities of the Armenian genocide through the story of one young woman’s lifetime—the family she lost, the love she found, and her determination to survive.