Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Little Ruthie is an impoverished southern grandmother. Her recently deceased grandson, Curtis, was a very bad man, a very bad man who wanted to do his grandmother a very good deed. If love is an act, can present actions of love undo the evil that men have done in the past? Ride with Little Ruthie...

Honorable Mention in the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Longlist! "After the 2010 Haiti earthquake kills her parents, a woman returns to Haiti after leaving it as a child, 25 years ago. A powerful and engrossing story, this read cannot be missed." --Bustle, 35 Most...

This short story by Harvey captures the sibling rivalry of two brothers from Ghana. Join Elijah as he tells his story to a Reporter who is writing an article on an elaborate burial coffin. Under the backdrop of the wacky world of Ghana coffin makers, comes this tale of two brothers, Elijah...

Ishmael Reed’s parody of slave narratives—the classical literature of the African American tradition—which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with Flight to Canada, Ishmael...

Jednog vrelog dana, Eme Bilion ugledao je svog davno premilulog oca dok korača prema njemu s foto-aparatom i kacigom u ruci, a potom tone u zemlju. Upliv magije u svakodnevicu Emeovog rodnog Benina nije uopšte neobičan, pogotovo ako ste potomak afričkog vrača. Međutim, tako se duhovi retko kad...

Grâce à son humour subtil et à son style ciselé, Marie Louise Mumbu nous prend par la main pour nous entraîner à la suite de son héroïne, la journaliste Samantha, à travers les quartiers de Kinshasa. Ce faisant, l'auteur nous convie à un rendez-vous pour un repas littéraire savoureux, à une...

Anne-Marie is a beautiful, rich teenager, with gorgeous blue eyes living in southern California with her family. Her world is unexpectedly turned up-side down, when a strange man comes into her life. When the stranger brings forth shocking revelations about her family and racial identity, Anne-Marie...

A collection of some of the greatest poetry written in the world. This books provides reading enjoyment for all poetry and non-poetry lovers. Exploring the simplicity of the world as well as the complexity of words, this book provides life lessons and experiences through the words of American author and poet Preze Reese.

A collection of short stories where the characters are Glaswegian and the dialogue is in the local vernacular. Real stories about real working class people.

In January 2017, President Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – from entering the United States, effectively slamming the door on refugees seeking safety and tearing families apart. Mass protests...

When Nikal saves a small, starving girl he finds outside after curfew, he inadvertently dooms his own brother who is blamed for his actions.Racked with guilt, he knows that he must make amends, but no one in his family agrees. Only Mirka, the child he saved.How can two children hope to stop their oppressors?Perhaps the two children are not as alone as they think.

Stories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan The editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on themes...

A compelling collection of essays providing a comprehensive vision of immigration to the United States in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries—the indispensable companion to Immigrant Voices. Filled with moving narratives by authors from around the world, Immigrant Voices: Volume...

These 35 folk tales have been gathered from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe's landmark nineteenth-century collections, acclaimed by Jacob Grimm for their freshness and a fullness that "surpass nearly all others." In this sparkling translation by Pat Shaw and Carl Norman, accompanied...