Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Dive under the surface to where it all started… For her entire life, Pearlina has never felt as if she belonged with her troop. Life above the surface always fascinated her, especially the humans living on land. The only opportunity for her to interact with them is during her once in a lifetime...

Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew's Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing stories-and those of others close...

Лешие, водяные, полевики – и кто только с незапамятных времён не живёт на просторах России. Увидеть их дано не каждому, а вот героям цикла рассказов «Сказки оборотной...

HEAT is part of a threesome of Southeast Asian urban anthologies. The other two are called FLESH and TRASH.You’ll find plenty of heat in this collection of stories, gathered from six different Southeast Asian nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore. As part...

Agua Mansa, un pueblo en gran parte hispano más allá de la periferia de Los Ángeles, es el hogar de Perla Portillo y su Botánica Oshún, adonde acude la gente en busca de amuletos, hierbas y velas. Más que nada, buscan los consejos de Perla, quien ha estado al servicio de la comunidad durante...

Anthony Trollope was one of the great English writers of the famous Victorian era.  Trollope was prolific and his books often centered around the important political, social, and gender issues of his time.  Trollope wrote the classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels as well as The Way We Live Now,...

A rollicking and ambitious novel that follows two filmmakers on an unlikely journey, while exploring the complexities of race, class, sexuality, and success in early twentieth century America.   In the summer of 1928, twin brothers Micah and Izzy Grand are at the pinnacle of their movie-making careers....

A #1 bestseller in India: Three generations of Delhi shopkeepers confront a changing world Home tells the story of Banwari Lal and his family, merchants in one of the oldest districts of Delhi. An immigrant from Pakistan, Banwari Lal believes in fate, faith, and hard work. He comes to India...

Oscar Wilde was a prominent Irish playwright and novelist in the late 19th century.  With classics such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde remains one of the most widely read authors today.  This edition of A House of Pomegranates includes a table of contents.

Red, Brenda Levere has been on her own for a very long time. PR, Paul Revere Jones comes from a big family, part Alaska Native and part white. When Red moves into his apartment complex, PR begins the hunt of a lifetime. He wants the prickly woman. Red throws a big glitch in his plans by getting involved...

A sweeping tale of 19th-century Texas... Texas history on a broad, complex scale —Kirkus Reviews When young Shelby Whitmire spies a flatboat coming down the Mississippi to Natchez, he doesn't know that two aboard are on the run to Mexico’s Texas territory. How could the motherless boy foresee...

Two ancient tribes on the verge of making peace become foes once more when a double murder jeopardizes a storyteller’s mission Eighty centuries ago, in the frozen land that is now Alaska, a clubfooted male child had been left to die, when a woman named K’os rescued him. Twenty years later...

William Somerset Maugham was a popular British writer and playwright in the 20th century.  Maugham was a prolific writer and his classic novels, Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence, are still widely read today.  This edition of Mrs. Craddock includes a table of contents.

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western...