Cultural Heritage
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Jim Wrenn
$16.95 Add to cart“Who wants a seven-year-old boy, or a four-year-old girl?” Danville, Va. Times-News, January 4, 1918
Seeing something of himself in a struggling teenage boy, an old man faces one final challenge–and a
- Author: Guerrant, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0692925589
- Language: English
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Retrato En Sepia / Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia – Spanish-Language Edition
$17.95 Add to cartNarrada en la voz de una joven mujer, ?sta es una magn?fica novela hist?rica, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los esp?ri… [more below]
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 052543352X
- Language: Spanish
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Sister of My Heart
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apa… [more below]
- Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 2000
- ISBN10: 038548951X
- Language: English
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Rumbo Al Hermoso Norte: Una Novela
$16.99 Add to cartNineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn’t the only man who ha… [more below]
- Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316054860
- Language: Spanish
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
$20.00 Read moreThe Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle ch… [more below]
- Author: Songling, Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0140447407
- Language: English
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Monkey Bridge
$18.00 Read moreHailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.
Like navigating a monkey bridge- Author: Cao, Lan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140263616
- Language: English
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The World We Found
$19.99 Add to cart“Stunning . . . . This is a novel that rewards reading, and even re-reading. The World We Found is a powerful meditation.” —Boston Globe
Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and Th
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Umrigar, Thrity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0061938351
- Language: English
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The Chinese Bell Murders
$18.99 Add to cartMeet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the “Sherlock Holmes of ancient China”
Fans of Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in
- Series: Judge Dee Detective Story
- Author: Van Gulik, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0060728884
- Language: English
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The Full Catastrophe
$18.99 Read moreWinner, 2023 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
Finalist, 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and th
- Author: Cook, Méira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1487009941
- Language: English
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Please Look After Mom
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE – When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shin, Kyung-Sook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 03, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307739511
- Language: English
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Everything Inside: Stories (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – “Unforgettable tales of families and lovers–from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond–often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” —Vanity… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525563059
- Language: English
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Kaleidoscope
$17.00 Read moreA dazzling novel about the tumultuous relationship between two sisters, a shocking loss that changes everything, and the life-altering adventure that follows.
Morgan and Riley Brighton are joint heir… [more below]- Author: Wong, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593184467
- Language: English
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Probably Ruby
$17.00 Add to cartAn Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history.
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award – “Enga… [more below]- Author: Bird-Wilson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593448693
- Language: English
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Strangers I Know
$18.00 Read more“Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self–woman, artist, daughter–is filtered and known.” –Ocean Vuong
A work of fiction about being a stranger in your- Author: Durastanti, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 059308795X
- Language: English
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
$16.95 Add to cart“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.”
Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an e
- Author: Thien, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354725
- Language: English
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
$16.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called “paradise.”
- Author: Jones, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0316536997
- Language: English
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The Book of Salt
$19.99 Add to cartA novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, by the author of The Sweetest Fruits.
Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage
- Author: Truong, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446885
- Language: English
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Hija de la Fortuna / Daughter of Fortune: Daughter of Fortune – Spanish-Language Edition
$17.95 Add to cartUn retrato palpitante de una poca marcada por la violencia y la codicia, con entra ables personajes.
Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valpara so en 1849, el a o en que se descubre oro en… [more below]- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0525433511
- Language: Spanish
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The Shape of Family
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Named a book not to miss by USA Today * Chicago Sun-Times * New York Post
“Deeply involving….Rings so true.” — Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room
From the in
- Author: Gowda, Shilpi Somaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 006293323X
- Language: English
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The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine
$19.95 Read moreA rich, sweeping novel of Palestine with the Nakba at its heart, by an acclaimed author
Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drov- Series: Hoopoe Fiction
- Author: Ashour, Radwa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 977416900X
- Language: English
