Cultural Heritage
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
$17.00 Add to cart“Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid’s] book is n- Author: Hamid, Mohsin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1594632332
- Language: English
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Caucasia
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career
“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race- Author: Senna, Danzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 1573227161
- Language: English
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The Cook
$19.00 Add to cart“A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) ‘Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'” –Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review
One of BBC Culture’s Ten Books to Read this Ma- Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 125025115X
- Language: English
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The House on Biscayne Bay
$18.00 Add to cartNamed an Anticipated Read of 2024 by Entertainment Weekly and a Best Historical Fiction novel of 2024 by BookBub.
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the pa- Author: Cleeton, Chanel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 059344051X
- Language: English
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Cereus Blooms at Night
$16.00 Add to cartShani Mootoo’s haunting debut took the international literary world by storm. A Book Sense selection and a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Ethel … [more below]
- Author: Mootoo, Shani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144624
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising
$19.99 Add to cartIn this ambitious and wildly original debut — part social-political satire, part international mystery — a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it… [more below]
- Author: Villareal, Raymond A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0316561665
- Language: English
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Farewell My Concubine: Novel, a
$17.99 Add to cart“Has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you up reading till dawn, then lives in your dreams.” —Time
Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong
- Author: Lee, Lilian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060976446
- Language: English
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Master of the Eclipse
$15.00 Add to cartA collection of stories about displacement, love, loss, poetry and war, from the Lebanese poet and painter who has been called “arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American author writi… [more below]
- Author: Adnan, Etel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717116
- Language: English
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Bronze Drum
$17.99 Add to cartA “gripping historical adventure” of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an army of women to overthrow the Han Chinese and rule as kings over a united people, for
- Author: Nguyen, Phong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1538753707
- Language: English
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Skeleton Man: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel
$18.99 Add to cartDon’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
“In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contempora
- Series: Leaphorn and Chee Novel #17
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0063050099
- Language: English
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The Picture Bride
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Nautilus Award for Historical Fiction
“Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The Picture- Author: Geum-Yi, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250808677
- Language: English
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Bangkok Wakes to Rain
$18.00 Add to cart“Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Important, ambitious, and accomp- Author: Sudbanthad, Pitchaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0525534776
- Language: English
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The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
$17.99 Add to cart“Fiercely intelligent, warm in their own way, and absolutely absorbing. . . . Excellent excellent excellent.”–Roxane Gay
“Ladee Hubbard is a true original, and this book is a unique beauty.”–Mary Gai
- Author: Hubbard, Ladee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0062979108
- Language: English
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Scatterlings
$26.99 Add to cartA BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Pick! A New Yorker
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063264110
- Language: English
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Well-Behaved Indian Women
$17.00 Add to cartA Lilly’s Library Book Club Pick!
“A sparkling debut.”–Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author From a compelling new voice in women’s fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three gene- Author: Dave, Saumya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1984806157
- Language: English
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Bleak Houses: Safer & Family Solstice
$14.95 Add to cartThe Selected Papers From the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena presents two tales of family misadventures penned by Kate Maruyama.
SAFER
Los Angeles is in lockdown, “Safer at home,” so Sol
- Series: Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena #1
- Author: Maruyama, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1947879596
- Language: English
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When We Were Twins
$19.95 Add to cartFrom their privileged childhood in Egypt, the paths of once-inseparable twins Taher and Aisha diverge early: When the USSR invades Afghanistan, Taher abandons their shared plans to study medicine in E… [more below]
- Author: Hinc, Danuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1951508319
- Language: English
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Ramona
$6.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona is a tale of true love tested.
Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the f- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0451528425
- Language: English
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Prayers for Sale
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of Tallgrass comes a powerful novel about an unlikely friendship between two women and the secrets they’ve kept in order to survive life in a rugged Colorado minin
- Series: Reading Group Gold
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312385196
- Language: English
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Not Our Kind
$19.99 Add to cart“[An] enthralling portrait of a woman daring to defy convention in the face of rigid social confines…filled with thought-provoking turns that explore timely subjects in a gripping light…its themes
- Author: Zeldis, Kitty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062844245
- Language: English
