Cultural Heritage
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
$17.95 Add to cartAt once a bittersweet comedy and a drama of racial identity, this book brings to life the hilarious imbroglios of the modern metropolis.
Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants w
- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661191
- Language: English
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Praisesong for the Widow
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any co… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Fiction, Plume
- Author: Marshall, Paule
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 1984
- ISBN10: 0452267110
- Language: English
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Passing
$6.99 Add to cart“…she’s intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn’t made the mistake of being born a Negro.” M
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888971109
- Language: English
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China Boy
$23.00 Add to cart“What a knockout. An incredibly rich and new voice for American literature…China Boy grabs the reader’s heart and won’t let go.”–Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club
“A fascinating, evo- Author: Lee, Gus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0452271584
- Language: English
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A Great Country
$18.99 Add to cart#1 International Bestseller
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize & New American Voices Award
Amazon Top 10 Editors Pick
Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, Cosmo, Real Simple, Glamour, Conde
- Author: Gowda, Shilpi Somaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063324350
- Language: English
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Waterline
$28.00 Add to cart- Author: Mrjoian, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63393522
- Language: English
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The Last Man in Paradise
$17.99 Read moreA darkly humorous and emotional homecoming story about a young Muslim-American man reconciling with his estranged, traditional family and finding the way back to love, from the author of The Bad Musli
- Author: Masood, Syed M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1961795426
- Language: English
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Real Americans: A Read with Jenna Pick
$20.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in o… [more below]
- Author: Khong, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593685148
- Language: English
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So Far Gone
$35.00 Add to cartLARGE PRINT EDITION
“As talented a natural storyteller as is working in American fiction.”—Washington Post
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins–and in the wild, propulsive
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 63444607
- Language: English
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Kipling Plass
$17.95 Add to cartMoving, shocking, lyrical and sometimes grimly funny, Kipling Plass must survive as teenager abandoned by his mother after her mental breakdown. Set in a multiracial Guyanese village in the 1980s, at … [more below]
- Author: Semple, Berkley Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: December 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1845235924
- Language: English
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So Far Gone
$30.00 Add to cart“A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It’s an American original.”–Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
“So Far Gone is a marvel.”–Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 62868144
- Language: English
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Standing in the Gap
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough freedom came to enslaved African Americans after the Civil War, many Gullah families remained isolated on South Carolina barrier islands where they worked the land, the rivers and the sea. St
- Author: Pyatt, Sherman E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1929647980
- Language: English
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The Immortal Woman
$20.99 Add to cartA sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
Lemei, once a student Red
- Author: Chang, Su
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013175
- Language: English
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
$35.95 Add to cartSeventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together nineteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto’s forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto’s themes incl… [more below]
- Author: Yamamoto, Hisaye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0813529530
- Language: English
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Honey Hunger
$18.95 Add to cartA breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator
Azzan is- Author: Alqasmi, Zahran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1649033907
- Language: English
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The National Telepathy
$16.95 Add to cartIn September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina’s first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among th
- Author: Larraquy, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1913867900
- Language: English
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The Ones We Loved
$28.99 Add to cartA wrenching love story and literary debut following two strangers whose paths converge in a series of seemingly chance encounters and shared histories
On a bus moving across rural landscapes from tow- Author: Ngangura, Tarisai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0778387585
- Language: English
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What Will People Think?
$28.99 Add to cartMia’s secret comedy career, forbidden office crush, and a long-guarded family secret take center stage, threatening her newfound confidence and her one shot at fame in this hilarious, heartfelt coming
- Author: Hamdan, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1250329817
- Language: English
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The White Book
$14.00 Add to cartFROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”–from the Nobel Prize citation SHORTLISTED FOR T- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0525573070
- Language: English
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
$16.99 Add to cartThis collection of twelve stories includes many of the most memorable escapades of the world’s greatest detective.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of twelve short stories by Scottish a- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1667209566
- Language: English
