Cultural Heritage
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Seven
$18.99 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM AWARD – FINALIST FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARD – AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF 2020 – A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST INDEPENDENT READ FOR FALL 2020 – AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF 2020 – A… [more below]
- Author: Doctor, Farzana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1459746392
- Language: English
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The Five Wounds
$26.95 Read moreIt’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishl
- Author: Quade, Kirstin Valdez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0393242838
- Language: English
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Our Last Days in Barcelona
$0.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022
“A master class in family and political drama, in star-crossed love stories and in capturing the enormity of what home is.”–NPR When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to sav- Author: Cleeton, Chanel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0593098897
- Language: English
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A Passage to India: Introduction by P. N. Furbank
$28.00 Read moreBritain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679405496
- Language: English
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A Dance for the Dead
$14.95 Read moreNuzo Onoh, 2022 WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement! On a moon-lit night, Diké, heir to the Kingdom and leader of the terrifying warrior cult, the Ogwumii, falls asleep inside hi… [more below]
- Author: Onoh, Nuzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1639510826
- Language: English
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Americanah (Spanish Edition)
$26.95 Read moreUna original historia sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de una estudiante de literatura nigeriana.
Americanah ha sido galardonada con el National Book Critics Circle Awar… [more below]- Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8439742517
- Language: Spanish
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Faint Promise of Rain
$16.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. On a rare night of rain, a daughter… [more below]
- Author: Duva, Anjali Mitter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1938314972
- Language: English
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Braised Pork
$16.00 Read moreBeautiful, dreamlike, and utterly intoxicating, Braised Pork is the beguiling debut of an outstandingly talented young writer who is based in China but writes in English
One autumn morning, Jia Jia w
- Author: Yu, An
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148727
- Language: English
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Finding Edward
$24.95 Read moreCyril Rowntree, a mixed-race Jamaican, migrates to Canada after his mother and surrogate grandfather die. Cyril arrives in Toronto and sets about earning a degree, works two jobs and begins to navigat… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1770866264
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$12.99 Read moreRelive the glorious excess of the roaring 1920s with this beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best-known novel is set in hedonistic Jazz Age Lo- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0785839992
- Language: English
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Crossing the Mangrove
$16.95 Add to cartIn this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher–a handsome outsider, loved… [more below]
- Author: Conde, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0385476337
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome & Summer
$14.00 Read moreA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best know- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757287
- Language: English
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Masks
$16.95 Read moreA stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-i… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Enchi, Fumiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 1983
- ISBN10: 0394722183
- Language: English
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The Gift
$16.00 Add to cartConsidered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. – An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Ch… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0679727256
- Language: English
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Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet)
$14.95 Read moreThe peerless young Kalan leaves his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan M稘havi, and though he returns to her, he still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. The Shilappadikar… [more below]
- Author: Adigal, Prince Ilangô
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0811200019
- Language: English
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Two Women in One
$14.95 Read moreBahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong t… [more below]
- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 086356691X
- Language: English
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At the End of the Matinee
$14.95 Add to cartBestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.
Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at
- Author: Hirano, Keiichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1542005183
- Language: English
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas
$27.00 Read moreONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small … [more below]
- Author: Busjeet, Vinod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0385547021
- Language: English
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A Girl Called Rumi
$18.00 Read moreA magical journey to a world of mystical delights.” — Deepak Chopra, MD
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelli- Author: Honarvar, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1942436467
- Language: English
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That Old Country Music: Stories
$17.00 Read moreONE OF BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR – LIBRARY JOURNAL
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the m- Author: Barry, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1101911352
- Language: English
