Cultural Heritage
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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
$21.99 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
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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
