Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Cultural Heritage

Fascinated by a mysterious novella, aspiring journalist Robin Fletcher is determined to find out more about the book's main character, a man known only as J.B. His quest leads him from the wheat fields of Kansas to a small, disadvantaged country in Africa.

Thousands of miles from Kansas, in the small village of Ataku, half-caste chief Letivi grapples with his village's problems. The villagers' main source of income, subsistence cocoa farming, cannot compete with global companies. Young people are leaving the village, and the village's only store is under the control of a foreign...

Shahab travels to the United States in 1976 to pursue his education, leaving Iran despite having a chance at love. But little does he know that his life will soon be torn between two enemy countries.

Leaving Iran after the 1970 Iranian-Islamic revolution, Shahab experiences all America and its culture has to offer. He feels the thirst for life in both countries, however, and constantly swaps allegiance between the two-eventually returning home and fighting in the Iran-Iraq war against his will.

Experience what it's like as Shahab pops in and out of Iranian life while simultaneously...

It happened in an instant. After a breakfast with colleagues, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito sees a sedan careen into the parking lot and hears a crack of gunfire. When the dust clears, someone very close to her is lying on the asphalt in a pool of blood. With the victim in the hospital fighting for his life, every person in the squad and the local FBI office is hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie too wants in on the investigation, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is put in charge of finding the shooter.

Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case...

Truth inspired The Drum Made from the Skin of My Sisters. Some need their stories told but cannot raise their voices because their lives would be in danger. Based on true accounts and facts shared with her, Eveline Horelle Dailey has written the story of two young, Middle-Eastern girls rescued by American military forces. Leila, from Iran, narrowly escapes immolation by her husband. Saadia, born in Afghanistan, is nearly stoned to death. The girls are sent to the U.S.A., where they begin new lives in the home of a young widow, still recovering from the death of her beloved husband. With...

Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families; two young women, ripe for love with hopes for the future; and a chance encounter that leads to the terrible heritage they must reckon with for years to come.

One tragic moment that defines the fate of these women and their families will haunt their choices for decades to come. In the end, love and longing promise only an uneasy peace.

A sweeping saga with the intimacy of a memoir that brings to mind epic fiction like The Kite Runner and The God of Small...