Fiction, Cultural Heritage
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Kunim
Raise Me Up by Delia J. Nzekwu
Set within the cultural and geographical framework of Nigeria, Kunim: Raise Me Up is a collection of not-so-short stories that examine universal themes, such as discrimination and familial discord, as well as culturally specific biases, beliefs, and ...
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Staring at Medusa
by Natali Clarke
Emma Jarvie is your typical teenager—sure, she’s an Iranian American immigrant living in Santa Ana, CA, a neighborhood becoming notorious for its growing violence. But like every teenage girl, she worries about boys, tries to keep her grades up in ...
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Welcome to Tatum
by G. J. Sim
Welcome to … a prairie love story. Nothing much happens in Tatum, Saskatchewan. But when crop circles are discovered on Kurt Scholl’s debt-ridden farm, things change fast, especially when newspaper reporter Denise York arrives to investigate. Bent ...
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Woman Behind Home Plate
by J. Stephen Thompson
Who is this woman? At every Toronto Blue Jays game, an elderly woman sits behind home plate, her story a mystery. When sports journalist Richard Dixon notices the reclusive woman, he finds himself enthralled, determined to uncover her identity. ...
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Aunt Edwina's Wonderful Legacy
A Family History Novel by Lynne Christensen
Family history will never be the same ... Novice genealogist Julie Fincher is learning as she goes. A generous inheritance from Aunt Edwina allows her to open the Greymore Genealogy Research Site, a resource center welcoming everyone interested in ...
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Heart Stones
A Ukrainian Immigration Story of Love and Hope by Christine Nykoluk
In 1914, a young Ukrainian family faces an uncertain future. With growing political unrest in the region, they are forced to make a difficult decision between remaining in their beloved homeland or reaching for a better life across the cold ...
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Baba's Story
by Mirjana Vincic Katic
To Mitra Milutinovic, family is everything. After taking a fall in her family home, ninety-year-old Mitra decides to uproot herself for the last stage of her life and move into Maple Retirement Place. Though her family is devasted, they respect the ...
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The Ice Widow
A Story of Love and Redemption by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak
During her first teaching year away from her Halifax home—in Endor, an Inuit community on the far northern coast of Labrador—Anna Caine falls deeply in love with the raw beauty of the land, the warmth and acceptance of its people, and with Joshua ...
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La Kanada Verkaro
by La Societo Por Kanada Antologio
La Kanada Verkaro estas antaŭ ĉio antologio de noveloj, rakontoj kaj legendoj el la literaruroj angla, franca, kaj indiĝena de Kanado ek de 1789 ĝis 2007. Jen kelkaj de la aŭtoroj: Francis Brooke, L. Frechette, Jessie Georgina Sime, Stephen Leacock, ...
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Lily's Story
From the Congo by Charles Thomas
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), inhuman conditions within its vast mining industry, and endemic corruption at the highest levels of government are hardly uncommon. But when native son, Jean Amani, rises to the role of minister of ...
