Cultural Heritage

Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.

When a skeleton is unearthed in Chicken Hill, PA, in 1972, a cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—guard a secret, especially the part the town’s white establishment played in it.

A hunter and seller of illegal magic, Loulie al-Nazari, after saving the life of a cowardly prince, is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp, drawing her into a world where nothing is what it seems and where she must decide who she will become.

After D-Day, two Red Cross women, Irene Woodward and Dorothy Dunford join the Allied soldiers streaming into France where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald.

The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom.

After the death of her literary rival in an accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as evidence threatens her success, she discovers just how far she’ll go.

A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness. Ages 15-18.

An introduction to modern indigenous cuisine of the Dakota and Minnesota territories, with a vision and approach to food that travels well beyond those borders.

Celebrating Indigenous peoples, these twenty-seven stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate deeds and unsettling acts of revenge.

Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by dreams that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is revealed.