Chris GardnerThe astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become...

Nicole Dennis-BennWhen Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than...

Toni Morrison A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.Jacob is...

Edwidge Danticat   At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her...

Colson Whitehead   Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the...

Alexander McCall Smith Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built proprietor of the famous No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is finally married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the agency is...

Alexander McCall Smith   Life is never without its problems. Will Precious Ramotswe’s delightfully cunning and profoundly moral methods save the day? Find out in this, the fourth volume in...

Chinua Achebe   More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are...

Chigozie ObiomaA contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a young poultry farmer named Chinonso. His life is set off...

David MedalieThe widow of a Nationalist Prime Minister comes face to face with old adversaries at a luncheon hosted by the new President. An elderly woman finds that her last...

André BrinkAndre Brink has had a long career as a South African novelist, one that has provided him a forum for voicing his opposition to apartheid. Imaginings of Sand depicts...

Lewis NkosiThe novel tells the story, in the first person, of a young black male ex-student's obsession with a young English woman, Veronica Slater, whom he encounters on the segregated...