Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa Stephanie Urdang Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly...

Author: Arthur Millerb Four Plays Complete: Death of a Salesman The Crucible Incident at Vichy The Price The Misfits: 2 Versions Short Stories Other writings, including a poem Introduction and...

Lawrence DurrellBalthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the...

Lawrence DurrellThe magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically...

Lawrence DurrellThe time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated...

Lawrence DurrellMountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the...

Esi EdugyanWashington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be...

Michael CrichtonDeep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a...

A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the...

Bryce Courtenay Synopsis From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people...

Alexander McCall SmithThe No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself—until now, in this...

M Al GathafiThe Green Book is broken into three sections:The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People.The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism.The Social Basis of...