Shirlee Taylor Haizlip A chronicle of a woman's odyssey through her family's biracial past outlines a search through five generations. January 24, 1994 by Simon & Schuster

Philip S Hart Using personal interviews and historic photos, Hart reveals how black pilots of the 1920s and 1930s did not allow racial barriers to keep them from achieving their...

Philip Marsden   August 4, 2008 by Harper Perennial

Michael Rogin The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking...

Veronique Tadjo The narrative of this wonderful gem of a novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters who are both nameless and faceless, representing everyman and everywoman, to tell...

Nadine Gordimer This rich story collection will be a reminder to nadine gordimers countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power a woman gauges the...

Alessandro Spina The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina's epic, The Confines of the Shadow , a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation...

Jonas Jonasson The brand new, laugh-out-loud, around-the-world adventure from the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for....

Helen Fielding First published January 1, 1994

Alla Al Aswany   Once home to the crème de la crème of Egyptian society in Cario, The Yacoubian Building is now past its prime. Older residents cling to the...

Nadine Gordimer   Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory...

Barack Obama   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARSIn this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack...