Breeda ClarkeThe acclaimed bestseller -- a selection of Oprah's Book Club -- that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from...

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...

Lisbeth KaiserIn the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists, to scientists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life...

Jesmyn Ward  A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent,...

Robert E Edgar These essays clearly demonstrate that santions substantially weakened the apartheid regime's ability to sustain itself and helped strengthen the stuggle for majority rule in South Africa. January...

Ian Sinclair Now its second edition, Sasol Birds has been hailed as the most comprehensive guide to bird identification in southern Africa. In its new edition it incorporates all the...

Rabbi Marc Schneier Many people are familiar with the story of Jewish support for the American civil rights movement, but this history has another side--one that has not been fully...

Jesmyn Ward  A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings...

Nadine GordimerSeven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of...

Mende Nazer Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her...

JM CoetzeePaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life...

Percival Everett A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the pastKevin Pace is working on a painting that he won’t allow...