Toni MorrisonThe Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio,...

Lawrence Hill Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and...

Paul CollierThe Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About ItGlobal poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty...

Michael Morpurgo   Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that it’s time to start over. She moves to the peaceful New England town of...

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...

James McBrideTouches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.Who...

Les Payne, Tamara Payne Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known...

Frederick Forsyth#1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth delivers a frighteningly possible novel of international terrorism and impending war...As the Russian people face starvation, the Politburo is faced with...

Alexander McCall SmithTHE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 11Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged...

Stephen L Carter A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter's engaging debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park. After...

Clayborne Carson, David J Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his...