Alexander McCall Smith Tea Time For The Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) Book 10: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 10 [Paperback] McCall Smith, Alexander January 1, 2010...

Alexander McCall SmithIn 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium'...

Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960).Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events...

Erik Hornung "A concise and detailed summary... This is a recommended book for all searching for details on important Egyptian texts."―Francesca Jourdan, quik.com Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex...

Wilbur Smith On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close...

Barack Obama #1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared...

Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in...

Philip Marsden   August 4, 2008 by Harper Perennial

Dinaw Mengestu Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a...

Naguib MahfouzThe Beggar, set in Cairo in the early 1950s, portrays the psychological torment of Omar, an ardent revolutionary in youth who in middle age has been left behind by...

Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles MurrayThe controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth...

Toni Morrison   The 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...