Patricia CornwellAn intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water...

James RollinsA sinister fire in a bookshop reveals a murderous plot to steal a Bible that belonged to Charles Darwin - and Commander Gray Pierce is thrown headlong into a...

Thomas Sowell Sowell seeks to dispel the stereotypes associated with "black rednecks," claiming that their attempts to escape these typecasts are hampered by white liberals. He ventures further, questioning other...

Brian Moore To Father Paul, the Algonkian Indians are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father Paul on his mission to...

Jane Landers The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the...

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling An anthology of fairy stories for adults, this is the sequel to "Snow White, Blood Red". The stories journey through a landscape of...

Rogert Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen While following a childhood friend, a beautiful woman named Annie, who has fled for Europe on a mysterious black ship, Edgar Perry finds himself living...

Angela CarterBlack Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have...

DJ MacHaleBREAKING THE RULESJust when fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler - to protect the territories of Halla from the evil Saint Dane - he...

Carole Boyce Davies Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set...

Joanne Harris As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of "Jackapple Joe" Cox. A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe's simple...

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...