Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a “musical, electric, fantastically profane“ (The New York Times) epic that explores the tumultuous...
If a Japanese-American writer who is also a Zen Buddhist priest wrote a post-Japanese tsunami novel, what themes might you imagine she would address? Biculturalism, water, death, memory, the female...
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to...
World Readers' Award 2016 Winner, The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2015. Beauty Is A Wound opens with the sentence, "One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a dazzlingly and innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she...
Zelie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orisha hummed with magic. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zelie without a...
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of...
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive...
Boko Haram did not emerge fully formed. In Northern Nigeria, which has witnessed many caliphates in the past, radical ideas flourish and strange sects are common. For decades, Nigeria's politicians...
Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, 'Joy', and 'Find Your Beach', Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in...
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets - the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrance into a gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic...
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother,...
