Wendy Sherman draws on childhood lessons of equal justice forged during the civil rights era to pioneering experiences navigating a professional world dominated by men to illustrate invaluable negotiating skills for women in all aspects of life.

The book traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis in Haiti, Peru and Russia.

Notes of a Native Son is a collection of ten essays by James Baldwin, published in 1955, mostly tackling issues of race in America and Europe.

The four tales in this volume describe the frailty of humanity and the bewitching force of the imagination, in a world where the lines between reality and dream are hopelessly blurred.

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge.

The book was inspired by many aspects of the Ugandan and human society in general; in particular by women's gender and cultural relationships in love and marriage relationships.

It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship with his family and his church.

Half a Life is the story of a man seeking a version of himself that is satisfying to who he thinks he should be.

Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival

A dark and compelling study of a young intellectual tempted towards crime through severe penury

A groundbreaking memoir from the acclaimded Caine Prize Winner; a complex and surprising portrait of Binyavanga Wainaina's middle class Kenyan childhood and his burgeoning artistic identity

Maru is the moving tale of an orphaned Masarwa girl who goes to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves