A young man hoping to escape a sordid background and an impoverished future sets out to find the father he has never known.

In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.

Contributors were asked to reflect on our phobias, the things that make us human or, indeed, inhuman. Our fears, and the dance between fear and fearlessness, can shape how we live and how we conceptualize ourselves and others.

The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the ultimate effects upon the narrator.

The book is Adichie's letter of response to a dear friend from childhood, who asked her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist.

The novel follows the experience of Bella in the wake of a terrorist attack that kills her brother, Aar, a Kenyan UN worker in Mogadishu.

It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, transported to North America; following his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley.

It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world.

Dedicated to the oppressed and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed Marxist class analysis in his exploration of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized

What does it take to know oneself? To fully realize one's life dream? For some it may take a lifetime, and for others, the chance may never come.

This is a poetry collection for women about the experience of being a woman.

This is a book about magic, dreams and the treasures we seek elsewhere and then find them on our doorstep