A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble,…
Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the woun…
Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in Califor…
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku Sai's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing to…
Nelson Mandela is perhaps the last pure hero on the planet. In this book, the author recounts the moments in which 'the grandfather of South Africa' was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why…
Okonkwo then knew that he was alone. He was alone without his clan. He was still brave and strong but his clan was weak and cowardly. He has fought the white man by himself. His clansmen were cowar…