The Color of Water
by James McBride

James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-black housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. The object of McBride's constant embarrassment and continuous fear for her safety, his mother was an inspiring figure, who through sheer force of will saw her dozen children through college, and many through graduate school. McBride was an adult before he discovered the truth about his mother: The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi in rural Virginia, she had run away to Harlem, married a black man, and founded an all-black Baptist church in her living room in Red Hook. In her son's remarkable memoir, she tells in her own words the story of her past. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Gargoyle
by Andrew Davidson

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time, The Gargoyle is a hypnotic, horrifying, astonishing novel that manages, against all odds, to be redemptive. Read More... | Request a copy »

Roots
by Alex Haley

This "bold . . . extraordinary . . . blockbuster . . ". (Newsweek) begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Black List
by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

In The Black List, twenty-two original portraits by renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders accompany a series of incisive interviews conducted by award-winning journalist, critic, academic and radio host Elvis Mitchell. The men and women featured in it come from a vast and diverse collection of disciplines spanning the arts, sports, politics and business. Among those included are Toni Morrison, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Vernon Jordan, Chris Rock, Bill T. Jones, Russell Simmons, Richard D. Parsons, Colin Powell and Zane. Read More... | Request a copy »

44 Scotland Street
by Alexander McCall Smith

Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith brings all the warmth of his extraordinary No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and the Sunday Philosophy Club series to this witty novel chronicling the lives of the residents of 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh. Originally serialized in The Scotsman, 44 Scotland Street is already an international sensation.
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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
by Augusten Burroughs

The author of Running with Scissors delves into new territory with his most personal and unexpected memoir yet. A Wolf at the Table is the story of Burroughs' relationship with his father, his stunning psychological cruelty, and the redemptive power of hope. Read More...| Request a copy »

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron

The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the library. For the next 19 years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility, and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most. Read More... | Request a copy »

The Stolen Child
by Keith Donohue

When Henry Day is seven years old, he is kidnapped by ageless beings called changelings, who leave another child in Henry's place, a boy who will be his duplicate. Haunted by memories, both boys are driven to search for the keys to who they once were before they switched places.
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