Category: Novels

  • Inheritance, A Novel Hamilton Stone Editions 2011-11-15 308 pages 9 x 6 x 1 inches ISBN: 978-0-9801786-8-5 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre’s compelling novel explores America’s mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery…

  • A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…

  • The Memory of Love Grove/Atlantic, Inc. January 2011 464 pages Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0 Aminatta Forna Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction An Essence Book Club Pick From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones…

  • Half-Blood Blues Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) 2011-09-03 304 pages 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in Cloth ISBN:9780887627415 Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708 Esi Edugyan Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Paris, 1940.  A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again.  He is twenty years old.  He is a…

  • Last Child Henry Holt and Company (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2005 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-7739-1, ISBN10: 0-8050-7739-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4299-3709-2, ISBN10: 1-4299-3709-2 Michael Spooner, Director Utah State University Press A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world Rosalie’s biggest problem used…

  • School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press) 2011-01-11 248 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8 Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating…

  • The Drift Latitudes Chatto & Windus 2006-02-02 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0701178222 Jamal Mahjoub Liverpool, 1958, and German refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Merseyside docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their…

  • Peeping Through the Reeds: A story about living in apartheid South Africa AuthorHouse August 2010 284 pages 6×9 ISBN: 9781452028774 Musuva (June C. Hutchison) Peeping Through the Reedsis a fictionalised story about growing up “Coloured” under apartheid in South Africa. Based on real events, the story is told through the frank and insider voice of…

  • Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (Electronic Edition) Published by the Author 1861 60 pages Hiram Mattison, A.M. (1811-1868), Pastor Union Chapel, New York    Read the entire novel here.

  • The Wind Done Gone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2001 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618219063 ISBN-10: 0618219064 Alice Randall In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Gone With the Wind, a work that more than any…