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A Novel
by Dinaw Mengestu
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by Yaa Gyasi
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Debut Author Award
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape ...
by Nayomi Munaweera
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsFrom Nayomi Munaweera, the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime.
by J.C. Carleson
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsFrom a former CIA officer comes the riveting account of a royal Middle Eastern family exiled to the American suburbs.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
by Mohsin Hamid
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy's quest for wealth and love.
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsA pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again - with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books.
by Maaza Mengiste
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopias revolution.
by George Pelecanos
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsOn a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
Strawberry Fields (Two Caravans)
by Marina Lewycka
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future. First published in the UK ...
by Melissa Fay Greene
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferras husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive.
by Meg Mullins
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel about an unlikely romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsA stunning account of the changes in white attitudes toward blacks during the second half of the 20th century and a sensitive look at what betrayal--of friendship and of love--does to us all. Ultimately, this is a moving book about healing.
by Andre Dubus III
Published Feb 2000
Read ReviewsThree fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. A devastating exploration of the American Dream gone awry.
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