Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi DangarembgaA modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africas 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of womens rights. An extraordinarily well crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the nervousness of the postcolonial conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of

this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change

Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab he knows returning to the real world is always difficult

Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best

and European plant-hunters

of individuals who live in slavery

fellow artists

Completely unique and practical

This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence

with a comfortable home and happy disposition…had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her

suppression and abuse of power

the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme

the only true question is