Non-Fiction

Winner of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Best in the World 2020 for Culinary History.In Wisdom Soaked in Palm Oil, award-winning author Cynthia Bertelsen celebrates the cooks and spectacular cuisines of Africa. At the age of nine, she read the chapter...

A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth--namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which...

From the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of Stories and Falling Toward the Moon comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose. There's a harshness in the air; the season is changing its colors. The rain is...

The amazing and dramatic story of Bill Lester, one of the most well-known NASCAR drivers in history--and a pioneer whose determination and spirit has paved the way for a new generation of racers. Winning in Reverse tells the story of Bill Lester whose...

"Wings Over the Virgin Islands" is the third and final installment in the Caribbean series by Aisha Banks. It's a brilliant blend of gritty inner city and tranquil island life styles that forces its characters to wrestle with personal integrity and...

Wine, Thoughts and a Coffin is a book for lost lovers and confused souls. It is a comfort to people who are broken and trying to heal. Wine symbolizes a good happy place and love whereas thoughts symbolize a community together with inspirations and...

This book is a collection of Poetry the Author Johnny E. Osby II calls "Hip HoPoetry". It combines motivational speaking and an autbiography in poetic form of a young urban African/American male growing up in America fulfilling his purpose in life...

Examines the author's personal struggle with depression, the hidden roots of her illness, the effect it had on her life, and her ability to cope with the disease.

An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good. Good enough to have been signed by the Boston Bruins...

The "enormously entertaining and wide-ranging" (Seattle Times) authorized, definitive, New York Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player of all time. Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history,...

Since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., it seems that we as black Americans have lost our way; we, as did the Hebrew Israelites, have been wandering in the "wilderness of sin and debauchery" for forty-plus years and have not been able to enter into...

This book describes in fascinating detail the wildlife, wild places and wild personalities that occupied Angola's conservation landscape through four decades of war and a decade of peace. Intrigues, assassinations, corruption, greed and incompetence...

Planning a trip to South Africa? Looking for great adventure weekends during your stay? This is the book for you - written by Sunday Times journalists - featuring mountain biking, bungee jumping, hiking, climbing, horse riding, kayaking and many more...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a baboon camp in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets "What has restlessness been for?" In Wild Is the Wind, Carl Phillips reflects on love as depicted in the jazz standard for...

The first of a new-format series on East African natural history, this book on the wild flowers of the region will be structured according to flower colour to aid identification, and will present two species per page, covering approximately 250 different...