Annotation:Charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow is taken aback when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me."

Annotation:Charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow is taken aback when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me."

Annotation:In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader reluctantly takes on Florens, a young slave girl who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love — first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith. A Mercy explores the human cost of slavery to both slave holders and the enslaved.

Annotation:Lily Owens longs to learn the truth about her mother, so when her black caretaker Rosaleen insults three of the town's fiercest racists, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina, a place that holds the key to her mother's past. This is the story of a young girl's search for truth and her courage to confront racial barriers.

Annotation:Lily Owens longs to learn the truth about her mother, so when her black caretaker Rosaleen insults three of the town's fiercest racists, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina, a place that holds the key to her mother's past. This is the story of a young girl's search for truth and her courage to confront racial barriers.

Annotation:Lily Owens longs to learn the truth about her mother, so when her black caretaker Rosaleen insults three of the town's fiercest racists, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina, a place that holds the key to her mother's past. This is the story of a young girl's search for truth and her courage to confront racial barriers.

Annotation:Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave, becomes the protege of a powerful white landowner and in turn prospers and buys his own slaves.

Annotation:Ten years after she has left the employ of a white, middle-class British family, Ugandan Mary Tendo is asked back to care for the household's only child. She returns to care for Justin, now a troubled young man, but her presence leads to a power struggle and unforseen tensions.

Annotation:Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

Annotation:Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

Annotation:A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers — one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

Annotation:A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers — one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

Annotation:Bethia rails against a life of indentured servitude that is her lot as a woman in 17th century New England, and watches with admiration and envy as her friend Caleb becomes the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College.

Annotation:Bethia rails against a life of indentured servitude that is her lot as a woman in 17th century New England, and watches with admiration and envy as her friend Caleb becomes the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College.

Annotation:A freak accident causes two couples — a pair of Los Angeles liberals and Mexican illegals — and their opposing worlds to collide in a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.