Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

As Tarzan travels through the jungle to the village of Opar, he encounters a treacherous Spaniard and his party, who intend great harm to the jungle lands.

This collection of interconnected short stories takes Tarzan back to his early years and tells of the exciting and formative events of his youth. These twelve tales show the ape-man before he learned of civilization or truly understood his human heritage. Tarzan finds an unlikely first love and first heartbreak, befriends an elephant, and tries to adopt a child with predictably mixed results. Gentle humor tempers tales of ferocious and violent action...

Acclaimed author V.S. Naipaul's novel of an Indian man who must make a new life for himself in a recently independent African state is just as timely today as when first published in 1979. Both man and country struggle to establish an identity as they are challenged by their changing circumstances.

When a Swedish housewife becomes the victim of an execution-style killing, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the crime and uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.

From the Publisher: Without his animal strength and human intelligence, Tarzan of the Apes would many times have been a dead man. Orphaned in infancy, Tarzan is adopted by a female ape who has just lost her own baby. Against all odds, he survives and learns the ways of the great apes. But Tarzan is different from the apes, and he knows this more with each passing day. Then he comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman named Jane, and, more than ever,...

The narrator, Allan Quatermain, is a middle-aged big game hunter who has somehow managed to survive decades in the African wilderness. His name is known far and wide, and as a result he is approached by a pair of men with an unusual proposition. One of the men, Sir Henry Curtis, has lost an estranged brother whom he believes was searching for the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon. Quatermain just happens to possess a map and some personal knowledge...

A collection of short stories by Uwem Akpan that celebrate the resilience and wisdom of children in third world countries.

The story of a handicapped young man and his dying mother who wishes to return to her birthplace and the journey he takes to grant her dying wish and vivid portrait of a pained homeland.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produced his finest novel, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.
"A masterpiece." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's...