The God Of Small Things
Arundhati Roy  
ISBN: 0-06-097749-3

The Attack
Yasmina Khadara
ISBN: 0-385-51748-3

A beautiful work that displays the power of metaphors. Roy takes readers into the world and culture of a family and their community and shares the struggles, wins, losses and long overdue reconciliations that are familiar to us all.

Imagine you are a successful, peer and community respected Arab-Israeli surgeon in a country that does not like Arab-Israelis. Suicide-bombed restaurant patrons come through your Emergency Room in charred, dying pieces. The bomber, to your horror, was your wife, the woman you thought you knew, but didn’t. What you worked your whole life for, she destroyed. What happens next is the rest of the book.

An Italian translation set in the southern Italian town of Bari, the protagonist is an ethics challenged lawyer who falls into a serious depression after his wife leaves him. In this depressed state, he takes the case of a Senegalese vendor accused of murdering a child. The evidence is overwhelming but the attorney gains hope from despair as he begins to defend this Darkur native and reclaim his own life. The author is a judge who has tried numerous mafia cases in Bari. Involuntary Witness is a bestseller in Italy and spawned a television series there as well.

There's A Riot Going On
Miles Marshall Lewis
ISBN: 0-8264-1744-2

Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
ISBN: 1-55652-074-3

The music of Sly and The Family Stone, the first integrated black-white-male-female-rock and roll-funk-R & B-soul band, encompassed the multicultural social-political climate of their times. Miles Marshall Lewis takes on the rise of Sly and his Family from their humble beginnings album by album, struggle by struggle, frustration to hurt, hurt to injury and ends with the lyrics for the songs that were flushed out throughout the work. If you like music, you will like this book and possibly the entire 331/3 series.

Originally banned under the rule of embargo by the US Department of Treasury after the Iran revolution of 1979, the publishers of this work filed suit and finally, after more than twenty-five years, we can enjoy novel excerpts, poetry and short stories from three generations of male and female Iranian writers. Get it.

She was a Black Panther. She was imprisoned on trumped-up charges and gave birth in the penitentiary while awaiting multiple trials. Then she fled the country. This is her story in her words. If you have not read this story, you should. If you do not understand this aspect of our experience in America, you should. And the story continues, the bounty on her head was raised in the past year instead of being removed and her charges dropped.