Morrison's eagerly awaited new novel--her first since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993--is extraordinary for its breathtaking drive, stylistic panache, and enlivening moral gravitas. Spanning the time from the Reconstruction to the 1970s, this powerful work deftly manipulates past, present, and future as it reveals the interior lives of the citizens of a fictional, all-black town called Paradise.

Biography of the black woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Story of the correspondence between Benjamin Banneker, a free black man, who wrote to Thomas Jefferson to tell him how he felt about Jefferson owning slaves.

During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.

Fact-based novel that chronicles the experiences of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress, describing her life as a slave during the Civil War, and as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

A collection of African-American folklore, oral histories, sermons, and songs, dating back to the time of slavery.

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Presents profiles of courageous African-American men and women, ranging over the course of four centuries, who typify the virtues of integrity, discipline, and self-respect.

A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.