Cadillac Orpheus by Solon Timothy Woodward

While Jesmond, financially disadvantaged African-American repo worker from a hurrican alley Florida town, struggles with a troubled relationship with his father, his pator's gay son is implcated in the suicide death of his partner, and the woman Jesmond loves marries a threatening man.

Look for this book in February 2008.

Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History by Michael Klarman

Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing that we have made less progress than we like to think. Indeed, African Americans have had to fight for everything they have achieved.

They Say: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race by James Davidson

Recounts the first thiry years in the life of Ida B. Wells in an incisive portrait that sheds new light on how she defined her own aspirations and her people's freedom as an outspoken writer and lecturer against lynching.