Hottentot Venus a novel —Chase-Riboud, Barbara.

Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the “Hottentot Venus,” she wa...

Predators —Ramsay, Frederick.

Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining, and real-estate development firm. By request of the State Department, he and a party of company executives travel to Botswana. Sekoa is a male lion who shar...

Branded —Walters, Eric, 1957-

When the principal of his school decides that the students must wear uniforms, Ian learns that the manufacturer of the uniforms is on the top-ten list for human-rights violations. When he tells the principal this, all he...