Title: Minaret
Author: Aboulela, Leila
Publisher: Black Cat (2005)
Price: $ 13.00 US
ISBN: 0802170145
Call Number: FICTION
Format: Paperback
276 p pgs.
Notes: Najwa never imagined that one day she would be a maid. Exiled to London and orphaned soon thereafter, the upper-class Sudanese refugee falls in love with her employer's brother. Aboulela’s novel offers an illuminating glimpse into a culture few Westerners understand.

Title: Half of A Yellow Sun
Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (2006)
ISBN: 1400044162
Call Number: FICTION
Format: Hardback
435 p pgs.
Notes: Winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of Nigeria in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress; and Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.

Title: The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Author: Bixler, Mark
Publisher: University of Georgia Press (2006)
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 0820328839
Call Number: 362.8709 B55L2
Format: Hardback
261 p pgs.
Notes: A tragic but inspiring story of four Sudanese refugees who make their way to the United States to rebuild their lives.

Title: Escape From Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Author: Bok, Francis
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2003)
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0312306237
Call Number: 305.567 B637E
Format: Hardback
284 p pgs.
Notes: Escape from Slavery is at once a dramatic adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and an important commentary on the plight of millions held in slavery today.

Title: Acts of Faith
Author: Caputo, Philip
Publisher: Vintage Books USA (May 2006)
Price: $ 15.95 US
ISBN: 0375725970
Call Number: FICTION
Format: Paperback
669 p pgs.
Notes: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the highly praised novels The Voyage and Horn of Africa comes a stunning, timely new novel about the physical perils and moral crises faced by a group of men and women who try to relieve the suffering caused by war and famine in contemporary Sudan.

Title: Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Author: Cheadle, Don and John Prendergast
Publisher: Hyperion (2007)
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 1401303358
Call Number: 962.7043 C41N
Format:
252 p pgs.
Notes: Shocked and enraged by the ongoing genocide in Darfur, actor Don Cheadle teamed up with human rights activist John Prendergast to focus the world’s attention on the suffering and violence there, offering six strategies readers can implement themselves to effect change.

Title: God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
Author: Dau, John Bul and Michael S Sweeney
Publisher: National Geographic Society (2007)
Price: $ 14.95 US
ISBN: 1426202121
Call Number: MCN 05703247T
Format: Hardback
287 p pgs.
Notes: In this memoir John Bul Dau describes his experiences as one of the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan. Dau describes his childhood in a Sudanese village, years spent in refugee camps, and the unexpected challenges associated with life in America.

Title: They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan
Author: Deng, Alephonsion
Publisher: Perseus Running (2005)
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 9781586483883
Call Number: 962.4043 D414T
Format: Paperback
311 p pgs.
Notes: Two brothers and their cousin--three of Sudan's Lost Boys--present a stunning literary survival story, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a "moving, beautifully written account, by turns raw and tender."

Title: Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
Author: Marlowe, Jen
Publisher: Nation Books (2006)
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 1560259280
Format:
259 p pgs.
Notes: Darfur Diaries compiles testimonies of Darfurian refugees, civilians, resistance fighters, teachers, students, and children. Their stories—woven together with the personal experiences of a group of documentary filmmakers—provide a political and historical context for the conflict in Darfur.

Title: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Author: Power, Samantha
Publisher: Basic Books (2002)
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 0465061508
Call Number: 304.663 P873P
Format: Hardback
610 p pgs.
Notes: This book explores how past American presidents have failed to stop genocide in other countries, describing how the United States has responded to genocide since the Holocaust, while offering insights into how current U.S. policy can be improved to prevent future killings.

Title: The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
Author: Steidle , Brian and Gretchen Wallace Steidle
Publisher: Public Affairs (2007)
ISBN: 1586484745
Call Number: RECENT NON-FICTION
Format:
230 p pgs.
Notes: This vivid report and call to action from the heart of Darfur—written by a former Marine working in Africa—is a powerful memoir of a young man’s awakening to conscience and the first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan.