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|  | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Alfred Kazin, Charles Johnson, Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Smiley
Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause. AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Charles Johnson, Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Smiley
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Douglass's Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Frederick Douglass, the famous abolitionist (1818-95), is the focus of this novel about the two women who loved him: Anna Murray, his long-suffering wife, and Ottilie Assing, his German mistress. He treated both of them badly, and this novel explores each woman's situation in the context of the times. AUTHOR: Jewell Parker Rhodes
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Catastrophist
A writer in the Congo during the Congolese independence movement in 1959 is in love with an Italian woman in this novel about conflicting loyalties at a crucial moment in the country's history.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Outside History by Eavan Boland
This selection of poems by one of Ireland's most prominent feminist poets offers American readers an opportunity to sample her early work, much of it previously unavailable outside of Ireland. Throughout the work presented here, Boland focuses on female ancestry. AUTHOR: Eavan Boland
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Jafta by Hugh Lewin, Lisa Kopper
Jafta is any little boy, sharing the universal joys and sorrows of childhood, but his are expressed in uniquely African terms.... These titles will be a welcome and much-needed addition to multicultural collections . -- School Library Journal (starred review, 5/83) AUTHOR: Hugh Lewin, Lisa Kopper
PUBLISHER: Lerner Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Walk Two Moons by Kate Harper, Sharon Creech
While traveling by car with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to visit with, and hopefully bring home, her mother, 13-year-old Salamanca Hiddle tells stories about her friend, Phoebe. As the journey progresses, and Salamanca's story moves forward, it becomes obvious that Phoebe and Salamanca have more in common than Salamanca originally thought. Will telling Phoebe's story, which also involves a missing mother, help Salamanca deal with the loss of her own mother? Winner of the 1995 Newbery Medal. AUTHOR: Kate Harper, Sharon Creech
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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