Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karim Bennoune (Norton hardcover) The author, a professor of international law at UC-Davis, is a veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism.

Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan (Harper hardcover) New York City in the jazz age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown an unprecedented explosion in black music , literature, dance and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of the African American awakening has been widely explored, one chapter remains untold: the story of a group of women collectively dubbed "Miss Anne."

Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today, edited by Ilan Stavans (The Library of America paperback) Immigration is the essential American story, though one often told in terms of the impact on those already here. This book tells this epic story from the inside, gathering over 400 years of writing by first generation immigrants about the immigrant experience.