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Chris Judge
Have you heard of the Beasts? No, not many people have. That''s because they are very rare. This is the tale of one such Beast, whose determination to overcome his loneliness leads him to undertake a daring and dangerous quest to find others like him . . . Visit The Lonely Beast website at http://www.thelonelybeast.com
Carla Speed McNeil
A graphic novel that follows Rachel as she navigates clan tradition, family responsibility, and a struggle for security.
Jane Rogers
A dystopian novel in which a young woman confronts reproductive control and the politics of survival in a collapsing society.
Peter Carey
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, the novel follows the oddly compelling relationship between Oscar, a gambling-obsessed English clergyman, and Lucinda, a woman determined to live independently. It is a love story, but also a tale of chance, faith, money, and imagination.
R. W. Ketton-Cremer
This biography of the renowned English eighteenth-century poet and scholar Thomas Gray (1716–1771) was originally published in 1955. The text contains extensive quotations from Gray's literary work and correspondence which are counterpoised by a highly readable narrative of his life, most of which was spent at Cambridge University. Whilst Gray's poetic output was limited for various reasons, including an extremely self-critical attitude towards his own work, he remains a figure of great importance in eighteenth-century literature. This book reflects that importance, and it will be of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry, literary biography, or the cultural environment of the 1700s.
Mary Winegarden
A work that rewrites memory of a dead sister through poems and translation. It treats loss as something held in the seams of language itself.
Anna Carey
My name is Rebecca Rafferty, and my mother has ruined my life. Again. I didn't mind her writing boring books for grown-ups. But now she's written one about an awful girl my age and everyone thinks it's me! Including the boy who delivers our newspapers, aka Paperboy, aka the most gorgeous boy in the whole world. Oh, the shame! And if that wasn't awful enough, the biggest pain in my class wants to use my 'fame' to get herself on the reality show 'My Big Birthday Bash'. I've just got to show everyone the REAL Rebecca. But how?
Annia Ciezadlo
A memoir that weaves food writing, war reporting, and married life across Baghdad and Beirut.
M.T. Anderson
Octavian, having escaped a death sentence, tries to survive in British-occupied Boston and along the southern coast as the Revolutionary War intensifies. The novel explores freedom, loyalty, violence, and belonging on a sweeping historical canvas.
Kevin Young
A poetic chronicle of the Amistad rebels that gives the story choral and epistolary form.
Jo Walton
Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment. Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead. Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in Englanda place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put off Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethems The Fortress of Solitude , this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin. One of School Library Journal s Best Adult Books 4 Teens titles of 2011 One of io9's best Science Fiction & Fantasy books of the year 2011
Emma Donoghue
The novel begins in the confined world shared by a mother and her young son and then follows their path back into the outside world and toward freedom. Told through both the child’s and the mother’s perspectives, it centers on trauma and renewal.