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The Heart of Little Shikara: And Other Stories
Legare Street Press

The Heart of Little Shikara: And Other Stories

Edison 1894-1967 Marshall, Brown And Company Pbl Little

The Heart of Little Shikara follows a boy who ventures into a dangerous jungle with the hunter he admires, Warwick Sahib. In the tension of a tiger hunt, courage, respect, and fear of the wild are tested, and the boy's outlook begins to change.

The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel)
Soho Crime

The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel)

Sujata Massey

Set in 1922 Bombay, the fourth Perveen Mistry novel follows the city’s only female solicitor as she takes on the defense of a mistreated young woman. The story combines legal intrigue with class conflict, women’s rights, and family strain.

The Saint of Bright Doors
St Martin's Press

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

Fetter, raised from childhood to kill a holy leader, flees to a city of strange doors and tries to choose a life of his own. The novel layers religion, bureaucracy, and revolution while making fantasy and modern social life feel equally present.

Bad Diaspora Poems
Jonathan Cape

Bad Diaspora Poems

Momtaza Mehri

This debut collection weaves the experience of diaspora from Mogadishu to London through poems, prose, and message fragments. It portrays the loss of home and the feeling of movement with both critical edge and humor.

Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art
Black Sparrow Press

Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art

John Yau

A collection of essays about contemporary art, artists and culture. Please Wait by the Coat Room includes essays on sculptors of color Luis Jimenez and John Outterbridge; a section on Korean abstract painters who were considered part of the Dansaekhwa movement (which has been translated as "monochromatic painting"); a section on "second generation Abstract Expressionists" such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu.

無垢の時代 (岩波文庫 赤345-1)
岩波書店

無垢の時代 (岩波文庫 赤345-1)

イーディス・ウォートン, 河島 弘美

Set in 1870s New York high society, the novel follows Newland Archer as a reunion with the unconventional returned Countess Ellen Olenska pulls him between desire and duty. Within a world ruled by etiquette and silence, Wharton traces the cost of love and self-restraint.

Feuilles mortes
Alpha Edition

Feuilles mortes

Jacques Morel

Feuilles mortes traces the reverberations of time past and memory through the gaze of a single woman. The end of youth, relations with family and others, and the presence of forgetting overlap as the novel moves forward in a quiet, elegiac tone.