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Andrew Brown
This nonfiction book uses on-the-ground reporting and analysis to trace the history and transformation of Sweden’s welfare-state model. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of social policy while considering the gap between ideal and reality.
Bich Minh Nguyen
A novel about Vietnamese-American sisters, family, immigration, and the gaps in self-understanding. Its quiet tension never fully lets go.
イェイツ, 高松 雄一
A poetry collection where old age, art, myth, and history all intersect. Yeats’s late thought crystallizes sharply between symbol and private memory.
Dave Eggers
A nonfiction account of how a family’s life unravels in post-Katrina New Orleans. It braids disaster with institutional violence.
Danit Brown
A linked short-story collection that follows Osnat as she moves between Tel Aviv and Michigan and struggles with belonging.
Kevin Starr
A sweeping history of California in the postwar era, tracing prosperity, cultural change, and the tensions hidden beneath abundance.
Rafael Yglesias
A raw novel tracing a thirty-year marriage, with domestic intimacy, compromise, desire, and grief laid bare.
David Mazzucchelli
A formally inventive graphic novel about an architect whose life collapses and sends him into a search for meaning, identity, and love.
Frances Fyfield
A psychological suspense novel built around old secrets and tangled relationships. As the investigation follows conflicting memories and surviving testimony, the characters’ ethical dilemmas and darker impulses gradually come to light.
Chika Unigwe
Before Efe came to Belgium, she imagined castles and clean streets and snow as white as salt. Belgium, '...a country wey dey Europe. Next door to London'. At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat four very different women have made their way from Africa to claim for themselves the riches of Europe. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros. The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, shatters their already fragile world and as the women gather to mourn, the stories they have kept hidden are finally told. Drawn together by tragedy, the women reveal, each in her own voice, what has brought them to their present lives. Joyce, a great beauty whose life has been destroyed by war; Ama, whose dark moods manifest a past injustice; Efe, whose efforts to earn her keep are motivated by a particular zeal and finally, Sisi, whose imagination takes her far beyond the squalor of her reality. These are stories of terror, of displacement, of love, and of a sinister man named Dele...Raw, vivid and suffused with the power of the oral story-telling tradition, "On Black Sisters' Street" is a moving story of the illusion of the West through African eyes, and its annihilation. It is also, however, a story of courage, of unity and of hope.
Francois Mandeville, Ron Scollon, Robert Bringhurst
An English rendering of a Chipewyan story cycle dictated in northern Canada in 1928. It preserves the richness of oral tradition and daily life.
Reginald Hill
Winner of the 1990 CWA Gold Dagger Award. Yorkshire police superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a man pointing a gun at a woman through his kitchen window, but when he arrives on the scene, the woman is dead and both male suspects insist she was trying to shoot herself. Meanwhile, Pascoe receives anonymous letters from a woman predicting her own suicide, and Dalziel is persuaded to play God in a large outdoor production of the medieval York Mystery plays. The three story threads intertwine in the eleventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel.