Lignes de faille
Nancy Huston
An experimental family novel told in four voices across four generations, layering fragments of memory, shifts in language, and inherited violence to expose broken identity and historical rupture.
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Countries of the Body (Contemporary World Poetry S.)
Tishani Doshi, Sudeep Sen
A debut collection centered on the body and its contradictions, where intimacy and unease emerge from ordinary sensation.
Orion mass market paperback
Black And Blue (A Rebus Novel)
Ian Rankin
Black and Blue is a 1997 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
A graphic memoir set around a family funeral home, tracing the relationship with a father, sexual identity, and the instability of memory. Literary allusion and precise structure lift the personal story into an intellectually layered autobiography.
Anchor
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Dai Sijie
A satirical novel built around psychoanalysis and travel, following Mr. Muo through a comic yet melancholy view of Chinese society.
Scholastic Press
Darkling Plain (Mortal Engines)
Philip Reeve, Ian McQue
'A Darkling Plain' is the brilliant ending to an award-winning quartet that began with 'Mortal Engines'. It is six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton. Wren Natsworthy and her father have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Tom is troubled by Hester's disappearance and meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with London ...
Graywolf Pr
Blue Front
Martha Collins
A poetry collection that traces racial violence in the American South through fragmented, collage-like verse and documentary material.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)
Harper Lee
Set in 1930s Alabama, the novel follows Atticus Finch as he defends a Black man accused of raping a white woman, while Scout's growing awareness of the world unfolds beside him. Through a child's intimate perspective, injustice, courage, and empathy come into sharp focus.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America
Tom Lutz
A cultural history of idleness and the American work ethic, tracing ideas and habits around not working from Benjamin Franklin to Generation X.
Anchor
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
Laura Furman
A directionless eighteen-year-old escapes into a refuge that turns out to be built on violence and control.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Everyman
Philip Roth
A spare novel that follows a man's recollections of aging, illness, regret, and death to draw out a broader sense of loss and forgiveness.