Walker Books Ltd
Tamar
Peet Mal
A wartime novel in which a young woman is drawn into family secrets, espionage, and hidden loyalties. It builds suspense from the pressure of history on identity, love, and duty.
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Histoire D'une Vie
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld's autobiographical account traces childhood in Bukovina, wartime loss, and the long path toward survival and renewal in Israel.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Melanie Rehak
This cultural history traces Nancy Drew back to the women who wrote and shaped the character, revealing how a girl detective became an American icon.
Penguin Classics
Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy)
Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally, Brad Leithauser
A trilogy set in medieval Norway that follows Kristin from birth to old age. It traces her life through love, faith, and family conflict, with striking historical realism and psychological depth.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Vita
Melania G. Mazzucco, Virginia Jewiss
A sweeping family novel about immigrant life in New York, tracing poverty, memory, and dreams.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (Vintage International)
Truman Capote, Reynolds Price
Shut a Final Door is a psychological short story about a young man whose self-absorption and careless talk leave him exposed to an invisible pressure. Beneath the easy urban banter, guilt and loneliness slowly take shape, and the story grows increasingly unsettling toward the end.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Harbor (Vintage Contemporaries)
Lorraine Adams
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction went to Lorraine Adams's Harbor, a novel that follows an arrival at Boston Harbor and traces themes of migration, isolation, and fragile belonging.
Knopf
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
Hilary Spurling
The 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography went to Hilary Spurling's Matisse the Master, a major biography of Henri Matisse.
Chicago Review Press
Queen Elizabeth I
J.E. Neale
A source-based biography that traces Elizabeth I's reign and political judgment. First published in 1934 as Queen Elizabeth and reissued in 1992 as Queen Elizabeth I, it balances readability with scholarly rigor while showing how the queen navigated religious conflict and power struggles.
Wesleyan Univ Pr
Born To Slow Horses (Wesleyan Poetry)
Kamau Brathwaite
A poetry collection woven from Caribbean memory and diaspora, island landscapes, language, ritual, and the texture of loss. Its shifting bodily sensations and historical awareness overlap in a tense, resonant voice.
Altamira Pr
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience In Books For Children (Contemporary Native American Communities)
Doris Seale, Beverly Slapin
A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.
Ace
War Surf
M.M. Buckner
Nasir Deepra, a wealthy executive who rules 23rd-century Earth, instigates minor wars, broadcasting his "war surfing" escapades on the Net, until he meets a young girl with an insatiable thirst for danger who pushes him into a war that exposes his secrets and brings him face-to-face with death. Original.