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Miranda Carter
A biography of Anthony Blunt, who was both an art historian and a Soviet spy. By setting scholarly life against espionage, it reveals the intersection of power and culture in twentieth-century Britain.
John Steinbeck
The Joad family is forced from its home by the Dust Bowl and the Depression and travels toward California in search of a future. Between hunger, discrimination, hope, and solidarity, the novel examines human dignity.
Ted Hughes
A poetry collection in which Ted Hughes looks back on Sylvia Plath, love, guilt, memory, and grief.
T. S. Eliot
A landmark modernist poem that layers myth, religion, and literary allusion to portray a fractured postwar world. Its broken voices and dense references explore loss, renewal, and spiritual desolation.
Joseph Papaleo
A collection of stories set in an Italian-American neighborhood before its migration to the suburbs, exploring immigrant memory, family, and the cost of assimilation.
Tananarive Due
The second novel in the African Immortals sequence, expanding a story of inherited power, family, and supernatural tension.
Eric Porter
A study that traces the writings and statements of jazz musicians themselves, recasting Black musicians as critics and thinkers as well as performers. It challenges fixed ideas about what jazz is and who gets to define it.
C. J. Cherryh
Set in the Alliance–Union universe, the novel follows political and military conflict around the planet Downbelow and the evacuation that follows. It is a large-scale work in which imperial power collides with the decisions of people on the ground.
Marcela Serrano
While visiting Chiapas to report on the Zapatista revolution, a young woman finds her life, ideals, dreams, and relationships turned upside down as she struggles to come to terms with the events and personalities surrounding her. (General Fiction)
Clotilde Marghieri, M. Ghilardi
An epistolary novel built as a long, intimate letter, where memory, friendship, and affection converge in a single voice of self-examination.
B. B.
The last gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. Their names are Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort, and their home is under an oak tree which grows on the banks of the Folly. Cloudberry decides to go and explore - he wants to find out what lies beyond the Folly. But when he doesn't return, it is up to his three remaining brothers to build a boat and set out to find him. This is the story of the brothers' epic journey in search of Cloudberry and is set against the background of the English countryside, beginning in spring, continuing through summer, and concluding in autumn, when the first frosts are starting to arrive.
Peter Porter
Max is Missing is a poetry collection that moves through absence, memory, and urban observation. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.