Penguin Classics
Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation
Alan Paton
A landmark South African novel about conscience and social injustice.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Miracle's Boys (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
Jacqueline Woodson
Lafayette would do anything to have things back the way they used to be—back before their parents died and back before his brother Charlie changed so much.
McClelland & Stewart
Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
After returning to Sri Lanka, forensic specialist Anil pursues the violence and silences of civil war through the investigation of a set of old bones.
Mysterious Press
Storm Track
Margaret Maron
A Deborah Knott mystery set in North Carolina, where a murder unfolds under the shadow of a hurricane.
HarperTorch
The Salaryman's Wife (The Rei Shimura Series, 1)
Sujata Massey
The first Rei Shimura novel, in which everyday life in Tokyo leads into a murder investigation.
Seal Press
Valencia (Live Girls)
Michelle Tea
A fast-moving coming-of-age novel that races through San Francisco's lesbian underground. Romance, friendship, and the heat of the city are all mixed together.
Marion Boyars
Losing Eugenio
Genevieve Brisac, J. A. Underwood
Geneviève Brisac’s Week-end de chasse à la mère won the prize. It revolves around the mother-child relationship and the delicate shifts between affection and distance.
Tor
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Set in the huge city of New Crobuzon, the novel follows scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin as he is drawn into the aftermath of forbidden research and a request from a half-bird Garuda that leads toward a threat to the entire city. It is a sprawling novel in which magic, industry, strange species, and oppression are fused into something fiercely imaginative.
Cantilena all'angolo della strada
Achille Campanile
A short-story collection that flips everyday scenes on their head through miscommunication and assumption. Beneath its light touch, Campanile's familiar humour emerges as a way of shifting how things are seen.
Harper Perennial
Heads By Harry: A Hawaiian Coming-of-Age Story of Family Business, Gender Roles, and Finding Identity
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Set around a family taxidermy shop in Hilo, Hawaii, this novel sharply and humorously follows siblings, parents, and neighbors as family tensions and local community life collide.
Univ of California Pr
Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness
David Cairns
The second volume of David Cairns's biography of Hector Berlioz, covering the composer's life from 1832 to 1869.
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Man and Boy
Tony Parsons
A novel about Harry Silver, a man whose marriage, job, and self-image collapse at once. Tony Parsons turns fatherhood and emotional recovery into a brisk, comic, and moving story.