W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
David L. Lewis
The second volume of David Levering Lewis's biography of W.E.B. Du Bois, covering his post-World War I years through 1963.
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David L. Lewis
The second volume of David Levering Lewis's biography of W.E.B. Du Bois, covering his post-World War I years through 1963.
Murray Bail
Set in New South Wales, the novel begins with a strange condition for marriage based on knowledge of trees. Family, landscape, and the power of storytelling intersect in a novel that blends playfulness with seriousness.
Geoff Ryman
An experimental novel that gives one page to each of 253 London Underground passengers. By shifting viewpoint in tiny increments, it connects fragmentary lives within the moving space of the city.
Judith Roche, Meg McHutchison
A collection of salmon stories, essays, and poems that honors North Pacific Indigenous traditions and ecology.
David Almond
After a boy finds a strange man who seems to be part bird and part angel in the garage of his new home, his sick baby sister and unsettled family life press in around him. The novel blends quiet fantasy with the pain of ordinary life.
Lisa C. Moore
An anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays about black lesbian coming out. Personal testimony and community experience overlap, and the diversity of voices becomes the book’s strength.
Chiori Santiago, Judith Lowry
A children's book about two Native boys taken to boarding school and the pull of home, language, and tradition.
E. Donald Two-Rivers
A short story collection that brings Native survival, anger, and wit to the foreground.
Nicola Barker
Set in a small seaside town, the novel traces odd, isolated residents whose lives reveal family collapse and social estrangement. It is an experimental book in which humor and unease coexist.
Gioia Timpanelli
Two Sicilian novellas shaped by folktale, place, and the tension between tradition and change.
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gee’s Live Bodies is a novel about a man whose wartime and postwar experiences in New Zealand shape his life.