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J.K. Rowling
In Harry's second year at Hogwarts, strange attacks and hidden messages point toward the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets. The novel deepens the series' blend of school story, danger, and identity.
Vasco Pratolini
A novel set in Florence that follows the growth, romance, and labor activism of the young worker Metello. Seen from the working-class point of view, it portrays the social changes of modern Italy while carefully layering the character's inner life and social conflict.
Jerry Lipka, With Gerald V. Mohatt, Esther Ilutsik
An education study showing how Yup'ik examples can reshape school culture from within.
Nicola Griffith
Former undercover cop Aud Torvingen is drawn into a dangerous chain of events in Atlanta. Through a bombing, money laundering, and a trip to Norway, the strong but emotionally guarded heroine is pushed out of her fragile balance.
Laura Lippman
A Baltimore mystery in which private eye Tess Monaghan is drawn into a string of witness deaths.
Cynthia Ozick
A Puttermesser-centered sequence that mixes satire, imagination, and questions of selfhood. Jewish tradition and fantastical elements are folded into an intellectually playful style.
Constance Rourke, James MacDonald
This children’s biography of Davy Crockett blends folklore and historical research to show how a frontier figure became a folk hero. It is less about myth alone than about the making of myth.
Virginia Hamilton
Through the eyes of M. C., a boy living on a mountain threatened by strip mining, the novel explores family, pride, and attachment to place.
John Lewis, Michael D'orso
John Lewis’s own memoir of the civil rights movement. From student activism to marches, repression, and organizing, it offers a vivid firsthand testimony that places the movement’s ethics, hopes, and sacrifices in historical context.
Brian Ward
A music history that links rhythm and blues to Black consciousness and the politics of race in America.
Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage
An epic work that traces Latin American history from mythic origins to colonization.
James Lee Burke
A hard-edged crime novel that pushes Dave Robicheaux into a tense struggle over violence, corruption, and conscience.