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Li-young Lee
A memoir that traces a family’s journey from China to Indonesia, Hong Kong, and the United States. Through the father’s presence and absence and through fragments of memory, it quietly examines exile, religion, and family burden.
Robert Viscusi
An experimental novel about Italian American memory, family history, and identity.
Armstrong Sperry, William McFee
A sea-going adventure follows a boy who helps out on the legendary clipper Flying Cloud and learns the craft and discipline of life under sail. The book combines historical detail with the excitement of a record-breaking voyage.
Jan Mark
Thunder and Lightnings follows a boy settling into a Norfolk village and bonding with a classmate fascinated by RAF Lightning jets.
William H. Gass
A sprawling novel in which a history professor turns inward, excavating memory, disgust, and guilt.
Lois Lenski
A historical novel based on the real life of Mary Jemison. It follows a girl captured by a Shawnee war party as she comes to choose her own place within Seneca society.
Neal Stephenson
From the author of Snow Crash, the story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
Herb Boyd
A large anthology that gathers voices from slave narratives to contemporary essays and presents Black men’s experience from many angles. Family, love, labor, struggle, and intergenerational inheritance emerge as a continuous thread.
Lisbeth Zwerger
Lisbeth Zwerger is an Austrian illustrator born in Vienna in 1954. She made her debut in 1977 illustrating E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Strange Child," and went on to create picture book illustrations for classics including Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Dickens. Known for her distinctive style of dreamlike watercolors and delicate linework, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1990 in recognition of her lifetime contribution to children's literature. Her most notable work is Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1988), along with E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Nutcracker and Mouseking" (1979) and Brothers Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" (1979).
Susan Howe
A critical essay by Susan Howe that explores Emily Dickinson’s language and interpretive possibilities across the boundary between poetry and criticism. It loosens inherited reading habits and opens Dickinson’s work to a wider field of thought.
Jane Duran
Jane Duran's debut collection traces loss, silence, and the movement of a life across places.
Philip Pullman
Lyra sets out north to rescue her missing friend in the opening novel of a parallel-world fantasy cycle.