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Andie Powers, Betsy Petersen
Emile may seem timid and shy on the outside, but on the inside he is bustling with imagination. While grownups and even other kids may see Emile as the shy kid who doesn’t raise his hand in class, we know that Emile is actually a high-seas adventurer, a daring explorer, and a friend to wild beasts.
William Golding, Annie Proulx
Set during an early-nineteenth-century voyage to Australia, the novel follows the young Englishman Edmund Talbot as a sealed shipboard society is shaken by desire, class tension, and moral hypocrisy. The sea journey becomes a test of human character.
Bonnie Garmus
Set in 1950s America, the novel follows a woman scientist who pushes back against workplace and social bias as she builds a life on her own terms. It blends sharp wit with human drama.
Antonio Scurati, Anne Milano Appel
An epic historical novel that traces Mussolini’s rise through documentary material and fictional imagination. Postwar resentment, violence, newspapers, and crowd psychology converge as fascism turns into political reality.
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo
In this novel, Ezeigbo chose one of the most representative themes of African fiction. My Cousin Sammy is a novel about the appearance of a teenage orphan from the rural areas at the home of his city-dwelling relatives a middle-class family with middle-class prejudices and pretensions.
Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk
A beekeeper stranded in Ukraine's gray zone tries to protect his bees while moving through war and propaganda.
Sally Hayden
An investigative nonfiction book about refugees and migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean, exposing the structural conditions behind the crisis.
Wanda Gg
After an apple falls and startles the little bunny, it leaves Bunnyland and moves through a chain of alphabet-linked encounters and events. The result is a playful picture book whose wordplay and visual rhythm carry the story.
Korina Moss
The first Cheese Shop Mystery follows Willa as she tries to keep her new shop and her life on track after a murder upends a small Sonoma Valley town. The cozy setting, family tension, and local sleuthing are woven together with a light, welcoming tone.
Alice Zeniter
A multigenerational novel set against the Algerian War and its aftermath, tracing colonial rule, return and assimilation, and the inheritance of language and identity to show how personal and collective memory persists and fades.
Roger Reeves
This is a poetry collection that moves between myth, family history, Black experience, and the violence of the present while pushing insistently toward freedom. Its references range widely across the literary and popular imagination, connecting private pain to a larger historical frame.
Erin Entrada Kelly
Set in 1986, the novel interweaves the anxieties and dreams of three siblings against the fading momentum of the space race.