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In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland
Fionnuala O'Connor
An interview-based reportage portrait of Catholics in Northern Ireland, exploring politics, religion, and shifting loyalties.
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Spidertown
Abraham Rodriguez
Against the violence of New York streets and family disorder, the novel portrays the pain of growing up. The pressure of immigrant community life and urban struggle accumulates in a lyrical style.
Holt Paperbacks
Aloud
Miguel Algarin
An anthology that gathers the Nuyorican poetry scene at full heat, where performance, urban speech, and communal identity meet on the page.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Face of an Angel
Denise Chavez
Soveida, a Mexican American waitress, reconsiders what work, family, love, and self-realization mean in her life. Set in a restaurant world, the novel becomes a coming-of-age story where humor and pain coexist.
岩波書店
オオカミのようにやさしく (世界の青春ノベルズ)
ジリアン クロス, Gillian Cross, 青海 恵子
Thirteen-year-old Cassy lives with her grandmother until a mysterious late-night visitor sends her to stay with her free-spirited mother Goldie in a London squat. As she helps produce an educational wolf play with the resident troupe of actors, Cassy cannot shake the feeling that something is stalking her. Little Red Riding Hood haunts her dreams recast through her own fears. Eventually she learns the secret that has been kept from her all her life: her father is a notorious IRA terrorist. Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal, this gripping thriller interweaves wolf symbolism with themes of fractured family, identity, and the search for truth.
Zondervan
Economic Empowerment Through the Church: A Blueprint for Progressive Community Development
Gregory J. Reed
A practical study showing how churches can engage with jobs, business formation, and economic renewal in their communities.
Spectra
GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS
John M. Ford
A coming-of-age novel about a young person raised in the low gravity of a lunar society, reassessing family and future. It depicts a future civilization on an intimate scale.
Vintage
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Vintage International)
Thomas Mann
A family chronicle that traces the generations of the Buddenbrook merchant family in northern Germany, portraying prosperity, decline, individual fate, and social change. It is a representative work for its precise depiction of time and changing values across generations.
東京創元社
ダブル・スター (創元SF文庫) (創元SF文庫 ハ 1-1)
ロバート・A. ハインライン, Robert A. Heinlein, 森下 弓子
A science-fiction novel in which actor Bonner Hoveen is asked to stand in for a politician. Performance, power, and identity blur together at a brisk pace.
Modern Library
Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson
An essential work of 20th-century American literature. Through the isolation of a Black man and the way society sees him, it traces identity and injustice in a searing novel.
Crimeline
Dead Man's Island (Henrie O)
Carolyn Hart
A Henrie O mystery in which retired newswoman Henrie O'Dwyer Collins is drawn into trouble while traveling and keeps pushing toward the truth.
Doubleday
Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977.