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Robert Lewis Lewis Taylor
With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849.
E. M. Forster, P. N. Furbank
Set in British India, the novel traces misreading, colonial tension, and the strain placed on friendship. An incident in the caves exposes both private vulnerability and imperial contradiction.
James D. Houston
A reportorial exploration of California's history and self-image, built from travel, observation, and cultural memory.
Gerald Graff
An essay collection that treats the culture wars not as a dead end but as a resource for teaching, arguing that conflict can become a force for intellectual renewal.
Emily Arnold McCully
A picture book in which a boardinghouse girl learns tightrope walking from a retired performer and discovers her own courage.
Jack Beatty
A sweeping biography that follows James Michael Curley while tracing the larger world of Boston politics, machine power, and immigrant social change.
Mark Shand
Mark Shand's travel memoir recounts his journey through India on the back of an elephant. It combines wildlife, conservation, and encounters with people and landscape in a warm, humorous account of the relationship between nature and humans.
Pat Cadigan
A cyberpunk novel in which actress Marva wakes in a hologram pool carrying the memory of a murder and is pulled into a maze of pursuit and unstable memory. Reality and virtual experience layer over one another as the chase unfolds with unsettling humor and violence.
Berlie Doherty
Dear Nobody follows two teenagers facing an unplanned pregnancy from alternating viewpoints.
Elvio Fachinelli
From one person's attempt to stop time and undo what has happened, this psychoanalytic essay expands toward denial of death, history, and fascism. Rather than simply equating individual experience with social structure, it tries to discern the shape of the difference between them.
Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks
A study of African American and Caribbean artists in Paris, tracing exchange, exhibition, and cultural networks.