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John Scalzi
After losing his job during a pandemic, Jamie is sent to a parallel world where kaiju live and ends up working for a conservation group. The novel is an adventure SF story driven by brisk humor and a clear love of monster movies.
Gilberto Freyre, David H. P. Maybury-lewis
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
Julie Otsuka
A crack in the neighborhood pool unsettles the routines of its swimmers and opens into a story about memory, care, and loss. At the center is a mother losing her memory and the daughter who can no longer keep the old life intact.
Mauriac-F
Le Désert de l’amour revolves around a father and son drawn to the same woman, tracing the aftersound of desire and lost intimacy.
Berger-Y
A novel that layers the landscape of southern France with the imagination of those who live there, and then opens outward toward memories of America and frontier life. Beneath its quiet surface runs a strong longing for land and place.
Peyre-J
Set in the world of Spanish bullfighting, the novel explores the crowd’s heat, ritualized violence, and the precarious pride of the matadors. The boundary between life and death rises in an intensely charged atmosphere.
Joubert-J
A French novel whose title figure suggests fragility, instability, and disappearance.
Monica Ojeda, Sarah Booker
At an all-girls Catholic school, friendship, occult games, and desire spiral into a multivocal horror novel about adolescence and fear.
Kim Fu
A short story from Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century where a simulation operator and a grieving customer negotiate desire, memory, and what cannot be recreated.
Johanna Fernndez
This book depicts the history of radical Puerto Rican organizations in New York in the 1960s, based on testimonies and documents.
Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
The novel spans eighteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe and follows Jakob Frank, his followers, and the competing worlds of faith, power, and identity around them.
Amina Luqman-Dawson
Two siblings fleeing slavery find their way to Freewater, a hidden community in the swamp built by formerly enslaved people and freeborn children. The novel turns maroon history into a story of family, solidarity, resistance, and the hard-won meaning of freedom.