Green Integer
way (Poems)
Leslie Scalapino
An experimental long poem that keeps widening what experience can hold.
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Postcards
Annie Proulx
Postcards is a novel-like work set in northern America that quietly portrays disappearance, loss, and memory rooted in the land. Through shifting viewpoints and time frames, it interweaves regional history and private feeling.
HarperCollins
Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
Nelson George
A cultural history of Black men and basketball that uses sport to examine race, class, and American society.
Spectra
THROUGH THE HEART
Richard Grant
Set around the monstrous traveling machine called the Oasis, the novel follows a boy coming of age in a brutal dystopian world. Decay and growth unfold at the same time.
Minotaur Books
Zero at the Bone: A Mystery
Mary Willis Walker
Katherine Driscoll, who runs a dog training business in Texas, is facing financial ruin when she receives an unexpected message from the father she has long been estranged from. She heads to Austin to meet him, only to arrive after he has died in a suspicious accident at the zoo where he worked. As she follows the clues he left behind, she is drawn into a mystery that links family secrets to a dangerous illegal trade.
Univ of Washington Pr
Cebu
Peter Bacho
A novel about a Filipino American man’s reckoning with family, faith, and cultural conflict.
Voyager
Take Back Plenty
Colin Greenland
A space opera built around a distinctive protagonist and spanning galactic adventure and cultural encounter. With humor and human insight, it explores questions of cross-cultural contact and identity.
Knopf
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
On a vast Iowa farm, the relationship between a father and his three daughters collapses along with the violence hidden inside it.
Knopf
He, She And It
Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy's cyberpunk novel sets a story of women, cyborgs, and golems in a devastated future society. It explores the relationships among the body, family, and power.
Columbia Univ Pr
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men-between Women)
Lillian Faderman
A landmark book depicting lesbian life and culture in twentieth-century America using personal records and oral histories, discussing social changes and community formation.
Grafton
Synners
Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan's cyberpunk novel is set in a world where the boundary between technology and humanity has become thin. Media, addiction, and bodily transformation all intertwine as the story moves forward.
Peachtree
Jessie & Jesus & Cousin Claire
Raymond Andrews, Benny Andrews
A Southern novel set in Georgia, tracing family memory, faith, romance, and the tensions between women in one household. Raymond Andrews explores the emotional complexity that runs through an African American family.