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Charley Trujillo
A collection of testimonies from Chicano Vietnam veterans compiled by Charley Trujillo. Through enlistment stories, battlefield experience, and the fractures left after return, it traces the wounds and memories war left on individuals and communities.
Elmore Leonard
Chili Palmer, a Miami loanshark, and Harry Zimm, a film producer in debt, become reluctant partners as they become embroiled in the seductive but deadly Hollywood scene
Claudio Magris, Patrick Creagh
A journey book that reads the history and culture of Central Europe while following the Danube. It is a substantial work that moves between essay and travel writing.
Luisa Adorno
Set in a quiet bourgeois family in postwar Italy, the novel follows summers spent at a house near Mount Etna and everyday life in Rome, tracing memory and generational continuity. Subtle dialogue and a light ironic tone give the family's inward life a finely layered shape.
デイヴィッド・ブリン, 酒井 昭伸
A novel about galactic politics and conflict among uplifted species. Through invasion and resistance on a colony world, it explores species rights, cultural clashes, freedom, and autonomy with a strong mix of military action and social satire.
Meridel Le Sueur
A collection of essays and stories that keeps working-class women, labor, and political struggle at the center of Le Sueur's writing.
Pat Murphy
A short-story collection centered on turning points and cracks in the world. Through cultural and psychological change, it follows growth and choice.
Isaiah Berlin
Four essays examine liberty, political thought, and the complexity of value pluralism. It is Isaiah Berlin's most important book.
Paula Gunn Allen
An anthology of traditional tales, short fiction, and critical writing by Native American women, showing both cultural continuity and contemporary voices.
Thomas Centolella
Centolella's first poetry collection, selected by Denise Levertov, looks for wonder in the everyday and in the communal life of the Bay Area.
Colin Dexter
The Wench Is Dead is a 1989 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.