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Marcia Brown
A picture book based on a Hindu fable, it follows a rescued mouse as it changes into a cat, a dog, and then a tiger before learning to remember its own strength. Even as its form changes, the story remains about facing danger and finding a way to stand on one's own.
Raymond Carver
A fictionalized account of Anton Chekhov's final days that turns illness and death into a meditation on care, art, and dignity. The story is restrained but deeply moving.
Sergei Kan
An anthropological study of nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch and mortuary practice, tracing ritual, symbol, and social order.
Askia M. Toure
A poetry collection that turns Black liberation and resistance into sharp, urgent verse.
Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe
An autobiography told in the musician's own voice, speaking frankly about jazz, fame, drugs, racism, and private life.
Joyce Johnson
A story told through a mother’s memory of her son’s long hospital stay and the arrival of a disturbing older patient. The closed world of the ward gathers childhood fear and fragile companionship.
Montale
Montale’s early landmark poetry collection links barren landscapes with inner unease and helped define twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Julien Gracq
Set in a sealed-off coastal borderland, this allegorical novel explores power, time, and the meaning of action and inaction through long stretches of waiting and tension. Its highly imaginative narration and symbolic landscapes give history a poetic presence.
Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters' Jacqueline Kirby novel intertwines publishing-world intrigue with murder and the series' familiar wit.
Richard Adams
Watership Down follows a band of wild rabbits forced to leave their warren and search for a safer home.
Oscar Hijuelos
In 1950s New York, two Cuban immigrant brothers chase music, success, and the memory of what they have lost.
Will Lipkind, Mordvinoff Nicolas
1952 Caldecott Medal winner. A children’s story about finding, sharing, and letting go.