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Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-Shan Tang
The story follows Hoi, a boy from China who comes to America to help build the railroad. Through his love of pies, the book turns immigration, labor, and growth into a gentle picture-book narrative.
Aldous Huxley
Through the story of a West Coast millionaire obsessed with prolonging life, this novel satirizes aging, death, wealth, and moral emptiness. It sets science against superstition and art against commercialism to sharpen Huxley’s critique of civilization.
Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky
An epistolary coming-of-age story in which a boy writes letters to his favorite author, Mr. Henshaw, and gradually works through hurt, loneliness, family tensions, and self-understanding with direct warmth.
Seymour M. Hersh
Seymour Hersh's The Price of Power is an investigative portrait of Henry Kissinger's influence in the Nixon White House.
Mine Okubo
A graphic memoir recording the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans through drawings and text. Its restrained style leaves a strong aftertaste.
Humbert S. Nelli
A history of how Italian immigrants settled into American society and formed an ethnic identity. It can be read as both immigration history and urban history.
Paule Marshall
Avey Johnson, a widow, travels through the Caribbean and slowly reconnects with her past, her body, and her cultural memory. Ritual, song, and recollection become the means by which loss is confronted and identity is restored.
Alan Walker
A music biography of Franz Liszt's early and virtuoso years, set against the wider Romantic era.
Bester
A science-fiction novel set in a future society policed by telepaths, following industrialist Ben Reich’s murder plot. Psychological detection and social order are driven forward with sharp verbal play.
Fernand Braudel
Fernand Braudel's The Wheels of Commerce traces the foundations of capitalism through exchange, trade, banking, and commercial networks.
Jose A. Franch
A large-scale study of Pre-Columbian art from both archaeological and visual perspectives. Through images and commentary, it offers a systematic view of Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations.
Tormod Haugen
The story of Joakim (Jake), a lonely boy whose father suffers from depression and disappears into the night. Haunted by visions of monstrous night birds lurking in his closet, Joakim must confront both real and imagined fears as his family struggles with his father's illness. Winner of the Norwegian Literature Prize and the German Children's Literature Prize, this is the landmark work of 1990 Hans Christian Andersen Award laureate Tormod Haugen.