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The Exeter Blitz follows a child in Exeter learning how ordinary life changes under wartime bombing.
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Rees
The Exeter Blitz follows a child in Exeter learning how ordinary life changes under wartime bombing.
Premio Eugenio Nadal
An unusual novel with a fantastical structure that sends Lorca looking back from hell, tracing the poet's life, death, and possible futures.
Alan Chong Lau
A poetry collection that folds personal memory and ethnic background into an exploration of language and image, carried by a quietly forceful Asian American perspective.
Mabe Hunt
A biographical picture book that traces the legend of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, through nine short stories. As the journey moves westward, the figure of Johnny gains shape piece by piece.
Joseph Brodsky
A poetry collection on exile, memory, language, and philosophical reflection.
Madeleine L'Engle
A Ring of Endless Light is a 1980 novel by Madeleine L'Engle. The book tells of teenager Vicky Austin and her struggle to understand life and significance in the universe as she deals with her dying grandfather, while at the same time finding true romantic love. The title originates from a phrase in the seventeenth-century Welsh poet Henry Vaughan's poem "The World".
Allan Chase
A social-historical study by Allan Chase that traces scientific racism from Malthusian ideas into the eugenics movement. It examines how discrimination was justified over time and tests that logic against the historical record.
H. R. F. Keating
The Murder of the Maharajah is a 1980 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Miguel Algarin
A poetry collection that speaks in a forceful, intimate voice about urban life and Latino community. Self-expression and a sense of collective life emerge through fragmentary city scenes.
Arthur C. Clarke
A novel about the construction of a space elevator in which engineering, politics, and human drama intersect. The story is shaped by the cost and compromise required to turn a giant technical dream into reality.
Gerhart Hauptmann
Set against the 1844 weavers’ uprising, the play turns poverty and anger into a collective social drama. Rather than focusing on one personal tragedy, it captures the moment when an oppressed community speaks at once.
Elizabeth O'Conner
A 1960 Australian novel set in the remote north of Queensland. Through the lives of horse wagoner Paddy Doolan and his son Michael, it shows how changing transport reshapes a family and the community around it.