HarperCollins
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A novel that overlays colonial India in the 1920s with a later woman's search through the traces left behind half a century later.
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Random House Inc
Bloodshed and Three Novellas
Cynthia Ozick
The title novella and three shorter works probe Jewish memory and moral unease with compressed intensity.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Abel's Island
William Steig
Abel's Island is a children's novel written and illustrated by William Steig. It won a Newbery Honor. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Toronto, Ontario in 1976. It is a survival story about a mouse stranded on an island.
Jonathan Cape
Thomas More
Raymond Wilson Chambers
A biography of Thomas More by R. W. Chambers. It traces the life of the thinker and statesman of the Reformation era in a scholarly but readable style.
Random House UK
A Demon in My View
Ruth Rendell
A Demon in My View is a 1976 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Vintage
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Eugene D. Genovese
A history of American slavery that reinterprets the slave world, including culture and resistance as well as domination.
Dial Books
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
Margaret Musgrove, Diane Dillon
An alphabetic picture book introducing peoples and traditions across Africa. Brief notes and finely detailed illustrations make cultural diversity accessible and memorable.
Margaret K. McElderry Books
A String in the Harp
Nancy Bond
A String in the Harp is a children's fantasy novel by Nancy Bond first published in 1976. It received a 1977 Newbery Honor award and the Welsh Tir na n-Og Award. It tells of the American Morgan family who temporarily move to Wales, where Peter Morgan finds a magical harp key that gives him vivid visions of the past. This well-received novel is an unusual time travel story, with its focus on the emotional pain and separation the Morgans experience after the death of their mother and the gradual healing they find through their experiences.
Scholastic
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1977 Newbery Medal awarded novel by Mildred D. Taylor. It is a part of her Logan family series, a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees.
Joanna Cotler Books
Letters
E. B. White, Dorothy Lobrano Guth
A collection of letters from 1908 to 1976 that reads as both a life story and a record of its era.
Knopf
SIMPLE JUSTICE
Richard Kluger
A massive legal history of the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education and the struggle that followed.
冨山房
かいじゅうたちのいるところ
モーリス・センダック, じんぐう てるお, Maurice Sendak
Max runs away in a wolf suit and reaches the island of the wild things, where he becomes their king. The brief story turns imagination, loneliness, and belonging into a vivid picture-book fable.