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Kate Wilhelm
Set in a post-collapse world, the novel portrays the conflict between a group created through cloning technology used to sustain population and a minority trying to preserve individuality. It is human-centered SF that probes individuality, creativity, and the meaning of community.
ジェラルド マクダーモット, 神宮 輝夫
A picture book retelling a Pueblo myth about how the spirit of the Sun came into the human world.
Muriel Spark
Barbara Vaughan, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, tries to cross the Mandelbaum Gate in 1961 Jerusalem and finds herself pulled between faith, politics, and family loyalties.
ウィリアム スタイグ, せた ていじ
A donkey boy named Sylvester loves collecting pebbles and finds a red stone that grants wishes. After fear drives him to turn himself into a rock, the story follows his return to his family in a picture book that balances humor with tenderness.
Susan Cooper, Michael Heslop
The Grey King is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published almost simultaneously by Chatto & Windus and Atheneum in 1975. It is the fourth of five books in her Arthurian fantasy series The Dark is Rising.
Brian Moore
A fantasy novel in which a historian dreams up a Victorian collection and finds his life altered at the boundary between dream and reality.
バーバラ・クーニー, ジェフリー・チョーサー, ひらの けいいち
A picture-book retelling of a tale from The Canterbury Tales. It presents the contest of wit between a proud rooster and a sly fox through vivid, old-world illustrations and a rhythm that works naturally for read-aloud storytelling.
Robert Westall
A children's novel in which a group of children find a machine gun after an air raid and hide it while confronting wartime reality.
Charles Rosen
A lucid study that unpacks Schoenberg’s music and modernism with elegant precision.
アナトール フランス, Anatole France, 伊吹 武彦
A novel in diary form follows the elderly scholar Sylvestre Bonnard as he pursues a rare ecclesiastical manuscript from Paris to Sicily and is tested by the tension between his love of books and his conscience. Beneath the quiet wit and irony runs a warm regard for intelligence and tolerance.
Dr. Mary Kelly
Set in a Staffordshire pottery factory, the novel sends private investigator Hedley Nicholson into an industrial espionage case that widens into murder and workplace intrigue.
George Sessions Perry
A rural novel about one season in the life of a Texas farming family. Land, labor, and mutual support are built up in a plain but forceful style that conveys both the weight of daily life and the possibility of hope.