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宙の復讐者
早川書房

宙の復讐者

エミリー・テッシュ, 金子 浩

On a space station built from the last scraps of humanity, Kyr has been raised for revenge, only to confront the lies of her society and the reality of the people around her. The novel combines the momentum of military science fiction with a story of deprogramming and self-discovery.

怪獣保護協会 (ハヤカワ文庫SF)
早川書房

怪獣保護協会 (ハヤカワ文庫SF)

ジョン・スコルジー, 内田 昌之

After losing his job during a pandemic, Jamie is sent to a parallel world where kaiju live and ends up working for a conservation group. The novel is an adventure SF story driven by brisk humor and a clear love of monster movies.

Olympischer Fruehling
Antigonos Verlag

Olympischer Fruehling

Carl Spitteler

A sweeping epic by Carl Spitteler that explores the relationship between gods and humans on a mythic scale. Written between 1900 and 1905 and revised in 1910, it is known for reworking Greek mythology in a modern idiom.

The Peasants
Penguin Classics

The Peasants

Wladyslaw Reymont, Anna Zaranko, Ryszard Koziolek

A Polish national epic that follows the seasons while depicting the life and conflict of a village community. The cycle of nature and human desire collide within the same flow of time.

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Random House Trade Paperbacks

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • A NEW YORKER AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the development of science and religion? Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes readers on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution. Our Moon’s gravity stabilized Earth’s orbit—and its climate. It drew nutrients to the surface of the primordial ocean, where they fostered the evolution of complex life. The Moon continues to influence animal migration and reproduction, plants’ movements, and, possibly, the flow of the very blood in our veins. While the Sun helped prehistoric hunters and gatherers mark daily time, early civilizations used the phases of the Moon to count months and years, allowing them to plan farther ahead. Mesopotamian priests recorded the Moon’s position in order to make predictions, and, in the process, created the earliest known empirical, scientific observations. In Our Moon, Boyle introduces us to ancient astronomers and major figures of the scientific revolution, including Johannes Kepler and his influential lunar science fiction. Our relationship to the Moon changed when Apollo astronauts landed on it in 1969, and it’s about to change again. As governments and billionaires aim to turn a profit from its resources, Rebecca Boyle shows us that the Moon belongs to everybody, and nobody at all.

The Color of a Lie
Random House Books for Young Readers

The Color of a Lie

Kim Johnson

In 1955, a Black family passing as white moves to an all-white suburb, and a teenage boy’s search for the truth exposes the town’s racist secrets.

Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
McClelland & Stewart

Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

Niigaan Sinclair

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation. Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impact…

The Inheritance of Loss
Grove Press

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

A novel that moves between the Indian hills and New York to trace colonial history and immigrant loneliness. Multiple viewpoints overlap as loss and humiliation build quietly over time.

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
And Other Stories

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi

A collection of twelve Kannada short stories that follows women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. It traces the frictions of family life, faith, caste, and patriarchy through dry humor and a vivid spoken style.

The Gasteropod
Valancourt Books

The Gasteropod

Maggie Ross

Maggie Ross’s debut novel follows the obsession of a shell-collecting man and the twisted relations within his family as a psychological novel that slowly tightens inside a sealed mansion.

The Ministry of Time: A Novel
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

The Ministry of Time: A Novel

Kaliane Bradley

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL • WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, VOX, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE INDEPENDENT, PARADE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND MORE… “This summer’s hottest debut.” —Cosmopolitan • “Witty, sexy escapist fiction [that] packs a substantial punch...Fresh and thrilling.” —Los Angeles Times • “Electric...I loved every second.” —Emily Henry “Utterly winning...Imagine if The Time Traveler’s Wife had an affair with A Gentleman in Moscow...Readers, I envy you: There’s a smart, witty novel in your future.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley. In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on.