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Normal People
Faber & Faber

Normal People

Sally Rooney

A coming-of-age novel set in Dublin and college life, centered on a relationship that keeps turning between connection and distance. Class, loneliness, and the instability of intimacy accumulate in quiet tension.

Something to Answer For
Faber & Faber

Something to Answer For

P. H. Newby

P. H. Newby's Booker Prize-winning novel is set in Port Said during the Suez Crisis, where a man tries to make sense of uncertain memories and conflicting testimony. As he follows a suspected murder case, the end of empire and the question of personal responsibility slowly come into focus.

Improvement
Counterpoint

Improvement

Joan Silber

Reyna, a young mother, and the people around her are drawn into a chain of choices that unexpectedly connect across time and place. The novel is built as a linked series of stories that gradually widens into a larger human tapestry.

Potion Problems (2) (Just Add Magic)
Aladdin

Potion Problems (2) (Just Add Magic)

Cindy Callaghan

This middle-grade fantasy mystery follows Kelly and her friends as a magical recipe book goes missing, their school cooking program is threatened, and a beloved local store needs saving. Friendship and quick thinking drive the story.

Archipel
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Archipel

Inger-Maria Mahlke

Set on Tenerife, this novel moves backward through the twentieth-century memories of several families and the island society around them. An old gatekeeper's past, civil war, class, and colonial traces converge, inscribing private family history and political history onto a single island landscape.

Notes to Self: Essays
Tramp Press

Notes to Self: Essays

Emilie Pine

A collection of personal essays about family, addiction, the body, miscarriage, infertility, and pains that are often kept silent. By examining private experience with candor, it questions expectations placed on women to be strong and quiet.

The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel
Quercus Publishing

The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel

Per Olov Enquist

A memoir that traces the road from youth to a literary life through fragments of memory. Illness, family, politics, and a stubborn devotion to writing accumulate into the portrait of a single life.

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KADOKAWA

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ペニー・ワーナー, 番 由美子, ヒョーゴノスケ

A children's mystery in which four friends follow clues to a treasure hidden in the caves during a scout outing. It combines the excitement of adventure with the easy rhythm of a close-knit group.