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Piecing Me Together
Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Piecing Me Together

Rene Watson

Piecing Me Together follows Jade, a Black girl attending a private school on scholarship, as she resists being seen only as someone in need of help and learns to claim her own voice. The novel connects race, class, friendship, mentorship, and art through Jade's practice of making collage.

We Are Okay
Dutton Books for Young Readers

We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

After leaving for college in New York, Marin cuts herself off from everything in her old life and remains alone in the dorm over winter break. When her friend Mabel comes to visit, Marin is forced to face her life with her grandfather, her loss, and the truths she could not say.

JR上野駅公園口 (河出文庫)
河出書房新社

JR上野駅公園口 (河出文庫)

柳美里

Kazu, a laborer born in Soma, Fukushima, comes to Tokyo before the Olympics, works around Ueno, and eventually lives on the margins of Ueno Park. Through the memories of his ghost wandering the station and the park, the novel quietly layers family loss, poverty, disaster, the imperial system, and the shadows cast by urban prosperity.

In the Language of My Captor
Wesleyan Univ Pr

In the Language of My Captor

Shane Mccrae

This poetry collection brings together voices shaped by slavery, spectacle, adoption, and linguistic control to ask what captivity and freedom mean. Persona poems and prose close to the author's own memory intersect, probing the contradictions of race and love in America.

High Cotton
Picador USA

High Cotton

Darryl Pinckney

A work of literature depicting the African American community, poignantly depicting issues of family, cultural conflict, and self-identification.

God's Will for Monsters (Hillary Gravendyk Prize)
Inlandia Institute

God's Will for Monsters (Hillary Gravendyk Prize)

Rachelle Cruz, Barbara Jane Reyes

This poetry collection layers Filipino American memory, myth, bodily feeling, and family narrative. Moving between monstrosity and prayer, migration and the female body, it creates a voice that is both tender and unsettling.

破壊された男 (ハヤカワ文庫SF)
早川書房

破壊された男 (ハヤカワ文庫SF)

アルフレッド・ベスター, 寺田克也, 伊藤典夫

A science-fiction novel set in a future society policed by telepaths, following industrialist Ben Reich’s murder plot. Psychological detection and social order are driven forward with sharp verbal play.

Wolf in the Snow
Feiwel & Friends

Wolf in the Snow

Matthew Cordell

A girl lost in a snowstorm meets a wolf cub that has also strayed from its pack. Told almost without words, the picture book follows the girl as she returns the cub to its family and is later helped herself, using expressive linework and a wintry landscape.

Dodgers: A Novel
Crown

Dodgers: A Novel

Bill Beverly

A crime novel with road-novel energy that follows a group of young men moving through a world of violence and crime.