history and biography; historical material
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
provisional; temporary; tentative
the Great Hanshin Earthquake (January 17, 1995)
(large) parrot (incl. the cockatoo)
to feel depressed; to be down
period of poor employment opportunities; job drought; (lit.) employment ice age
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above
the extraordinary; the unusual; the unexpected
to come from; to have roots in
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
pleasant feeling; pleasant sensation; pleasure
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind
breaking down; defeating; abolishing
shallow river; shallows; flatboat; river boat
river; stream; River; the ... river
second part (of three); second volume; middle part; novelette; novella; short novel
punctuation; pause; juncture; end; (place to) stop
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
(full-length) novel; long novel
to spread; to be propagated
cover; covering; cover song; cover version; coverage; to compensate for (a loss)
number of copies; circulation
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
reader numbers; number of subscribers (e.g. to a magazine); readership
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
how long; how far; how much
collection of short stories; collected short stories
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
new ground (science, art, etc.); new front; new scope; frontier