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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Country Under Heaven.
Themes labels used: trauma, PTSD, Civil War aftermath, survivor guilt, healing, peace, compassion, redemption, belonging, homecoming, grief, memory, faith, guilt, mortality, goodness, moral clarity, nation rebuilding, violence and aftermath, human and nonhuman kinship, nature and wonder, old West transformation, loss and recovery, spiritual reflection
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A post-war cargo-ship crew is pulled into a rescue mission when two traumatized former lovers reunite after years apart.
Why this is here
Themes labels: war trauma · PTSD · identity · humanity · recovery · survival · loyalty · betrayal · redemption · grief · forgiveness · trust · sanity · bodies as changed · government abandonment · social reintegration
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0975
Laura Kinney hunts a kidnapped ally and confronts a revenge group tied to her violent past and Wolverine legacy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trauma recovery · violence aftermath · revenge · forgiveness · responsibility · compassion · identity · chosen family · legacy · grief · redemption · empathy · anti-violence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1020
An injured Earth chef and a guilt-bound alien commander find healing, danger, and true-mate love in a shared universe.
Why this is here
Themes labels: forgiveness · redemption · guilt · healing · grief · trauma recovery · survival · love after loss · honor · acceptance · cultural difference · food as care · restoration · responsibility · good versus evil
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1039
A battered squadron and an Imperial remnant race toward Jakku as war, loyalty, and guilt force hard choices.
Why this is here
Themes labels: war trauma · guilt · complicity · forgiveness · redemption · reconciliation · accountability · morality · loyalty · duty · honor · justice · retribution · identity · home · hope · loss · mourning · PTSD · postwar recovery · humanizing enemies
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1085
A leopard shifter and the human girl he lost reunite to stop missing-child crimes and confront old trauma.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trauma recovery · healing · trust · loyalty · protectiveness · survival · identity · control · abuse aftermath · child endangerment · power and vulnerability · forgiveness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1093
An ex-medic on a lawless moon rescues a child general and flees across the wastes while old guilt and strange forces close in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: redemption · atonement · guilt · trauma · war aftermath · survival · trust · loyalty · fate · choice · free will · morality · hope · compassion · violence · justice · oppression · identity · memory
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1096
A Jedi-led search for a legendary living world collides with war, diplomacy, and an Imperial crisis across the galaxy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: war aftermath · loyalty · survival · redemption · grief · identity · political realignment · belief and faith · cooperation · trauma
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1100
A homeless veteran in 1980s Seattle uses subtle magic and hard-won truth to face his past and a threat to the city.
Why this is here
Themes labels: PTSD · trauma · war aftermath · homelessness · mental illness · memory · identity · self-acceptance · healing · survival · free will · reality and perception · meaning-making · social marginalization · love · violence · compassion · war veterans · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1102
A traumatized Vietnam veteran is reunited with a silent robot soldier from the war, drawing danger to his quiet new life.
Why this is here
Themes labels: PTSD · war trauma · grief · memory · identity · humanity · pacifism · loyalty · survivor guilt · homecoming · healing · anti-war
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1107
A damaged Arrow is assigned to protect an empath as a psychic disease threatens their world and the old order collapses.
Why this is here
Themes labels: redemption · guilt · loyalty · hope · healing · love and emotion · identity · resistance · survival · collective responsibility · trauma recovery · free will · self-worth · community care
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1109
After a family tragedy leaves a teen girl alone in an ash-covered world, she must survive grief and rediscover hope.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · survivor guilt · healing · hope · love · identity · resilience · survival · nature as healing · rebirth · letting go · trauma
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1111
A young dog handler on an alien-overrun colony survives a salvage disaster, then faces a life-changing rescue.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · belonging · trauma · adaptation · communal effort · war aftermath · identity · homecoming · purpose · resilience · loss · trust
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1113
