In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days…
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1. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
By: Judith Ortiz Cofer
3.78
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A well-known author's memoir also includes a taste of her poetry. read more
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2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
4. Caramelo
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brot… read more
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- adult fiction
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Feast of the Goat
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman
4.33
Format: 475 pages, Paperback
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more
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- classics
- spanish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
6. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- school
- historical fiction
7. Bless Me, Ultima
By: Rudolfo Anaya
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with … read more
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- classics
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- historical fiction
8. When I Was Puerto Rican
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tender… read more
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9. The Farming of Bones
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Farming of Bonesbegins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates t… read more
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10. The House of the Spirits
By: Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin
4.28
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Alle… read more
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- historical
- spanish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found."-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"...no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor"-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. "-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
"[Der] ziellose Blick eines Menschen, der sich ausschließlich von Gemüse ernährt."-Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
11. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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- classics
- school
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
12. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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13. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
By: K. Ritz
4.33
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
"At what point does faith become insanity?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
14. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- classics
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
15. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
16. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- book club
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
17. Dreaming in Cuban
By: Cristina García
3.68
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban… read more
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- school
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
18. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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- adult
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19. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
20. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
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- book club
21. Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
By: Fadumo Korn
3.89
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes… read more
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