The Taste of Sugar
By: Marisel Vera
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in …
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1. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
By: Nelson A. Denis
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. 'Til the Well Runs Dry
By: Lauren Francis-Sharma
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"As universally touching as it is original." -The New York Times Black Caucus of the American Libra… read more
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4. 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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5. A Wedding in Haiti
By: Julia Alvarez
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review… read more
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6. 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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7. Conquistadora
By: Esmeralda Santiago
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was… read more
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8. The House on the Lagoon
By: Rosario Ferré
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The House on the Lagoonis the story of Isabel Monfort and her husband Quintin Mendizabal--the histo… read more
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9. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
"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
10. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
11. The Island of Forgetting
By: Jasmine Sealy
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the pas… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. Pleasantview
By: Celeste Mohammed
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
13. Familia
By: Lauren E. Rico
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
15. The Things We Didn’t Know
By: Elba Iris Pérez
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
16. The Secrets of Catspraddle Village
By: Callie Browning
4.06
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
A grisly murder without a suspect. A bizarre love triangle. A philosopher moonlighting as a garbage… read more
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- fiction
17. The Taste of Sugar
By: Marisel Vera
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- the united states of america
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- book club
- audiobook
18. Puerto Rico: A National History
By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
4.27
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-sp… read more
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19. A Woman Of Endurance
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
By: Naomi Klein
4.23
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more
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- audiobook
21. Making Sense
By: Sam Harris
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more
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- audiobook
"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"-Sam Harris, Making Sense
22. When We Make It
By: Elisabet Velasquez
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
23. Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more
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- audiobook
"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
24. Sweetness in the Skin
By: Ishi Robinson
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmai… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Daughters of the Stone
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.15
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The 10th Anniversary Trade Paperback edition of Daughters of the Stone, includes a special note fro… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"We all have stories. Sometimes the pain lies so heavily inside us that it can only be whispered. Sometimes it can't be spoken out loud at all. So you think you're different? There are many silences. …"-Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone
26. These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
27. Village Weavers
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two fami… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
28. Dominoes
By: Phoebe Mcintosh
3.76
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
29. Tell It to Me Singing
By: Tita Ramírez
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
30. Velorio
By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's un… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"When we returned to memoria, the clouds were still thick overhead, pregnant with rain but unwilling to release"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
By: Ian Cobain
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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- war
