Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f…
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1. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- race
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
2. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
3. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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- poetry
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4. From From: Poems
By: Monica Youn
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
7. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
8. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
9. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
10. Trace Evidence: Poems
By: Charif Shanahan
3.95
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- audiobook
11. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- race
- adult
- audiobook
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
12. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- poetry
- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- race
- memoir
- latino
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
15. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- poetry
- american
- race
- memoir
- coming of age
- latino
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
17. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
18. The People Who Report More Stress
By: Alejandro Varela
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more
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- adult
- contemporary
19. Corazón
By: Yesika Salgado
4.38
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger … read more
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- poetry
- latino
- adult
- contemporary
"and if he loves you, what is next?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"tonight I'll dance I'll be alive and ain't that worth the party?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I come from women who fend for themselves the blade is our friend and you? you are a weed I know how to slice you out of me"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
20. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty
4.10
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. To heal the … read more
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- nonfiction
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21. Chrome Valley: Poems
By: Mahogany L. Browne
4.16
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems
"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems
