Daughters of the Stone
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.15
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
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Want to Read $ 8.00"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. You've got one kind but each of us has her own. Listen and you will hear them all around you. [...] You're not alone in your pain, never have been. We're all part of each other's pain and can be a part of each other's healing too."-Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone
"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. You've got one kind but each of us has her own. Listen and you will hear them all around you. [...] You're not alone in your pain, never have been. We're all part of each other's pain and can be a part of each other's healing too."-Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone
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1. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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- africa
- literature
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- historical fiction
- womens
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
2. Across a Hundred Mountains
By: Reyna Grande
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Hardcover
"Across a Hundred Mountains" is a stunning and poignant story of migration, loss, and discovery as … read more
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- novels
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3. Monkey Hunting
By: Cristina García
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina Garcia follows one extraordinary family th… read more
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- magical realism
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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. 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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6. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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7. The Tattooed Soldier
By: Héctor Tobar
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hector Tobar's debut novel is a tragic tale of destiny and conseque… read more
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8. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
9. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- african american
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
10. 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
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- historical fiction
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11. 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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- historical
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12. Fruit of the Drunken Tree
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a mesmerizing debut set against the backd… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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"What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?"-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"Multiply me when necessary, make me disappear when peremptory. Transform me into light when there is shadow, into a star when in the desert."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
13. My Broken Language
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga… read more
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"God is the opiate of the masses."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"She was made of exclamation points."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Writing's a muscle... it gets stronger."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Maybe midnight was the hour of answers."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
14. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
15. 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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16. Ponciá Vicêncio
By: Conceição Evaristo
4.41
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portuguese by Paloma Martinez-Cruz. The story o… read more
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17. 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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18. Daughters of the Stone
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.15
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
- novels
- african american
"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
19. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
3.49
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more
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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
20. Chola Salvation
By: Estella Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the title story of this collection, Isabela is minding her family's restaurant, drinking her dad… read more
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21. 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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"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
