Folktales of Bhutan
By: Kunzang Choden
3.60
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
The first attempt of a Bhutanese to record in English the oral traditions of their kingdom has resu…
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1. The Pearl Thief
By: Noor Al Noaimi
3.10
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a lovely little short story about Hassan, a poor Bahraini islander, who finds himself in de… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
2. Tram 83
By: Fiston Mwanza Mujila , Roland Glasser
3.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
In an African city in secession, which could be Kinshasa or Lubumbashi, land tourists of all langua… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
"Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids."-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
"He hiccupped and continued: "I write therefore I come...But unfortunately, my orgies are never eternal!..."-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
"Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars."-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
"Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, thos…"-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
3. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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- fiction
"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
4. Told by Starlight in Chad
By: Joseph Brahim Seid , Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- fiction
5. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
6. Aya (Aya #1)
By: Clément Oubrerie , Helge Dascher , Marguerite Abouet , Tom Devlin , None
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endu… read more
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7. The Bone Readers
By: Jacob Ross
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak... When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chi… read more
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8. Petit pays
By: Gaël Faye
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l… read more
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9. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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- fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
10. Dom Casmurro
By: Machado de Assis
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Ca… read more
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11. Where We Once Belonged
By: Sia Figiel
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, … read more
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12. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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- asia
"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
13. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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- fiction
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
14. The Railway
By: Robert Chandler , Hamid Ismailov
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this compelling novel introduces to us the inhabita… read more
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15. Broken April
By: Ismail Kadare
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the cod… read more
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- fiction
16. The Ultimate Tragedy
By: Jethro Soutar , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of… read more
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17. Broken Glass
By: Alain Mabanckou , Helen Stevenson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a cou… read more
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18. The Desert and the Drum
By: Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
3.88
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It w… read more
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- fiction
19. A Girl Called Eel
By: Ali Zamir
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
20. Catch the Rabbit
By: Lana Bastašić
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
"He reads books that are not for school as if he has nothing better to do with his time."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
"His hair was just like yours - black, uncombed, as if someone had left it behind on his head."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
"The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
"Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
21. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
4.50
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more
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- 21st century
22. Call and Response
By: Gothataone Moeng
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
23. Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)
By: Daniel José Older
3.75
Format: 359 pages, ebook
A YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other while fighting for their diaspora commun… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"One lie will bring the whole house of lies crashing down."-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)
"They hate me. I am 100 percent positive that everything Gerval just said is only giving voice to what they’ve all been thinking this whole time."-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)
24. Co-wives, Co-widows
By: Adrienne Yabouza
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows … read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
25. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.05
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
26. The Fisherman King
By: Kathrina Mohd Daud
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Eight years ago, Lisan the fisherman, who has … read more
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- asia
- fantasy
- fiction
27. Folktales of Bhutan
By: Kunzang Choden
3.60
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
The first attempt of a Bhutanese to record in English the oral traditions of their kingdom has resu… read more
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- asia
- 21st century
- short stories
- folklore
- fiction
- folk tales
- fantasy
28. Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin
By: Raouf Mama
3.71
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with ma… read more
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- fiction
- folklore
- short stories
29. The Madwoman of Serrano
By: Dina Salústio
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginalized… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
30. El enigma de Constantino el Grande
By: Albert Salvadó
3.56
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
El emperador Constantino el Grande es una de las figuras más impresionantes y controvertidas de la … read more
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31. Uncertain Kin
By: Janice Lynn Mather
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Frying Plantain and Scarborough, a luminous, mesmerizing collection of linked storie… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
