13 Best fiction books like With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle

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With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

By: Margarita Engle

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary mo…

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1. Fury

By: Salman Rushdie

3.30

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Малик Соланка, миллионер из Бомбея, получивший образование в Кембридже, пытается убежать от самого … read more

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  • fiction
"What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

"Neela had dressed for beauty, not for warmth, and the afternoon had lost its glow. Solanka took off his coat and put it over her trembling shoulders. All around them in the park the colours were fadi…"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

"Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, b…"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

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2. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.95

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enc… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • fiction
"Our memories change as we do."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Most of us can only see the world we know."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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3. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

Similar categories in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • poetry
  • fiction
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4. Love Poems

By: Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more

Similar categories in Pablo Neruda's Love Poems book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • poetry
  • fiction
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5. The Boy in the Black Suit

By: Jason Reynolds

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can't handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets … read more

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  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
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6. Gut Symmetries

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not t… read more

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  • fiction

7. Blue Eyes, Black Hair

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

Emotionally charged, sparsely written, and vicariously compelling, Marguerite Duras's novel centers… read more

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8. Paper Hearts

By: Meg Wiviott

4.33

Format: 57 pages,

A novel in verse, Paper Hearts is the story of survival, defiance, and friendship. Based on histori… read more

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9. Paddington Abroad (Paddington Bear, #4)

By: Michael Bond , Peggy Fortnum

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Paddington gets himself into one scrape after another on a family trip to France, including acciden… read more

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10. Frida Kahlo: Una biografía

By: María Hesse

4.28

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

"Pies para que os quiero, si tengo alas para volar" Frida Kahlo fue algo mas que dolor y angustia. … read more

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11. The Dark Between Stars

By: Atticus Poetry

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The … read more

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  • poetry
"I love you most in that place between coffee and sleep."

-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

"She was powerful, not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear."

-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

"The plane shook and it scared her not because she was scared to fall but because she cared so little if she did."

-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

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12. Lies Like Poison

By: Chelsea Pitcher

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. So when they dis… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Pitcher's Lies Like Poison book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • fiction
  • young adult
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13. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 58 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phi… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • poetry
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14. Dîner à Montréal

By: Philippe Besson

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Ils se sont aimés, à l'âge des possibles, puis quittés, sans réelle explication. Dix-huit ans plus … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle

15. With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

By: Margarita Engle

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary mo… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • poetry
  • teen
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • biography memoir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
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16. Wild Is the Wind: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

3.94

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets “What has r… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong

17. My Summer of Love and Misfortune

By: Lindsay Wong

2.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the world of Beijing high society when she… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Wong's My Summer of Love and Misfortune book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1) by Deidre Huesmann

18. Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

By: Deidre Huesmann

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

~Editor's Pick~ With Jeff Young’s fantastic grades, he should be a great tutor. But he’s terri… read more

Similar categories in Deidre Huesmann's Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1) book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Looks like Quackula got the best of you,"

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Braeden, I’m in love with you. I’m sorry. - Jeff"

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Jeff gnawed on his tongue. “I’ve always been small for my age. Maya, too."

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Maya lifted a bony shoulder. “Besides, even if he had messed with the babies, you kind of overshadowed it by killing a pelican."

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

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19. Refluxul sensurilor

By: Ana Blandiana

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sa fii stanca in mare, Sa te izbeasca fara incetare Valurile fluxului si ale refluxului, S… read more

Similar categories in Ana Blandiana's Refluxul sensurilor book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • poetry
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20. The Lizard (The Lizard, #1)

By: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

3.51

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, Alistair Haston heads off to Greece, where she is on holiday. Mugg… read more

Similar categories in Dugald Bruce-Lockhart's The Lizard (The Lizard, #1) book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • fiction
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21. Daughters of Jubilation

By: Kara Lee Corthron

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Follow a black teen as she finds her place among a family of women gifted with magical abilities. … read more

Similar categories in Kara Lee Corthron's Daughters of Jubilation book and Margarita Engle's With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction

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