Gorda desobediente
By: Leuryck Valentín
4.62
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Gorda desobediente es un libro valiente y revolucionario que desafía los estereotipos de belleza y …
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1. Háblame de amores
By: Pedro Lemebel
4.31
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Un diálogo, un encuentro fortuito, un compañero de viaje, un aeropuerto, un museo, un rincón de la … read more
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2. 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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3. The Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more
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"Pero, tú no eres fácil."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
4. Mundo Cruel: Stories
By: Suzanne Jill Levine , Luis Negrón
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Luis Negron's debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joine… read more
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6. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
7. The Magic Fish
By: Trung Le Nguyen
4.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more
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"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
8. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
By: Tori Dunlap
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K… read more
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"Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism."-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"…the culture [had]…a manipulative but disingenuous 'we're not coworkers, we're family' mind-set. (Always be wary of a company that says seemingly well-meaning shit as this. We share a cubicle, not a …"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"But when you confuse shames emotional alarm (I feel disconnected from money, what do I want to do about that?) with who you are (I’ll never get my shit together, I’m just bad with money), you’ve been…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"We live in a patriarchal world—a system that aids and abets inequality. In this system that has gatekept financial information and tools from marginalized groups, it is an act of protest to be financ…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
9. Inward
By: Yung Pueblo
4.22
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more
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"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"-Yung Pueblo, Inward
"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"-Yung Pueblo, Inward
10. Carcoma
By: Layla Martínez
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
11. Eartheater
By: Dolores Reyes
3.61
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young … read more
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"Solo el dolor parece no morir nunca."-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No solo el amor acelera el ritmo cardíaco, también la música"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
12. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
By: Mariko Tamaki
3.86
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more
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"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
13. Grass
By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
4.52
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more
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"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass
14. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
15. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
16. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
17. The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
3.97
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumou… read more
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"En un instante infinito la lluvia quedó suspendida en el aire, un millón de lágrimas de cristal flotando en el vacío, y vi al ángel besarla en la frente, sus labios marcando su piel como hierro cande…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
"Era entonces cuando la gran silueta oscura aparecía a la puerta de la casa, un gran ángel con rostro de mármol que me miraba y sonreía como un lobo, desplegando sus alas negras sobre Blanca y envolvi…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas par alas cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
18. Huaco retrato
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.89
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more
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19. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
20. The Soul of a Woman
By: Isabel Allende
4.03
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspir… read more
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"I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle."-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
"This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved."-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
"Since my daughter died I am perfectly aware of death's proximity; and now, in my seventies, death is my friend. It's not true that she looks like a skeleton armed with a scythe and trailed by a rotte…"-Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman
21. The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go
By: Lola Phoenix
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Embarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that ca… read more
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22. Levittown mon amour
By: Cezanne Cardona Morales
4.27
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Cuentos. read more
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23. Gorda desobediente
By: Leuryck Valentín
4.62
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Gorda desobediente es un libro valiente y revolucionario que desafía los estereotipos de belleza y … read more
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24. Antología de poesía queer: Una imaginación radical
By: Héctor Aceves
4.14
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Voces vibrantes en la celebración de la palabra y el deseo Lo queer supone una respuesta amplia a … read more
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25. Invitación al polvo
By: Manuel Ramos Otero
4.48
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Spanish read more
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26. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
27. while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
By: Raquel Salas Rivera
4.36
Format: None pages, None
while they sleep (under the bed is another country) refuses to sweep up the shards of Hurricane Mar… read more
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28. La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams
By: Marta Aponte Alsina
3.78
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
William Carlos Williams publicó un libro, poemas y numerosos comentarios sobre su madre, la puertor… read more
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29. Entre ser y no ser, somos un papelón.: La realidad de los dates en Puerto Rico (Spanish Edition)
By: Saraí Ayala Santiago
4.53
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Este libro es una conversación entre la autora y les lectores. Es una compilación de historias pape… read more
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30. La distancia es un lugar
By: Amanda Hernández
4.67
Format: None pages, None
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31. A orillas del vuelo (y otras líneas inconclusas): Micropoemas
By: Nory Malugin
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Intensos y magistrales: así son los micropoemas de Nory Malugin. A orillas del vuelo (y otras línea… read more
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