Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (Gender and American Culture)
By: Katherine M. Marino
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the…
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. Before Night Falls
By: Reinaldo Arenas , Dolores M. Koch
4.20
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Cuba will be free. I already am."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
"If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
"La gran Humanidad no tolera la belleza, quizá porque no puede vivir sin ella; el horror de la fealdad avanza cada día a pasos acelerados."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
"Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
3. Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
By: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Planet Taco asks the question, "what is authentic Mexican food?" The burritos and taco shells that … read more
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- history
4. Los de abajo
By: Mariano Azuela
3.59
Format: None pages,
Durante la Revolucion Mexicana, Mariano Azuela fue medico de la faccion la que comandaba Francisco … read more
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5. Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
By: Michelle Chase
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Paperback
A handful of celebrated photographs show armed, fatigues-clad female Cuban insurgents alongside the… read more
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6. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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7. A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)
By: Sue Grafton
3.40
Format: None pages,
A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agen… read more
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8. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
By: Greg Grandin
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is … read more
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9. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
By: Julia Alvarez
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more
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10. My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
By: Isabel Allende
4.13
Format: None pages,
Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The "large old house" on the C… read more
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11. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
By: None
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret … read more
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12. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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13. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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14. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
15. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
17. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
18. 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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19. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
By: Rivka Galchen
3.40
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmos… read more
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"That's what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry."-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"I also felt that I had failed Hans in failing to save his child. Poor Susanna, in that house with me, but really alone. She mended every garment in the home, even those of the children. LittleHammer …"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"Scudding is calming work, as it requires all of my attention to not let the knife slip. When I do it, I feel the steady purpose a cat must feel when bathing itself with its coarse tongue. Some of my …"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
"I was certain she would recover. She had so much strength in her, and spirit. I started making some pickles; I was thinking that many months ahead. The cucumbers were so green and compelling, and I c…"-Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
20. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
21. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah McNamara
4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men fro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
By: Megan Asaka
4.31
Format: 272 pages, ebook
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattl… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
23. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
By: Monica Muñoz Martinez
4.48
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
By: Ana Raquel Minian
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migrati… read more
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25. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (Gender and American Culture)
By: Katherine M. Marino
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (American Crossroads) (Volume 29)
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
3.89
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a smal… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
By: Ryan Hall
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people cont… read more
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- history
28. From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 (The Mexican Experience)
By: Susie S. Porter
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century… read more
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29. Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)
By: Elliott Young
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the America… read more
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- politics
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30. Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
By: Tom Coffman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States over… read more
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31. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
By: Jeremi Suri
3.58
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In a brilliantly-conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international p… read more
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