Exiles of Eden
By: Ladan Osman
4.11
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exp…
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1. Once Were Warriors
By: Alan Duff
3.98
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred y… read more
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"Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything."-Alan Duff, Once Were Warriors
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. Unbowed
By: Wangari Maathai
4.06
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, t… read more
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"You don't need a diploma to plant a tree."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"What people see as fearlessness is really persistence."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded..."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
4. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
By: Robin Coste Lewis
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more
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- poetry
5. Spirits Abroad
By: Zen Cho
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more
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6. Seven New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook boxed set
By: Warsan Shire , Clifton Gachagua , Chris Abani , Kwame Dawes , T.J. Dema , Tsitsi Jaji , None , Ladan Osman , Len Verwey
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
This eight-piece boxed set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of seven … read more
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7. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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8. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
9. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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10. 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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11. Os Transparentes
By: Ondjaki
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Mitten im Zentrum der angolanischen Hauptstadt Luanda steht das Maianga-Gebaude, ein heruntergekomm… read more
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12. The Earth in the Attic
By: Louise Glück , Fady Joudah
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Fady Joudah's The Earth in the Atticis the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competit… read more
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13. In the Shadow of the Banyan
By: Vaddey Ratner
3.81
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father r… read more
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14. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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15. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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16. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
17. The Murmur of Bees
By: Sofía Segovia
4.24
Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated int… read more
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"In life, only potential was free."-Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
"One should not cling to old habits that no longer work in a changing world."-Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
"Había sido madre y... ¿cómo se les llama a las madres que pierden a un hijo? ¿Amputadas?, así se sentía."-Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
"It doesn’t matter whether time passes slowly or quickly. What you can be sure of is that, in the end, all you want is to have more."-Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
18. A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
By: Tahmima Anam
3.80
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion … read more
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"How very close it is to illness. The loose, restless limbs. The feverish cheeks. The burning salt of the heart. The prickle of sweat. Love. "-Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
"There was only one thing to do, she decided: make pickles. The mangoes on the tree were just about ready: grassy-green and tongue-smackingly sour. She asked the boys to pick them from the tree. When …"-Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
19. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more
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20. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
21. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
22. Days in the Caucasus
By: Banine
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Baku, 1905. Nascere in una famiglia scandalosamente ricca - il capostipite, Assadullah, nato contad… read more
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"Il est bon de croire ceux qui croient en vous."-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
"S'il fallait croire les malveillants, on ne donnerait jamais la main à personne sauf à soi-même."-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
"... comme la plupart des enfants, j'étais animiste et prêtais généreusement des âmes aux choses et aux plantes. Pour moi, des objets, inanimés pour d'autres, se peuplaient de sentiments et je courais…"-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
"Мне вновь придется вернуться назад, прошлое про-должает удивлять меня, воспитанную одновременно в восточных, немецких и русских традициях. Мечтательная, нелюдимая, с дурным характером – все это я. По…"-Banine, Days in the Caucasus
23. Theophanies
By: Sarah Ghazal Ali
4.46
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more
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24. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
By: Patty Krawec
4.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more
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"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
25. Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's City Heights
By: Alephonsion Deng; Judy A. Bernstein
4.45
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he … read more
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"Sharon passed around a handout: "Triangle of Self-Actualization" by Abraham Maslow. The levels of human motivation. It resembled the nutrition triangle put out by the FDA, with five horizontal levels…"-Alephonsion Deng; Judy A. Bernstein, Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's City Heights
26. A Theory of Birds
By: Zaina Alsous
4.43
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a p… read more
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27. Exiles of Eden
By: Ladan Osman
4.11
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exp… read more
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28. Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
By: Joanne V. Gabbin
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than… read more
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29. Tethered to Stars: Poems
By: Fady Joudah
3.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021 A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of o… read more
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30. Public Abstract
By: Jane Huffman
4.57
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize and selected by judge Dana Levin, Public Abstract… read more
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31. The Story of Laulii, Daughter of Samoa
By: Laulii Willis
4.75
Format: 246 pages, Nook
In the late 19th Century the Islands of Samoa was inhabited by American, French, German and English… read more
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