I Was Never the First Lady
By: Wendy Guerra
3.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the …
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1. Vi
By: Kim Thúy
3.73
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Mon prénom, Bào Vi, illustrait l'intention de mes parents de «protéger la plus petite». Si l'on t… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
2. También esto pasará
By: Milena Busquets
3.11
Format: None pages,
Cuando era nina, para ayudarla a superar la muerte de su padre, a Blanca su madre le conto un cuent… read more
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- fiction
3. Los enamoramientos
By: Javier Marías
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
<> Asi comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marias, consagrado como uno de los me… read more
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- fiction
4. Here in Berlin
By: Cristina García
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Here in Berlinis portrait of a city through snapshots, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of c… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
5. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more
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- literature
- fiction
6. La luz difícil
By: Tomás González
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Jacobo ha decidido morir. Un accidente de transito lo ha dejado paraplejico y con dolores tan fuert… read more
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- literature
- fiction
7. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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- literature
8. Platero y yo
By: Juan Ramón Jiménez , Antonio Frasconi
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Juan Ramon Jimenez escribe Platero y yo al volver a su pueblo natal, Moguer, despues de haber pasad… read more
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9. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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10. Herejes
By: Leonardo Padura
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The S.S. Saint Louis spent several days anchored at Havana in 1939 while waiting for the Cuban auth… read more
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11. Telex from Cuba
By: Rachel Kushner
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
RACHEL KUSHNER HAS WRITTEN AN ASTONISHINGLY wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American… read more
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12. El cuerpo en que nací
By: Guadalupe Nettel
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Inspirada en la infancia de la autora, El cuerpo en que naci es la historia de una nina con un defe… read more
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13. Honey Girl
By: Morgan Rogers
3.67
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a gir… read more
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- fiction
"Who else can understand loneliness if not someone who sits in solitude all their own?"-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
"Maybe Plato knew something we didn't. Or maybe the gods did, when they split us in half and left us to reclaim our missing fragments."-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
"The sea isn't inherently supernatural, or even scary. But it holds many unknowns. Sometimes unknowns are the scariest things of all, aren't they?"-Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
14. Bitter Orange Tree
By: Jokha Alharthi
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaiting new novel by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Bitter Orange T… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
16. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
By: Haruki Murakami
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessen… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Vielleicht ist das einer der Problempunkte an der Ewigkeit. Dass man nun mal nicht weiß, wohin man sich fortan wenden soll. Aber was ist eine Liebe wert, die nicht nach Ewigkeit strebt?"-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
"Später war er so freundlich, mir in einem Satz zu erklären, warum er im Alltag immer einen Rock trug. "Vor allem fühle ich mich, wenn ich einen Rock trage, wie die Zeilen eines schönen Gedichts."-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
17. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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- fiction
"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
18. La mesa herida
By: Laura Martínez-Belli
4.25
Format: 455 pages, ebook
. México, 1935 . Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atravie… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
3.98
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
20. Les Yeux de Mona
By: Thomas Schlesser
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Cinquante-deux semaines : c’est le temps qu’il reste à Mona pour découvrir toute la beauté du monde… read more
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- fiction
21. El reino de lo no lineal
By: Elisa Díaz Castelo
4.37
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
El reino de lo no lineal de Elisa Díaz Castelo, ganadora del Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascal… read more
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22. Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
By: Pietro La Greca Jr.
4.00
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
A true multigenerational story of how one family had and lost it all along the US-Mexican border. … read more
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23. Gordo
By: Jaime Cortez
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp … read more
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- historical fiction
24. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- fiction
25. The Fallen
By: Carlos Manuel Álvarez
3.65
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut nove… read more
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- fiction
"El tiempo y la rutina todo lo destruye."-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen
"El insomnio es puro síntoma de querer controlar la vida."-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen
"La base de la felicidad radica en dormir las horas necesarias en el horario elegido."-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen
"Para qué le sirve el juicio al hombre si no puede hacer nada con él salvo mirar lo que no hizo en el momento en que no tenía juicio y martirizarse con lo que hubiera podido hacer de haberlo tenido."-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen
26. The Night Travelers
By: Armando Lucas Correa
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban… read more
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- historical fiction
27. Canciones para el incendio
By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
4.03
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Una fotógrafa comprende algo que hubiera preferido no comprender. Un veterano de la guerra de Corea… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Éste es el único consuelo que tenemos nosotros, los hijos de este país incendiado, condenados como estamos a recordar y averiguar y lamentar, y luego a componer canciones para el incendio."-Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Canciones para el incendio
"Él había andado por la vida así, a punta de frases breves y enigmáticas, dejando caer boronas de información donde los demás pudieran ver una sugerencia y llenar el resto del cuadro con su propia ima…"-Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Canciones para el incendio
28. The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #1-2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.83
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece i… read more
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- literature
- fiction
29. The Heartbreak Bakery
By: A.R. Capetta
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post… read more
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- fiction
"They hand me one lemon, then another, and all I can think when their fingertips leave is that we're mixing ourselves together. That's what happens when skin presses skin. We think of ourselves as sol…"-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery
"But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. H…"-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery
30. Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
By: Laekan Zea Kemp
3.94
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780316460279.A story of first love, familial expect… read more
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- fiction
"On Thursdays, they come here for the best palomas in town, thanks to my substitution of Jamaican tangelos and blood limes for the traditional grapefruit. And on Fridays, they come for half-price pork…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
"I would appreciate it if you'd turn it down." He tries to wrestle out of Pen's grasp. "It's a free country." "I'm actually aware of that," Pen says. "Which means you are free to choose self-preservat…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
"I list what I had for breakfast. I whisper the ingredients for my signature coconut cake. I take a deep breath, the scents of a thousand shifts at the restaurant tucked into the fabric of the front s…"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
"We've reached that point in the night when we're slinging more drinks than tacos, and the Frankenstein monsters on our menu- which I'd created specifically for the inebriated- are flooding the line. …"-Laekan Zea Kemp, Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
31. I Was Never the First Lady
By: Wendy Guerra
3.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the … read more
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