Empire of Memory
By: Eric Gamalinda
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This is a land both fact and fiction, where generations leave no trace of themselves and everything…
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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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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. Ministry of Moral Panic
By: Amanda Lee Koe
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women hold… read more
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- asian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth."-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic
"But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time. The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you thi…"-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic
"The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, a…"-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic
3. Dogeaters
By: Jessica Hagedorn
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her best-selling novel about the Philippines during … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
4. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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5. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- fiction
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
6. How Do You Live?
By: Genzaburo Yoshino
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time. First pub… read more
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- asian literature
- fiction
"you can't become a great man without having great thoughts."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"We must not forget to make a habit of modesty and restraint in our lives."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?"-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
7. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
8. Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
By: Xiran Jay Zhao
4.06
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots t… read more
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- fiction
"So what am I supposed to do?" "Your worst, of course."-Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
"Besides, don’t you know basic geometry, Strategist Sima?"-Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
"But a mother who has failed me so thoroughly is no mother of mine."-Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
"You don't think girls are afraid?" "Girls... know how to sacrifice."-Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
9. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
10. The Farm
By: Joanne Ramos
3.49
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong."-Joanne Ramos, The Farm
"And suddenly she is exhausted. And sad. A sadness so vast she feels like she is drowning in it... Because nothing is going to change."-Joanne Ramos, The Farm
11. Bibliolepsy
By: Gina Apostol
3.22
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy i… read more
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- fiction
12. La Tercera
By: Gina Apostol
3.17
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Gina Apostol’s novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story o… read more
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- asian literature
- fiction
"But the fact is, like my mom, most Filipinos prefer to keep history in the dark or, in these days, sold to the highest bidder. Who can blame them. It's kind of painful to remember."-Gina Apostol, La Tercera
13. Empire of Memory
By: Eric Gamalinda
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This is a land both fact and fiction, where generations leave no trace of themselves and everything… read more
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- asian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
