Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories
By: Rosario Ferré
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of …
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1. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
By: Judith Ortiz Cofer
3.78
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
A well-known author's memoir also includes a taste of her poetry. read more
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2. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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3. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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4. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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5. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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6. When I Was Puerto Rican
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tender… read more
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7. Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adul… read more
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8. The Kingdom of This World
By: Alejo Carpentier , Harriet de Onís
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurp… read more
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10. The Farming of Bones
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Farming of Bonesbegins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates t… read more
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11. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
12. Sharp Objects
By: Gillian Flynn
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment:… read more
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13. Geographies of Home
By: None
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a … read more
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14. Swimming in the Dark
By: Tomasz Jedrowski
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more
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"Little sparks cause fires too."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
15. The Overstory
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4.12
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
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"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
16. Dreaming in Cuban
By: Cristina García
3.68
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
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"In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
"Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
17. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
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18. The Color Purple
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4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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"I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
19. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
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4.02
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"I don’t even think about you,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
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20. Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories
By: Rosario Ferré
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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