Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (The New Oceania Literary Series)
By: Evelyn Flores
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of pl…
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. The Bone Houses
By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
4.00
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveya… read more
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"There were some pains so old they were almost a comfort."-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses
"Perhaps she could draw memories of him from these people like water from a well."-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses
"Atop the barn's roof, a lone chicken sat watching as figures began to emerge from the forest."-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses
"She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know ho…"-Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses
3. The Piano Tuner
By: Daniel Mason
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the Br… read more
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4. By Night the Mountain Burns
By: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel , Jethro Soutar
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
By Night The Mountain Burnsrecounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West Africa… read more
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5. The Collector
By: John Fowles
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obse… read more
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6. Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
By: J. Maarten Troost
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Joe Azat
By: Jesse Lonergan
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joe is an American in the strange land of Turkmenistan who finds a good friend in Azat, a Turkmen d… read more
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- nonfiction
8. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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9. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)
By: Donna Leon
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more
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10. Reading the Ceiling
By: None
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Ayodele has just turned eighteen and has decided, having now reached womanhood, that the time is ri… read more
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11. Where We Once Belonged
By: Sia Figiel
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, … read more
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12. Where The Hell Is Tuvalu?: How I became the law man of the world's fourth-smallest country
By: None
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
How does a young City lawyer end up as the People's Lawyer of the fourth-smallest country in the wo… read more
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13. The Night Tiger
By: Yangsze Choo
3.86
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more
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"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
14. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
15. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more
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16. Hula
By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more
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- indigenous
"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
17. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
4.50
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- indigenous
18. Poukahangatus: Poems
By: Tayi Tibble
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- indigenous
19. Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (The New Oceania Literary Series)
By: Evelyn Flores
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of pl… read more
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- poetry
- history
- anthologies
- indigenous
- short stories
- nonfiction
20. Vā: Stories by Women of the Moana
By: Lani Wendt Young
4.25
Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories that tell Covid how we really feel, where a Centipede God watches on with wry humour and wr… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
- indigenous
21. Kiribati
By: Alice Piciocchi
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
•A journey to the end of the world, documenting a vanishing culture threatened by climate change •… read more
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