Cactus Blood
By: Lucha Corpi
3.43
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
She's Gloria Damasco, the Chicana detective tempered during the civil rights movement. And she's i…
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1. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
2. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
3. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
4. Les Disparus du Clairdelune
By: Christelle Dabos
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Officiellement introduite a la cour comme Vice-conteuse, Ophelie decouvre les mondanites d'un unive… read more
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5. Swing Time
By: Zadie Smith
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abou… read more
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6. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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7. House Made of Dawn
By: N. Scott Momaday
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more
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8. The Moths and Other Stories
By: Helena María Viramontes
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles … read more
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- school
9. Power
By: Linda Hogan
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-a… read more
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10. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
11. What You See in the Dark
By: Manuel Muñoz
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explor… read more
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12. Under the Feet of Jesus
By: Helena María Viramontes
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grape… read more
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13. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
By: None , Tomás Rivera
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vi… read more
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- school
"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
14. 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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15. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
16. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
17. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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18. A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
By: Christelle Dabos
4.02
Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition
Long ago, following a cataclysm called “The Rupture,” the world was shattered into many floating ce… read more
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"I think I’m starting to get used to you"-Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
"On nie miał prawa się w niej zakochiwać."-Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
"Basta uno sguardo per amarsi. Del resto, non si ama mai così bene come quando ci si conosce male."-Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
"Es heißt oft, alte Behausungen hätten eine Seele. Auf der Arche Anima, wo Dinge ein Eigenleben führen, neigen die alten Häuser vor allem dazu, furchtbar schrullig zu werden."-Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
19. Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.27
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for… read more
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"Home and I are such good friends."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
"Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
"Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
20. Peerless
By: Jiehae Park
4.01
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-six… read more
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21. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
22. The Hacienda
By: Isabel Cañas
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more
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"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
23. Mexican Gothic
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a m… read more
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"Wood and glass and a roof do not constitute a world."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
"So I’ll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
"So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
"She wondered if he kept a pair of calipers to measure his guests' skulls."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
24. Cactus Blood
By: Lucha Corpi
3.43
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
She's Gloria Damasco, the Chicana detective tempered during the civil rights movement. And she's i… read more
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