Mona at Sea
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.65
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sharp, witty debut, Elizabeth Gonzalez James introduces us to Mona Mireles—observant to a f…
Want to Read $ 9.49"Art has to be witnessed to be finished."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
"Art has to be witnessed to be finished."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
"Art has to be witnessed to be finished."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
"Truly my story is the saddest of them all."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
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1. The Conquest of Bread
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more
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2. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
3. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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- audiobook
"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
4. All the Little Bird-Hearts
By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
3.80
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
5. Dolls of Our Lives
By: Mary Mahoney
3.53
Format: None pages, None
For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
6. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- mental health
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
7. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
8. The Lost Wife
By: Susanna Moore
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native Ameri… read more
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- adult fiction
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
9. Plain Jane and the Mermaid
By: Vera Brosgol
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more
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- fiction
10. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt
By: Anna Gazmarian
3.63
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more
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- audiobook
- mental health
11. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
12. Pizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman com… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I began to picture the world without me in it."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me."-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
"I wanted to be the type of person that walked with their back straight, the dirt under their fingernails pure. I didn't want to be a chain saw, I wanted to be a plastic baggie. No shredding, just hol…"-Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
13. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
By: Erika Lee
4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
14. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
15. Nice Girls
By: Catherine Dang
3.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mary used to be such a nice girl. She was the resident whiz kid of Liberty Lake, Minnesota—the quie… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"As a family, we knew best how to hurt each other."-Catherine Dang, Nice Girls
"None of us ever thought too much about our actions, our inaction-life was too fast, too complicated. We just kept moving forward. By the time we thought about it, it was too late. We kept moving forw…"-Catherine Dang, Nice Girls
"And maybe that was why some people prayed so ardently. They hoped that God would take care of the things they couldn't. They hoped that there was justice and righteousness out there. People prayed be…"-Catherine Dang, Nice Girls
"The world was less forgiving of its fat, ugly women. I knew that from firsthand experience. At best, people ignored you. At worst, they insulted you. Your existence was barely tolerated. By virtue of…"-Catherine Dang, Nice Girls
16. Self-Portrait with Nothing
By: Aimee Pokwatka
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
18. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
19. I Hope This Finds You Well
By: Natalie Sue
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well
20. The Astrology House
By: Carinn Jade
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A group of wealthy Manhattanites escapes to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentment… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The All-Night Sun
By: Diane Zinna
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A lonely young woman gets too close to her charismatic female student in this propulsive debut, cul… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"A word can be like a cellar door. Just a few steps and you're in a dark place."-Diane Zinna, The All-Night Sun
"Sometimes the rules only seem silly because you aren't able to see far enough ahead."-Diane Zinna, The All-Night Sun
". . . love was holding all the pieces at the same time. And it's always true, whether we remember that or not. Perhaps because of that, though there are things we might forget, nothing is ever really…"-Diane Zinna, The All-Night Sun
". . . my undercurrent was All is not lost. That was what I'd agreed to believe. That was my beating drum. And if my depression was a planet of crushing, continual rain, my faith was the forest that k…"-Diane Zinna, The All-Night Sun
22. Peaces
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"We both know nothing's all right, but when I tell you it will be, you take it. If you don't, it's because you're holding out for another outcome altogether."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"I'm sure almost no one deludes themselves that all their ancestors were decent. Pick a vein, any vein: mud mixed with lightning flows through, an unruly fusion of bad blood and good."-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
"You run the romantic gauntlet for decades without knowing who exactly it is you're giving and taking such a battering in order to reach. You run the gauntlet without knowing whether the person whose …"-Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces
23. Such a Good Mother
By: Helen Monks Takhar
3.31
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Some women would do anything for their children. This thrilling novel cuts straight to the dark hea… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
24. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- audiobook
25. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
26. The Witches of Bellinas
By: J. Nicole Jones
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her m… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
27. The Knockout Queen
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.70
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bu… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"At root, I seemed to be upset about the existence of physical power at all. That violence is nothing but another kind of touching."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"You can hit. Not anybody in this world can really and truly stop you if hitting is how you want to be. But if you do, you’re risking all that love you could have. Because nobody, nobody, nobody is go…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it’s so close to your face, reality, it’s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
28. Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
By: Carribean Fragoza
3.82
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Carribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, featuring an unusua… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
29. Valleyesque: Stories
By: Fernando A. Flores
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose reality? What rules? --Jean Chen H… read more
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- fiction
30. In Sensorium: Notes for My People
By: Tanaïs
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is p… read more
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31. Mona at Sea
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.65
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
In this sharp, witty debut, Elizabeth Gonzalez James introduces us to Mona Mireles—observant to a f… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"Art has to be witnessed to be finished."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
"Truly my story is the saddest of them all."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
"...your job is just what you do. It’s not who you are."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
"Dave Matthews is what would happen if beer pong became a person."-Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Mona at Sea
