Velorio
By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's un…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
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4.55
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2. Vurt (Vurt, #1)
By: Lauren Beukes , Jeff Noon
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Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly innovative and highly entertaining novel from a literary pioneer. Take a trip in a… read more
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"Murdoch's gun was the only thing in my life, the only thing worth living for. It gets like that sometimes, with instruments of death."-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)
"The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game."-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)
"...I pulled the feather out, jerking him away from the dream. Just like he used to do with me, when I went in alone. The play was shifting, and I knew how bad it felt, to have your dream dragged from…"-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)
"He got one finger cut off when he was young... The cafe paid for a replacement, put some nano-plastic in there. The kid got hooked. It happens. You get some plastic in you, you just want some more...…"-Lauren Beukes, Vurt (Vurt, #1)
3. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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4. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
5. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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6. I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human
By: Alexis Devine
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir … read more
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7. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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8. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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9. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
10. My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
By: Jennine Capó Crucet
4.16
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In this sharp and candid collection of essays, first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explor… read more
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11. The Taste of Sugar
By: Marisel Vera
3.89
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in … read more
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12. Touch
By: Olaf Olafsson
3.99
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A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man's search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades… read more
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"He used to say that breakfast resembles the first line of a haiku, it shows the way. Lunch is the second line and carries the momentum. The third line, then, is dinner, as it brings everything to a c…"-Olaf Olafsson, Touch
13. Ordinary Girls
By: Jaquira Díaz
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more
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"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
14. The Waves Take You Home
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3.96
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In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges… read more
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15. Catalina
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3.65
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A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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16. Colored Television
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3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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17. Velorio
By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
3.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"When we returned to memoria, the clouds were still thick overhead, pregnant with rain but unwilling to release"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
"It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use"."-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio
18. The Truth According to Ember
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Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much mor… read more
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19. Sacrificial Animals
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3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
20. This Cursed House
By: Del Sandeen
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a … read more
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21. There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
By: Ruben Reyes Jr.
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, an… read more
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