The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
By: Daniel José Older
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil…
Want to Read $ 2.99"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
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1. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
By: Kathleen Collins
3.84
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"The South must be a terrible place."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"Is it possible to imagine any greater amputation, any greater karmic debt, than reincarnation as a Negro?"-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
"I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ..."-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
2. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
By: Laila Lalami
3.97
Format: 250 pages,
Due donne e due uomini su un gommone tentano di raggiungere l'Europa attraversando il Mediterraneo.… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Blanche on the Lam
By: Barbara Neely
3.73
Format: None pages,
BLANCHE ON THE LAM Barbara Neely's Smart, Sassy and Groundbreaking Crime Novel Blanche White is a p… read more
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4. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- audiobook
5. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
6. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
7. All This Could Be Yours
By: Jami Attenberg
3.36
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
“If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
8. Fruit of the Drunken Tree
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a mesmerizing debut set against the backd… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?"-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"Multiply me when necessary, make me disappear when peremptory. Transform me into light when there is shadow, into a star when in the desert."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
9. A Woman Of Endurance
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
10. The Age of Phillis
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.45
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that cha… read more
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11. A Seed in the Sun
By: Aida Salazar
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A farm working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for mi… read more
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- historical
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. The Volcano Daughters
By: Gina María Balibrera
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
13. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
14. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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- fantasy
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- audiobook
15. Rejection: Fiction
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction
16. Awayland
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood w… read more
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- magical realism
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- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Too long in seawater can unmake any loveliness."-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland
"What are you doing?" the mother asked. "I guess I'm throwing roses," the girl said, unable to make sense of herself."-Ramona Ausubel, Awayland
17. The Everlasting
By: Katy Simpson Smith
3.34
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four diff… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript … read more
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- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"His father was a pirate."-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
"Every telling of an event is a portrait of the teller and not the event itself."-Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
19. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
By: Daniel José Older
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
20. Tea by the Sea
By: Donna Hemans
4.23
Format: 232 pages, Unknown Binding
"A seventeen-year-old taken from her mother at birth, an Episcopal priest with a daughter whose fac… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
By: Colum McCann
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In late 2021 Diane Foley sat at a table across from Alexanda Kotey. A member of the ISIS group know… read more
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"Listening is the quiet soul of storytelling"-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Even the worst of humans demand a portion of love."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"Turning your back will not change the direction of the knife."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
"He didn’t just want to be at the edge, he wanted to become the edge."-Colum McCann, American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
