Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
By: Alfredo Corchado
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of th…
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1. Faces in the Crowd
By: Valeria Luiselli , Christina MacSweeney
3.59
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. I… read more
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"The boy wakes me up: do you know where mosquitoes come from, Mama?"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"That’s the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It’s all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity."-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que están convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla está convencida de que bajo la corteza…"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"Dejar una vida. Dinamitar todo. No, no todo: dinamitar el metro cuadrado que uno ocupaba entre la gente. Más bien: dejar sillas vacías en las mesas que se compartían con las amistades, no a modo de m…"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
2. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
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3. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Erika L. Sánchez
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' hou… read more
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4. Caramelo
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brot… read more
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- politics
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6. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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- historical
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8. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more
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9. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
10. Papeles falsos
By: Valeria Luiselli
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Papeles falsos, primer libro de Valeria Luiselli, esta compuesto por una serie de ensayos narrativo… read more
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11. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
By: Sam Quinones
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more
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12. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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13. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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14. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By: Carol Anderson
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more
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15. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- biography
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- politics
- biography memoir
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
16. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- history
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
17. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- adult
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
18. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
19. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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20. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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21. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
22. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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- history
23. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more
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- social justice
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"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
24. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
By: María Hinojosa
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Maria’s perspective is powerful and vital. Years ago, when In the Heights was just starting off-Br… read more
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25. La cabeza de mi padre
By: Alma Delia Murillo
4.26
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Escribo para soltar el peso de cuarenta años rumiando el mito de mi padre, las infinitas versiones … read more
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"Las abuelas son la literatura del mundo."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
"Todo lo que ocurre, ocurre para ser contado."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
"No hay peor ciego que el que está cegado por su pasión."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
"...la comodidad es una enfermedad degenerativa y mortal."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
26. Illegally Yours: A Memoir
By: Rafael Agustin
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more
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27. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
By: Jon Meacham
4.50
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and inspiring portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, l… read more
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28. The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
By: David E. Sanger
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cy… read more
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29. 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
30. Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
By: Alfredo Corchado
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of th… read more
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31. The Witches of El Paso
By: Luis Jaramillo
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richl… read more
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