How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (New Oeste)
By: Daniel A. Olivas
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture bu…
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1. Aya (Aya #1)
By: Clément Oubrerie , Helge Dascher , Marguerite Abouet , Tom Devlin , None
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endu… read more
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2. Booked
By: Kwame Alexander
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award Long List New York Times Bestseller Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/le… read more
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3. An Unkindness of Ghosts
By: Rivers Solomon
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The HSS Matildais a generation ship organized much like the antebellum South. Embroiled in a grudg… read more
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4. Salt Magic
By: Hope Larson
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When a jealous witch curses her family's well, it's up to Vonceil to set things right in an epic jo… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"...some wounds aren't easy to see."-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
"I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world."-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
"Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water."-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
"No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man …"-Hope Larson, Salt Magic
5. Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
By: Zoraida Córdova
3.83
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen fantasy and science fiction short stories from leading voices in the Latin American diasp… read more
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- magical realism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
"I was the thing the monster from my dreams had warned about, the thing that crept on its clawed feet in the darkest night."-Zoraida Córdova, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
"This continued for many weeks. Sometimes, la sirena would join Suma in her singing, and together, their voices would bring dreams of the sea to the people of the plantation. It was in these moments t…"-Zoraida Córdova, Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
6. Woman of Light
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
7. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- short stories
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
8. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.57
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"We all have a animal double, Englishman."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
9. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
By: Margarita Longoria
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
10. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
11. Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more
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12. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
13. Warrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
4.34
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Some friendships can endure anything."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
14. Witches
By: Brenda Lozano
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today This is the sto… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
15. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more
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- fiction
16. Fireheart Tiger
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.40
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
17. Strange Beasts of China
By: Yan Ge
3.80
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful nov… read more
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- short stories
- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"All we have are stories."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"Never cry, or your tears will water your sorrow and it'll grow."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"We were city people, after all, and didn't ask too many questions."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"People should leave when their story is over,' he said. 'Don't you know that?"-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
18. 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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- fiction
19. La bastarda
By: Trifonia Melibea Obono
3.55
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
La protagonista, Okomo, una adolescente de etnia fang, atrapada en un sistema de valores que no le … read more
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- fiction
20. The Wood at Midwinter
By: Susanna Clarke
3.73
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
21. How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (New Oeste)
By: Daniel A. Olivas
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture bu… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
