The Death of a Migrant Worker
By: Gil Arzola
4.31
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Gil Arzola’s father was a migrant worker raised in Bustamante, Mexico, who crossed like so many oth…
Want to Read"We were migrants and Mexicans and all that we carried in our pockets were dreams."-Gil Arzola, The Death of a Migrant Worker
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1. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
By: Mona Awad
3.07
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way… read more
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"The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction."-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"What does she even eat, do you think?" "Tea fungus,"Ruth says. "Unsweetened. From an eye dropper. Is what I picture. either that or some sort of sea vegetable." "Sad," I say. "It is," Ruth muses. We …"-Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
2. When We Were Orphans
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver oursel… read more
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"أعرف أنه احيانًا يكون صعبًا وكأن العالم كله قد انهار من حولك"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"I was upset. But I'm not any more. You have to look forward in life."-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"إن المجرم الحديث قد أصبح أكثر مهارة ، أكثر طموحا ، وأكثر جرأة ، والعلم قد وضع نظاما كاملا من الأدوات المعقدة تحت تصرفه"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
"It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things . When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things , can you?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
3. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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4. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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5. Time and Materials
By: Robert Hass
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The poems in Robert Hass's new collection--his first to appear in a decade--are grounded in the bea… read more
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6. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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7. Lucky Wreck
By: Ada Limon
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more
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8. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
9. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
By: Harrison Scott Key
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more
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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
10. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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11. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
12. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
13. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
14. The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky
By: CooXooEii Black
4.40
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner If history leaves an impression, then to be born in an Indigen… read more
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- poetry
15. The Fight Journal: Poems
By: John W. Evans
4.22
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The Fight Journal is a heartsick elegy for a failed marriage. Written in couplets that mirror the b… read more
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16. Little Monsters
By: Adrienne Brodeur
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more
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"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
17. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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18. Goldenrod: Poems
By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more
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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
19. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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20. Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings
By: Madeleine L'Engle
4.07
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time reflects on themes such as advent, epiphany, faith, and… read more
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"One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best praye…"-Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings
"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignifica…"-Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings
"Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot…"-Madeleine L'Engle, Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings
21. I Will Pass Even to Acheron
By: Amanda Newell
4.11
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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22. Imago, Dei
By: Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
4.34
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
How does a daughter emerge whole from an upbringing saturated with religious fundamentalism? And if… read more
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23. Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet
By: Michael J. Mark
4.73
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a … read more
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24. The Death of a Migrant Worker
By: Gil Arzola
4.31
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Gil Arzola’s father was a migrant worker raised in Bustamante, Mexico, who crossed like so many oth… read more
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"We were migrants and Mexicans and all that we carried in our pockets were dreams."-Gil Arzola, The Death of a Migrant Worker
25. Rattle #73, Fall 2021
By: The Rattle Foundation
4.25
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Indian Poets The Fall 2021 issue features a tribute to Indian Poets. The world’s largest democra… read more
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26. Rattle #70, Winter 2020
By: The Rattle Foundation
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rattle Poetry Prize The Winter 2020 issue of Rattle has arrived, and with it comes good news: De… read more
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27. A Plumber’s Guide to Light
By: Jesse Bertron
4.05
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
A Plumber’s Guide to Light is a love letter to the building trades and to the people who work them.… read more
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28. Rattle #71, Spring 2021
By: The Rattle Foundation
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tribute to Neurodiversity The Spring 2021 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Neurodiversity. … read more
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29. Rattle #72, Summer 2021
By: The Rattle Foundation
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Appalachian Poets The Summer 2021 issue features a tribute to Appalachian Poets. More than 25 mi… read more
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30. 2021 RYPA (Rattle Young Poets Anthology)
By: The Rattle Foundation
4.00
Format: 48 pages, Chapbook
Rattle Young Poets Anthology The annual RYPA returns for another year of delightful and insightful… read more
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31. Rattle #69, Fall 2020
By: The Rattle Foundation
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Service Workers The Fall 2020 issue features a timely tribute to service workers—those working i… read more
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