Monkey Hunting
By: Cristina García
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina Garcia follows one extraordinary family th…
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1. The Professor's House
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more
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- novels
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"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
2. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
3. Unburnable
By: Marie-Elena John
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting narrative of family, betrayal, vengeance, and murder, Lillian Baptiste is willed b… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- historical
5. Cane
By: Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner
3.83
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evo… read more
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- fiction
"Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them."-Jean Toomer, Cane
"I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free…"-Jean Toomer, Cane
6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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- novels
- magical realism
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
7. Across a Hundred Mountains
By: Reyna Grande
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Hardcover
"Across a Hundred Mountains" is a stunning and poignant story of migration, loss, and discovery as … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Book of Salt
By: Monique Truong
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Binh, a Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as a galley hand at s… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
By: Richard Blanco
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, wh… read more
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10. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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11. This Is How You Lose Her
By: Junot Díaz
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital la… read more
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- fiction
12. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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13. Monkey Hunting
By: Cristina García
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina Garcia follows one extraordinary family th… read more
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- magical realism
- novels
- historical
- spanish literature
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- historical fiction
- china
14. When I Was Puerto Rican
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tender… read more
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15. The Distant Marvels
By: Chantel Acevedo
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money--she was a favorite in the cigar factory where sh… read more
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16. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
By: Julia Alvarez
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more
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17. The Veldt
By: Ray Bradbury , Gary Kelley
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants. read more
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18. The Dew Breaker
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--… read more
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19. At the Full and Change of the Moon
By: Dionne Brand
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an… read more
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20. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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21. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
By: None , Tomás Rivera
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vi… read more
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- spanish literature
- novels
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"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
22. Bodega Dreams
By: Ernesto Quiñonez
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
"A new and authentic voice of the urban Latino experience." --Esmeralda Santiago, author of When I … read more
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23. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
By: Dinaw Mengestu
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa thro… read more
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24. The Tattooed Soldier
By: Héctor Tobar
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hector Tobar's debut novel is a tragic tale of destiny and conseque… read more
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25. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
26. The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3)
By: Nagabe
4.34
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Homecoming Shiva's aunt has come to the Outside to bring her home, with several soldiers in tow.… read more
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- fiction
"I suppose it's not so easy to change fate."-Nagabe, The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 3 (The Girl from the Other Side, #3)
27. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
28. The Islands: Stories
By: Dionne Irving
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
29. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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30. The Other Americans
By: Laila Lalami
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful n… read more
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- fiction
"Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sen…"-Laila Lalami, The Other Americans
31. Daughters of the Stone
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.15
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The 10th Anniversary Trade Paperback edition of Daughters of the Stone, includes a special note fro… read more
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- historical
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"We all have stories. Sometimes the pain lies so heavily inside us that it can only be whispered. Sometimes it can't be spoken out loud at all. So you think you're different? There are many silences. …"-Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone
