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  • Flame Trees in May

    by Karla Marrufo ...
    Translated by Allison A. deFreese ...
    Series series Mexican Literature
    In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss—from a perspective belonging singularly to a native of the Yucatán Peninsula. Mayo’s unnamed narrator is an older woman, isolated in her domestic life, who is both suffering from memory loss and intent on recounting the lives of three generations ... Read more

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  • When I Sing, Mountains Dance

    A Novel

    by Irene Solà ...
    A spellbinding novel that places one family’s tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to “reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.” He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Such Small Hands

    by Andrés Barba, Edmund White ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    One of the Guardian Best Books of 2017Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.”-Edmund WhiteLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loose Woman

    Poems

    by Sandra Cisneros ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. • From the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.“Not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review“All poets ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Enchanted Air

    Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir

    by Margarita Engle ...
    Illustrated by Edel Rodriguez ...
    In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Jim Harrison: Complete Poems

    by Jim Harrison ...
    Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet's work... [a] landmark collection."From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wild Book

    by Margarita Engle ...
    Fefa struggles with words.She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs.How will she ever understand them?But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. "Think of it as a garden," she says. Soon Fefa starts to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Costa Rica

    A Traveler's Literary Companion

    Edited by Barbara Ras ...
    Series Book 1 - Traveler's Literary Companions
    Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Songs of Unreason

    by Jim Harrison ...
    #1 Poetry Foundation BestsellerMichigan Notable BookA beautifully mysterious inquiry... Here Harrison-forthright, testy, funny, and profoundly discerning-a gruff romantic and a sage realist, tells tales about himself, from his dangerous obsession with Federico García Lorca to how he touched a bear’s head, reflects on his dance with the trickster age, and shares magnetizing visions of dogs, horses, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Forest World

    by Margarita Engle ...
    From Young People’s Poet Laureate and award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively middle grade novel in verse that tells the story of a Cuban-American boy who visits his family’s village in Cuba for the first time—and meets a sister he didn’t know he had.Edver isn’t happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows. Why would he want to visit a place that no one in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Soñando

    by Andres Aguilar ...
    The collection of poems is a dissection of memories and demonstrates a dualism of love and hate of one’s life. Each poem takes the roles of thoughts and insights into the mind, actual experiences and observations of the writer using poetic form. Throughout the author’s life, the search for internal peace is not an easy journey. The author tries too instill inspiration for others under certain ... Read more

    $3.54 USD

  • Lessons on Expulsion

    Poems

    by Erika L. Sánchez ...
    An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry*The first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning.Of course I put my underwear on backwards, of course the elastic didn't work.What I wanted most at that moment was a sandwich.But I just nursed on this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD