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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness... -
![The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner]()
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes... -
![The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford]()
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoetry. Frank Stanford was called by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alan Dugan a brilliant poet, ample in his work, like Whitman. He was the founder of Lost Roads Publishers and the author of a number of important works, among them the epic THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU, reprinted by Lost Roads under the editorship of Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright... -
![Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore]()
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most important writers in 20th-century Indian literature. Among his expansive and impressive body of work, "Gitanjali" is regarded as one of his greatest achievements, and has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published in 1910... -
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![Αυτό το αστέρι είναι για όλους μας by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης]()
Αυτό το αστέρι είναι για όλους μας by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΤώρα θα πέφτει απότομα το βράδι.Θα βιάζονται οι άνθρωποι στους δρόμους. Οι γυναίκεςθα κλείνουν τρομαγμένες την πόρτα τους και θ’ αγκαλιάζουν τα παιδιά τους.Μα τα πεινασμένα πρόσωπα των παιδιών ρίχνουν στον τοίχο έναν ίσκιο μαύροσαν τον ίσκιο ενός ψωμιού... -
![Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh]()
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged" (Review)... -
![The Outsider by Richard Wright]()
The Outsider by Richard Wright
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes... -
![The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda]()
The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA best-selling volume of Pablo Neruda's poetry in an English-Spanish edition.Pablo Neruda is one of the world's most popular and famous poets, and in The Book of Questions, Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult... -
![Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos]()
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Bienvenido N. Santos first came to the United States in 1941, and since then, he has lived intermittently here and in the Philippines, writing in English about his experiences... -
![Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams by Elias Khoury]()
Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams by Elias Khoury
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrawing on the stories he gathered from refugee camps over the course of many years, Elias Khoury's epic novel Gate of the Sun has been called the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga.Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness... -
![The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera]()
The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoint winner of The Guardian Fiction Prize, this book is a collection of stories about growing up in Rhodesia... -
![Let Us March On by Shara Moon]()
Let Us March On by Shara Moon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDevoted wife, White House maid, reluctant activist… A stirring novel inspired by the life of an unsung heroine, and real-life crusader, Lizzie McDuffie, who as a maid in FDR’s White House spearheaded the Civil Rights movement of her time. I’m just a college-educated Southerner with a passion for books. My husband says I’m too bold, too sharp, too unrelenting...Categorized as:
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![The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai]()
The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Buddhist myth, the dead may be reborn as "hungry ghosts"—spirits with stomach so large they can never be full—if they have desired too much during their lives. It is the duty of the living relatives to free those doomed to this fate by doing kind deeds and creating good karma... -
![The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller]()
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey...Categorized as:
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![Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez]()
Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratings2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Joe GrifasiFrom one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer... -
![The Day the Flowers Died by Ami Blackwelder]()
The Day the Flowers Died by Ami Blackwelder
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn historical fiction set in Munich, Germany in the early 1930’s before the outbreak of War World II. Eli Levin and Rebecca Baum fall passionately in love and while their differences should have separated them, they instead forged a passionate bond that would change their lives forever...Categorized as:
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![Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz]()
Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe novel is set in 1960s Alexandria at the pension Miramar. The novel follows the interactions of the residents of the pension, its Greek mistress Mariana, and her servant, Zohra. As each character in turn fights for Zohra's affections or allegiance tensions and jealousies arise... -
![The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed]()
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Terrible Twos" is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification--Americans. Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too believable future where mankind's fate depends upon St. Nicholas and a Risto rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval Office... -
![Black Diamond by Zakes Mda]()
Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence... -
![The Tenants by Bernard Malamud]()
The Tenants by Bernard Malamud
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building... -
![Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThere is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780241339466.Martin Luther King, Jr. rarely had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations... -
![An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin]()
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life...Categorized as:
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![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso]()
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s... -
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![Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript...Categorized as:
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![The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . -
![India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar]()
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together... -
![Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Paul Kennedy]()
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Paul Kennedy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation... -
![1919 by Eve L. Ewing]()
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it... -
![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965...
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