Adult genre books (235)
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Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia by Evelyn Flores, Emelihter Kihleng EN
KiribatiDescription:
For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding—and distinctly Micronesian—voice. With over two thousand islands spread across almost three million square miles of the Pacific Ocean, Micronesia and its peoples have too often been rendered invisible and insignificant both in and out of academia. This long-awaited anthology of contemporary indigenous literature will reshape Micronesia’s historical and literary landscape. Presenting over seventy authors and one ... continue
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone : A Novel by Gabriella Burnham EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
"Takes place over the course of a year in Säao Paulo, Brazil, [where] which two women's lives intersect: Linda, an anxious and restless American ... and [her] skilled maid Marta, [who] has more claim to Linda's home than she can fathom. [This is a] debut novel by young Brazilian American author Gabriella Burnham ... about women whose romantic and subversive entanglements reflect on class and colorism, sexuality, and complex, divisive histories"--
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Jade Is a Twisted Green by Tanya Turton EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
Jade Is a Twisted Green follows the coming of age of Jade Brown, a young Black queer woman on the cusp of turning twenty-five. Her becoming story explores Jamaican Canadian identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss.
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Juno Loves Legs : A Novel by Karl Geary EN
IrelandDescription:
For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Little Life, Juno Loves Legs is the epic and heartbreaking story of a young friendship set in working-class Dublin in the 1980s Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an unbound life and together they begin to fight ... continue
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Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.
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La Azotea by Fernanda Trías ES
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Empezamos allí donde terminamos: ¿qué ha ocurrido en este apartamento en ruinas, separado del mundo exterior?
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La hora de la estrella by Clarice Lispector ES
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Ésta es «la historia de una inocencia herida, de una miseria anónima», una breve e intensa visión del absurdo que supone una existencia anodina, una rutina vacía tanto de pensamientos como de afectos, como la de la insignificante y escuálida joven del Noreste permanentemente anonadada, una muchacha que «no sabía que ella era lo que era» y que por ello «no se sentía infeliz». En las páginas de La hora de la estrella aparece con toda su fuerza el personalísimo estilo de Clarice Lispector: su peculiar forma de transformar las palabras en imágenes vigorosas y puras se une aquí a una compleja estru... continue
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Las estrellas son negras by Arnoldo Palacios ES
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Irra o Israel, el protagonista de este clásico recobrado, publicado por primera vez en la Colombia del año 49, después del Bogotazo, sueña con matar al intendente de una Quibdó que es la de los años cuarenta. Una ciudad cosmopolita y pequeña; una ciudad con casaquintas coloniales y miseria. Y un río: el río que ve Irra desde su casa en la orilla de la desembocadura del Quito, tal como lo nombra en la novela y que es el mismo Atrato. Esta es una novela ambiciosa desde su concepción: en día y medio un hombre da cuenta de un mundo desconocido hasta hoy por propios extraños. Una ciudad construida ... continue
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Leave the World Behind : A Novel by Rumaan Alam EN
Country: Asia / 
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
"A ... novel about two families--strangers to each other--who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
South Korea