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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book....
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El hombre amansado / The Tamed Man
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Castellanos Moya vuelve al personaje de Moronga, su anterior novela, para retratar la paranoia y el desarraigo de un emigrado...
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The Inner Workings of an Untamed Mind
Danni Little
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Feelings of an Introverted Introvert
Danni Little
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Score! My First Hockey Game
Tanner Ryan
Take kids out to their very first hockey game in this adorable storybook for our youngest fans! The goalkeeper reaches...
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Mount Chicago
Adam Levin
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The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition
Author Sam Greenlee
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Jeffery Renard Allen
A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fat Time and Other Stories,...
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