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by Pablo Neruda
Staff Pick
A master at expressing the sublime melding of romantic and physical love, Neruda knows the agony, ache, joy, comfort, and desire that characterize our most heightened emotions.... (read more)

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by Jimmy Baca
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by Arturo Perez Reverte
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Tres
by Roberto Bolano
Staff Pick
Roberto Bolaño liked to fancy himself a poet above all, yet his novels and short stories are what have garnered him the most posthumous renown. Tres, published originally in his native Spanish in 2000, is the second collection of Bolaño's... (read more)

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Owen y Mzee: La Verdadera Historia de Una Amistad Increible (Owen and Mzee)
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by Raymond. Trans. By Barbara Wright. Queneau
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Juegos Sagrados/ Sacred Games
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Cain (Cain)
by Jose Saramago
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Jonathan Strange and MR Norrel
by Susanna Clarke
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