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• Like Happiness

  Villarreal-Moura, Ursula,

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  Explores the complexities of gender, power, race and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

• There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

  Stories

  Reyes, Ruben, Jr.,

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  A debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

• Tell It to Me Singing

  a Novel

  Ramírez, Tita,

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  Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Things We Didn't Know

  Pérez, Elba Iris,

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  Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How We Named the Stars

  a Novel

  Ordorica, Andrés N. (Andrés Nicolás),

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  Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andrés N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead; a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are--and who you could be--if only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Friends Are Necessary

  a Novel

  Moniz, Tomas,

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  Chino Flores, a queer Latino in his late thirties, was a beloved middle school biology teacher with an adoring wife and a child on the way until a devastating loss dramatically changed his life and he relies on his coterie of new and old friends and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House of Bone and Rain

  a Barrio Noir

  Iglesias, Gabino,

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  Christopher Golden brings his unique brand of horror and fantasy fiction to adults, teens, and older kids. Often set near Boston or in Southern California, his novels are plot-driven vehicles for fast-paced, action-packed stories about vampires,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  a Novel

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.

• Malas

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer),

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  When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Isabel and the Rogue

  De la Rosa, Liana,

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  When a daring Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her.

• Catalina

  a Novel

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  Harvard student Catalina Ituralde, who escaped death in Latin America, confronts her mysterious past and uncertain future as she approaches graduation, all while navigating the complexities of love and freedom.

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia

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  When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dominicana

  Cruz, Angie,

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  Draws on the author's mother's story in a tale set in a turbulent 1960s Dominican Republic, where a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family's immigration to America.

• Oye

  a Novel

  Mogollon, Melissa,

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  The baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center stage, facing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Beyond Borders

  Growing Up Mexican in America

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  An anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, and comics about the Mexican American experience.

• Temple of Swoon

  Segura, Jo,

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  Her mission: find the Lost City of the Moon in the Amazon rainforest. His mission: protect the holy temple...and his heart.

• Woman of Light

  a Novel

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  In 1930s Denver, Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, begins having visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory where she must save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lightning in Her Hands

  Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel,

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  Teal Flores is desperate for two things-control over her gift of weather, and a date to her ex's wedding. The first isn't possible until she finds her long-lost mother, but the second has a handsome last-ditch solution: Carter Velasquez. Carter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cowboy Graves

  Three Novellas

  Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003,

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  Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a master of contemporary fiction. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolano's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation