National Hispanic Heritage Month - Fiction | Princeton Public Library

Collected Stories

by García Márquez, Gabriel

Book - 1984

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Chronicle of A Death Foretold

by García Márquez, Gabriel

Book - 1983

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Díaz, Junot

Book - 2007

All copies in use View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

This Is How You Lose Her

by Díaz, Junot

Book - 2012

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Malinche

by Esquivel, Laura

Book - 2006

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Like Water for Chocolate

Como Agua Para Chocolate

by Esquivel, Laura

Book - 1992

All copies in use View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

The House on Mango Street

by Cisneros, Sandra

Book - 2009

All copies in use View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Ficciones

by Borges, Jorge Luis

Book - 1962

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Chilean Poet

A Novel

by Zambra, Alejandro

Book - 2022

After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still i...Show more After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among other things, Carla now has a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family—a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

A Novel

by Caña, Natalie

Book - 2022

A Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller are forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers in this debut rom-com. (Publishers Weekly) A Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller are forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers in this debut rom-com. (Publishers Weekly) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

The Girls in Queens

A Novel

by Kandic Torres, Christine

Book - 2022

This debut novel told in alternating time lines explores the loyalty of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, N.Y., in the 1990s, through sexual abuse...Show more This debut novel told in alternating time lines explores the loyalty of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, N.Y., in the 1990s, through sexual abuse allegations within communities of color and the possibility that monsters can hide in plain sight. (Publishers Weekly) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Infinite Country

A Novel

by Engel, Patricia

Book - 2021

Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogotá. Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogotá. Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

How Not to Drown in A Glass of Water

by Cruz, Angie

Book - 2022

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Reces...Show more Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight... (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Woman of Light

by Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

Book - 2022

This epic of betrayal, love, and fate spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West. (Publishers Weekly) This epic of betrayal, love, and fate spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West. (Publishers Weekly) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

The Twilight Zone

A Novel

by Fernández, Nona

Book - 2021

It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a re...Show more It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

A Novel

by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

Book - 2022

When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around h...Show more When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await. (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Our Last Days in Barcelona

by Cleeton, Chanel

Book - 2022

In 1964 Palm Beach, Cuban exile Isabel Perez is determined to find her sister Beatriz, who has vanished without a trace. Isabel forms an alliance with a m...Show more In 1964 Palm Beach, Cuban exile Isabel Perez is determined to find her sister Beatriz, who has vanished without a trace. Isabel forms an alliance with a man named Diego, who says he is Beatriz's friend. With no other choice but to trust him, Isabel travels with Diego to Spain, trying to retrace her sister's footsteps. What they find is that Beatriz is involved with the CIA and its web of spies in a risky plot to overthrow Fidel Castro. Stranger still, Isabel discovers that a chapter of her mother Alicia's own story that started in 1936, is closely linked to Beatriz's disappearance. In a magnificent tale of resilience and courage, Cleeton weaves a mother's past with her daughters' present, both forged in times of war and revolution... (Library Journal) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Trust

by Díaz, Hernán

Book - 2022

An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth an...Show more An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites gossip and allows a continued ascent -- all at a moment when the country is undergoing a great transformation...(Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Of Women and Salt

by Garcia, Gabriela

Book - 2021

In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from...Show more In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt...(Publisher description) Show less

All copies in use View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Neruda on the Park

A Novel

by Natera, Cleyvis

Book - 2022

An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification... (Publisher description) An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification... (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

What's Mine and Yours

A Novel

by Coster, Naima

Book - 2021

When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a n...Show more When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that shape the trajectory of their lives... (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

The Hacienda

by Cañas, Isabel

Book - 2022

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... (Publisher description) Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Part of your World

by Jimenez, Abby

Book - 2022

People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeon...Show more People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeons. Only, Alexis is tired of living up to her family's dreams for her. Now she's about to take her bravest step yet: start living her life for herself. Daniel Grant is a twenty-eight-year-old small-town carpenter with a heart of gold and a legacy of his own. He may not have gone to college, but he's always known just what he wants for his future. What he never counted on was meeting the woman who would make him question all he'd ever believed he needed. One fateful night their worlds collide, and soon the two are spending all the time they can together. Their families, their friends, and their lifestyles are worlds apart... yet something about being together just clicks. But when word of their new relationship gets out, they are not at all prepared for what happens next...(Publisher description) Show less

All copies in use View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Violeta

A Novel

by Allende, Isabel

Book - 2022

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraord...Show more Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy...(Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf

Songs for the Flames

Stories

by Vásquez, Juan Gabriel

Book - 2021

A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men ...Show more A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. (Publisher description) Show less

Available now View Details

Place hold

Add to My For Later Shelf On my shelf