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• Rosa by Any Other Name

  Alcaraz, Hailey,

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  In this Romeo and Juliet-inspired retelling set during the civil rights era, a Mexican American girl is driven to join a movement for justice after her white classmate and best friend from the barrio are tragically murdered.

• Salt Bones

  a Novel

  Givhan, Jennifer,

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  From Publishers Weekly: "Givhan mesmerizes with this masterful retelling of the story of Persephone and Demeter, set on the California-Mexico border."

• Archive of Unknown Universes

  a Novel

  Reyes, Ruben, Jr.,

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  Cambridge, 2018. Ana and Luis’s relationship is on the rocks, despite their many similarities, including their mothers who both fled El Salvador during the war. In her search for answers, and against her best judgement, Ana uses The Defractor, an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Javi Dumped Mari

  a Novel

  Sosa, Mia,

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  On the eve of their college graduation, best friends Javier Baez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn't approve of. Now, ten years later, Javi has a problem. Mari, the woman he's secretly pined for since sophomore year, is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Malinalli

  a Novel

  Chapa, Veronica,

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  The woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Doña Marina, and Malinalxochitl was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. When indigenous leaders observed her marching…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Cathedral

  Gala, Marcial, 1963-

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  After the Stuart family moves to Cienfuegos, Cuba, Arturo Stuart—a charismatic, visionary preacher—discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apartment

  a Novel

  Menéndez, Ana, 1970-

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  In the Helena, an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for 70 years, new resident Lana, a mysterious woman struggling with her own past, will be either healed or overwhelmed by its residents.

• The Possession of Alba Díaz

  Cañas, Isabel,

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  1765. Plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting: Alba suffers strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bewitching

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  Minerva is a graduate student researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure horror author. Tremblay's most famous novel was inspired by a true story: decades earlier, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is studying and became…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beasts of Carnaval

  Rodrigo, Rosália,

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  Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enter, but few ever leave—the wine is simply too sweet, the music too fine and the revelry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loca

  a Novel

  Heredia, Alejandro, 1994-

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  In 1999 in New York, when book-loving science nerd Sal finds love at a gay club one night, life for him and his best friend, young mother Charo, unexpectedly opens to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to consider what they owe to themselves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Las madres

  una novela

  Santiago, Esmeralda,

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  From Publishers Weekly: Santiago (Conquistadora) delivers an immersive intergenerational saga set in New York City, Maine, and Puerto Rico. Lesbian couple Ada and Shirley and their friend Luz are the "las madres" of the title; Luz's daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  a Novel

  Palma, Raul,

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  Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Things We Didn't Know

  Pérez, Elba Iris,

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  Elba Iris Pérez's lyrical, cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl's childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.

• House of Bone and Rain

  a Barrio Noir

  Iglesias, Gabino,

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  In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a group of young men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican slum.

• Malas

  a Novel

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer),

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  A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family.

• My Favorite Scar

  Ferraro, Nicolás, 1986-

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  Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Volcano Daughters

  a Novel

  Balibrera, Gina Maria,

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  A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catalina

  a Novel

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one...

• Tiny Threads

  a Novel

  Rivera, Lilliam,

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  Fashion-obsessed Samara finally has the life she's always dreamed of- A high-powered job with legendary designer Antonio Mota. A new home in sunny California, far away from those drab Jersey winters. And an intriguing love interest, Brandon, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation