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• 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…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…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…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…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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bullet Swallower

  a Novel

  Gonzalez James, Elizabeth, 1982-

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  In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

  Stories

  Reyes, Ruben, Jr.,

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  Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange dreamlike worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable. Boundaries between the past, present, and future are blurred. Menacing technology and unchecked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like Happiness

  Villarreal-Moura, Ursula,

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  It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place, living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera where she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. She loves this new life, but more than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Friends Are Necessary

  Moniz, Tomas,

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  In this "tender and open-hearted novel," (Nina LaCour, author of Yerba Buena ) Tomas Moniz--a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards--delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.

• Say Hello to My Little Friend

  a Novel

  Crucet, Jennine Capó,

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  From Publishers Weekly: Crucet (How to Make Your Home Among Strangers) brilliantly brings readers inside the mind of a nonhuman intelligence in this tour de force, which alternates perspectives between Lolita, a captive killer whale housed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seventh Veil of Salome

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  In 1950s Hollywood every actress wants to be Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film's mercurial director casts an unknown Mexican…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Familia

  a Novel

  Rico, Lauren E.,

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  As the fact checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco believes in absolute, verifiable truths--until they throw the facts of her own life into question. The genealogy test she took as research for an article has yielded a baffling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell It to Me Singing

  a Novel

  Ramírez, Tita,

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  A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender and twisty debut novel.

• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  a Novel

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  From Publishers Weekly: Gonzalez (Olga Dies Dreaming) takes inspiration from the mysterious 1985 death of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta for this astute account of an art history student who researches the circumstances of a similar…Read moreRead more of this annotation