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• The Five Wounds

  a Novel

  Quade, Kirstin Valdez,

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  "From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice." Also available in downloadable formats.

• Of Women and Salt

  Garcia, Gabriela, 1984-

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  "A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born." Also available in downloadable formats.

• Gordo

  Stories

  Cortez, Jaime,

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  "Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means." Also available in downloadable formats.

• Dominicana

  Cruz, Angie,

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  Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Lost Saints

  Older, Daniel José,

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  "Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her tenacious spirit visits her nephew, Ramón, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: that her presence will prompt him to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• La misma luna

  Under the same moon

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  Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

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  In the summer heat of a small Arizona border town, sparks fly for three generations of women. 17-year-old Blanca discovers romance for the first time with the new bad boy in town. Lolita, her mother, had hit a dry spell until the husband of one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Me

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  Inspired by a true story, this is the story of a vicious Latino prison gang leader, doomed by his past to a life of harsh, unforgiving violence after his release from jail. He grows up in East Los Angeles, joins a street gang and is in prison while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Desierto sonoro

  Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-

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  Un matrimonio en plena crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeños desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: él está tras los rastros de la última banda apache; ella busca…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• El vendedor de suenos

  Quiłnez, Ernesto

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  En esta intensa novela de búsqueda de identidad y redención, Julio, un joven inteligente y prometedor a quien llaman “Chino”, conoce al mítico Bodega, quien recurre a él para contactar a su amor de juventud.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Labyrinth Lost

  Córdova, Zoraida,

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  Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Stone

  Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma

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  A tale spanning five generations of a family of African-Puerto Rican women finds mute seamstress Fela working in colonial Puerto Rico and drawing on her tribal beliefs to enable the birth of a daughter who becomes a powerful curandera.

• The Barbarian Nurseries

  Tobar, Héctor, 1963-

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  After the husband and wife that she works for disappear, live-in maid Araceli takes their two boys on a journey through sprawling Los Angeles to locate their grandfather.

• In the Time of the Butterflies

  Alvarez, Julia

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  It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ladies of Managua

  Gage, Eleni N.,

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  When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past--and a secret of her own. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caramelo

  Or, Puro Cuento : a Novel

  Cisneros, Sandra

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  During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped (or caramelo) shawl has come…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Clowns

  Alarcón, Daniel, 1977-

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  A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcon's story City of Clowns. Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  Díaz, Junot, 1968-

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  Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who'from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister'dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen of America

  a Novel

  Urrea, Luis Alberto

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  The remarkable heroine of The hummingbird's daughter returns in this epic novel of love and loss in a restless America. Teresita's passage will take her across the nation as she comes to terms with her place in a new world. She must finally ask…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Unknown Americans

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.