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• Guatemalan Rhapsody

  Stories

  Lemus, Jared, 1991-

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  A collection of stories where characters each face pivotal choices that test their loyalties including orphaned brothers posing as highway robbers, a tattoo artist competing for love and a self-styled Don Juan caught in a film crew’s upheaval.

• 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

• Malinalli

  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 Sons of El Rey

  a Novel

  Espinoza, Alex, 1971-

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  A timeless, epic novel about a family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles and beyond.

• Vampires of El Norte

  Cañas, Isabel,

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  When the US attacks Mexico in 1846, Nena, a healer striving to prove her worth, and Néstor, a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros, find their reunion overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.

• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  A mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women, Anita de Monte…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salt Bones

  a Novel

  Givhan, Jennifer,

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  Malamar Veracruz raised two children, worked hard, and tried to forget the unexplained disappearance of her sister, Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare. Joined by her two daughters, they work…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Las madres

  a novel

  Santiago, Esmeralda,

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  Returning to Puerto Rico to help her mother learn more about her early life, Marysol, along with her mother's friends "las Madres" and their daughter Graciela, finds the trip disrupted by two hurricanes and a secret that blows their lives wide open,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chicano Frankenstein

  Olivas, Daniel A.,

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  An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Light

  Oshiro, Mark,

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  Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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 Volcano Daughters

  a Novel

  Balibrera, Gina Maria,

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  Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Until August

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014,

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  The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude — a moving tale of female desire and abandon.

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  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

• The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes

  Cleeton, Chanel,

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  A mysterious book with a legacy spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day unites three women and their secrets.