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Oye
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won’t want to hang up on…
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Las Madres
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and…
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When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the …
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The Witches of El Paso
A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richly imagined and empowering story of motherhood, magic, and legacy in the vein of The Inheritance of Or…
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Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita—you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that p…
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Everything Is Not Enough (In Every Mirror She’s Black #2)
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NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature.
A Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick.
Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Literature & Fiction.
As seen in The Sunday Times, Washington Post, Shondaland, Vani… -
Soledad
Award-winning author Angie Cruz takes readers on a journey as one young woman must confront not only her own past of growing up in Washington Heights, but also her mother's.
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Too Soon for Adiós
From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional journey when she meets her biological father on the day of her mother’s funeral.
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High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
A collection of pieces in which Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel "Pigs in Heaven", explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. The topics include Kentucky, housewo…
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers w…
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The Hummingbird's Daughter
The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.
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The Dreamer
Neftali finds beauty and wonder everywhere: in the oily colors of mud puddles; a lost glove, sailing on the wind; the music of birds and language. He loves to collect treasures, daydream, and write--p…
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Sabrina & Corina
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American …
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Dominicana
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion 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 C…
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Caramelo
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little G…
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Ordinary Girls
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez
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Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut…