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• Anita De Monte Laughs Last

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  A 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.

• Twice a Quinceañera

  Méndez, Yamile Saied,

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  One month short of her wedding day—and her thirtieth birthday—Nadia Palacio finds herself standing up to her infuriating, cheating fiancé. But that same courage doesn’t translate to breaking the news to her Argentinian family. Nervous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Malas

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer),

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  When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one…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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crying in the Bathroom

  a Memoir

  Sánchez, Erika L.,

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  Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Woman of Endurance

  a Novel

  Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma,

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  This novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history--the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade--witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.

• Countries of Origin

  Fuentes, Javier,

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  Chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain.

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

  Jimenez, Claire,

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  A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island discovers their long missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.

• 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.

• Ramón and Julieta

  Quintana Albertson, Alana,

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  When fate and tacos bring Ramon and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them.

• Catalina

  a Novel

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  Harvard student Catalina Ituralde, who escaped death in Latin America, confronts her mysterious past and uncertain future as she approaches graduation, all while navigating the complexities of love and freedom.

• Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home

  Stories

  Castillo, Ana,

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  A celebrated poet, novelist, essayist and playwright presents a collection of short stories that explore the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact including a student who joins Cesar Chavez’s La Causa.

• The Wind Knows My Name

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel,

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  Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children-- five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train…Read moreRead more of this annotation