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• Family Lore

  a Novel

  Acevedo, Elizabeth

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  Family Lore is Elizabeth Acevedo‘s first adult fiction novel, known for her YA books including the novel-in-verse The Poet X and Clap When You Land. In this debut, we follow Flor Marte, the daughter of a Dominican American family who has the gift of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Negra

  A Memoir

  Alford, Natasha S.,

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• The House of the Spirits

  Allende, Isabel

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  Allende's first novel is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia

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• Trampling Out the Vintage

  Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers

  Bardacke, Frank

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  A deep look into the political rise of Cesar Chavez as well as the tumultuous years and ultimate demise of the United Farm Workers.

• ¡Hola Papi!

  How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

  Brammer, John Paul, 1991-

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  John Paul Brammer documents growing up mixed race and coming out in middle America. A heart-filled funny memoir in essays.

• Vampires of El Norte

  Cañas, Isabel

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  Vampires of El Norte combines elements of horror, romance, and historical fiction to create a chilling tale in an historical Mexican setting.

• Woman Without Shame

  Poems

  Cisneros, Sandra

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• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla

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  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio writes about her experience as an Undocumented American, but also about the unseen Undocumented Americans who struggle with their status and limited citizenship despite their contributions to the country.

• Dominicana

  Cruz, Angie

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• You Had Me at Hola

  a Novel

  Daria, Alexis

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  A steamy love story set against the filming of a bilingual Romantic Comedy. Funny side characters fill out this charming Rom-Com of a book.

• What Would Frida Do?

  a Guide to Living Boldly

  Davis, Arianna,

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• 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

• The Sons of El Rey

  a Novel

  Espinoza, Alex, 1971-

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• Woman of Light

  a Novel

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Latinx Photography in the United States

  a Visual History

  Ferrer, Elizabeth,

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• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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• Canto Contigo

  a Novel

  Garza Villa, Jonny

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• The Bullet Swallower

  a Novel

  Gonzalez James, Elizabeth, 1982-

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• Harvest of Empire

  a History of Latinos in America

  González, Juan, 1947-

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