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• Family Lore

  a Novel

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  "FAMILY LORE traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, the Dominican Republic and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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

• The Faraway World

  Stories

  Engel, Patricia,

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  A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.

• Ana María and the Fox

  De la Rosa, Liana,

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  Seeking refuge in London from the French occupation of Mexico, a Mexican heiress enjoys her first taste of freedom away from her domineering father and the scorching looks she begins receiving from a member of Parliament, Gideon Fox.

• The Enchanted Hacienda

  Cervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.),

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  Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she’s chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Queen

  Gómez-Jurado, Juan,

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  After a personal trauma, Antonia Scott, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary, refuses to continue her work until she is drawn into a macabre, ritualistic murder investigation by a desperate police…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breakup From Hell

  Cardinal, Ann Dávila,

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  When she realizes there is something off about her new boyfriend, Mica Angeles finds herself living in a horror novel and must find a way to leave him without bringing an end to everything she knows and loves.

• Wings in the Wild

  Engle, Margarita,

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  When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sun and the Void

  Romero Lacruz, Gabriela,

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  When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death -- until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the…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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silver Nitrate

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristan start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Borderless

  De Leon, Jennifer, 1979-

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  Forced to flee their home due to escalating gang violence, 17-year-old Maya, with her dreams of attending Guatemala City’s most prestigious art school shattered, and her Mama make their way through Guatemala and Mexico in the hope of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Night, Irene

  Urrea, Luis Alberto,

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  After D-Day, two heroic Red Cross women, Irene Woodward and Dorothy Dunford join the Allied soldiers streaming into France where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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.

• Brighter Than the Sun

  Aleman, Daniel,

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  After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family.

• When Trying to Return Home

  Stories

  McCauley, Jennifer Maritza,

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  A short story collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond-and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own…Read moreRead more of this annotation