Gods of Jade and Shadow By Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Del Rey Books 9780525620754 Check Our Catalog
The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. "A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before."--Bustle NAMED ONE OF THE …More |
We Set the Dark on Fire By Mejia, Tehlor Kay 2019-02 - Katherine Tegen Books 9780062691316 Check Our Catalog
"We Set the Dark on Fire burns bright. It will light the way for a new generation of rebels and lovers." --NPR "Mejia pens a compelling, gripping story that mirrors real world issues of immigration and equality." --Buzzfeed Five starred reviews In this daring and romantic fantasy debut perfect for fans of …More |
The Poet X By Acevedo, Elizabeth 2018-03 - Quill Tree Books 9780062662804 Check Our Catalog
Awards: Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words …More |
Cantoras By De Robertis, Carolina 2019-09 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525521693 Check Our Catalog
"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution--and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again--either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." --Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of …More |
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora By Cartaya, Pablo 2018-04 - Puffin Books 9781101997253 Check Our Catalog
Awards: A 2018 Pura Belpr Author Honor Book Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL? For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela's …More |
Dominicana By Cruz, Angie 2019-09 - Flatiron Books 9781250205933 Check Our Catalog
Awards: In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world. …More |
Ordinary Girls By Diaz, Jaquira 2019-10 - Algonquin Books 9781616209131 Check Our Catalog
One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping "There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." --Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira D az writes fiercely and …More |
Love in the Time of Cholera By Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Translator Grossman, Edith 2003-10 - Vintage Books USA 9781400034680 Check Our Catalog
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, …More |
A Long Petal of the Sea By Allende, Isabel Translator Caistor, Nick Translator Hopkinson, Amanda 2020-01 - Ballantine Books 9781984820150 Check Our Catalog
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home. "One of the most richly imagined portrayals of the Spanish Civil War to date, and one of the strongest and most affecting works in …More |
Little Eyes By Schweblin, Samanta 2020-05 - Riverhead Books 9780525541363 Check Our Catalog
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE "Her most unsettling work yet -- and her most realistic." --New York Times A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town …More |
The Grief Keeper By Villasante, Alexandra 2019-06 - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 9780525514022 Check Our Catalog
This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom. Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a life …More |
We Are Not from Here By Sanchez, Jenny Torres 2020-05 - Philomel Books 9781984812261 Check Our Catalog
A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events. Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Peque a has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, …More |
Letters from Cuba By Behar, Ruth 2020-08 - Nancy Paulsen Books 9780525516477 Check Our Catalog
Pura Belpr Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, …More |
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter By Sanchez, Erika L. 2019-03 - Ember 9781524700515 Check Our Catalog
National Book Award Finalist Instant New York Times Bestseller The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. |
Fruit of the Drunken Tree By Contreras, Ingrid Rojas 2018-07 - Doubleday Books 9780385542722 Check Our Catalog
"One of the most dazzling and devastating novels I've read in a long time...Readers of Fruit of the Drunken Tree will surely be transformed." --San Francisco Chronicle "Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author's voice -- she has something powerful to say." --Entertainment Weekly |
The Book of Unknown Americans By Henriquez, Cristina 2014-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385350846 Check Our Catalog
Awards: A triumph of storytelling. Henriquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you've turned the final page. Ben Fountain, author of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" A boy and a girl who fall in love. Two families …More |
Everything Inside: Stories By Danticat, Edwidge 2019-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525521273 Check Our Catalog
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATURE From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and …More |
Mexican Whiteboy By De La Pena, Matt 2008-08 - Delacorte Press 9780385903295 Check Our Catalog
Awards: DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it. But at his private school, they don't expect much else from him. Danny's brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego …More |
Sabrina and Corina: Stories By Fajardo-Anstine, Kali 2019-04 - One World 9780525511298 Check Our Catalog
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection--a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. "Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart."--Sandra Cisneros …More |
Undocumented Americans By Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla 2020-03 - One World 9780399592683 Check Our Catalog
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. "Karla's book sheds light on people's personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard."--Selena Gomez Writer Karla Cornejo …More |
Lost Children Archive By Luiselli, Valeria 2019-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525520610 Check Our Catalog
Awards: WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION WINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Best Book …More |
The Black Jersey By Zepeda Patterson, Jorge Translator Obejas, Achy 2019-06 - Random House 9781984801067 Check Our Catalog
A fast-paced mystery where Murder on the Orient Express meets the Tour de France--someone's killing off cyclists one by one. There are cyclists willing to die to win a single stage of the Tour, taking suicidal descents at more than 90 kilometers per hour, but now I know there are cyclists willing to kill to win. Marc Moreau, a professional cyclist with a military …More |
The Shape of the Ruins By Vasquez, Juan Gabriel 2018-09 - Riverhead Books 9780735211148 Check Our Catalog
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel V squez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal …More |
The House on Mango Street By Cisneros, Sandra 1991-04 - Vintage 9780679734772 Check Our Catalog
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered …More |
This Is How You Lose Her By Diaz, Junot 2012-09 - Riverhead Books 9781594487361 Check Our Catalog
Awards: A Pulitzer Prize winner turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love. Hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. …More |
Suncatcher By Pimienta, Jose 2020-05 - Random House Graphic 9780593124819 Check Our Catalog
Beatriz must create the perfect song in order to free her grandfather's soul . . . but what will be the cost? A fantastical YA graphic novel about creative passion and obsession, great for fans of The Prince and the Dressmaker and Level Up. If life wasn't already hard enough for Beatriz -- being a teenager, trying to start a band, and …More |