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The Rock Eaters: Stories
Brenda Peynado - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart?These questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross... |
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Velvet Was the Night: A Novel
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life... |
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Eartheater: A Novel
Dolores Reyes - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover
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Dolores Reyes Eartheater is an "outstanding" (New York Times) synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.. NAMED A MUST-READ AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS BY TIME, VULTURE, BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, AND MORE. Set in an unnamed... |
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The Murmur of Bees
Sofia Segovia - Amazon Crossing
Format: Hardcover
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From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel - her first to be translated into English - about a mysterious child with the power to change a family's history in a country on the verge of revolution.From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under... |
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Space Invaders: A Novel
Nona Fernández - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s ChileSpace Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories... |
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Infinite Country: A Novel
Patricia Engel
Format: Hardcover
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At the dawn of the new millennium, Colombia is a country devastated by half a century of violence. Elena and Mauro are teenagers when they meet, their blooming love an antidote to the mounting uncertainty of life in Bogot. Once their first daughter is born, and facing grim economic prospects,... |
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The Inheritance of Orqudea Divina: A Novel
Zoraida Córdova
Format: Book
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The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites... |
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The Last Great Road Bum: A Novel
Héctor Tobar - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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In The Last Great Road Bum, Hctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road... |
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A Spy in the Struggle
Aya de Leon
Format: Paperback
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Success used to be this savvy lawyer's only rule. But now she's putting everything on the line to bring a killer corporation to justice.Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law.... |
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L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón
Format: Book
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L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little... |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of:The Pulitzer PrizeThe National Book Critics Circle AwardThe Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardThe Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel PrizeA Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the YearOne of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York... |
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Onion Skin
Edgar Camacho - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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Winner of Mexico's first ever National Young Graphic Novel Award!Rolando's job was crushing his soul... and then it crushed his hand. Now he can barely get out of the house, marathoning TV and struggling to find meaning. Nera is a restless spirit who loves to taste everything life... |
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The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez: A Novel
Rudy Ruiz - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between... |
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Cantoras: A novel
Carolina De Robertis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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Little Eyes: A Novel
Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms... |
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Vintage Books; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina 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... |
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Hades, Argentina: A Novel
Daniel Loedel - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1976, Toms Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime.... |
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Sabrina & Corina: Stories
Kali Fajardo-Anstine - One World
Format: Hardcover
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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. Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life... |
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It Is Wood It Is Stone
Gabriella Burnham - One World
Format: Hardcover
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Two women are drawn into a seductive web of power, displacement, sexuality, and other mysteries of the heart in this magnetic debut by a young Brazilian American author to watch. With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in Sao Paulo, Brazil,... |
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The Grief Keeper
Alexandra Villasante - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
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In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with... |
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The New American
Micheline Aharonian Marcom - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this timely and emotionally powerful novel, award-winning author Micheline A. Marcom recounts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan-American college student, a "dreamer," who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California. Emilio believes he is living the American... |
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Children of Chicago
Cynthia Pelayo - Agora Books
Format: Hardcover
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This horrifying retelling of the Pied Piper fairytale set in present-day Chicago is an edge of your seat, chills up the spine, thrill ride. When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned.... |
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We Are Not from Here
Jenny Torres Sanchez - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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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.Pequea 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... |
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Next Year in Havana
Chanel Cleeton - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's... |
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Fiebre Tropical: A Novel
Juliana Delgado Lopera - Amethyst Editions
Format: Paperback
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"Inventive and heady mixture of Spanish and English." - The White Review Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogot, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother... |
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer: A Novel
Jamie Figueroa - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing... |
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The Remainder
Alia Trabucco Zeran - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's... |
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The Black Ghost
Monica Gallagher - Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback
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Meet Lara Dominguez--a troubled Creighton cops reporter obsessed with the city's debonair vigilante--the Black Ghost. With the help of a mysterious cyber-informant named LONE, Lara's inched closer to uncovering the Ghost's identity. But as she searched for the breakthrough story... |
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Drown
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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Drown is the debut short story collection from Dominican-American author Junot Daz and was published by Riverhead Books in 1996. Drown precedes his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the short story collection This Is How You Lose... |
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Everything Inside: Stories
Edwidge Danticat - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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 Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond,... |
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A Luminous Republic
Barba, Andres - MARINER BOOKS
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A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos. |
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Afterlife
Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own."... |
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico - and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noem. You have to save me. After... |
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The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel
Cristina HenrÃquez - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"A triumph of storytelling. Henrquez 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."... |
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories
Mariana Enriquez
Format: Hardcover
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Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection... |
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes... |
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel
Ingrid Rojas Contreras - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story."--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango StreetFor... |
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Lost Children Archive: A novel
Valeria Luiselli - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today.A mother and father set out with their... |
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does... |
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Dominicana: A Novel
Angie Cruz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story." -- Sandra Cisneros"An essential read for our times." -- Cristina GarciaFifteen-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... |
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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,... |
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Tears of the Trufflepig: A Novel
Fernando A. Flores - MCD x FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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One of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019"Funny, futuristic, phenomenal, Fernando A. Flores is from another galaxy. Fasten your seat belt. You are in for a stupendous ride." -- Sandra CisnerosA parallel universe. South Texas. Narcotics are legal... |
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Love War Stories
IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback
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Puerto Rican girls are brought up to want one thing: true love. Yet they are raised by women whose lives are marked by broken promises, grief, and betrayal. While some believe that they'll be the ones to finally make it work, others swear not to repeat cycles of violence. This collection... |
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The Anthill: A Novel
Julianne Pachico - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A wildly original blend of social horror and razor sharp satire, The Anthill is a searing exploration of privilege, racism, and redemption in the Instagram age.In the end, it's much easier to not look at the screaming feeling. To not examine it. Better to just keep on rushing on...... |
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel
Michael Zapata
Format: Hardcover(Original)
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The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New OrleansIn 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. It is a strange and beautiful... |
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The Other Americans: A Novel
Laila Lalami - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.Late... |
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Where We Come From: A novel
Oscar Casares - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican American family in Brownsville, Texas, who reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United StatesFrom a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border... |
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It Would Be Night in Caracas
Karina Sainz Borgo - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover
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Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman's desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future.In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcn stands over an open grave.... |
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Fracture: A Novel
Andrés Neuman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrs Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes.Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company... |
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Comemadre
ROQUE LARRAQUY - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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In the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, a doctor becomes involved in a misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object.... |
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The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel
Joseph Cassara - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * The Wall Street Journal * The Millions * Southern Living * Bustle * Esquire * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon* Mashable * Libary Journal * Thrillist"Cassarass propulsive and profound first novel, finding ones home in the world - particularly... |
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Blue Flowers: A Novel
Carola Saavedra - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love.Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address... |
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Big Familia: A Novel
Tomas Moniz - Acre Books
Format: Paperback
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Big Familia follows Juan Gutirrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole - a ramshackle dive... |
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Optic Nerve
Maria Gainza - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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"Optic Nerve is one of the best books I've read in years. How did Mara Gainza pull off something so risky when it never reads as anything less than delightful and engrossing This is a book that loosens the restraints on literature and gives us a new way of seeing." -- Gabe... |
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The Black Cathedral: A Novel
Marcial Gala - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fateThe Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher,... |
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How to Order the Universe
Maria Jose Ferrada
Format: Paperback
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A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -- and themselves -- while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality.For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father... |
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Sea Monsters: A Novel
Chloe Aridjis - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, this intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middle-class upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico is "a surreal, captivating tale about the power of a youthful imagination, the lure of teenage transgression,... |
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The Mutations: A Novel
Jorge Comensal - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"Jorge Comensal's The Mutations oscillates masterfully between comedy and tragedy, gathering up in its pages a stupendous panoply of characters before whom the reader is never sure whether to smile in sympathy or pity." -- Fernando Aramburu, author of HomelandRamn... |
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The Affairs of the Falcóns: A Novel
Melissa Rivero - Ecco
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2019 New American Voices AwardLonglisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelLonglisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeA Recommended Book of 2019 from:Southern Living * Buzzfeed * The Huffington Post * Bustle * Fierce * Hip Latina * Ms. Magazine * Alma * Library... |
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Stubborn Archivist
Yara Rodrigues Fowler - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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"I read Stubborn Archivist in a ravenous gulp. It's stunning: so articulate about what it means to live between two languages and countries, tenderly unraveling the knots of unbelonging." - Olivia Laing, author of TheLonely City and Crudo For fans of Chemistry and Normal People:... |
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Empty Set
Verónica Gerber Bicecci - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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"Vernica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt." - Francisco Goldman"From the very beginning, Vernica Gerber set out to write a novel that would end up at a loss... |
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The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The quintessential story of what it means to be the first generation to live two lives across one border, The House of Broken Angels is Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea's unforgettable portrait of the De La Cruz family as they celebrate the lives of two of their most beloved... |
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Mouthful of Birds: Stories
Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.... |
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Hippie
PAULO COELHO - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established... |
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The Crossed-Out Notebook: A Novel
Nicolas Giacobone
Format: Book
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Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing... |
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Death Comes in through the Kitchen
Teresa Dovalpage - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover
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Don't let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is no cozy mystery. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution.Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend,... |
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The Neighborhood: A Novel
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous expos that leads to murderFrom the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto... |
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Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man's struggle to overcome the hand he's been dealt in life and reach for his dreams. It's... |
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Nervous System: A Novel
Lina Meruane - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the "country of the present" but she is from the "country of the past," a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a forensic scientist who analyzes the bones... |
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Songs for the Flames: Stories
Juan Gabriel Vásquez - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing - but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past... |
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The Five Wounds: A Novel
Kirstin Valdez Quade - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus... |
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The Taste of Sugar: A Novel
Marisel Vera - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under... |
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You Had Me at Hola: A Novel
Alexis Daria - Avon
Format: Paperback
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"Soapy, smart and so sexy... with vibrant characters and electric chemistry comparable to the telenovelas that inspired it, you'll be thrilled You Had Me At Hola doesn't come with commercials!"--Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling authorRITA Award Winning author... |
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