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A mixed list of fiction and non-fiction about Latinx lives. Perfect for the socially conscious reader.
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American Dirt: A Novel
Jeanine Cummins - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lydia Quixano Prez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly... |
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Its Lovecraft meets the Brontes in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird." - The Guardian ONE OF TIMES 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD * NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM... |
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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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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L Sánchez - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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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... |
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Vintage; later printing 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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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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An undocumented immigrant's journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton classDan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than... |
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Sanctuary
Paola Mendoza - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked--from buses to grocery stores. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved... |
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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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Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
Paola Ramos
Format: Paperback
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Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them - Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns - are voices who have been... |
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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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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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Mexican WhiteBoy
Matt De La Peña - Delacorte Press
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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. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses... |
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All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full... |
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