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The Enchanted Hacienda
J.C. Cervantes - Park Row
Format: Book
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When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home—the enchanted Hacienda Estrada.
The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance... |
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Parakeet
Marie-Helene Bertino - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one.
The week of her wedding, The Bride... |
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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Zoraida Córdova - Simon & Schuster Audio
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 why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites... |
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The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader.... |
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Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano - The Dial Press
Format: Paperback
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia... |
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The Family Izquierdo
Rubén Degollado - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse.
The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse... |
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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Angie Cruz - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate... |
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Witch of Wild Things
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic. Sage Flores has been running from her family - and their "gifts" - ever since her younger sister Sky died. Eight... |
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