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We Need No Wings

Ann Dávila Cardinal - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

To be free, we must learn to fly.Teresa Sanchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Teresa hopes that she can mourn her husband and get back...
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The Volcano Daughters: A Novel

Gina María Balibrera - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide - which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco's Cannery Row - each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories. El Salvador, 1923....
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Blood in the Cut: A Novel

Alejandro Nodarse - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Blood in The Cut brims with dangerous energy in the face of existential entropy. A fantastic story." -- S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed. Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone,...
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Isabel and The Rogue (The Luna Sisters Book 2)

Liana De la Rosa - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

When a Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her ... . Isabel Luna Valdés has long since resigned herself to being the "forgotten" Luna sister. But thanks to familial connections to the Mexican ambassador...
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The House on Biscayne Bay

Chanel Cleeton - Berkley
Format: Paperback

As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's atmospheric new novel.. With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights...
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Oye: A Novel

Melissa Mogollon - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won't want to hang up on ... A young woman reckons with her rowdy, unpredictable family and the revelation of their long-buried history in this wildly inventive debut.. "Yes, hi, Mari....
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The Seventh Veil of Salome

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine - but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic. . 1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel

Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic. Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long...
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Take the Lead: A Dance Off Novel

Alexis Daria - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

From Alexis Daria, author of the critically acclaimed, international bestseller You Had Me at Hola, comes a fun, sexy romance set against a reality dance show.Gina Morales wants to make it big. In her four seasons on The Dance Off, she's never even made it to the finals. But her latest...
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The Spanish Love Deception: A Novel

Elena Armas - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks...
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Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez
Format: Large Print

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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West Side Love Story

Priscilla Oliveras - Montlake
Format: Paperback

A heart-stirring romance of star-crossed love, feuding familias, and the bonds of sisterhood by USA Today bestselling author Priscilla Oliveras.

Two familias in Texas, both alike in dignity, rivalries, and passion…

Having grown...

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Afterlife

Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Family Lore: A Novel

Elizabeth Acevedo - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives.Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day,...
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Woman of Light: A Novel

Kali Fajardo-Anstine - One World
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A "dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical" (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina "Sometimes...
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A Proposal They Can't Refuse: A Novel

Natalie Caña - MIRA; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Natalie Caa turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about aPuerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers.Kamilah Vegais desperate toconvince herfamily to update their Puerto Rican restaurant...
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Neruda on the Park: A Novel

Cleyvis Natera - Random House Audio
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification."Strikes all the right notes - captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline...
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The Hacienda

Isabel Cañas - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father was executed...
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Our Share of Night: A Novel

Mariana Enriquez - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the "monumental" (The New York Times) debut novel from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - "the most exciting discovery...
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The Great Divide: A Novel

Cristina Henriquez - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there, by Cristina Henríquez, acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown AmericansIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first,...
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A Lot Like Adis: A Novel

Alexis Daria
Format: Paperback

The national bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola returns with a seductive second-chance romance about a commitment-phobic Latina and her childhood best friend who has finally returned home.Hi Mich. It's Gabe.After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built...
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Twice a Quinceañera

YAMILE SAIED MENDEZ - Kensington Books
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick Furia, Yamile Saied Méndez makes her adult fiction debut with this sparkling, whimsical novel of an accomplished young woman who discovers what it really means to come into her own . . . One month short of her wedding day - and her thirtieth...
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The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros - Vintage
Format: Paperback

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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A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel

Isabel Allende - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.In the late 1930s, civil...
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In the Time of the Butterflies

Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

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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This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diacuteazrsquos first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with ldquothe dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poetrdquo Newsweek. His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named Fiction Book of the Yearrdquo by Time...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women - brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic...
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

Laura Esquivel
Format: Book

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena,...
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American Dirt: A Novel

Jeanine Cummins - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The Worst Best Man: A Novel

Mia Sosa - Avon
Format: Paperback

Critically acclaimed author Mia Sosa delivers a sassy, steamy #ownvoices enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about a woman whose new job requires her to work side-by-side with the best man who ruined her wedding: her ex-fianc's infuriating, irritating, annoyingly handsome brother. Perfect...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle,...
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Next Year in Havana

Chanel Cleeton - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook

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 revolutionHavana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high...
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A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel

Isabel Allende - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.In the late 1930s, civil...
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The Murmur of Bees

Sofia Segovia - Amazon Crossing
Format: Paperback

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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The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henríquez - Complete Test Preparation, ©2011.
Format: Print book

Named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book, an NPR Great Read, The Daily Beast's Novel of the Year, and a Mother Jones, Oprah.com, School Library Journal, and BookPage Best Book of the YearWhen fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains...
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The House of Broken Angels

Luis Alberto Urrea - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" (San Francisco Chronicle) story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend.National Bestseller and National...
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Love Her or Lose Her: A Novel

Tessa Bailey - Avon
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation... Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they...
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The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"Gabriel Garca Mrquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." --The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times BestsellerBarcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book...
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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

Note: Item has rough Cut edges(Edges are cut improperly intentionally by the manufacturer) A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale...
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Simply wonderful. Los Angeles Times Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarezs brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a Notable Book by both the New York Times and the American Library Association,...
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Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel

Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel Garca Mrquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Coln family and the dreams, love, and h
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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

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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