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The Soul of a Woman

Isabel Allende
Format: Hardcover

"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice." Isabel became a fierce and defiant little...
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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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It Is Wood It Is Stone

Gabriella Burnham - One World
Format: Hardcover

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 Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba

Chanel Cleeton
Format: Hardcover

A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper in 1896, she's caught in a cutthroat world where one scoop can make or break your career, but it's a story...
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What's Mine and Yours

Naima Coster
Format: Hardcover

A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their...
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Dominicana: A Novel

Angie Cruz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"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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You Had Me at Hola

Alexis Daria - Avon
Format: Paperback

Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers. After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming...
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Infinite Country: A Novel

Patricia Engel
Format: Hardcover

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 Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories

Mariana Enriquez
Format: Hardcover

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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Sabrina & Corina: Stories

Kali Fajardo-Anstine - One World
Format: Hardcover

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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Of Women and Salt

Garcia, Gabriela
Format: electronic resource

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

WINNER of the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award - International Latino Book Awards
WINNER...

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

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 Lost Saints

Daniel Jose Older - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern day New Jersey....
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Eartheater: A Novel

Dolores Reyes - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover

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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Little Eyes: A Novel

Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

Michael Zapata
Format: Book

This mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans marks the arrival of a bold new literary talent.
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