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Caramelo: En Espaol

Sandra Cisneros - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

La clebre autora de La casa en Mango Street, nos ofrece una nueva y extraordinaria novela narrada en un lenguaje de una originalidad arro-lladora: es la historia de varias generaciones de una familia mxicoamericana cuyas voces crean un des-lumbrante y vivo tapiz de humor y de pasin, hecho...
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel...
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The Dream of the Celt: A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas LlosaIn , the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples...
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The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel

Joseph Cassara - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

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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The Water Museum: Stories

Luis Alberto Urrea - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been...
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Playing with Boys: A Novel

Alisa Valdes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Audio CD

When Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' first novel was published last year, it caused a sensation. Readers flocked to the story of six friends in Boston because both the voice and the characters Valdes-Rodriguez created were utterly fresh. A brand new, large, and eager audience came out for a book...
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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 Taste of Sugar: A Novel

Marisel Vera - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

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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Children of the Land

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's...
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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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Each of Us a Desert

Mark Oshiro - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to lifeXochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds....
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