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Maya's Notebook
by Isabel Allende
After the death of her beloved grandfather, 19-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.
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Amigoland
by Oscar Casares
Encouraged in his senior years by a good-natured housekeeper to make amends with the brother with whom he has shared a long estrangement, Don Celestino secretly liberates Don Fidencio from a nursing home and embarks on a journey to Mexico to investigate a family legend at the heart of their dispute. A first novel.
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A Blossom of Bright Light
by Suzanne Chazin
Latino police detective Jimmy Vega must strike a precarious balance between the local immigrant community and his hometown's most powerful and privileged citizens during a dangerous murder investigation.
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The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
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Hippie
by Paulo Coelho
A Brazilian man and a Dutch woman embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation experiments of the Civil Rights era. By the best-selling author of The Alchemist.
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You Had Me at Hola
by Alexis Daria
Rendered the subject of tabloid gossip by a messy public breakup, soap star Jasmine takes a part in a new bilingual comedy at the side of a telenovela costar who would revitalize his career.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author of the collection, Drown.
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Across a Hundred Mountains
by Reyna Grande
Leaving her small Mexico hometown after years of caring for her mother, Juana Garcia embarks on a search for the father who disappeared nineteen years earlier and teams up with Adelina Vasquez, who left her family to pursue forbidden love.
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The Book of Unknown Americans
by Cristina Henríquez
Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy. By the author of Come Together, Fall Apart.
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Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories
by Jorge F. Hernández
Presents twenty Mexican stories from the early twentieth century, including tales of fantasy, life in Mexico, history, the city, and private life by such authors as Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, and Juan Rulfo.
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Lives Laid Away
by Stephen Mack Jones
A follow-up to the prize-winning August Snow finds the Detroit ex-cop turning vigilante when his beloved Mexicantown neighborhood is caught in the crosshairs of ICE corruption and a human-trafficking scheme.
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Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
The award-winning author of Tell Me How It Ends traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A dark fairy tale inspired by folklore is set against the Jazz age in Mexico’s underworld, where a young dreamer is sent by the Mayan God of Death on a life-changing journey. By the award-winning author of Signal to Noise.
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The Madonnas of Echo Park
by Brando Skyhorse
In a novel that explores the lives of those who shed their ethnic identity in pursuit of the American dream, the author highlights a different character in each chapter, including Hector, a middle-aged day laborer who witnesses a murder; his ex-wife Felicia, who survives a drive-by shooting; and more. A first novel.
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Into the Beautiful North
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Working in a Mexican taco shop while dreaming of the father who left their family to work in the United States, nineteen-year-old Nayeli struggles with a realization that most of the men in her village have left to pursue work in the north, a situation for which she endeavors to recruit seven men to repopulate her hometown and protect it from bandidos.
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Under the Feet of Jesus
by Helena María Viramontes
As a second-class Mexican-American citizen laboring under dangerous conditions in America's fields, Estrella learns the values of life and discovers ways to defy repression and the hopelessness of her situation.
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