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Read a Book by a Hispanic Author in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
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A Long Petal of the Sea
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Isabel Allende (Chile)
Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz (Dominican Republic)
The award-winning author of Soledad draws on her mother's story in a tale set in a turbulent 1960s Dominican Republic, where a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family's immigration to America.
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Killing My Cuba
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L&L Meier (Cuba)
A historical fiction novel that features the life and customs of the middle-class Barreras family, their relatives, and friends during 1949 through 1961. An undertone of the story is the foreboding prediction of Cuba's future Wichi hears early in the book, and it continues to prey on his mind. As his medical practice dwindles, his personal involvement in the horrific consequences of the Cuban Revolution increases.
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Ordinary Girls
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Jaquira Díaz (Puerto Rico)
A biographical debut by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer traces her upbringing in the housing projects of Puerto Rico, her mother’s battle with schizophrenia, her personal struggles with sexual assault and her efforts to pursue a literary career.
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It Would Be Night in Caracas
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Karina Sainz Borgo (Venezuela)
A woman tests the limits of what she is willing to do to secure her future in turbulent modern Venezuela overrun by violent revolutionaries.
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The Affairs of the Falcóns
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Melissa Rivero (Peru)
Fleeing the economic and political strife of 1990s Peru, undocumented factory worker Ana struggles to support her family while fending off the challenges of discrimination, sexual harassment, and a loan shark's criminal enforcers.
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The Taste of Sugar
by Marisel Vera (Puerto Rico)
Relocating to the sugar plantations of Hawaii when their Caribbean farm is decimated by the Spanish-American War and the San Ciriaco Hurricane, two Puerto Ricans join thousands of fellow refugees in confronting the realities of American prosperity.
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Hades, Argentina
by Daniel Loedel (Argentina)
A medical student in Buenos Aires must decide how far he's willing to go for his childhood crush and the group of insurgents she's joined as more and more people like her are disappeared by an oppressive military junta.
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Cantoras
by Carolina De Robertis (Uruguay)
Enduring the rampant violence against women and the LGBTQ community in the decades of the Uruguayan dictatorship, five women heartbreakingly unite as lovers, friends and family.
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