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• Until August

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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  Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia

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  When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solito

  a Memoir

  Zamora, Javier,

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  When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hacienda

  Cañas, Isabel

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  Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches ...

• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

  Cruz, Angie

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  From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story.

• A Long Petal of the Sea

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Children Archive

  Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-

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  From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

  L. Sánchez, Erika

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  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.

• The House on Mango Street

  Cisneros, Sandra

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  The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  Díaz, Junot, 1968-

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  Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of…Read moreRead more of this annotation