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Hispanic Heritage Month Adult Fiction & Nonfiction September 15 - October 15, 2025 |
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My Train Leaves at Threeby Natalie GuerreroAfro-Latina singer and actress Xiomara, mourning her sister and living in a tiny apartment in Washington Heights with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to audition for a big Broadway stage director, but when Xiomara faces the ugliest sides of the industry, she must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice.
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Archive of Unknown Universesby Ruben ReyesAna and Luis's relationship is on the rocks, despite their many similarities, including their mothers who both fled El Salvador during the war. In her search for answers, and against her best judgement, Ana uses The Defractor, an experimental device that allows users to peek into alternate versions of their lives. What she sees leads her and Luis on a quest through Havana and San Salvador to uncover the family histories they are desperate to know, eager to learn if what might have been could fix what is.
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The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-GarciaWhile researching a forgotten horror writer, a graduate student uncovers a disturbing link between a vanished schoolgirl, a sinister novel, and her great-grandmother's eerie childhood tales, leading her to suspect that an ancient, malevolent force still lingers in the halls of her university.
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Middle Spoon by Alejandro VarelaThe narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life - and a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he's left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible.
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The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel CanasIn 1765, as plague ravages Zacatecas, Alba seeks refuge in her fiancé's remote mining estate but soon spirals into convulsions and darkness, forcing her into a dangerous alliance with his cousin Elías as demonic forces, buried secrets, and forbidden desire close in.
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The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border by Francisco CantuAn award-winning writer and former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who, upon joining the Border Patrol, encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.
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Out of the Sierra : a story of Raramuri resistance by Victoria BlancoA displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The Raramuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the largest Indigenous tribes of North America. Renowned for maintaining their language and cultural traditions in the face of colonization, they have weathered numerous hardships-climate disaster, poverty, cultural erasure-that have only worsened during the twenty-first century.
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The man who could move clouds : a memoir by Ingrid Rojas ContrerasInterweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of “the secrets”—the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds.
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