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Hispanic Stories & Voices September 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025 |
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The witches of El Paso
by Luis Jaramillo
A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child.
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Certain dark things
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In Mexico City, where the vampires who live among humans are heavily policed, street kid Domingo helps an Aztec blood drinkers' descendant flee before the city is upended when the two vampires pursuing her begin to raise its body count
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Speak to me of home : a novel
by Jeanine Cummins
A deeply felt multigenerational family story is augmented with a family tree and map. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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The golden gate
by Amy Chua
While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl 10 years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
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More than you'll ever know : a novel
by Katie Gutierrez
Told through alternating timelines, this gripping mystery and wrenching family drama follows struggling crime writer Cassie Brown as she becomes obsessed with a 1985 murder case involving a woman whose double life led to murder and vows to tell the real story. 150,000 first printing.
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Archive of unknown universes
by Ruben Reyes
"Follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war--a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past and the endurance of love"
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Every arc bends its radian : a novel
by Sergio de la Pava
From a PEN Award–winning author comes an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman's strange disappearance—which may be connected to one of the world's most ruthless criminal organizations. Illustrations. Map.
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The house on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
After the tragic death of her parents, Carmen Acosta arrives at Maribrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister and her husband on Biscayne Bay, and soon discovers beneath its glittering façade lies a treacherous legacy and must unravel Maribrisa's secrets to stop history from repeating itself. Simultaneous.
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The hacienda
by Isabel Caänas
In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solórzano's proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his first wife's death.
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A proposal they can't refuse
by Natalie Caäna
Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef and Liam, an Irish American whiskey distiller are blackmailed by their grandfathers, best friends since boyhood, into getting married or risk losing the building that houses both their businesses. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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Death takes me : a novel
by Cristina Rivera Garza
When Professor Cristina Rivera Garza discovers a mutilated corpse marked with cryptic poetry, she becomes entangled in a chilling investigation where literary clues reveal unsettling truths about violence, desire, and gender in an eerie, all-too-familiar world.
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Rosarita
by Anita Desai
While studying in El Jardin de San Miguel, Bonita is approached by a woman who claims she knew her mother as a young painter in Mexico; days later Bonita finds the woman she calls The Trickster and follows her on a tour of what may or may not have been her mother's past.
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The anatomy of magic
by J. C. Cervantes
"Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women, all bound together by an extraordinary secret. The Estrada women each possess a unique power, and Lily shines with the rare gift to manipulate memories. Yet not even her mystical abilities can shield her from a harrowing event at the hospital, one that sends her powers--and her confidence--spiraling out of control. Seeking solace, Lily retreats to her family's ancestral home in Mexico, only to find herself face-to-face with a ghost from her past--Sam, the first love she never forgot. Nearly a decade since she last saw him, Sam is hardly the boy she once knew, and as old flames spark to life, Lily must navigate the mysteries of their shared history and the depths of her own heart if she hopes to control her unpredictable magic"
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Clean : a novel
by Alia Trabucco Zerâan
Estela, a maid interrogated after a young girl's death, recounts her seven years witnessing the unraveling of a wealthy family, revealing their secrets, betrayals and tensions in a gripping tale of power, domesticity and betrayal.
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A sunny place for shady people : stories
by Mariana Enriquez
Offers twelve unsettling stories where ordinary people living in Argentina, particularly women, must confront terrifying and surreal encounters with the supernatural, in the new collection from the author of Our Share of the Night.
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The inheritance of Orquâidea Divina : a novel
by Zoraida Câordova
Seven years after their matriarch Orquidea passed away, blessing them with her special gifts, the Montoya family journeys to Ecuador to uncover the truth behind their inheritance to stop a hidden figure from killing off Orquidea's line one-by-one. 100,000 first printing.
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When the tides held the moon
by Venessa Vida Kelley
"Benigno "Benny" Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can't call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric side-show proprietor who commissioned it. Benny's work earns him an invitation to join the show's eclectic crew of performers--his first welcome in the city--and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon. The merman is more than a mythic marvel, though. Benny comes to know Râio as a clever philosopher, an observant traveler, and a kindred spirit more beautiful and compassionate than any human he's ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny's heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Râio's captivity--and hisown. A cage is no place for a merman to survive. Though releasing Râio means betraying his new family, bankrupting their home, and losing his soulmate forever, Benny must look within for the courage to do what's right, and find a love strong enough to free them both"
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Kiss me, maybe
by Gabriella Gamez
"Librarian Angela Gutierrez has never been kissed. But after posting a video about her late bloomer status and ace identity, she's finally ready to get some firsts out of the way. Using her new influencer status to come up with a scavenger hunt idea in which the winner earns her first kiss, Angela realizes she may need some help to pull off the event. Enter Krystal Ramirez, hot bartender and Angela's unrequited crush of five years. Despite vowing that romantic love isn't for her, Krystal seems awfully determined to help Angela pull off the scavenger hunt and find true love. There's just one problem: the connection between Angela and Krystal is getting stronger and stronger the more they hang out, until Angela isn't sure she wants to go through with the scavenger hunt after all. But Krystal is convinced that she isn't capable of love and before long, Angela realizes she's falling head over heels for a woman who may never love her back"
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Blood in the cut
by Alejandro Nodarse
Home from prison, ex-con Iggy Guerra races to save his family's failing butcher shop and his father who got in too deep with a group of poachers who are hunting an animal rights investigator in the Everglade swamps. 100,000 first printing.
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Lightning in her hands
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
"Gifted-or cursed-with the power to influence the weather, one woman must embrace her wild heart in the next electric romance from the author of Witch of Wild Things. Teal Flores is desperate for two things-control over her gift of weather, and a date toher ex's wedding. The first isn't possible until she finds her long-lost mother, but the second has a very handsome last-ditch solution: Carter Velasquez. Carter needs Teal too. His chance at receiving an inheritance is dependent on him being married by age thirty (blame his traditional Cuban grandmother), so who better to pose as his wife than Teal? But fake marriage and cohabitation prove tricky when mutual attraction charges the atmosphere-quite literally for Teal, whose volatile emotions cause lightning strikes. Together, Teal and Carter embark on a quest to find her mother and the answers she's searching for. But along the way, they'll discover something even better: a love that can weather any storm"
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How not to drown in a glass of water
by Angie Cruz
Forced back into the job market after losing her factory gig during the Great Recession, 50-something Cara Romero narrates the story of her life to her career counselor and confronts her darkest secrets and regrets. 100,000 first printing.
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Tiny threads : a novel
by Lilliam Rivera
A young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.
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The things we didn't know
by Elba Iris Pâerez
In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
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Tell it to me singing : a novel
by Tita Ramâirez
"A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender and twisty debut novel"
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