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Afterlife
by Julia Alvarez
Reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen.
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L.A. Weather
by María Amparo Escandón
Follows the Los Angeles-based Alvardo family as they take critical looks at their internal and external relationships while struggling with a fierce local drought, impending evacuations, secrets, deception, betrayal and making some tough decisions.
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The Last Train to Key West
by Chanel Cleeton
A Key West native, a bride fleeing the Cuban Revolution and a Wall Street crash victim meet at a Great War veteran camp before one of the most powerful hurricanes in history indelibly changes their lives.
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The Archer
by Paulo Coelho
A young man seeks wisdom from a retired hunter who explains how the principles of bowhunting can help readers find the courage to take risks and embrace life's unexpected turns. By the best-selling author of The Alchemist.
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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.
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920's-1930's New York City.
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Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogotá.
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Olga Dies Dreaming
by Xochitl Gonzalez
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms.
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More Than You'll Ever Know
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.
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After Hours on Milagro Street
by Angelina M. Lopez
When Alejandra Torres returns to Milagro Street to renovate her grandmother's bar, all that stands in her way of success is handsome brainiac Jeremiah Post, the tenant living above the bar, who does not believe Alex has her family's best interests at heart.
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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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Twice a Quinceañera: A Delightful Second Chance Romance
by Yamile Saied Méndez
To make good use of the wedding venue after her upcoming nuptials are called off, 30-year-old Nadia Palacio decides to throw herself a second quinceañera, aka Sweet 15, until she runs into her college fling who looks even more delicious than a three-tiered cake.
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Secret Identity
by Alex Segura
In 1975, when the comic book industry is struggling, Carmen Valdes, an assistant at Triumph Comics, finds things taking a strange turn when she helps create a new female character, a project that leads to murder and plunges her into a dangerous world of secrets and resentments.
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The Neighborhood
by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel Prize-winning author of The Discreet Hero presents a politically charged detective novel set against a backdrop of the 1990s Peruvian underworld and the corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency. Th book follows two high-society couples as they become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail.
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Chilean Poet
by Alejandro Zambra
A young Chilean man who inherited his love of poetry from his stepfather, helps an American journalist both literally and figuratively lost in Santiago and encourages her to focus her article on the living, everyday poets that surround them.
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