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Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila. But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.
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The Wind Knows My Name
by Isabel Allende
This novel traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children–five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later from El Salvador to the U.S., where she's separated from her mother.
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Vampires of El Norte
by Isabel Cañas
When the U.S. attacks Mexico in 1846, Nena, a healer and rancher's daughter striving to prove her worth, and Néstor, a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros, find their reunion overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made real.
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The Haunting of Alejandra
by V. Castro
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend, and must summon everything she's inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
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The Cuban Heiress
by Chanel Cleeton
In 1934, on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana aboard the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle, the fates of heiress Catherine Dohan, a woman living a lie, and Elena Palacio, bent on revenge against those who wronged her, are intertwined as they risk everything to see justice served once and for all.
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Maktub : An Inspirational Companion to the Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
A companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. It is a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from the author's daily column of the same name, Maktub, meaning
“it is written,” invites seekers on a journey of faith, self-reflection,
and transformation.
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Woman of Light
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
In 1935 downtown Denver, Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader
and laundress, begins having visions that transport her to her
Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory where she must
save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.
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The Queen of the Valley
by Lorena Hughes
Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 earthquake, three strangers–a photographer,
a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a determined novice nun–are thrust into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic.
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
by Claire Jiménez
When Jessica spots her missing sister, Ruthy, who disappeared when she was 13, on her TV screen in a raunchy reality show called Catfight, she sets out from Staten Island, along with her younger sister, mother, and her mother's holy roller best friend, on a family road trip
to the filming location to find the truth and bring Ruthy home.
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Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his unfinished magic film in order to lift a supposed curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristán start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who
once roamed Mexico City.
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The Things We Didn't Know
by Elba Iris Pérez
In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother are taken away by their mother from Woronoco, Massachusetts to the mountain villages of Puerto Rico. Months later, they are brought back to the tiny factory town, where everything has changed. Now they must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
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Flores and Miss Paula
by Melissa Rivero
Thirty-something Flores and her Peruvian immigrant mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing
they have in common. It’s been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, Flores discovers a weird note under his urn
that forces the pair to confront their complicated past.
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The Sun and the Void
by Gabriela Romero Lacruz
When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death—until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Reina will do anything to earn and keep the family's favor—even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor's foundations. To save the woman she loves, Reina will have to defy
the gods themselves and become something she never could have imagined.
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Good Night, Irene
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Abandoning her abusive fiancé in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.
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