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3) Dominicana
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A tale set in a turbulent 1960s Dominican Republic, where a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family's immigration to America.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced, Iris Prince moves to a new neighborhood where she, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is plunged into a climate of fear and hate-fueled violence after the launch of a mandatory identification wristband, forcing her to confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters to her most when second-generation immigrants become second-class citizens.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When she spots her missing sister, Ruthy, who disappeared when she was 13, on TV in Catfight, a raunchy reality show, Jessica, along with her younger sister, mother, and her mother’s holy roller best friend, set out on a family road trip to find the truth.
12) The hacienda
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He’s good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he’s also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it—with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed by the Texas Rangers,...
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In 1970s Mexico City, Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, which leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs to escape his own life, and together, they set out to discover the dangerous truth.
15) Silver nitrate
Author
Language
English
Description
Mexico City in the 90s. Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a 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 their city.
16) Violeta: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
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Language
English
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At the end of the 19th century, reporter Grace Harrington and a courier secretly working for Cuban revolutionaries in Havana free “The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba” who has been unjustly imprisoned — a mission that forces them all to fight for their freedom as war looms on the horizon.
20) The anthill
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother's death, Lina volunteers at a friend's refuge for street youth before unsettling revelations about the community's tragic history are complicated by sightings of a mysterious boy.
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