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• The Other Moctezuma Girls

  a Novel

  Robleda, Sofia,

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  In sixteenth-century Mexico, a fearless young woman strives to uncover the secrets her mother kept as the last Aztec empress in a sweeping historical epic by the author of Daughter of Fire.

• Now I Surrender

  a Novel

  Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969-

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  In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republica, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frida's Cook

  a Novel

  Etcheves, Florencia, 1971-

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  1939: Young Nayeli Cruz flees from her Oaxaca home to arrive in Mexico City. Alone and armed only with her sharp wit and extraordinary talent in the kitchen, she finds herself in front of La Caza Azul, the home of Frida Kahlo. As she begins work as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Autobiography of Cotton

  a Novel

  Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

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  In 1934, a young Jose Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estacion Camaron, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deeper Than the Ocean

  a Novel

  Ojito, Mirta,

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  One hundred years after the shipwreck of the Valbanera, known to history as the “poor man’s Titanic,” Mara Denis gets an assignment to report on the Canary Islands, where her ancestors lived before they moved to Cuba. Unexpectedly, she discovers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of Fire

  a Novel

  Robleda, Sofia,

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  Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling member of the oppressive Spanish hierarchy, Don Alonso holds sway over the newly relegated lower…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seventh Veil of Salome

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  In 1955 Hollywood, Mexican newcomer Vera Larios is cast as Salome, the title role in a big-budget movie -- but vengeful actress Nancy Hartley believes Vera stole the role in this atmospheric novel that also explores the first-century life of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Malas

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer),

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  In 1994, high schooler Lulu, who has a strict dad and secretly sings in a punk band, befriends a glamorous older woman at her beloved abuela's funeral. Back in the 1950s, a young mother struggles after her husband's first wife curses her. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House on Biscayne Bay

  Cleeton, Chanel,

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  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 facade lies a treacherous legacy and must unravel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

• The Things We Didn't Know

  Pérez, Elba Iris,

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  Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Queen of the Valley

  Hughes, Lorena,

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  Against the backdrop of Colombia's lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers - a photographer, a young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apartment

  a Novel

  Menéndez, Ana, 1970-

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  Welcome to... The Helene, a 1940s art deco apartment building in South Miami Beach. The people in 2B: Over seven decades, this apartment has had multiple residents, from Texas newlyweds to a troubled Vietnam veteran, and these interlinked tales…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Brilliant Flame

  a Novel

  Castro, Joy

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  Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it's also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams. As lives intertwine, revolution…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Del Río

  a Novel

  Mujica, Bárbara Louise,

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  What it is: the dramatic, rags to riches story of Hollywood icon Dolores del Río, beginning with her days as an orphan in northern Mexico before the 1910 Revolution. Appearances by: Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, and Frida Kahlo.

• La hacienda

  Cañas, Isabel

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  In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solorzano's proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Violeta

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  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.

• Velvet Was the Night

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Taste of Sugar

  a Novel

  Vera, Marisel,

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  Relocating to the sugar plantations of Hawaii when their Caribbean farm is decimated by the Spanish-American War and the San Ciriaco Hurricane, two Puerto Ricans join thousands of fellow refugees in confronting the realities of American prosperity.

• Dominicana

  Cruz, Angie,

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  Draws on the author's mother's story in 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.