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• All Friends Are Necessary

  A Novel

  Moniz, Tomas

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  After losing his wife and child, Chino moves back to the Bay Area, finds support from old friends, and searches for love with both men and women.

• América del Norte

  Mora, Nicolás Medina

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  Sebastián, who grew up wealthy and "white" in Mexico, is now a person of color in graduate school in the United States and facing Trump's war on immigrants.

• Anita de Monte Laughs Last

  Gonzalez, Xochitl

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  Researching the work of a Cuban artist, Raquel, a Puerto Rican graduate student, realizes the artist may have been murdered, and that she is headed toward the same fate.

• The Bullet Swallower

  A Novel

  Gonzalez James, Elizabeth

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  Famous Mexican actor Jaime Sonoro discovers his grandfather was the ruthless bandido "El Tragabalas." Should he be held accountable for his crimes?

• Candelaria

  A Novel

  Lozada-Oliva, Melissa

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  After a supernatural curse causes a Guatemalan American grandmother to trigger an earthquake in Boston, she rushes to save her three troubled granddaughters from their own fates.

• Cross-Stitch

  Barrera, Jazmina

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  When Mila, a mother and writer from Mexico, learns that an old friend has died, she reflects on their once-interwoven lives while organizing a memorial.

• A Dish Best Served Hot

  Caña, Natalie

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  Santiago and Lola, former high school sweethearts who are unexpectedly reunited, find their love still burns bright -- until he’s forced to do something she’ll never forgive.

• Familia

  A Riveting and Unforgettable Novel of Sisterhood

  E. Rico, Lauren

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  A magazine’s fact-checker learns that she has a sister in Puerto Rico who has spent 25 years trying to find her.

• The Great Divide

  A Novel

  Henriquez, Cristina

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  Panama, 1907: Local teenager Omar works to build the canal while Ada, who's traveled from Barbados for work, helps an American scientist when his wife falls ill.

• Entre dos aguas

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  Panamá, 1907: Omar, un adolescente local, trabaja en la construcción del canal mientras Ada, quien ha viajado desde Barbados en busca de trabajo, ayuda a un científico estadounidense cuando su esposa enferma.

• A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  A Novel

  Palma, Raul

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  A Yoruban priest, who doesn’t believe in spirits, is offered the chance to pay back the money he owes by exorcising his debt collector’s house.

• Un fantasma en Hialeah Gardens / a Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

  Palma, Raúl

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  Un sacerdote yoruba, quien no cree en espíritus, recibe la oportunidad de saldar una deuda exorcizando la casa de su cobrador.

• House of Bone and Rain

  Iglesias, Gabino

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  Five teenage boys in Puerto Rico set out for revenge when one of their mothers is murdered, while a hurricane brings evil spirits to the island.

• How We Named the Stars

  Ordorica, Andrés N.

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  The evolving friendship-turned-romantic-love between Sam and his roommate Daniel is suddenly interrupted when Daniel is surprised by a brutal loss.

• Immortal Pleasures

  Castro, V.

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  While searching for stolen artifacts, La Malinche, reborn as an ancient Aztec vampire, finds two men who satisfy her cravings in very different ways.

• Like Happiness

  A Novel

  Villarreal-Moura, Ursula

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  A woman is living the fresh start she dreamed of when she receives a call that could crumble the separation between her past and present.

• Love of My Lives

  Méndez, Yamile Saied

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  Madi's only dated men with the initials J.R. after receiving a message from her grandmother in a dream. So, when she falls for Peter, she can't believe it's real.

• Malas

  A Novel

  Fuentes, Marcela

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  Set in the 1950s and the 1990s, a woman’s curse affects the lives of a Tejano family, while a funeral and a quinceañera reveal past secrets.

• Malas

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer),

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  Ambientada en los años 50 y 90, la maldición de una mujer afecta las vidas de una familia tejana, mientras un funeral y una quinceañera revelan secretos del pasado.

• My Favorite Scar

  Ferraro, Nicolás

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  Seeking vengeance against the mercenary who killed his best friend, a wounded gangster and his teenage daughter set off on a road trip across Argentina.