Explore titles by Hispanic authors available digitally from Libby/OverDrive and Hoopla as well as in print formats and audio audio cd. From romance to suspense to nonfiction, these titles will educate and entertain!

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A Long Petal of the Sea / Isabel Allende
This novel follows two refugees from the Spanish Civil War, whose mock marriage – as they flee to Chile – gradually deepens into real love, set against a backdrop of war and upheaval.
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Afterlife / Julia Alvarez
Antonia Vega has had the rug pulled out from under her. Her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. Then her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, Afterlife asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including – maybe especially – members of our human family?
FORMAT(S): Ebook

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The Hacienda / Isabel Cañas
The book follows Beatriz, a mestiza woman, and her fight to survive the haunted hacienda she has recently been charged with. In it, Cañas delivers a chilling and compelling story that melds a childhood fear of the dark with the impacts of colonialism and Catholicism in Mexico after the War of Independence.
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The Undocumented Americans / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio   (*Please search for this title in Libby)
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. She embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants – and to find the hidden key to her own.
FORMAT(S): Eaudiobook

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Dominicana / Angie Cruz 
This moving coming-of-age story centers on Ana Canción, a 15 year old girl from a poor family in the Dominican Republic during the tumultuous 1960s… You’ll root for Ana (who’s based on Cruz’s mother) as she tries to navigate a new life that, at first, seems worlds away from the American Dream.
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Postcolonial Love Poem / Natalie Diaz
Throughout her second collection, Diaz highlights the ways an occupying power absorbs and erases the cultures it meets and – in keeping with her efforts to preserve Indigenous languages – she refuses to submit to that process. This book won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, making Diaz the first Latina author to earn that honor.
FORMAT(S): Ebook

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Our Share of Night / Mariana Enriquez  
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
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Woman of Light / Kali Fajardo-Anstine 
Luz “Little Light” Lopez recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.
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Sabrina & Corina: Stories / Kali Fajardo-Anstine 
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection – a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
FORMAT(S): Eaudiobook

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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez 
This important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries – from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Featuring family portraits of real-life immigrant Latino pioneers, as well as accounts of the events and conditions that compelled them to leave their homelands, Harvest of Empire is for anyone wishing to understand the history and legacy of this increasingly influential group.
FORMAT(S): Eaudiobook

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Olga Dies Dreaming / Xóchil González
This is the story of the Acevedo siblings – wedding planner Olga and congressman Prieto – whose mother, Blanca, has left to join a Puerto Rican revolutionary organization. As Hurricanes Irma and Maria are about to hit the island, the Acevedos must wrestle with their past, their mother’s involvements in growing unrest in Puerto Rico, and their ability to live in her shadow.
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Children of the Land / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence.
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Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas / Roberto Lovato   (*Please search for this title in hoopla)
Lovato unearths the family secrets his father kept guarded to tell a story of trauma and violence from El Salvador to San Francisco’s Mission District. As he reckons with this multigenerational history, Lovato blends this memoir with exhaustive reporting that sheds light on a cycle of bloodshed that spans El Salvador’s civil war, the birth of MS-13 in California and the exportation of gangs to Central America.
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Lost Children Archive / Valeria Luiselli 
Lost Children Archive is the first English-language novel by Mexican author Valeria Luiselli. Published in 2019, the novel illustrates the intersections and overlaps between a troubled family’s cross-country journey and the treacherous journeys of “lost” children migrating from Mexico to the United States.
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Mexican Gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico.
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Velvet was the night / Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
Elvis is an eccentric criminal who longs to escape his own life: He loathes violence and loves old movies and rock ‘n’ roll. But as Elvis searches for the missing woman, he watches Maite from a distance – and comes to regard her as a kindred spirit who shares his love of music and the unspoken loneliness of his heart.
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Las Biuty Queens / Iván Monalisa Ojeda   (*Please search for this title in hoopla)
Las Biuty Queens is a collection of intertwined stories which chart the lives, loves, and multiple losses of a coven of queer, trans, immigrant, Latinx locas in New York City; characters recur and die, friends are lost and found, and community remains a constant throughout the 13 short stories that make up Ojeda’s second short story collection.
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The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez / Rudy Ruiz   (*Please search for this title in hoopla)
A work of magical realism, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez weaves together the past and present as Fulgencio strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina’s love after their doomed youthful romance.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / Benjamin Alire Saenz 
Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the novel follows two Mexican American teenagers, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
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