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September 2022
THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME
Gabino Iglesias
Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the nearsuicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull.
THE GIRL IN QUEENS
Christine Kandic Torres
Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors When a sexual assault accusation emerges, both girls rush to support and defend Brian. While Kelly remains staunchly by his side, Brisma begins to have doubts as old memories resurface of her own relationship with him.
THE HACIENDA
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed She will have her own home again, no matter the cost But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined.
TWICE A QUINCEAÑERA
To make good use of the wedding venue after her upcoming nuptials are called off, 30-year-old Nadia Palacio decides to throw herself a second quinceañera, aka Sweet 15, until she runs into her college fling who looks even more delicious than a three-tiered cake.
Isabel Cañas
Yamile Saied Méndez
NERUDA ON THE PARK
Cleyvis Natera
The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, quietly devises an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos that will take their place.
VIOLETA
Isabel Allende
This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century
PARADAIS
Fernanda Melchor
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican societywith its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendenciesand how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams
OPHELIA AFTER ALL
Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Rojas, well known for her rose garden and her dramatic crushes on every boy in sight, begins to question her sexuality and sense of self when she starts to fall for cute, quiet Talia Sanchez in the weeks leading up to their high school prom and graduation.
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms.
RECLAIM THE STARS
Reclaim the Stars is a collection of bestselling and acclaimed YA authors that take the Latin American diaspora to places fantastical and out of this world. From princesses warring in space, to the all too-near devastation of climate change, to haunting ghost stories in Argentina, and mermaids off the coast of the Caribbean.
Racquel Marie
OLGA DIES DREAMING
Xochitl Gonzalez
Zoraida Córdova, editor
WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH
Elizabeth Acevedo
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness She dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, but knows that is impossible But once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.
RAMÓN AND JULIETA
Alana Quintana Albertson
When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the starcrossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them So when the sexy señorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs off into the night with his heart, he determines to do whatever it takes to find her again
HEARTBREAK SYMPHONY
Kemp
Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.
MARIA MARIA & OTHER STORIES
Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas and motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness You won’t always know what it is until payment is due ”
BAD MEXICANS:RACE, EMPIRE, AND REVOLUTION IN THE BORDERLANDS
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands, telling the story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States.
THE LESBIANA'S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL
Sonora Reyes
Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. But at least here no one knows she's gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way.
Marytza K Rubio
Laekan Zea
THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS
Luis Alberto Urrea
Beloved & ailing patriarch
Miguel Angel de La Cruz, "Big Angel," has summoned his entire clan for one last birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader Across two bittersweet days in San Diego, the revelers celebrate the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recount the acts that brought them to the country they now call home.
THE LOST DREAMER
Indir is a Dreamer, descended from a long line of seers; able to see beyond reality, she carries the rare gift of Dreaming truth But when the beloved king dies, his son has no respect for this timehonored tradition King Alcan wants an opportunity to bring the Dreamers to a permanent end an opportunity Indir will give him if he discovers the two secrets she is struggling to keep.
DIAMOND PARK
When four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston travel to Diamond Park to buy a 1959 Chevy Impala from Magaña's godfather, something goes very wrong, and one of them, Susi, ends up arrested for murder; convinced that the real killer is a drug trafficker called Anaconda, Flaco and Magaña head to Mexico hunting for him to clear Susi's name--but in the process of kidnapping Anaconda Flaco discovers how little he understands about what really happened in Diamond Park.
HIGH RISK HOMOSEXUAL
A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man in a culture of machismo, Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at twelve years old to become a man The story then moves through the queer spaces where he learned the joy of being gay and Latinx
A BALLAD OF LOVE AND GLORY
A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War
YOU SOUND LIKE A WHITE GIRL
Arce, who came to live in Texas from Mexico at age 11, shares the story of her assimilation to America, learning English, losing her culture, making money while undocumented and working on Wall Street, and the inevitable scars that came from pursuing an evermoving goal post
Reyna Grande
Edgar Gomez
Phillippe Diedrich
Julissa Arce
Lizz Huerta
