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Recommended Reading: Hispanic Heritage Month
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Her body and other parties : stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
Bordering psychological realism and science fiction, a collection of stories explore the reality of women's lives and the violence inflicted upon their bodies
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They both die at the end
by Adam Silvera
Receiving word from Death-Cast that they are about to die, Mateo and Rufus meet for the first time via an End Day friendship app that facilitates their meeting and a final grand adventure that triggers unexpected changes.
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Wild beauty
by Anna-Marie McLemore
Cursed by a tragic legacy that causes their lovers to disappear if they fall in love too deeply, the women gardeners of an enchanted estate wonder at the appearance of a mysterious boy who does not know who he is and who may be a returned former love. By the award-winning author of When the Moon Was Ours.
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The poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world. A first novel.
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The house of impossible beauties
by Joseph Cassara
"A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 80s and 90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary "Paris is Burning""
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The house of broken angels : a novel
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of family patriarch Miguel "Big Angel" De La Cruz and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of The Hummingbird's Daughter.
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Fruit of the drunken tree : a novel
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A debut novel by an award-winning writer is set against the violence of 1990s Columbia and follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both. A first novel.
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The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border
by Francisco Cantú
An award-winning writer and former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who, upon joining the Border Patrol, encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.
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The vineyard : a novel
by María Dueñas
Moving to Spain in the aftermath of a shattering misfortune, a hardworking Mexican falls in love with the wife of a London wine merchant and resolves to restore her family's vineyard before finding himself immersed in the rich culture of the 19th-century sherry trade.
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