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Celebrate Latino Authors

May Celebrates Latino Book Month. Check out this great selection of reads by Latino authors!

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  • This impressive first volume explores conversational interviews about life from a master writer, essayist, poet, and translator.
    Book, 2014London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Books 2014. — 868.6209 B644C
  • A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant, and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's…
    Book, 2017New York : Atria Books, 2017. — F ALLENDE
  • Reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen.
    Book, 2020Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. — F ALVAREZ
  • Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
    Book, 2012New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2012] — YF SAENZ
  • Drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León, Ana Cubillas becomes involved with enamored twin brothers Ramón and Inocente before convincing them to claim a sugar plantation they…
    Book, 2011New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. — F
  • Chronicles the sojourn of journalist-explorer Henry Stanley; his wife, the painter Dorothy Tennant; and Mark Twain, Stanley's longtime friend, as they head for Cuba in search of Stanley's father.
    Book, 2015New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015. — F HIJUELOS
  • For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
    Book, 2009New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2009. — F CISNEROS
  • A collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal and the echoes of intimacy.
    eBook, 2012Penguin Publishing Group, 2012
  • When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, [2017] — YF SANCHEZ
  • A novel inspired by true events follows the experiences of an Illinois adventurer who gives his life to fight beside other activists in 1960s El Salvador.
    Book, 2020New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — F TOBAR
  • Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.
    Book, 2014New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. — F HENRIQUEZ
  • Winner of the Nobel Prize. A tale of romance and heartbreak across time. Hauntingly powerful and lyrically descriptive.
    Book, 2003New York : Vintage, 2003. — F GARCIA MARQUEZ