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SJPL Picks: Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with fiction and non-fiction by these great authors

San José Public Library

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  • "Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers—and hearts—in ruins." "Forced to co-lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle with her nemesis, archaeologist Dr. Corrie Mejía realizes…
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — FICTION Segura
  • "Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican Legend, and must summon everything…
    BookNew York : Del Rey, [2023] — FICTION Castro
  • "The award-winning Mexican author recounts the story of her younger sister's murder by an abusive ex-boyfriend and her struggles to come to terms with the pain of a life cut short."
    BookNew York : Hogarth, [2023] — 362.882 RiveraGa
  • "A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2022. — FICTION Grande
  • "Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Xochitl Gonzalez's Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2022. — FICTION Gonzalez
  • "Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracán. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria.…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperVia, 2022. — FICTION NavarroA
  • "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana."
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, [2022] — FICTION Natera
  • "When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding…
    BookNew York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — 796.522 VASQUEZL Vasquezl
  • "On a Night of a Thousand Stars" speaks to relationships, morality, and identity during a brutal period in Argentinian history, and the understanding -- and redemption -- people crave in the face of unspeakable tragedy"
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — FICTION Clark
  • "1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act,…
    BookNew York : One World, [2022] — FICTION FajardoA
  • "Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2022] — 818.603 ROJASCON RojasCon
  • "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."
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2022] — FICTION Canas
  • "From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice."
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — FICTION Quade
  • "Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back…
    BookNew York : Avid Reader Press, 2021. — FICTION Engel
  • "This is an inspired exploration of home, family, memory, and belonging, narrated by the obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty."
    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — 812.6 HUDES Hudes
  • "WHAT'S MINE AND YOURS is a sweeping, rich tapestry of familial bond and identity, and a sharp, poignant look at the ways race affects even the closest of relationships. This is not just one love story, but many: It's the all-consuming…
    BookNew York ; Boston : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FICTION Coster
  • "A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born."
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — FICTION Garcia
  • ""For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and…
    BookNew York : Seal Press, 2021. — 305.488 MojicaRo
  • "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"-- Provided…
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. — FICTION Alvarez
  • "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…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — 813.6 HERNANDE Hernande