Coming Soon: Hispanic Fiction | Indian Prairie Public Library District

1) A lot like adiós: a novel

Author

Daria, Alexis

Series

Primas of power volume 2

Notes

This romance brings childhood friends back into each other's orbits, and sparks fly.

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After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...

2) Mango, mambo, and murder

Author

Reyes, Raquel V

Series

Caribbean kitchen novels volume 1

Notes

A cozy mystery starring a Cuban-American food culture scientist? Yes, please.

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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"Food anthropologist Miriam Quinones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...

3) Harsh times

Author

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Notes

A historical political thriller from a master writer.

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Book, Pre-loaded Audio

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"Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in...

4) This thing between us

Author

Moreno, Gus

Notes

A horror novel masquerading as a meditation on grief and loneliness. It can be both.

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"A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno"--

5) I was never the First Lady: a novel

Author

Guerra, Wendy

Notes

This novel is as much about Cuban history as it is about family and the relationship between mothers and daughters.

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"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...

6) Chola salvation

Author

Gonzalez, Estella

Notes

This is a bittersweet short story collection about embracing your identity.

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"Estella Gonzalez vividly captures her native East LA in these affecting stories about a marginalized people dealing with racism, machismo and poverty. In painful and sometimes humorous scenes, young people try to escape the traditional expectations of their family. Other characters struggle with anger and resentment, often finding innovative ways to exact revenge for slights both real and imagined. Throughout, music--traditional and contemporary--accompanies...