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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to be other? This question murmurs in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
63) Frontera
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley and imprint of HarperColins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with the help of a new friend, a ghost named Guillermo in a supernatural borderland odyssey by debut graphic novelists Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo. As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost and Close Your Eyes comes a beautiful and heartrending novel about motherhood, resilience, and faith--a ripped-from-the-headlines story of two families on both sides of the American border. Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a loving marriage and thriving business, but Alice still feels that something is missing,...
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Language
English
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"A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home)....
68) Devotion
Author
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the village of Kay in Prussia, 1836, Hanne Nussbaum would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. Hanne is friendless and misunderstood ... until she meets Thea. When Hanne and her family are forced to flee religious persecution, they board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hardship, the beauty of whale song enters Hanne's heart, along with...
69) Fathomfolk
Author
Series
Drowned world volume 1
Publisher
Orbit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Tiankawi -- shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that's how it first appears. But in the semi-flooded city, humans are, quite literally, on top: peering down from shining towers and aerial walkways on the fathomfolk -- sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappas -- who live in the polluted waters below. For half-siren Mira, promotion to captain of the border guard means an opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Suma de letras
Pub. Date
julio de 2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Una novela sobre el amor y la lealtad. Milagros es una de esas aldeas gallegas donde los hombres emigran y las mujeres esperan. Lola pactó con su marido, Manuel, que estaría tres años en Argentina, pero tras un par de vistas, él dejó de dar señales de vida. Mientras el resto de los vecinos regresa de América, Lola mantiene su vida en suspenso, buscando justificaciones para la falta de noticias de Manuel. Su principal apoyo es Pablo, su cuñado,...
71) Call me Iggy
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with the likes of Iggy. She has school, work, family, and the uphill battle of getting her legal papers. As Iggy stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito...
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