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National Hispanic Heritage Month 2024

Celebrated annually from September 15 to October 15, National Hispanic Heritage Month recognizes the far-reaching influence and diverse contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. Check out these recent fictional works by Latinx authors and discover a wealth of literary voices from across the Americas.

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  • When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she…
    Book, 2024Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024. — F ALV
  • Ernesto and Elena Vega arrive in Mexico City where Ernesto works on a construction site until he is discovered by a local lucha libre trainer. At a time when luchadores-Mexican wrestlers donning flamboyant masks and capes-were treated as daredevils…
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024 — F ESP
  • On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed-all those birds were once women. Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical…
    Book, 2024London ; New York : Hogarth, [2024] — F HOR ENR
  • 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill,…
    Large Print, 2024[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. — LP F GON
  • When a daring Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her... Isabel Luna Valdaes has long since resigned herself to being the "forgotten" Luna sister. But thanks to…
    Streaming Audiobook, 2024New York : Books on Tape, 2024.
  • In There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange dreamlike worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable. Boundaries between the past, present, and future are blurred. Menacing…
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, [2024] — F REY
  • Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates…
    Large Print, 2024New York : Random House Large Print, [2024]. — LP F COR
  • In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu…
    eBook, 2024New York : Viking, 2024.
  • For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. "Estamos rodeados de fantasmas" was Gabe's grandmother's refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time…
    Book, 2024New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2024. — F HOR IGL
  • 1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to be Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film's mercurial director casts an unknown Mexican ingenue in…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024] — F MOR
  • It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the…
    eBook, 2024New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
  • Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy--a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can…
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — F CRU
  • Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep…
    Large Print, 2024[Waterville, ME] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2024. — LP F ROM SEG
  • In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the…
    eBook, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
  • A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador's brutal dictator, El Gran Pendejo, and their flight from genocide, which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to cannery row, each followed by a chorus of furies,…
    Book, 2024New York : Pantheon Books, [2024] — F BAL
  • Craft

    Stories I Wrote for the Devil

    Lima, Ananda
    At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling…
    Streaming Audiobook, 2024[United States] : Dreamscape Media, 2024. — eAudiobook hoopla
  • A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer. It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in…
    Book, 2024New York : Celadon Books, 2024. — F VIL