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NPR recommends books for For Hispanic Heritage Month. Pick up a book highlighting Latinx writers and stories.
The first 9 listed below are new this year.
And then there are bonus books -- also recommended! -- that have been published in the last few years, and are now, mostly, in paperback.
We have many of these available in the shop, come on in and browse! If we don't have the book, it usually just takes a few days for it to arrive -- just let us know!
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about Blackouts: A Novel
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem). “Cristina Rivera Garza wanted t...
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about Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNamed a Best Book of 2023 by NPR
“How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love—but what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.”
In this grou...
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about Promises of Gold
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“Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” —Los Angeles Review of Books * “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan * “Essential reading, a California classic.” —Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers * “Witty, confident, and effortlessly provocative.” —The Philadel...
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about Creep: Accusations and Confessions
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"Alejandro Varela’s The People Who Report More Stress: Stories is a master class in analyzing the unspoken." —The New York Times
"A searing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Alejandro Varela is one of my favorite short story writers." —Alex...
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about The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize
From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women
Flor has a gift: she can predict, t...
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about Family Lore: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
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“One of the most thoughtful meditations on our nation’s immigration policy in recent memory." —The Boston Globe
A chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States' “immigration crisis”
In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, ...
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about Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
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Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral, the James Beard Award–nominated authors of Oaxaca, are back with the first major cookbook about how to create asada—Mexican-style grilled meat—at home. In millions of backyards across Southern California, an asada means a gathering of family, friends, great music, ...
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about Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling
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WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023A TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2023, A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2023 BY CHIGAO PUBLIC LIBRARYA new book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.
In Our...
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about Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
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New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United S...
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about Solito: A Memoir
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, VULTURE, PEOPLE, BOSTON GLOBE, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, & MORE“...
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about The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERBARNES & NOBLE BESTSELLERAMAZON BESTSELLER"Paging through Serrano's Movies (and Other Things) is like taking a long drive at night with a friend; there's that warmth and familiarity where the chat is more important than the fastes...
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about Movies (And Other Things)
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#1 New York Times bestseller
Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents readers with a whole new set of pivotal and ridicul...
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about Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated
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HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things. It's a smart, fun, funny, insightful book that spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most dominant form of music these past two and a half decades. Tupac is in there. Jay Z is in there. Missy ...
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Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis--and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency. --Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books
Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with co...
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about Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
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LGBTQ advice columnist John Paul Brammer writes a “wise and charming” (David Sedaris) memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey from a queer, mixed-race kid in America’s heartland to becoming the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw” of his generation.
“A master class of tone and tenderness.” —The New York Times...
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about Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
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A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION
“A profound, beautiful novel.” —People *...
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about Infinite Country: A Novel
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This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts. "Morín's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds." —LitHub"Dios aprie...
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about Machete: Poems
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AN INDIE BESTSELLER
Most Anticipated by ELLE • Bustle • Bloomberg • Kirkus • HipLatina • SheReads • BookPage • The Millions • The Mujerista • Ms. Magazine • and more“Unflinching” —Ms. Magazine • “Phenomenal” —BookRiot • "An essential read" —Kirkus, starred review • "Necessary" —Library Journal • "Po...
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about You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification
“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures you...
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about Neruda on the Park: A Novel
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Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.
A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER!
Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.
People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. C...
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about Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
An instant New York Times bestseller!
A USA Today bestseller!
Named a Best Book of 2021 by Amazon • Esquire • Marie Claire • Refinery29 • Kirkus • Redbook • Ms. Magazine • The Millions • Undomesticated Magazine • Paperback Paris
"A once-every-few-years re...
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about What's Mine and Yours
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian IN DEVELOPMENT AS A HULU ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES PRODUCED BY KELLY RIPA AND MARK CONSUELOS • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOK...
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER
From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story
“W...
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about How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel
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