Recommended Reading
Hispanic Fiction
Isabel Allende
Raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, after being abandoned as a baby, a pregnant Eliza follows her lover, Joaquin Andieta, to California at the height of the Gold Rush and finds adventure and adversity on her road to independence and love.
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Isabel Allende
Después de ser abandonado cuando era bebé, Eliza era criada en la colonia Británica de Valparaiso, Chile. Cuando descubre que está embarazada, ella sigue su amante, Joaquin Andieta, a California durante el punto álgido de la Fiebre de Oro. Eliza encuentra aventura y adversidad por la calle a la independencia y al amor.
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Julia Alvarez
Camila, whose mother, Salomé, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution.
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Julia Alvarez
Camila es la hija de Salomé, la mujer que inspiraba la Revolución Dominicana con su poesía. Camila pasa la mayoría de su vida tratando de agradar su padre y sus hermanos, hombres importantes, antes de buscar su propia papel en los días después de la Revolución Cubana.
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Rudolfo Anaya
Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.
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Rudolfo Anaya
Éste es el cuento de un niño alienado de Nueva México. El niño busca las repuestas de sus preguntas sobre la vida por su relación con Ultima, una curandera mágica.
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Sandra Benitez
Haunted by a series of family tragedies, thirty-four-year-old Annie Rush embarks on a search for her long-lost brother, traveling from Minnesota to Mexico on a quest that tests her marriage and forces her to reevaluate her life.
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Ana Castillo
Discovering that her brother has vanished while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States, Regina, a middle-aged widow, and her nephew, Gabo, embark on a perilous search for him, joining forces with an amorous, divorced schoolteacher and his grandfather, as well as a priest losing his faith.
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Sandra Cisneros
During her family’s annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped (or caramelo) shawl has come into Lala’s possession, in a multi-generational saga of a Mexican-American family.
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Sandra Cisneros
Lala Reyes escucha las historias de su familia durante su viaje anual por coche entre Chicago y la Ciudad de México. Muchas de éstas historias son de su abuela, la descendiente de fabricantes de rebozos famosos, y Lala tiene posesión de su rebozo de rayas (o caramelo) magnífico. La historia de generaciones de la familia de Lala está entretejida con los cordones del rebozo.
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Junot Díaz
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
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Junot Díaz
Oscar de León, un joven inadaptado de Nueva Jersey, vive con su madre de los tiempos antiguos y su hermana rebelde, pero el quiere convertirse en el próximo J.R.R. Tolkien. Oscar cree que una maldición duradera de su familia esté desbaratando sus esfuerzos de encontrar el amor y la felicidad.
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Laura Esquivel
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
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Laura Esquivel
Aunque Tita, la menor de tres hijas de un ranchero tiránico, está enamorado con un hombre, ella tiene que obedecer una tradición de su familia que requiere que la hija menor permanece soltera y en casa para cuidar de la madre.
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Yxta Maya Murray
A second installment in the series that began with The Queen Jade finds bookshop owner Lola Sanchez swept up in the adventure of her life when she comes into the possession of a centuries-old document tracing the legend of a werewolf alchemist and a hidden cache of gold.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexpectedly deadly turn, he realizes he is in the employ of one of the Spanish Inquisition’s most dangerous figures.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Alatriste, un soldado herido del siglo diecisiete en España, trabaja como esgrimista en Madrid. Cuando un trabajo llega a ser mortal, él se da cuento que él está empleado por uno de las figuras más peligrosas de la Inquisición Española.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author’s works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Un joven se llama Daniel elige un libro de una biblioteca de libros raros, y lo le gusta suficiente que busca todas otras obras por el autor. Pero Daniel descubre que alguien está destruyendo cada libro que el autor ha escrito.
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Javier Sierra
Sent by Pope Alejandro VI to oversee the completion of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at the beginning of 1497, Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the master artist’s omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that a mysterious message has been coded into the painting.
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Javier Sierra
En 1497, el Inquisidor Dominicano, Fray Augustin Leyre, está enviado por el Papa Alejandro VI para supervisar la compleción de “La Última Cena” por Leonardo Da Vinci. Leyre investiga la omisión de elementos importantes y el uso de imágenes simbólicos por el artista, todo lo que sugiere que un mensaje misterioso ha sido codificado en la pintura.
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