Hispanic Heritage Month

Vampires of El Norte
By Isabel Cañas (Fic Cana Q Cana eBook eAudio)
When the US attacks Mexico in 1846, Nena, a healer striving to prove her worth, and Néstor, a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros, find their reunion overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.
Silver Nitrate
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Fic More Q More eBook eAudio)
Helping a horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristan start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
Family Lore
By Elizabeth Acevedo (Fic Acev eBook eAudio)
Flor can predict when someone will die. So, when she decides she wants a living wake to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led, her family wonders what she has seen.
Las Madres
By Esmeralda Santiago (Fic Sant eBook eAudio)
Returning to Puerto Rico to help her mother learn more about her early life, Marysol, along with her mother's friends "las Madres" and their daughter Graciela, finds the trip disrupted by two hurricanes and a secret that blows their lives wide open, in this powerful novel of women's sexuality, shame, disability and love.
Olga Dies Dreaming
By Xochitl Gonzalez (Fic Gonz Q Gonz CD Fic Gonz)
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms.
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By Angie Cruz (Fic Cruz Q Cruz eBook eAudio)
Cara is forced to find a new job. But as a woman in her fifties, this is not easy. She seeks out the help of a counselor and through her sessions begins to share the stories of her life – both good and bad.
Where There Was Fire
By John Manuel Arias (Fic Aria eBook eAudio)
When a lethal fire erupts in 1968 at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation in Costa Rica burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde’s family is changed forever.
The Haunting of Alejandra
By V. Castro (Fic Cast)
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican Legend, and must summon everything she's inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
Neruda on the Park
By Cleyvis Natera (Fic Nate Q Nate)
The Guerreros live in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands to stop construction of the luxury condos.
Say Hello to My Little Friend
By Jennine Capó Crucet (Fic Cruc)
Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it.
The Bullet Swallower
By Elizabeth Gonzalez James (W Gonz CD W Gonz eBook eAudio)
A Mexican bandido sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.
Sun of Blood and Ruin
By Mariely Lares (Fic Lare eBook eAudio)
In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule--and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
Like Happiness
By Ursula Villarreal-Moura (Fic Vill eBook eAudio)
Tatum Vega feels her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. More than anything else, she loves this life for helping her forget the decade she spent in New York City.
Catalina
By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (Fic Corn Q Corn eBook eAudio)
Harvard student Catalina Ituralde, who escaped death in Latin America, confronts her mysterious past and uncertain future as she approaches graduation, all while navigating the complexities of love and freedom.
A Dish Best Served Hot
By Natalie Caña (Fic Cana)
A stressed-out single dad and caregiver to his mischievous abuelo butts heads and creates sparks with a teacher and social justice advocate in the second novel of the series following A Proposal They Can't Refuse.