This Latine & Hispanic Heritage Month, honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latine Americans by diving into these recently released titles! From romance to memoir to self-help, these books uplift diverse Latine and Hispanic voices across countries and communities.
My Fair Señor by Alana Quintana Albertson
Fed up with non-Hispanic tequila brands asking for his support and wanting to reinvent his role in his family’s fast-food empire, model and influencer Jaime Montez decides to start his own liquor brand. He knows just who to ask for help: his college romance and mezcal bar owner Alma Garcia. Jaime offers a simple deal that benefits them both, but with their intoxicating chemistry threatening to become something more, is this love worth the shot?
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Property of the Revolution by Ana Hebra Flaster
When Ana Hebra Flaster’s family was expelled from Havana for opposing communism, they fled to New Hampshire and began rebuilding their lives as Cuban Americans. Woven throughout with pivotal historical events and stories about her elders’ lives, this is a story of rebirth and resilience.
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The Latina Anti-Diet: A Dietitian’s Guide to Authentic Health that Celebrates Culture and Full-Flavor Living by Dalina Soto
Although intuitive eating has begun to overtake toxic diet culture, it leaves out a fundamental ingredient: culture. In this guide, Soto equips readers with tools to enjoy food in a way that honors your culture and your body.
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I Am Worthy by Christine Gutierrez
Gutierrez, a psychotherapist who focuses on helping clients reclaim their sense of self-worth, gives insight about dismantling colonial ideologies through prioritizing rest and community. This book is packed with rituals, ceremonies, meditations, and more in order to guide the reader towards the truths buried within them.
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Guatemalan Rhapsody by Jared Lemus
This debut story collection creates a vivid, atmospheric portrait of Guatemala and its people. From a man who worships the patron saint of alcohol and cigarettes to amateur tattoo artists competing for first place and a woman’s love, each character’s ties to their family and country are tested in a way that asks: Is the ability to change our destinies entirely in our hands?
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The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo
At thirty-five, Dolores loses her last living family member, but her deceased relatives are still very much present with their unsolicited opinions. All the while, the deathbed promise to return to her birthplace in Colombia haunts her. Breaking things off with her boyfriend, losing her job, and having to take care of the family home in Minneapolis tether Dolores to the US. But when an old flame steps in and offers to housesit, Dolores sets off with a hand-drawn map to find out who and where she came from.
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The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora by Elena Sheppard
Elena Sheppard’s grandparents described Cuba as nearly idyllic—before Fidel Castro seized power and put her grandfather on the list of political undesirables, forcing the family to flee to Florida. Though she was the first in the family to be born in the US, stories of the island became the foundation of Elena’s adolescence. Blending personal narrative, cultural myths, and historical texts, this is an exploration of inheritance, generational trauma, and longing for a place you can never truly know.
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Rosa By Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
Rosa is allowed to attend her high school thanks to the Brown v. Board of Education verdict for desegregation, but she secretly passes as Rosie, a white girl, for her own safety. But when her best friend Ramon and her classmate Julianne fall in love and are met with a horrifying tragedy, scandal erupts and Rosa’s identity is exposed. With help from Ramon’s brooding brother Marco, Rosa must choose between protecting her future or risking it all to seek justice.
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My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
Emilia, the daughter of an Irish nun and a Chilean aristocrat, has grown into an independent woman and a formidable writer. As a reporter for The Daily Examiner, she gets the opportunity to cover the civil war in Chile, and she seizes the opportunity along with Eric, another talented reporter. While in Chile, Emilia meets her estranged father and investigates the roots of the war, even as love blossoms between her and Eric. But the war quickly escalates, putting Emilia’s life and destiny in harrowing danger.
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Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience by D. Esperanza
This memoir follows a thirteen-year-old boy who, after the death of his caregivers in Honduras, traveled with three cousins to the US to reunite with his parents. However, the boys are separated at the border, and he was sent to a facility with no communication about how long he would be there or where he would be sent to next. Over the next five months, he kept a journal chronicling the immeasurable pain and senseless cruelty he experienced, but also the friendship and resilience forged in the darkest of places.
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Malinalli by Veronica Chapa
Known by many names, Malinalli was the Nahua interpreter who facilitated communication between Hernán Cortés and the native people of Mexico. At the time, she was viewed as a goddess, but modern historians view her as a traitor and a villain who doomed Mexico’s fate to the conquistadors’ hands. This novel peels back those preconceptions and reveals Malinalli for who she truly was: a girl kidnapped into slavery by age twelve fighting for survival in a complex web of language, empire, and sisterhood.
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