The dance becomes an affair, which becomes a marriage, which becomes a murder…<\/em><\/p>\n In 1985, Lore Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo, Texas, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international banker, Lore splits her time between two countries and two families\u2014until the truth is revealed and one husband is arrested for murdering the other.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2017, while trawling the internet for the latest, most sensational news reports, struggling true-crime writer Cassie Bowman encounters an article detailing that tragic final act. Cassie is immediately enticed by what is not explored: Why would a woman\u2014a mother\u2014risk everything for a secret double marriage? Cassie sees an opportunity\u2014she\u2019ll track Lore down and capture the full picture, the choices, the deceptions that led to disaster. But the more time she spends with Lore, the more Cassie questions the facts surrounding the murder itself. Soon, her determination to uncover the truth could threaten to derail Lore\u2019s now quiet life\u2014and expose the many secrets both women are hiding.<\/em><\/p>\n Told through alternating timelines, More Than You\u2019ll Ever Know is both a gripping mystery and a wrenching family drama. Presenting a window into the hearts of two very different women, it explores the many conflicting demands of marriage and motherhood, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing someone\u2014especially those we love.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.<\/em><\/p>\n Luz \u201cLittle Light\u201d Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors\u2019 origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.<\/em><\/p>\n Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine\u2019s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love\u2014filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n It’s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro \u201cPrieto\u201d Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan\u2019s power brokers.<\/em><\/p>\n Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1 percent but she can\u2019t seem to find her own. . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.<\/em><\/p>\n Olga and Prieto\u2019s mother, Blanca, a Young Lord turned radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico\u2019s history, Xochitl Gonzalez\u2019s Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dream\u2014all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino\u2019s unforgettable debut novel follows a remarkable group of survivors searching for hope on an island torn apart by both natural disaster and human violence.<\/em><\/p>\n Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the hurac\u00e1n. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria.<\/em><\/p>\n Urayo\u00e1n, the idealistic, yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The paradise he preaches lures in the young, including Bayfish, a boy on the cusp of manhood, and Morivivi, a woman whose outward toughness belies an inner tenderness for her friends. But as the different members of Memoria navigate Urayo\u00e1n\u2019s fiery rise, they will need to confront his violent authoritarian impulses in order to find a way to reclaim their home.<\/em><\/p>\n Velorio\u2014meaning \u201cwake\u201d\u2014is a story of strength, resilience, and hope; a tale of peril and possibility buoyed by the deeply held belief in a people\u2019s ability to unite against those corrupted by power.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.<\/em><\/p>\n Through her father\u2019s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling.<\/em><\/p>\n She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women\u2019s rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and ultimately not one, but two pandemics.<\/em><\/p>\n Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n It\u2019s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother\u2019s house, setting her life on a startling new path.<\/em><\/p>\n Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby\u2019s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo\u2019s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel\u2019s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn\u2019t speaking to; and disapproving T\u00edve, Yolanda\u2019s uncle and keeper of the family\u2019s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn\u2019t think he can live up to.<\/em><\/p>\n The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as \u201clegitimate masterpieces\u201d (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory\u2019s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa\u2019s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history\u2014the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade\u2014witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.<\/em><\/p>\n A Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival, regeneration, and reclamation of common humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n Readers are invited to join Pola in her journey to healing. From the sadistic barbarity of her first experiences, she moves on to receive compassion and support from a revitalizing new community. Along the way, she learns to recognize and embrace the many faces of love\u2014a mother\u2019s love, a daughter\u2019s love, a sister\u2019s love, a love of community, and the self-love that she must recover before she can offer herself to another. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance.<\/em><\/p>\n The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with M\u00e9xico over the disputed R\u00edo Grande boundary.\u200b<\/em><\/p>\n Ximena Salom\u00e9 is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband\u2019s memory and defend her country, Ximena uses her healing skills as an army nurse on the frontlines of the ravaging war.<\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile, John Riley, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army desperate to help his family escape the famine devastating his homeland, is sickened by the unjust war and the unspeakable atrocities against his countrymen by nativist officers. In a bold act of defiance, he swims across the R\u00edo Grande and joins the Mexican Army\u2014a desertion punishable by execution. He forms the St. Patrick\u2019s Battalion, a band of Irish soldiers willing to fight to the death for M\u00e9xico\u2019s freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n When Ximena and John meet, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history, they fight not only for the fate of a nation but for their future together.<\/em><\/p>\n Heartbreaking and lyrical, Reyna Grande\u2019s spellbinding saga, inspired by true events and historical figures, brings these two unforgettable characters to life and illuminates a largely forgotten moment in history that impacts the US-M\u00e9xico border to this day.<\/em><\/p>\n Will Ximena and John survive the chaos of this bitter war, or will their love be devoured along with the land they strive to defend?<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman.<\/em><\/p>\n Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers.<\/em><\/p>\n The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor\u2019s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities.<\/em><\/p>\n All of them live in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau\u2019s patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction.<\/em><\/p>\n For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and, in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception<\/em><\/p>\n Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth\u2014all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.<\/em><\/p>\n Hernan Diaz\u2019s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another\u2014and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.<\/em><\/p>\n At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n The Guerreros have lived 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 by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos. Meanwhile, Eusebia\u2019s daughter, Luz, a rising associate at a top Manhattan law firm who strives to live the bougie lifestyle her parents worked hard to give her, becomes distracted by a sweltering romance with the handsome white developer at the company her mother so vehemently opposes.<\/em><\/p>\n As Luz\u2019s father, Vladimir, secretly designs their retirement home in the Dominican Republic, mother and daughter collide, ramping up tensions in Nothar Park, racing toward a near-fatal climax.<\/em><\/p>\n A beautifully layered portrait of family, friendship, and ambition, Neruda on the Park weaves a rich and vivid tapestry of community as well as the sacrifices we make to protect what we love most, announcing Cleyvis Natera as an electrifying new voice.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Boardwalk Empire meets The Vanishing Half with a touch of earth magic in this sexy and action-packed historical fantasy set in the luminous Golden Twenties from debut author Desideria Mesa, where a part-time reporter and club owner takes on crooked city councilmen, mysterious and deadly mobsters, and society\u2019s deeply rooted sexism and racism, all while keeping her true identity and magical abilities hidden\u2014inspired by an ancient Mexican folktale.<\/em><\/p>\n Yo soy quien soy. I am who I am.<\/em><\/p>\n Luna\u2014or depending on who\u2019s asking, Rose\u2014is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City\u2019s bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen and ruthless mobsters discover her ties to an immigrant boxcar community that secretly houses witches. Last thing she wants is to put her entire family in danger.<\/em><\/p>\n But this bruja with ever-growing magical abilities can never resist a good fight. With her new identity, Rose, an unabashed flapper, defies societal expectations all the while struggling to keep her true self and witchcraft in check. However, the harder she tries to avoid scrutiny, the more her efforts eventually capture unwanted attention. Soon, she finds herself surrounded by greed and every brand of bigotry\u2014from local gangsters who want a piece of the action and businessmen who hate her diverse staff to the Ku Klux Klan and Al Capone. Will her earth magic be enough to save her friends and family? As much as she hates to admit it, she may need to learn to have faith in others\u2014and learning to trust may prove to be her biggest ambition yet.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton\u2019s new novel.<\/em><\/p>\n Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel\u2019s sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel into her sister\u2019s dangerous world of espionage, but it\u2019s an unearthed piece of family history that transforms Isabel\u2019s life.<\/em><\/p>\n Barcelona, 1936. Alicia Perez arrives in Barcelona after a difficult voyage from Cuba, her marriage in jeopardy and her young daughter Isabel in tow. Violence brews in Spain, the country on the brink of civil war, the rise of fascism threatening the world. When Cubans journey to Spain to join the International Brigades, Alicia\u2019s past comes back to haunt her as she is unexpectedly reunited with the man who once held her heart.<\/em><\/p>\n Alicia and Isabel\u2019s lives intertwine, and the past and present collide, as a mother and daughter are forced to choose between their family\u2019s expectations and following their hearts.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n One month short of her wedding day\u2014and her thirtieth birthday\u2014Nadia Palacio finds herself standing up to her infuriating, cheating fianc\u00e9 for the first time in . . . well, ever. But that same courage doesn\u2019t translate to breaking the news to her Argentinian family. She\u2019s hyperventilating before facing them when she glimpses a magazine piece about a Latina woman celebrating herself\u2014with a second quincea\u00f1era, aka Sweet 15! And that gives Nadia a brilliant idea . . .<\/em><\/p>\n With a wedding venue already paid for, and family from all over the world with plane tickets, Nadia is determined to create her own happily-ever-after. Since the math adds up perfectly, she\u2019ll celebrate her treinta\u00f1era, her double quinces. As the first professional in her family, raising a glass to her achievements is the best plan she\u2019s had in years. Until she discovers that the man in charge of the venue is none other than her college fling that became far more than a fling. And he looks even more delicious than a three-tiered cake . . .<\/em><\/p>\n Full of exuberant heart, Twice a Quincea\u00f1era is a pure delight for every woman who needs to be her own biggest fan\u2014and who dreams of a second chance at first love.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.<\/em><\/p>\n Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic,\u00a0How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water\u00a0is Angie Cruz\u2019s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor\u2014an attractive married woman and mother\u2014while Polo dreams about quitting his awful job as the gated community\u2019s gardener and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Faced with the impossibility of getting what they think they deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.<\/em><\/p>\n Written in a thrilling torrent of prose by one of our most exciting new writers,\u00a0Paradais\u00a0explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society\u2014fractured by issues of race, class, and violence\u2014and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n In this contemporary debut novel\u2014an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity \u2014Andr\u00e9s, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband\u2019s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends.<\/em><\/p>\n Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andr\u00e9s falls into old habits with friends he thought he\u2019d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds.<\/em><\/p>\n Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.<\/em><\/p>\n Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He\u2019d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo, Mexican, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life, and the much more likely possibility of\u00ad \u00addeath, yet again.<\/em><\/p>\n As Solitario struggles to overcome not only the evil forces that threaten the town but also his own inner demons, he finds an unlikely source of inspiration and support in Onawa, a gifted and enchanting Apache-Mexican seer who champions his cause, daring him to open his heart and question his destiny.<\/em><\/p>\n As we follow Solitario and Onawa into the desert, we join them in facing haunting questions about the human condition that are as relevant today as they were back then: Can we rewrite our own history and shape our own future? What does it mean to belong to a place, or for a place to belong to a people? And, as lonely and defeated as we might feel, are we ever truly alone?<\/em><\/p>\n Through luminous prose and soul-searching reflections, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what’s left of his family\u2014even if it means a descent into violence.<\/em><\/p>\n Buried in debt due to his young daughter\u2019s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel\u2019s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won\u2019t return the same.<\/em><\/p>\n The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby\u2019s southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n An unforgettable debut novel about the furious loyalty of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, New York, an emotionally resonant novel infused with the insight, power, and poignancy of Angie Cruz\u2019s Dominicana, Jacqueline Woodson\u2019s Another Brooklyn, and Sally Rooney\u2019s Conversations with Friends.<\/em><\/p>\n Growing up in the \u201990s along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, Brisma and Kelly are two young Latinas with an inseparable bond, sharing everything and anything with each other. The girls are opposites: Brisma is sweet, sensitive, and observant, whereas Kelly is free-spirited, flirtatious, and bold. But together, they binge on Sour Patch Kids, listen to Boyz II Men cassette tapes, and dance to Selena and Mariah Carey where no one can see them.<\/em><\/p>\n In high school, their friendship starts to form cracks when Brisma finds herself in a relationship with Brian, a charismatic baseball star. Brisma is thrilled to finally have something\u2014someone\u2014to herself. But Kelly wasn\u2019t built to be a third wheel.<\/em><\/p>\n Years later, the Mets begin a historic run for the playoffs, and Brisma and Kelly\u2014now on the cusp of adulthood\u2014reconnect with Brian after years of silence. But then Brian is charged with sexual assault. Brisma and Kelly find themselves on opposite sides of the accusation, viewing their past and past traumas from completely different vantage points, and the two lifelong friends will have to decide if their shared history is enough to sustain their future.<\/em><\/p>\n Told in alternating timelines, Christine Kandic Torres\u2019s incredible debut explores the unbreakable bonds of friendship, complications of sexual-abuse allegations within communities of color, and the danger of forgetting that sometimes monsters hide in plain sight.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/more-than-youll-ever-know.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>More Thank You’ll Ever Know<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Katie Gutierrez<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/woman-of-light.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Woman of Light<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kali Fajardo-Anstine<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/olga-dies-dreaming.jpg?resize=263%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Olga Dies Dreaming<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Xochitl Gonzalez<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/velorio.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Velorio<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Xavier Navarro Aquino<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/violeta.jpg?resize=263%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Violeta<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Isabel Allende<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-five-wounds.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Five Wounds<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kirstin Valdez Quade<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/a-woman-of-endurance1.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>A Woman of Endurance<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/a-ballad-of-love-and-glory.jpg?resize=263%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>A Ballad of Love and Glory<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Reyna Grande<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-daughter-of-doctor-moreau.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Daughter of Doctor Moreau <\/a><\/em><\/strong>by Silvia Moreno-Garcia<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-hacienda1.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Hacienda<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Isabel Ca\u00f1as<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nBut Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined.<\/em>When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz\u2019s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo\u2019s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz\u2019s fears\u2014but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark the doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Do\u00f1a Sol\u00f3rzano?<\/em>Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will save her.<\/em>Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andr\u00e9s, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andr\u00e9s will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. But even he might not be enough to battle the darkness.<\/em>Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz\u2019s doom.<\/em><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/trust.jpg?resize=263%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Trust<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Hernan Diaz<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/neruda-on-the-park.jpg?resize=263%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Neruda on the Park<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Cleyvis Natera<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bindle-punk-bruja.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Bindle Punk Bruja<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Desideria Mesa<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/our-last-days-in-barcelona.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Our Last Days in Barcelona<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Chanel Cleeton<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/twice-a-quinceanera.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Twice a Quincea\u00f1era\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>by Yamile Saied M\u00e9ndez<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/how-not-to-drown-in-a-glass-of-water.jpg?resize=258%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Angie Cruz<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/paradais.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Paradais<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-town-of-babylon.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Town of Babylon<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Alejandro Varela<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/valley-of-shadows.jpg?resize=250%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Valley of Shadows<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Ruby Ruiz<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-devil-takes-you-home.jpg?resize=258%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Devil Takes You Home: A Barrio Noir<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Gabino Iglesias<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-girls-in-queens.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Girls in Queens<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by Christine Kandic Torres<\/p>\n