Hispanic Fiction

	Final Acts by Alex Abella	An attorney and cult expert is accused of a string of murders he did not commit. He partners with a beautiful Mexican American lawyer to clear his name.
	Aztec Love God by Tony Diaz	Coming of age story about Tiofilio Duarte, a Mexican American high school student who dreams of becoming a stand up comic called the Aztec Love God.
	Monkey Hunting by Cristina Garcia	In 1857, when Che Pan signs a contract that will take him from China “beyond the edge of the world to Cuba” he has no idea that he will be enslaved on a sugarcane plantation from which he escapes to a prosperous life as patriarch of a large family.

Santa Evita	by Tomas E. Martinez	After Evita dies and her husband has her remains preserved, those who have contact with her corpse seem to have bad luck.
Death In the Andes	by Mario Vargas Llosa	A story about Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomas, who have been assigned to treacherous guard duty in an isolated, run-down mining community in the mountains of Peru.
What It Takes To Get To Vegas	by Yxta Maya Murray	Rita Zapata, looking for a way out of East L.A., latches onto a promising boxer from Mexico. Hope soon follows, but inevitably dissipates when betrayal and social upheaval come her way.
The Big Banana	by Roberto Quesada	Eduardo Lin arrives in New York City from Honduras during the late 1980s to pursue his dream of becoming a famous movie star.
Moony's Road To Hell	by Manuel Ramos	The setting is Denver Colorado’s Larimer street area where a murder of an INS agent occurs. It’s up to private investigator Danny Mora, known to his closest friends as Moony, to solve the case.
Caramelo	by Sandra Cisneros	For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, her life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, which she tries to rise above.
In the Name of Salome	by Julia Alvarez	Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and brothers, before seeking a place for herself following the days before the Cuban revolution.
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