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[2022] Carina Press
393 pages ; 21 cm
[2022] Harlequin Audio
Unabridged.
1 audio disc (CD MP3) (approximately 12 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
2022 Carina Press
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
2022 Carina Press
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance from Lush Money author Angelina M. Lopez. Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The "poor handsome man." Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra "Alex" Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration;...
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On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRANDE, R.
1 available
FICTION GRANDE, R.
1 available
2022. Atria Books
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
370 pages : map ; 24 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GRANDE, R.
1 available
FICTION GRANDE, R.
1 available
2022. Simon And Schuster
Unabridged.
11 audio discs (13 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2022 Washington Square Press
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2022 Washington Square Press
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2022. Blackstone Publishing
Large print edition.
617 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with Mexico over the disputed Rio Grande boundary. Ximena Salomé 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's memory and defend her country,...
Author
[2022] Graydon House
319 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at the ridiculous Cape Cod mansion of stupid-hot playboy...
Author
Series
Chicago saga volume 1
Formats:
2021. Agora Books
First hardcover edition.
303 pages ; 22 cm
[2021] Findaway World, LLC
1 audio media player (555 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister's body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he's looking for payment he's owed from her. Lauren's torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a promise...
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On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Biography
BIOG SANCHEZ, E.
1 available
BIOG SANCHEZ, E.
1 available
[2022] Viking
xv, 239 pages ; 24 cm
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Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Biography
BIOG SANCHEZ, E.
1 available
BIOG SANCHEZ, E.
1 available
2022 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
2022 Penguin Publishing Group
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny"--
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[2022] Del Rey
First edition.
306 pages ; 25 cm
eAudiobook
2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
eBook
2022 Random House Worlds
Libby/OverDrive
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
2022 Random House Worlds
Libby/OverDrive
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
[2022] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
431 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
[2022] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (11 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past...
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Formats:
2022. Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
First edition.
308 pages ; 25 cm
[2022] Hachette Book Group
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (10 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
[2022] Hachette Book Group
Unabridged.
8 audio discs 0 : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2022 Hachette Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
Description
From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's 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's cash shipment before...
8) Dominicana
Author
2019. Flatiron Books
First edition.
322 pages ; 25 cm
[2019] Macmillan Audio
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (approximately 10 hr., 13 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2019 Macmillan Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
eBook
2019 Flatiron Books
Libby/OverDrive
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
2019 Flatiron Books
Libby/OverDrive
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
2020. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
515 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
Author
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROJAS CONTRERAS, I.
1 available
FICTION ROJAS CONTRERAS, I.
1 available
[2018] Doubleday
First edition.
viii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROJAS CONTRERAS, I.
1 available
FICTION ROJAS CONTRERAS, I.
1 available
2018 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2018 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large Print edition.
521 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
[2018] Random House Audio
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 12 hours, 30 minutes) : digital, HD audio ; 9 x 6 cm
Description
"Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission...
10) The hacienda
Author
[2022] Berkley
345 pages ; 24 cm
2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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3 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
2022 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
2022 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
2022. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Large print edition.
507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches ... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize...
Author
1991. Vintage Books
First Vintage contemporaries edition.
x, 110 pages ; 21 cm.
2009 Vintage Contemporaries
Second Vintage Comtemporaries edition.
xxvii, 110 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
1994. Alfred A. Knopf
xx, 134 pages ; 18 cm
2007. Alfred A. Knopf
xx, 134 pages ; 18 cm
1999. Knopf
xx, 134 pages ; 18 cm
[2005] Random House Audiobooks
2 audio discs (2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[20--, ©1983] Braillebooks.com
1 volume (95 pages) of braille ; 28 cm
2020 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
eBook
2013 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
2013 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
171 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
Author
2016. Henry Holt and Company
First edition.
257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Biography
BIOG GUERRERO, D.
1 available
BIOG GUERRERO, D.
1 available
2017. St. Martin's Griffin
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported to Colombia while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without...
Author
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CORDOVA, Z.
1 available
FICTION CORDOVA, Z.
1 available
2021. Atria Books
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
xii, 324 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CORDOVA, Z.
1 available
FICTION CORDOVA, Z.
1 available
[2021] Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
2021 Atria Books
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Atria Books
Libby/OverDrive
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2022. Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
515 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
Description
"The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed,...
Author
Series
Like water for chocolate volume 1
Formats:
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Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESQUIVEL, L.
1 available
FICTION ESQUIVEL, L.
1 available
[1992] Doubleday
First edition.
245 pages ; 20 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESQUIVEL, L.
1 available
FICTION ESQUIVEL, L.
1 available
2002 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2002 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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1993. Curley Large Print
Large print edition.
287 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
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.
Author
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2019. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION LUISELLI, V.
1 available
FICTION LUISELLI, V.
1 available
2020. Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
First Vintage Books edition.
361 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm
Available Online
2019 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
639 pages (large print) : photographs ; 23 cm.
Description
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria:...
Author
Series
Primas of power volume 2
Formats:
[2021]. Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
First edition.
402 pages ; 21 cm
[2021] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
17) Mexican gothic
Author
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
1 available
FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
1 available
[2020] Del Rey
First edition.
301 pages ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
1 available
FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
1 available
2021. Del Rey
Del Rey trade paperback edition.
334 pages ; 21 cm
2020 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
eBook
2020 Random House Worlds
Libby/OverDrive
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
2020 Random House Worlds
Libby/OverDrive
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
[2021] Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
487 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
Author
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Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
1 available
FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
1 available
[2022] William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
435 pages ; 24 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
1 available
FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
1 available
[2022] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
11 audio discs (14 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
2022. Blackstone
Unabridged.
## audio disc (# hr., # min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2022] Harper Collins Publishers
Unabridged.
11 audio discs (approximately 830 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2022] HarperAudio/HarperCollins Publishers
Unabridged.
1 audio disc (MP3) (approximately 840 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2022 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
[2022] Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First Harper Large Print edition.
645 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
[2022] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (14 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
An evocative drama about a woman caught leading a double life after one husband murders the other, and the true-crime writer who becomes obsessed with telling her story--this masterful work of literary suspense marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. In 1985, Dolores "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...
19) My beloved world
Author
2014. Vintage Books
First Vintage Books edition.
398 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
2013. Knopf
ix, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Biography
BIOG SOTOMAYOR, S.
1 available
BIOG SOTOMAYOR, S.
1 available
[2013] Books on Tape
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (748 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2013 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
eBook
2013 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2013 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2013
Large print edition.
579 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
2014. Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large print edition.
577 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm
[2013] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 12 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...
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Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NATERA, C.
1 available
FICTION NATERA, C.
1 available
[2022] Ballantine Books
First edition.
324 pages ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Elmwood Park Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NATERA, C.
1 available
FICTION NATERA, C.
1 available
[2022] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
477 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
Description
"An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, quietly devises...