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  • Wolf on the Trail

    From Miami to San Juan to Loisaida

    As a young man, D.I. Wolf fought in the Spanish Civil War--on the losing side. He later survived Auschwitz, while losing his wife, his six-year-old daughter and other family members. His continuing quest to build a new life has brought him to the New World.It is now the 1980s in Miami, where Wolf meets a real estate mogul who claims that his disappeared wife was taken from him. The realtor offers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Cuba Diaries

    An American Housewife in Havana

    Isadora Tattlin is the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana in the 1990s. Wisely, the witty Mrs. Tattlin began a diary the day her husband informed her of their new assignment. One of the first entries is her shopping list of things to take, including six gallons of shampoo. For although the Tattlins were provided with a wonderful, big house in Havana, complete with a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Dancing Aztecs

    When sixteen copies of a famous Aztec statue arrive in New York, men will die to find out which one is the real thingA small South American republic has decided to capitalize on its national symbol: a prized gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest. The president asks a sculptor to make sixteen copies of it for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with one of his fakes, and ships the real ... Read more

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  • The Pot Thief Who Studied Georgia O'Keeffe

    Series Book 7 - The Pot Thief Mysteries
    This Southwest-set tale about a hunt for a precious relic offers a "nice mix of comedy and mystery" from an award-winning author ( Booklist).A dealer in traditional Native American pottery, Hubie Schuze scours New Mexico in search of ancient treasures. The Bureau of Land Management calls him a criminal, but Hubie knows that the real injustice would be to leave the legacies of prehistoric ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Americana

    A Memoir

    La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simón, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown’s Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with a Cuban man named Luis and dive headlong into a culture defined by beauty, humor, and grace within the unnerving ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Things We Didn't Know

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe USA TODAY bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical and “wonderfully compelling” (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores identity and belonging through a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.Andrea ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sweetness in the Lime

    "Part love story, part mystery, this engrossing tale of Cuban-Canadian connections . . . gets to the heart of what can happen when we cross borders." —Karen Dubinsky, author of Cuba Beyond the BeachEli Cooper is a resolutely single, fifty-something newspaper copy editor. He spends his nights obsessing over reporters' unnecessary "thats" and his days caring for a demented father he knows should be ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pot Thief Mysteries Volume Two

    The Pot Thief Who Studied Escoffier, The Pot Thief Who Studied D. H. Lawrence, and The Pot Thief Who Studied Billy the Kid

    Series series The Pot Thief Mysteries
    Albuquerque pottery dealer/treasure hunter/sleuth Hubie Schuze is back digging up trouble—in this collection of three books from the "smartly funny" series (Anne Hillerman, author of Spider Woman's Daughter).A dealer in ancient Native American pottery, Hubert Schuze has spent years searching the public lands of New Mexico for artwork that would otherwise remain buried. According to the US ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizen Illegal

    "Olivarez steps into the 'inbetween' standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity" ( Newsweek).Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR.In this "devastating debut" ( Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuba 15

    by Nancy Osa ...
    For fans of Matt de la Peña and Sandra Cisneros comes a novel about family and identity, where Violet Paz prepares for her quinceañero and learns about her Cuban heritage.Violet Paz has just turned fifteen, a pivotal birthday in the eyes of her Cuban grandmother. Fifteen is the age when a girl enters womanhood, traditionally celebrating the occasion with a quinceañero.But while Violet is half ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

    “Looking at the faces, they speak to her. Don’t think you’re different, they say. Trust us, they’ll hunt you to the world’s end. We, too, wanted to live a good life, but how can you when they keep you from living with dignity? Freedom, that is all that matters.”Julian Zabalbeascoa’s stories have been published or will appear in American Short Fiction, The Common, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Abuela, Don't Forget Me

    by Rex Ogle ...
    **A Finalist for the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award.Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy.**In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful ... Read more

    $8.29 USD