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• In the Time of the Butterflies

  Alvarez, Julia

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  A fictional account of the young lives of Mirabal sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, otherwise known in the Dominican Republic as Las Mariposas, describes their suffering and martyrdom in the last days of the Trujillo dictatorship. Also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  [a Novel]

  Díaz, Junot, 1968-

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  Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. Also available in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dominicana

  Cruz, Angie,

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  Draws on the author's mother's story in a tale set in a turbulent 1960s Dominican Republic, where a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family's immigration to America. Also available in other formats.

• Neruda on the Park

  a Novel

  Natera, Cleyvis,

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  While her mother, an elder in a predominantly Dominican part of NYC, devises increasingly dangerous schemes to stop construction of luxury condos, her daughter, an associate at a top Manhattan law firm, becomes distracted by a romance with the white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Caribbean Heiress in Paris

  a Novel

  Herrera, Adriana (Romance author),

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  Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What's Mine and Yours

  a Novel

  Coster, Naima, 1986-

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  Integrated into a predominantly white high school, an anxious young Black student and a half-Latina whose mother would have her pass as white join a bridge-building school play that shapes the trajectory of their adult lives.Also available in other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Touch of Moonlight

  A Novel

  Santos, Yaffa S.

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  Despite being a ciguapa, a mythical Dominican creature with backward feet, Larimar tries to live normally and finally meets someone she can be herself with but is alarmed that he works for a competing bakery chain.

• Family Lore

  a Novel

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rock Eaters

  Stories

  Peynado, Brenda, 1985-

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  Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. Also available in other formats.

• High Spirits

  Gomera-Tavarez, Camille

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  This collection of 11 interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora explore machismo, mental health and identity by following one extended family across multiple generations. Also available in other formats.

• This Is How You Lose Her

  Díaz, Junot, 1968-

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  A collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal and the echoes of intimacy. Also available in other formats.

• Plantains and Our Becoming

  Marte, Melania-Luisa,

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  An imaginative, blistering, beautifully written poetry collection about identity and history on the island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to celebrate and center the Black Diasporic experience.

• Something to Declare

  Alvarez, Julia

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  The author traces her life as the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and her efforts to assimilate and to become a writer.

• Bird of Paradise

  How I Became Latina

  Cepeda, Raquel

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  Chronicles the author's quest to find out about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing findings, stories, and the controversies around Latino identity.