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Cantoras

by De Robertis, Carolina

Book - 2019

Five women survive decades under brutal dictatorships, carving out a safe-ish queer life to achieve healing. Yet Malena will haunt you. Five women survive decades under brutal dictatorships, carving out a safe-ish queer life to achieve healing. Yet Malena will haunt you. Show less

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Once I Was You

A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

by Hinojosa, Maria

Downloadable Audiobook - 2020

A memoir that is equal parts U.S. immigration, U.S. politics, and the examination of self. Bring tissue. The brutality she survives will squeeze your heart. A memoir that is equal parts U.S. immigration, U.S. politics, and the examination of self. Bring tissue. The brutality she survives will squeeze your heart. Show less

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Tender Is the Flesh

A Novel

by Bazterrica, Agustina María

Book - 2020

Orwellian wordsmithing sanitizes the language around cannibalism in a dystopian future. It explores the horror of how easily we participate in this futuristic terror. Orwellian wordsmithing sanitizes the language around cannibalism in a dystopian future. It explores the horror of how easily we participate in this futuristic terror. Show less

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Unforgetting

A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

by Lovato, Roberto

Book - 2020

"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder." Traumatology is the science of making the bones speak. You will shiver while crying. "Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder." Traumatology is the science of making the bones speak. You will shiver while crying. Show less

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You Sound Like a White Girl

The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

by Arce, Julissa

eBook - 2022

Assimilation does not create safety in our country. Chapter 4 will burst your tear ducts when she covers the ones we have lost. Assimilation does not create safety in our country. Chapter 4 will burst your tear ducts when she covers the ones we have lost. Show less

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A Tall Dark Trouble

by Montalban, Vanessa

Book - 2023

How many monsters does it take to prop up a dictator? And what sacrifices have to be made to hold onto tangent power? Delfi and Lela have an awakening to their magic, and you will ugly cry for all that Anita has lost. How many monsters does it take to prop up a dictator? And what sacrifices have to be made to hold onto tangent power? Delfi and Lela have an awakening to their magic, and you will ugly cry for all that Anita has lost. Show less

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If I Die in Juarez

by Duarte, Stella Pope

Book - 2008

Fourteen year old Evita suffers in all ways imaginable. Set at the height of the femicides, the banality of evil will make you sob. Fourteen year old Evita suffers in all ways imaginable. Set at the height of the femicides, the banality of evil will make you sob. Show less

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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

A Border Story

by Bobrow-Strain, Aaron

Downloadable Audiobook - 2019

You will cry and cheer for Aida. This non-fiction unveils the depths of chaos that is immigration law. You will cry and cheer for Aida. This non-fiction unveils the depths of chaos that is immigration law. Show less

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Good Night, Irene

A Novel

by Urrea, Luis Alberto

Audiobook CD - 2023

The last 20% of the book WILL make you ugly cry! Vonnegut shows us what PTSD looks like for men who survived WWII. Women's PTSD from WWII was a neglected history until Urrea brought it to the pages of Good Night, Irene. The last 20% of the book WILL make you ugly cry! Vonnegut shows us what PTSD looks like for men who survived WWII. Women's PTSD from WWII was a neglected history until Urrea brought it to the pages of Good Night, Irene. Show less

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In the Country We Love

My Family Divided

by Guerrero, Diane

eBook - 2016

Her story is about living with trauma after her family is deported. She writes candidly about therapy, depression, and self-sabotaging behaviors that springs from her parents' deportation. Chapter after chapter had me in tears. Her story is about living with trauma after her family is deported. She writes candidly about therapy, depression, and self-sabotaging behaviors that springs from her parents' deportation. Chapter after chapter had me in tears. Show less

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Borderless

by De Leon, Jennifer

Book - 2023

When Maya witnesses a murder, she and her mother flee Guatemala. Their separation while crossing to the U.S. forces Maya to choose between "making so...Show more When Maya witnesses a murder, she and her mother flee Guatemala. Their separation while crossing to the U.S. forces Maya to choose between "making something new from the wreckage" of her life, or to return to Guatemala with her deported mother. You'll be a puddle. Show less

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The Last Cuentista

by Donna Barba Higuera

eBook - 2021

Or course Sci-Fi can make you weep! Higuera crafts a global apocalypse, and who gets left behind is crushing! On board the generational ark ships, a sinister collective hatches a scheme. Can our hero make it to an exoplanet where life can continue? Or course Sci-Fi can make you weep! Higuera crafts a global apocalypse, and who gets left behind is crushing! On board the generational ark ships, a sinister collective hatches a scheme. Can our hero make it to an exoplanet where life can continue? Show less

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The Wind Knows My Name

A Novel

by Allende, Isabel

Large Print - 2023

A European holocaust, the El Mozote Massacre, and the mass execution of indigenous Central Americans are the historical strands that Allende weaves togeth...Show more A European holocaust, the El Mozote Massacre, and the mass execution of indigenous Central Americans are the historical strands that Allende weaves together. The characters from each historical period meet in Berkeley, and together, they work to save Anita. The last 10% will have you ugly crying. Show less

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