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Hispanic / Latinx Heritage Month: Books

Resources in celebration of the history and contribution of Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Overview

Here, you can find more than a hundred different print books and eBooks covering a wide range of subjects, such as nonfiction literature, children's literature, and fiction and poetry. Click on the book cover to be taken to the library catalog or eBook reader.

Nonfiction Books

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States

Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: Si Se Puede!

My Beloved World

The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

When I Was Puerto Rican

Bilingual Is Better: Two Latina Moms on how the Bilingual Parenting Revolution is Changing the Face of America

From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement

No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robots, and the Battle for the American Dream

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

Latino Churches: Faith, Family, and Ethnicity in the Second Generation

La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence

Becoming Dr. Q : My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA

Breaking In: the rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education

Just Like Us: the true story of four Mexican girls coming of age in America

Autobiography of My Hungers

Latino and Latina Writers

Stories We Live

Almost a Woman

Las Mamis: favorite Latino authors remember their mothers

Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina religious-political activism in the U.S. Catholic Church

Fiction & Poetry

Love in the Time of Cholera

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The House on Mango Street

Alternating Current

Bless me, Ultima : a novel

Caramelo

Daughter of Fortune

From This Wicked Patch of Dust

Homecoming

Inventing a Word: An anthology of twentieth-century Puerto Rican poetry

Island Beneath the Sea

Portrait in Sepia

Sudden Fiction Latino: short-short stories from the United States and Latin America

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

This Is How You Lose Her

Woman Hollering Creek and other stories

The Pond

Distant Relations

The Savage Detectives

The Great Latin American Novel

Dogfight

The Carrying

Shattering the Myth: plays by Hispanic women

CrashBoomLove

Herencia: the anthology of Hispanic literature of the United States

The House of the Spirits

Children's Literature

Islandborn

Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

Abuela

Becoming Naomi Leon

An Island Like You

Before We Were Free

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

The House of the Scorpion

The Tequila Worm

In My Family / En Mi Familia

Sonia Sotomayor

Alma and How She Got Her Name

A Handful of Stars

Harbor Me

Luis Paints the World

Today's Hours

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