29 Best Hispanic & Latino Books
Hispanic & Latino is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Hispanic & Latino audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Hispanic & Latino audiobooks below.
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The Teacher El maestro (Spanish edition)
- By: Mario Escobar
- Narrator: Irene Repeto
- Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2021
- Language: Spanish
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4.5(6 ratings)
4.5(6 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDCombinando de forma magistral la ficcion con datos historicos, Mario Escobar situa al lector en la terrible situacion de los judios polacos y su lucha por la supervivencia en el Gueto de Varsovia. Varsovia, 1939 Agnieszka Ignaciuk y su hijo,Combinando de forma magistral la ficcion con datos historicos, Mario Escobar situa al lector en la terrible situacion de los judios polacos y su lucha por la supervivencia en el Gueto de Varsovia.
Varsovia, 1939
Agnieszka Ignaciuk y su hijo, Henryk, llegan al orfanato de Korczak poco antes de estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Alli, conocen y son testigos de la vida y obra de Janusz Korczak, el heroico maestro y autor que dedica su vida a los huerfanos polacos. Mientras los ocupantes nazis reducen y encierran a la poblacion judia, un grupo estara dispuesto a ayudarlos a sobrevivir en el Gueto de Varsovia. Pero el tiempo corre en su contra, y los nazis tienen planeado destruir el Gueto y deshacerse de su mas de medio millon de habitantes.
Todos sus nombres no apareceran en los libros de historia, pero estos sucesos resuenan en nuestras mentes y no los debemos olvidar. El maestro, mas que una basada en la historia veridica del hombre que dirigio dos orfanatos e inspiro la Declaracion de los Derechos de los Ninos de 1959, es el vivo testimonio de que las acciones de un solo hombre pueden cambiar el mundo para siempre.
MARIO ESCOBAR, novelista, historiador y colaborador habitual de National Geographic Historia, ha dedicado su vida a la investigacion de los grandes conflictos humanos. Sus libros han sido traducidos a quince idiomas. Tiene mas de dos millones de lectores en el mundo, fue el ganador del Premio Empik 2020 y el finalista del Premio International Latino Book 2020.
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Cien anos de soledad
- By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator: Gustavo Bonfigli
- Length: 17 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: Spanish
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4.5(916 ratings)
4.5(916 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USD“Muchos a+#os despu+(r)s, frente al pelot+|n de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buend+!a hab+!a de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llev+| a conocer el hielo.” Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los“Muchos a+#os despu+(r)s, frente al pelot+|n de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buend+!a hab+!a de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llev+| a conocer el hielo.”
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias m+is fascinantes del siglo veinte. Millones de ejemplares de Cien a+#os de soledad le+!dos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se hab+!a abierto paso a “boca a boca”–como gusta decir el escritor–son la m+is palpable demostraci+|n de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buend+!a-Iguar+in, con sus milagros, fantas+!as, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeld+!as, descubrimientos, y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.
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Alma and How She Got Her Name
- By: Juana Martinez-Neal
- Narrator: Adriana Sananes
- Length: 15 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
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4.41(4529 ratings)
4.41(4529 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIf you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers;If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; Jose, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all–and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. Through Alma’s vibrant story, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.
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Sambiron
- By: Tina Casanova
- Narrator: Tina Casanova
- Length: 19 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 30, 2007
- Language: Spanish
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4.3(22 ratings)
4.3(22 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDoQue es Sambiron? Sambiron es un barrio, un barrio que nunca lo fue. Un barrio imposible, entre montanas imposibles en un punto perdido en el centro de la isla y oculto al resto de la humanidad. Las montanas, el entorno y el propio destino seoQue es Sambiron? Sambiron es un barrio, un barrio que nunca lo fue. Un barrio imposible, entre montanas imposibles en un punto perdido en el centro de la isla y oculto al resto de la humanidad. Las montanas, el entorno y el propio destino se empenaron en ocultarlo a los ojos del resto de la gente. oPara salvarlo de la debacle; o para hundirlo en el inexorable mundo del olvido? Sambiron se sumerge en las turbulentas aguas de un Puerto Rico de mediados del siglo diecinueve para emerger en la no menos turbulenta epoca presente, para ser precisos, en el ano de 1985. Pero, al igual que la historia de la humanidad, Sambiron es vida, es cambio, es recuerdo y es ilusion. Sambiron es tambien la historia de una famila. Seis generaciones de la familia Dos Santos se pasean a traves de un marco historico, politico y social en el cual nos identificamos inmediatamente. El marco de nuestra isla, nuestra nacion, nuestra patria. Sambiron somos nosotros mismos. Cada boricua lleva en sus espaldas un Sambiron, que solamente nosotros mismos seremos capaces de tolerar y comprender. En Sambiron pasan muchas cosas, y fuera de Sambiron tambien. Y seguiran pasando. Pero Sambiron seguira ahi, intocado e inviolado a pesar del olvido, del progreso y del abandono humano.
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Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight
- By: Duncan Tonatiuh
- Narrator: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 16, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(504 ratings)
4.29(504 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDUndocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Everyday these men and women join the workforce and contribute positively to society. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields to help provide forUndocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Everyday these men and women join the workforce and contribute positively to society. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields to help provide for his family. Struggling for money, he crosses over into the United States and becomes an undocumented worker, living in a poor neighborhood and working hard to survive. Although he is able to get a job as a busboy at a restaurant, he is severely undercompensated–he receives less than half of the minimum wage! Risking his boss reporting him to the authorities for not having proper resident papers, Juan stands up for himself and the rest of his community.
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The House of the Spirits
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrator: Thom Rivera
- Length: 18 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.27(174530 ratings)
4.27(174530 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USD“Spectacular…An absorbing and distinguished work…The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and“Spectacular…An absorbing and distinguished work…The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America.” –The New York Times Book Review
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Our Shared Shelf, Emma Watson Goodreads Book Club Pick November/December 2020!
The House of the Spirits, the unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future.
One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate. -
Todos los cuentos
- By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator: Hernan Jaimes
- Length: 17 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: Spanish
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4.18(65 ratings)
4.18(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDUna coleccion excepcional que reune todos los cuentos de Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ganador del Premio Nobel. El lector encontrara los primeros relatos que Garcia Marquez publico en Ojos de perro azul, incluyendo el “Monologo de Isabel viendoUna coleccion excepcional que reune todos los cuentos de Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ganador del Premio Nobel.
El lector encontrara los primeros relatos que Garcia Marquez publico en Ojos de perro azul, incluyendo el “Monologo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo”, primera referencia al lugar imaginario que se convertiria en el espacio literario mas reconocido de nuestro tiempo tras la publicacion de Cien anos de soledad. A partir de entonces siguieron una serie de historias que muestran a Garcia Marquez en total control de su talento narrativo: Los funerales de la Mama Grande, donde se cuenta el majestuoso funeral de la autentica soberana de Macondo, y La increible y triste historia de la candida Erendira y su abuela desalmada. Finalmente, se incluye la ultima coleccion de relatos que publico, Doce cuentos peregrinos, donde el autor lleva a los lectores a Europa para contarnos historias del destino de latinoamericanos emigrados, de su melancolia y su tenacidad.
Son cuarenta y un relatos imprescindibles que recorren la trayectoria del autor de Cien anos de soledad y que constituyen un impresionante legado para la literatura universal.
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Harvesting Hope
- By: Kathleen Krull
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.18(2090 ratings)
4.18(2090 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.000.95 USDAward-winning author Kathleen Krull celebrates our most important Hispanic civil rights leader. Cesar Chavez is known as one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders. When he led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, heAward-winning author Kathleen Krull celebrates our most important Hispanic civil rights leader.
Cesar Chavez is known as one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders. When he led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But Cesar wasn’t always a leader. As a boy, he was shy and teased at school. His family slaved in the fields for barely enough money to survive.Cesar knew things had to change, and he thought that–maybe–he could help change them. So he took charge. He spoke up. And an entire country listened.
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A Woman of Endurance
- By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
- Narrator: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 12, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(485 ratings)
4.17(485 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDCombining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect ofCombining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history–the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade–witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.
A Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival, regeneration, and reclamation of common humanity.
Readers are invited to join Pola in her journey to healing. From the sadistic barbarity of her first experiences, she moves on to receive compassion and support from a revitalizing new community. Along the way, she learns to recognize and embrace the many faces of love–a mother’s love, a daughter’s love, a sister’s love, a love of community, and the self-love that she must recover before she can offer herself to another. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.
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En el tiempo de las mariposas (In the Time of the Butterflies)
- By: Julia Alvarez
- Narrator: Julia Alvarez
- Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 30, 2007
- Language: Spanish
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4.15(20 ratings)
4.15(20 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEllas eran las cuatro hermanas Mirabal-simbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un pais ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperacion. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad. Ellas eran “lasEllas eran las cuatro hermanas Mirabal-simbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un pais ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperacion. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad. Ellas eran “las Mariposas,” y en esta novela extraordinaria, Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, y Dede nos cuentan, a traves de las decadas, sus propias historias. Desde anecdotas sobre lazos para el pelo y secretos enamoramientos al contrabando de armas y las torturas en la carcel. Con ellas aprendemos los horrores cotidianos de la vida bajo el dictador dominicano Trujillo. A traves del arte y la magia de la aclamada e imaginativa novelista Julia Alvarez, la dramatica y vibrante vida de estas martirizadas mariposas toma forma en una historia calida, brillante y desgarradora en la que se nos muestra el incalculable coste humano derivado de la opresion politica.
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A Handful of Stars
- By: Cynthia Lord
- Narrator: Cynthia Lord
- Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 26, 2015
- Language: English
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4.15(4683 ratings)
4.15(4683 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDSet during a harvesting season among the blueberry barrens of coastal Maine, a small-town veteran, Lily, and Salma, a Hispanic migrant worker forge an unexpected friendship which leaves them both forever changed. -
Zero Saints
- By: Gabino Iglesias
- Narrator: Jean-Marc Berne
- Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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4.12(513 ratings)
4.12(513 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDEnforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend’s head and feed the kid’sEnforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend’s head and feed the kid’s fingers to…something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn’t put down that easily. Using the assistance of a Santeria priestess, an insane Puerto Rican pop sensation, a very human dog, and a Russian hitman, he’ll build the courage (and firepower) he’ll need to fight a gangbanger who’s a bit more than human…
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beso azul
- By: Jordi Sierra i Fabra
- Narrator: David Ordinas
- Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: Spanish
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4.08(152 ratings)
4.08(152 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDRogelio, al que todos creían muerto en 1936, regresa en junio de 1977 al pueblo donde nació y fue fusilado junto a su padre y su hermano. Son los días de las primeras elecciones democráticas. Cuando la noticia se da a conocer, losRogelio, al que todos creían muerto en 1936, regresa en junio de 1977 al pueblo donde nació y fue fusilado junto a su padre y su hermano. Son los días de las primeras elecciones democráticas. Cuando la noticia se da a conocer, los sentimientos de los supervivientes se cruzan y reaparecen tras más de 40 años. Todos dan por hecho que vuelve para vengarse, pero en su represo lo acompaña su esposa, veinte años más joven que él, y su hija de 19 años. Rogelio no sabe quién le delató entonces, por qué está vivo, por qué las balas de los que le fusilaron no le alcanzaron. Tras caer a la fosa logró escapar de ella en la oscuridad antes de que les cubrieran con tierra. Su hermana sabe que está vivo desde hace 20 años, pero lo ha silenciado por miedo. Ahora que Franco ha muerto es la hora del reencuentro. ¿Qué busca Rogelio? ¿Solo visitar la fosa donde están su padre y su hermano junto a otros vecinos y reencontrarse con sus orígenes? ¿Cómo reaccionará su primera novia, el amor de su vida, o su mejor amigo, que se cambió de bando para sobrevivir y ahora es su marido? ¿Y el topo que ha vivido 38 años encerrado esperando a que el dictador muriera? ¿Qué hará el hijo del alcalde que lideró la revuelta en julio del 36 y que ahora gobierna la villa? ¿Y el sargento de la guardia civil? ¿Se desatará una espiral de violencia en los días en que los españoles sellan, por fin, la paz con su voto en las urnas?
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The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
- By: Adrianna Cuevas
- Narrator: Anthony Rey Perez
- Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 21, 2020
- Language: English
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4.07(1164 ratings)
4.07(1164 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAll Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. HeAll Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad.
When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want anyone to find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals.
But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor’s grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja–a witch who can absorb an animal’s powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner…
Now it’s up to Nestor’s extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja–and save a place he might just call home.
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The Circuit
- By: Francisco Jimenez
- Narrator: Adrian Vargas
- Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.07(4561 ratings)
4.07(4561 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDFrancisco Jim+(r)nez writes of his childhood growing up in an immigrant Mexican family. His narrative is simple, as from a child’s point of view, but that same simplicity packs the power of a highly skilled storyteller. Beautifully andFrancisco Jim+(r)nez writes of his childhood growing up in an immigrant Mexican family. His narrative is simple, as from a child’s point of view, but that same simplicity packs the power of a highly skilled storyteller. Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the American Dream. The recording concludes with an afterword recorded by the author.
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The Water Museum
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrator: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 07, 2015
- Language: English
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4.04(927 ratings)
4.04(927 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom one of America’s preeminent literary voices comes a story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called “wickedly good” (Kansas City Star), “cinematic and charged”From one of America’s preeminent literary voices comes a story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called “wickedly good” (Kansas City Star), “cinematic and charged” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and “studded with delights” (Chicago Tribune).... Read moreExamining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the Edgar-award winning “Amapola” and his now-classic “Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” which had the honor of being chosen for NPR’s “Selected Shorts” not once but twice.
Suffused with wanderlust, compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, The Water Museum is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American master.
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Nicolas (Nicolae)
- By: Tim LaHaye
- Narrator: Tim LaHaye
- Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 10, 2008
- Language: Spanish
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4.04(15 ratings)
4.04(15 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEn Nicolas el drama continua mientras que Raimundo, su nueva esposa Amanda, Camilo y Cloe (ya casados) cumplen su mision de ganar la mayor cantidad de almas para Cristo que sea posible. El final de la primera cuarta parte de los siete anos deEn Nicolas el drama continua mientras que Raimundo, su nueva esposa Amanda, Camilo y Cloe (ya casados) cumplen su mision de ganar la mayor cantidad de almas para Cristo que sea posible. El final de la primera cuarta parte de los siete anos de tribulacion esta proximo a cumplirse, cuando la profecia advierte “la ira del Cordero” sera derramada sobre la tierra. Raimundo y Camilo trabajan directamente con Carpatia, que sabe que Raimundo conoce la verdad, pero no asi de Camilo. En Nicolas el libro mas explosivo de la serie, Raimundo llega a ser los “oidos” de los santos de la tribulacion, desde un alto puesto del regimen de Carpatia. Mientras tanto, Camilo intenta un dramatico rescate nocturno desde Israel a traves del Sinai, que te dejara sin aliento hasta el fin. Tu vida puede cambiar cuando te des cuenta de que esta historia representa eventos que millones creen que sucederan.
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Dejados atras (Left Behind)
- By: Tim LaHaye
- Narrator: Tim LaHaye
- Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 06, 2008
- Language: Spanish
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4.04(15 ratings)
4.04(15 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEn un instante cataclismico desaparecen del planeta millones de personas. Se descontrolan los vehiculos repentinamente, sin nadie que los maneje. La gente esta aterrada al desaparecer sus seres queridos delante de sus propios ojos. En medio del caosEn un instante cataclismico desaparecen del planeta millones de personas. Se descontrolan los vehiculos repentinamente, sin nadie que los maneje. La gente esta aterrada al desaparecer sus seres queridos delante de sus propios ojos. En medio del caos global Raimundo Steele, capitan de aviones comerciales, debe buscar a su familia . las respuestas . la verdad . Por devastadoras que hayan sido las desapariciones, los dias mas oscuros pueden estar aun por llegar.
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The Book of Lost Saints
- By: Daniel Jose Older
- Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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4.03(535 ratings)
4.03(535 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDAn evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spiritAn evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern day New Jersey. Her hope: That her presence will prompt him to unearth their painful family history. Ramon launches a haphazard investigation into the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search. Along the way, he falls in love, faces a run-in with a murderous gangster, and uncovers the lives of the lost saints who helped Marisol during her imprisonment. The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel Jose Older is a haunting meditation on family, forgiveness, and the violent struggle to be free.
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Signal Loss
- By: Garry Disher
- Narrator: Garry Disher
- Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 12, 2017
- Language: English
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4.01(724 ratings)
4.01(724 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two bodies burned up in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry-newly minted head of her department’s sex crimeA pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two bodies burned up in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry-newly minted head of her department’s sex crime unit-and Inspector Hal Challis return in this newest installment of Gary Disher’s Peninsula-based crimes series. With meth-related crime on the rise, interdepartmental tensions mount, and Challis soon finds himself fighting to keep control of his case. Meanwhile, Destry is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues. A tense, human, at times darkly funny entry into Disher’s celebrated, Ned Kelly Award-winning series.
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Zama
- By: Antonio Di Benedetto
- Narrator: Armando Duran
- Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4(1717 ratings)
4(1717 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFirst published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. -
Natural History
- By: Carlos Fonseca Suarez
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDFrom Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities. Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashionFrom Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities.
Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator’s fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom–with camouflage and subterfuge–and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision.Seven years later, after the death of the designer, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues to the true story of the designer’s family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungle. On the way, he discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion: an aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, who creates models of ruined cities; a former model turned conceptual artist–and a defendant in a trial over the very nature and purpose of art; a young indigenous boy who has received a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, as the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of obsession.Natural History is the portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, between tragedy and farce. A defiantly contemporary and impressively ambitious novel in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Ricardo Piglia, it confirms Carlos Fonseca as one of the most daring writers of his generation.
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Asesinos (Assassins)
- By: Tim LaHaye
- Narrator: Tim LaHaye
- Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 05, 2008
- Language: Spanish
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4(15 ratings)
4(15 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEl Comando Tribulacion se precipita hacia los cuatro asesinatos predichos en la Escritura. La cabeza de la Unica Fe Mundial Enigma Babilonia corre peligro como tambien los dos testigos del Muro de los Lamentos a medida que se acerca la “horaEl Comando Tribulacion se precipita hacia los cuatro asesinatos predichos en la Escritura. La cabeza de la Unica Fe Mundial Enigma Babilonia corre peligro como tambien los dos testigos del Muro de los Lamentos a medida que se acerca la “hora fijada.” Esta profetizado que el mismo anticristo sufrira una herida mortal en la cabeza. Cuando una horda sobrenatural de 200 millones de jinetes demoniacos mata la tercera parte de la poblacion terrestre que queda, el Comando Tribulacion se prepara para su futuro de fugitivos. No obstante, muere otro integrante del Comando y otros se incorporan a medida que las crisis los van atrayendo desde todo el mundo. La historia mundial y la profecia chocan en Jerusalen a mediados del periodo de la gran tribulacion formando el episodio mas explosivo de todos los capitulos del drama continuo de los Dejados Atras.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator: Bernardo de Paula
- Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.97(93042 ratings)
3.97(93042 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride inA man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society–not just a pair of murderers–is put on trial.
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The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
- By: Zoraida Cordova
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.96(18515 ratings)
3.96(18515 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDNATIONAL BESTSELLER Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this “expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic”NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this “expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic” (V.E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers–not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquidea 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, Orquidea is transformed into a ceiba tree, leaving them with more questions than answers.
Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings and powers. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquidea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, her descendants travel to Ecuador–to the place where Orquidea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.
Alternating between Orquidea’s past and her descendants’ present, The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina is a “spellbinding tale, both timeless and fresh, that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page. Prepare to fall in love” (Kim Liggett, New York Times bestselling author). -
No Witness but the Moon
- By: Suzanne Chazin
- Narrator: Thom Rivera
- Length: 11 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.96(53 ratings)
3.96(53 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn this powerful novel from award-winning author Suzanne Chazin, a tense standoff between a Hispanic police officer and an undocumented immigrant leads to the shooting death of one, the shattered life of the other, and the shocking connectionIn this powerful novel from award-winning author Suzanne Chazin, a tense standoff between a Hispanic police officer and an undocumented immigrant leads to the shooting death of one, the shattered life of the other, and the shocking connection between them.
On a clear, moonlit night in December, police detective Jimmy Vega races to the scene of a reported home invasion in an upscale New York community. As Vega arrives, he spots a Hispanic man who fits the description of the armed intruder running from the victim’s estate. Vega chases him into the woods. When the suspect refuses to surrender–and reaches into his pocket–Vega has only seconds to make a life-or-death decision.
What begins as a tragic mistake takes an even darker turn when Vega uncovers disturbing links between the dead man and his own mother’s brutal, unsolved murder. Vega’s need for answers propels him back to his old Bronx neighborhood, where he is viewed as a disgraced cop, not a homegrown hero. It also puts him at odds with his girlfriend, Adele Figueroa, head of a local immigrant center, who must weigh her own doubts about his behavior.
When a shocking piece of evidence surfaces, it becomes clear that someone doesn’t want Vega to put all the pieces together–and is willing to do whatever it takes to bury the truth. Only by risking everything will Vega be able to find justice, redemption, and the most elusive goal of all: the ability to forgive himself.
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El comando tribulacion (Tribulation Force)
- By: Tim LaHaye
- Narrator: Tim LaHaye
- Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 07, 2008
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEn un instante cataclismico desaparecen del planeta millones de personas. Los dejados atras enfrentan guerras, hambrunas, plagas y desastres naturales tan devastadores que solamente sobrevive una de cada cuatro personas. Las posibilidades son aunEn un instante cataclismico desaparecen del planeta millones de personas. Los dejados atras enfrentan guerras, hambrunas, plagas y desastres naturales tan devastadores que solamente sobrevive una de cada cuatro personas. Las posibilidades son aun peores para los enemigos del anticristo y su nuevo orden mundial. Raimundo Steele, Camilo Williams, Bruno Barnes y Cloe Steele se unen para formar “El Comando Tribulacion”. Su tarea es clara y su meta es nada menos que oponerse a los enemigos de Dios, y luchar contra ellos durante los siete anos mas caoticos que el planeta pasara jamas.
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Infinite Country
- By: Patricia Engel
- Narrator: Ines del Castillo
- Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.95(8091 ratings)
3.95(8091 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTSA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION
“A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life.” —Esquire
This “heartbreaking portrait of a family dealing with the realities of migration and separation” (Time) is “a sweeping love story and tragic drama [and] an authentic vision of what the American Dream looks like in a nationalistic country” (Elle).
I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.
Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogota, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family.
How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogota with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s splintering–the costs they’ve all been living with ever since.
Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their respective circumstances. Rich with Bogota urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country “is as much an all-American story as it is a global one” (Booklist, starred review). -
Across a Hundred Mountains
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrator: Marisa Blake
- Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.94(1566 ratings)
3.94(1566 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWinner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a “timely and riveting” (People) novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family to work in America–a story ofWinner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a “timely and riveting” (People) novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family to work in America–a story of migration, loss, and discovery.
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After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana Garcia leaves in search of her father, who left them two years earlier. Out of money and in need of someone to help her across the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, a young woman who left her family in California to follow her lover to Mexico. Finding themselves–in a Tijuana jail–in desperate circumstances, they offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and ultimately become linked forever in the most unexpected of ways.
In Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande puts a human face on the controversial issue of immigration, helping readers to better understand “the desperation of illegal immigrants and the families they leave behind” (Entertainment Weekly) in pursuit of a better life.
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