29 Best Hispanic & Latino, Fiction Books
Hispanic & Latino, Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Hispanic & Latino, Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Hispanic & Latino, Fiction audiobooks below.
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Coyote Songs
- By: Gabino Iglesias
- Narrator: Amanda Alcantara
- Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.22(874 ratings)
4.22(874 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDIn this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding himIn this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father. These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling, pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.
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The Hummingbird’s Daughter
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrator: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Length: 18 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.21(10952 ratings)
4.21(10952 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDDiscover an epic historical novel of a young saint escaping death from Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels. This historical novel is based on Urrea’s real great-aunt Teresita, who had healingDiscover an epic historical novel of a young saint escaping death from Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels.... Read moreThis historical novel is based on Urrea’s real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.
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Half Outlaw
- By: Alex Temblador
- Narrator: Luzma Ortiz
- Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.21(46 ratings)
4.21(46 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDLooking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her, and gets more than she bargained for. After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live withLooking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her, and gets more than she bargained for.
After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge’s all-white, 1 percenter motorcycle club, the Lawless, and from her uncle himself. Being raised by a drug addict is no picnic, and Raqi must quickly learn how to survive. She manages to form a few friendships. Still, as soon as she can, she leaves the violence and bigotry behind and doesn’t look back.
Years later, Raqi is a successful partner at a law firm in Los Angeles. She gets a call from Billy, the leader of the Lawless. Dodge is dead, and Billy wants her to go on the Grieving Ride, a special ride taken for all deceased members, and one that strictly follows the deceased’s wishes. There is no way Raqi would ever attend, except for one thing: Billy promises to give her the address of her grandfather if she goes on the ride. It’s the address of her father’s father, her Mexican grandfather. Learning for the first time that she has other family and desperate to connect, she agrees. But this will be no ordinary Grieving Ride. Raqi is reacquainted with her old bike and with the various club members. During the cross-country trek, she will learn more about her uncle, and about herself, than she ever imagined possible.
Alternating between Raqi’s childhood and a present 90s setting, and accented by moments of magical realism, Half Outlaw is the story of one woman’s quest to find a better future while still wrestling with a tumultuous past. In her first adult novel, Alex Temblador gives readers an immersive look into a dangerous subculture at the end of an era, and a powerful and heartfelt story that explores self-knowledge, acceptance, and the meaning of family.
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Monarca
- By: Leopoldo Gout
- Narrator: Maria Liatis
- Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 19, 2022
- Language: English
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4.16(93 ratings)
4.16(93 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USD“A work of art. In each of the pages, you will feel the flow of a powerful energy which will murmur to each of your cells that it is time to come out of hiding, to open the windows, to breathe freely, to dress colorfully… to“A work of art. In each of the pages, you will feel the flow of a powerful energy which will murmur to each of your cells that it is time to come out of hiding, to open the windows, to breathe freely, to dress colorfully… to fly.”–Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate
A fable for all ages about a Mexican-American girl who transforms into a monarch butterfly and undertakes the great migration to Mexico, Monarca braids together the values of heritage, ecology, and personal transformation.
On her thirteenth birthday, Ines receives a mysterious necklace from her abuela in Mexico that turns her into a monarch butterfly–the fulfilment of a prophecy linking Ines’ destiny to her family’s legacy and the butterflies’ survival.
The adventure continues as Ines joins the monarchs on their long journey south to the butterfly sanctuary in Mexico–an odyssey that has become increasingly perilous due to human activity. Together, the swarm travels from the northeast to the swamps of Louisiana to the pine-filled mountain tops of the western Sierra Madre, finally alighting at the Sierra Chincua sanctuary. On this wondrous journey in the vein of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Little Prince, Ines discovers the connections between all living beings, and the urgent need to protect the monarchs’ migration and habitats.
Divided into four chapters to mirror the four stages in a monarch’s life–egg, larva, pupa and butterfly–Monarca blends Mexican folklore, environmentalism, and magical realism in an enchanting novella. This book will inspire readers to protect and cherish the sacred natural world around them.
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Dominicana
- By: Angie Cruz
- Narrator: Coral Pena
- Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.12(23414 ratings)
4.12(23414 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, ChicagoA GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Nylon, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, The Millions, Instyle, Bustle, Refinery29, Hello Giggles, AARP, Domino
“Coral Pena’s strong delivery is a breath of fresh air…a master of accents and emotion, bringing genuine pathos to the story.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerFifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay.
As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with Cesar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.
In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz’s Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.
Praise for Dominicana:
“Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed.” –Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair
“Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” –Sandra Cisneros
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Queen of America
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrator: Maria del Carmen Siccardi
- Length: 18 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 05, 2017
- Language: Spanish
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4.01(1376 ratings)
4.01(1376 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.98 USDUna historia a veces desgarradora, inspiradora, apasionadamente romantica y con desenfrenado humor, La Reina Norteamericana es un relato sobre una joven que alcanza su mayoria de edad y tiene que encontrar su lugar en un mundo nuevo. ComenzandoUna historia a veces desgarradora, inspiradora, apasionadamente romantica y con desenfrenado humor, La Reina Norteamericana es un relato sobre una joven que alcanza su mayoria de edad y tiene que encontrar su lugar en un mundo nuevo. Comenzando donde se quedo el bestseller de Luis Alberto Urrea The Hummingbird’s Daughter, ahora en La Reina Norteamericana nos vuele a reunir, en Arizona en 1982, con la joven Teresita Urrea, amada curandera y “Santa de Cabora,” y su padre. Asediada por lo colonos quienes necesitan desesperadamente de sus poderes curativos, y perseguida por asesinos, ella tiene mas opcion que escapar hacia las tierras fronterizas y embarcar en un extraordinario viaje hacia el corazon de la Norteamerica de fin de siglo. Esta aventura de Teresita la lleva desde Nueva York a San Francisco, pasando por St. Louis, donde conoce realeza europea, poetas cubanos, reinas de belleza, inmigrantes ansiosos y poderosos magnates, entre los cuales se encuentra un hombre que la obligara a finalmente formularse la pregunta mas importante de su vida: ?se le permite a una santa enamorarse?
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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
- By: Angie Cruz
- Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 13, 2022
- Language: English
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4.01(6765 ratings)
4.01(6765 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program features original sound design. “Rossmery Almonte’s pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz’s inventive new novel transports listeners into the tumultuous, funny, heartrending world of Cara Romero…With her sibilantThis program features original sound design.
“Rossmery Almonte’s pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz’s inventive new novel transports listeners into the tumultuous, funny, heartrending world of Cara Romero…With her sibilant Spanish accent and musical intonations, Almonte’s Cara is unforgettable as she launches her fierce, strong, and witty self straight into our hearts.”- AudioFile Magazine
“Audiobook newbie Rossmery Almonte impressively commands most of the recording as fiercely tenacious yet surprisingly charming Cara. That Almonte shares Dominican roots with both her character and author Cruz…undoubtedly enhances the expert production.” – Booklist
“One of my favorite books I have read in years.” –Quiara Alegria Hudes, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter of In the Heights
From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women’s Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new audiobook novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story.
Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work.
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.
Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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Of Love and Other Demons
- By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.97(42248 ratings)
3.97(42248 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDOn her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria–the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport–is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into herOn her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria–the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport–is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love–and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.
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Valley of Shadows
- By: Rudy Ruiz
- Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.96(143 ratings)
3.96(143 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border. Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lostA visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.
Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo, Mexican, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life, and the much more likely possibility of death, yet again.
As Solitario struggles to overcome not only the evil forces that threaten the town but also his own inner demons, he finds an unlikely source of inspiration and support in Onawa, a gifted and enchanting Apache-Mexican seer who champions his cause, daring him to open his heart and question his destiny.
As we follow Solitario and Onawa into the desert, we join them in facing haunting questions about the human condition that are as relevant today as they were back then: Can we rewrite our own history and shape our own future? What does it mean to belong to a place, or for a place to belong to a people? And, as lonely and defeated as we might feel, are we ever truly alone?
Through luminous prose and soul-searching reflections, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains.
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Next Year in Havana
- By: Chanel Cleeton
- Narrator: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.94(95540 ratings)
3.94(95540 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution. Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron,After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution.
Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest–until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary …
Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa’s last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth.
Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba’s tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she’ll need the lessons of her grandmother’s past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.
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Rain God
- By: Arturo Islas
- Narrator: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 25, 2021
- Language: English
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3.93(504 ratings)
3.93(504 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers.” — Luis Alberto“The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter
“Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God.”
A beloved Southwestern classic–as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself–Arturo Islas’s The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature.
Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness–sinners torn by loves, lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels, here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.
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The New American
- By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
- Narrator: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.92(272 ratings)
3.92(272 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThis “harrowing, heartbreaking story” (Kirkus Reviews) depicts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.One day,This “harrowing, heartbreaking story” (Kirkus Reviews) depicts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.
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One day, Emilio learns the shocking secret: he is undocumented. His parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, had never told him.
Emilio slowly adjusts to his new normal. All is going well, he’s in his second year at UC Berkeley…then he gets into a car accident, and–without a driver’s license or any ID–the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Once deported to Guatemala, Emilio is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him across thousands of miles and eventually the Sonoran Desert of the United States-Mexico border, meeting thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends.
Inspired in part by interviews with Central American refugees, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline Aharonian Marcom weaves a “powerful, heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) tale of adventure. In The New American, Marcom “depicts inhumanity with visceral force, but her bracing empathy (and hope) shines above all” (Entertainment Weekly). This is a compassionate story of one young man who risks so much to return home. -
A Luminous Republic
- By: Andrés Barba
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 14, 2020
- Language: English
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3.92(983 ratings)
3.92(983 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“Wholly compelling.‚Äù ‚ÄîColm T√≥ib√≠n A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos. San“Wholly compelling.‚Äù ‚ÄîColm T√≥ib√≠n
A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.
San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.
 
No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city’s own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos.
 
Narrated by the social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a suspenseful, anguished fable that “could be read as Lord of the Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the profound originality of his world” (Juan Gabriel Vásquez).
¬†Narrator Jonathan Davis¬†is a critically acclaimed and award-winning narrator and voiceover actor who has¬†earned accolades¬†for his narration from¬†The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly,¬†¬†AudioFile¬†Magazine, and¬†USA Today.¬† In 2017, he was inducted into Audible‚Äôs Narrator Hall Of Fame.¬†
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Jonathan’s work as a narrator includes film¬†and programming for National Geographic Television, NOVA, and PBS. He has narrated¬†a variety of bestselling and award-winning titles¬†in all genres¬†for major publishing houses and national audio divisions. He is a four-time recipient and sixteen-time nominee of the celebrated¬†Audie¬†Award, presented by the APA for excellence in¬†audiobook¬†narration/production -
The House of Broken Angels
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrator: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 06, 2018
- Language: English
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3.91(11458 ratings)
3.91(11458 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDIn this “raucous, moving, and necessary” story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous andIn this “raucous, moving, and necessary” story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend.... Read more“All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.”
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel’s half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.
Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.
Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.
“Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining.” — New York Times Book Review“Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend.” — San Francisco Chronicle“An immensely charming and moving tale.” — Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub
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Post-traumatic
- By: Chantal V. Johnson
- Narrator: Tiffany Smith
- Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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3.89(1335 ratings)
3.89(1335 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer finally confronts her dark past so she can live in a more peaceful future. To the outside observer, Vivian is a successIn this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer finally confronts her dark past so she can live in a more peaceful future.
To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story–a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood–compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman in America. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama.
For years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humor and smoking weed with her BFF, Jane. But after a family reunion prompts Vivian to take a bold step, she finds herself alone in new and terrifying ways, without even Jane to confide in, and she starts to unravel. Will she find a way to repair what matters most to her?
A debut from a stunning talent, Post-traumatic is a new kind of survivor narrative, featuring a complex heroine who is blazingly, indelibly alive. With razor-sharp prose and mordant wit, Chantal V. Johnson performs an extraordinary feat, delivering a psychologically astute story about the aftermath of trauma that somehow manages to brim with warmth, laughter, and hope.
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Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking
- By: Raquel V. Reyes
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 27, 2022
- Language: English
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3.87(294 ratings)
3.87(294 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quinones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school’s FallFall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quinones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school’s Fall Festival the day before. Miriam’s luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women’s Club annual gala. But this year, it’s not canapes and waltzes. Miriam and her girlfriends-squad opt for fun and flavor. They want to spice it up with Caribbean food trucks and a calypso band. While making plans at the country club, they hear a volatile argument between the new head chef and the club’s manager. Not long after, the chef swan dives to his death at the bottom of the grand staircase. Was it an accident? Or was it Beverly, the sous chef, who is furious after being passed over for the job? Or maybe it was his ex-girlfriend, Anastasia? Add two possible poisonings to the mix, and Miriam is worried the food truck fun is going to be a major crash. As the clock ticks down and the body count goes up, her life is put in jeopardy. Will she connect the dots, or die in the deep freeze? Foodies and mystery lovers alike will savor the denouement as the truth is laid bare in this simmering stew of rage, retribution, and murder.
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
- By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator: Michael Manuel
- Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.86(14280 ratings)
3.86(14280 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDOne of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extremeOne of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.
From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the listener to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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Sira (Spanish edition)
- By: Maria Duenas
- Narrator: Neus Sendra
- Length: 20 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 13, 2022
- Language: Spanish
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3.86(4043 ratings)
3.86(4043 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0044.99 USDCuatro ciudades, dos misiones, una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Despues de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de Maria Duenas. La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosaCuatro ciudades, dos misiones, una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Despues de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de Maria Duenas.
La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstruccion. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos britanicos, Sira Quiroga afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo lograra, sin embargo. El destino le tendra preparada una tragica desventura que la obligara a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir.
Entre hechos historicos que marcaran una epoca, Jerusalen, Londres, Madrid y Tanger seran los escenarios por los que transite. En ellos afrontara desgarros y reencuentros, cometidos arriesgados y la experiencia de la maternidad.
Sira Bonnard –antes Arish Agoriuq, antes Sira Quiroga — ya no es la inocente costurera que nos deslumbro entre patrones y mensajes clandestinos, pero su inolvidable carisma permanece intacto.
Vuelve la protagonista de El tiempo entre costuras.
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Remember Me
- By: Mario Escobar
- Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
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3.84(990 ratings)
3.84(990 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDAmid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. From bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of sacrifice and resilience inspired by Spain’s famed Children of MoreliaAmid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. From bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of sacrifice and resilience inspired by Spain’s famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their lives.
Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his two younger sisters. Marco’s parents align themselves against the new fascist regime, unaware that their choice will endanger the entire family—nor do they predict the violence that is to come.
In a desperate bid for safety, the Alcaldes join many other Spanish families in making an impossible choice to send their unaccompanied children across the ocean to the city of Morelia, Mexico—a place they’ve never seen or imagined, but whose government promises their children protection. Young Marco promises to look after his sisters in Mexico until their family can be reunited in Spain, but a harrowing journey ensues.
As the growing children work to care for themselves and each other, they feel their sense of home, family, and identity slipping further and further away. As their memories of Spain fade, they begin to wonder if they will ever see their parents again or the glittering streets of the home they once loved.
Based upon the true stories of the Children of Morelia, Mario Escobar’s Remember Me—now available for the first time in English—paints a poignant portrait of an immigrant family’s sacrificial love and endurance, detailing just how far we go for those we love.
“Luminous and beautifully researched, Remember Me is a study of displacement, belonging, compassion, and forged family amid a heart- wrenching escape from the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Fans of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Chanel Cleeton, and Lisa Wingate will be mesmerized.”—Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration
- Based on real historical events: Full-length, 90,000-word historical novel based on the true stories of the Children of Morelia
- Researched and written by a subject-matter expert: Mario Escobar has a master’s degree in modern history and lives in Madrid
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
- By: Carribean Fragoza
- Narrator: Marisa Blake
- Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.84(297 ratings)
3.84(297 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza’s imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactlyIn visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza’s imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma’s letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women’s wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
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A Ballad of Love and Glory / Corrido de amor y gloria (Spanish ed)
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrator: Sara Vivanco
- Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 04, 2022
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDUna guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable. El ano es 1846. Despues de la controvertida anexion de Texas, el ejercito de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con Mexico por la disputada frontera del Rio Grande. Ximena Salome esUna guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable.
El ano es 1846. Despues de la controvertida anexion de Texas, el ejercito de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con Mexico por la disputada frontera del Rio Grande. Ximena Salome es una talentosa curandera mexicana que suena con construir una familia con el hombre que ama en la codiciada tierra que llama hogar. Pero cuando los Texas Rangers asaltan su rancho y matan a tiros a su esposo, sus suenos se reducen a cenizas. Prometiendo honrar la memoria de su esposo y defender a su pais, Ximena usa sus habilidades curativas como enfermera del ejercito en el frente de la devastadora guerra.
Mientras tanto, John Riley, un inmigrante irlandes en el ejercito yanqui desesperado por ayudar a su familia a escapar de la hambruna que devasta su tierra natal, esta asqueado por la guerra injusta y las atrocidades indescriptibles contra sus compatriotas por parte de oficiales nativistas. En un audaz acto de desafio, cruza a nado el Rio Grande y se une al ejercito mexicano, una desercion que se castiga con la ejecucion. Forma el Batallon de San Patricio, una banda de soldados irlandeses dispuestos a luchar a muerte por la libertad de Mexico. Cuando Ximena y John se encuentran, surge entre ellos una peligrosa atraccion. A medida que la guerra se intensifica, tambien lo hace su pasion. Arrastrados por fuerzas con el poder de cambiar la historia, luchan no solo por el destino de una nacion sino tambien por su futuro juntos.
Desgarradora y lirica, la fascinante saga de Reyna Grande, inspirada en hechos reales y figuras historicas, da vida a estos dos personajes inolvidables e ilumina un momento en gran parte olvidado en la historia que impacta la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mexico hasta el dia de hoy. ?Sobreviviran Ximena y John al caos de esta amarga guerra, o su amor sera devorado junto con la tierra que luchan por defender?
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The Affairs of the Falcons
- By: Melissa Rivero
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 02, 2019
- Language: English
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3.74(1459 ratings)
3.74(1459 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDA stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City. Ana Falcon, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for aA stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.
Ana Falcon, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho’s cousin–who has made it obvious the family is not welcome to stay in her spare room for much longer–and escalating and unwanted attention from Mama’s husband.
As the pressure builds, Ana becomes increasingly desperate. While Lucho dreams of returning to Peru, Ana is deeply haunted by the demons she left behind and determined to persevere in this new country. But how many sacrifices is she willing to make before admitting defeat and returning to Peru? And what lines is she willing to cross in order to protect her family?
The Affairs of the Falcons is a beautiful, deeply urgent novel about the lengths one woman is willing to go to build a new life, and a vivid rendering of the American immigrant experience.
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Miss del Rio
- By: Barbara Mujica
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: October 04, 2022
- Language: English
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3.73(208 ratings)
3.73(208 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“Dolores del Rio bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart–and what an“Dolores del Rio bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart–and what an extraordinary life she led.”–C.W. Gortner, bestselling author of Marlene
1910, Mexico. As the country’s revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable life in Durango or risk death. Her family settles in Mexico City, where, at sixteen, she marries the worldly Jaime del Rio. But in a twist of fate, at a party she meets an influential American director who recognizes in her a natural performer. He invites her to Hollywood, and practically overnight, the famous Miss del Rio is born.
Dolores’s star quickly rises, and her days become a whirlwind of moviemaking and glamorous events. Swept up in L.A.’s glitzy inner circle, she takes her place among film royalty such as Marlene Dietrich and Orson Welles. But as her career soars, her personal life becomes increasingly complicated, with family tragedy, divorce, and real heartache. And when she’s labeled box office poison amid growing prejudice before WWII, Dolores must decide what price she’s willing to pay to achieve her dreams and if her heart and future instead lie where it all began…in Mexico.
Spanning half a century and narrated by Dolores’s fictional hairdresser and longtime friend, Miss del Rio traces the life of a trailblazing woman whose legacy in Hollywood and in Mexico still shines bright today.
“Barbara Mujica dazzles us…. She takes us on a journey through an era of wars and movies, and unforgettable characters that made Hollywood what it is today.” —Maria Amparo Escandon, New York Times bestselling author of L.A. Weather
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The Last Great Road Bum
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrator: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 25, 2020
- Language: English
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3.7(407 ratings)
3.7(407 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“Narrator Pabon delivers a top-notch performance of Tobar’s masterful blend of fiction andnonfiction…Pabon’s understated delivery allows listeners to make their own discoveries in this truly unique and intriguing“Narrator Pabon delivers a top-notch performance of Tobar’s masterful blend of fiction and
nonfiction…Pabon’s understated delivery allows listeners to make their own discoveries in this truly unique and intriguing story.” — Booklist
In The Last Great Road Bum, Hector Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a “road bum,” an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist Hector Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum.
A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson, which chart Sanderson’s freewheeling course across the known world, from Illinois to Jamaica, to Vietnam, to Nigeria, to El Salvador–a life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism.
The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly live–a fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Hector Tobar could pull off.
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Of Women and Salt
- By: Gabriela Garcia
- Narrator: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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3.7(28403 ratings)
3.7(28403 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Roxane Gay. A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by herAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Roxane Gay.A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.
From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals–personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others–that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled, honest, human roots.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
“Of Women and Salt is a fierce and powerful debut. Garcia wields narrative power, cultivating true and profound work on migration, legacy, and survival.”–Terese Marie Mailhot, bestselling author of Heart Berries
“Gabriela Garcia captures the lives of Cuban women in a world to which they refuse to surrender and she does so with precision and generosity and beauty.”–Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist
“[A] beautifully evocative first novel…This book is shaped, and given buoyancy, by Garcia’s sharp prose and by Jeanette’s ability to continue believing that the unexpected is possible, even as it repeatedly fails to materialize.” —New York Times Book Review
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It Would Be Night in Caracas
- By: Karina Sainz Borgo
- Narrator: Ana Osorio
- Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 15, 2019
- Language: English
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3.7(1186 ratings)
3.7(1186 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDTold with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas,Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future.
In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother-the only family Adelaida has ever known.
Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every night–to prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping in. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. It is the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But as fate would have it, Adelaida is given a gruesome choice that could secure her escape.
Filled with riveting twists and turns, and told in a powerful, urgent voice, It Would Be Night in Caracas is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.
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That Dangerous Energy
- By: Aya De Leon
- Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones
- Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 27, 2022
- Language: English
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3.69(28 ratings)
3.69(28 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDComing from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested…all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turningComing from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested…all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors’ exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love, money, and the power to make the world better. And securing her future is far more important than the attractive environmental activist she suddenly has unexpected feelings for… But once Morgan gets a glimpse of Sebastian’s secret allies and confidential emails, she’s stunned to find he’s only talking a good game. His company is responsible for several ecological disasters, and a chance encounter makes it clear to her the lengths he’ll go to stay on top. To gather enough evidence to expose him, she will have to rely on her quick wits and new friends to stay one step ahead of a corporate conspiracy. But as the danger comes closer, will she put herself first and run–or face down the risk, even at her cost of her life?
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All That Followed
- By: Gabriel Urza
- Narrator: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.68(415 ratings)
3.68(415 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA psychologically twisting novel about a politically charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town; a dazzling debut in the tradition of Daniel Alarcon and Mohsin Hamid It’s 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain’sA psychologically twisting novel about a politically charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town; a dazzling debut in the tradition of Daniel Alarcon and Mohsin Hamid
It’s 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain’s northern Basque Country, a place with more secrets than inhabitants. Five years have passed since the kidnapping and murder of a young local politician–a family man and father–and the town’s rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, an act of terrorism that rocked the nation and the world, the townspeople want a reckoning of Muriga’s own troubled past: everyone knows who pulled the trigger five years ago, but is the young man now behind bars the only one to blame?
All That Followed peels away the layers of a crime complicated by history, love, and betrayal. The accounts of three townspeople in particular–the councilman’s beautiful young widow, the teenage radical now in jail for the crime, and an aging American teacher hiding a traumatic past of his own–hold the key to what really happened. And for these three, it’s finally time to confront what they can find of the truth.
Inspired by a true story, All That Followed is a powerful, multifaceted novel about a nefarious kind of violence that can take hold when we least expect. Urgent, elegant, and gorgeously atmospheric, Urza’s debut is a book for the world we live in now, and it marks the arrival of a brilliant new writer to watch.
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Mona at Sea
- By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- Narrator: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 08, 2021
- Language: English
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3.67(310 ratings)
3.67(310 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDMona Mireles is a quintessential overachiever: a former spelling-bee champion and valedictorian of her college class, she has a sterling resume and a wall of plaques and medals in her bedroom that stretches floor to ceiling. She’s also broke,Mona Mireles is a quintessential overachiever: a former spelling-bee champion and valedictorian of her college class, she has a sterling resume and a wall of plaques and medals in her bedroom that stretches floor to ceiling. She’s also broke, unemployed, back at home with her parents, and completely adrift in life and love. Seven months out of college, she’s desperately trying to reassemble the pieces of her life after the Wall Street job she had waiting for her post-graduation dissolves in the wake of the Great Recession. When her reaction to losing her job goes viral and she is publicly branded the Sad Millennial, she begins a downward spiral into self-pity, bitterness, and late-night drunken binges on cat videos. She’s the sort who says exactly the right thing at absolutely the wrong moments, seeing the world through a cynic’s eyes. In suburban Tucson amid the financial and social malaise of the early 2000s, thirty-three-year-old Mona must not only find a job but also quickly learn to navigate the complexities of adult relationships within the black hole of her parents’ shattering marriage. At her mother’s urging, she grudgingly joins a support group for job seekers, and she slowly begins to see that all is not lost–and that perhaps losing the job on Wall Street was a blessing in disguise. She might even learn what it is she finds meaningful in life. The only question is whether or not she’ll be brave enough to go after it.
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