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Select Sampling of 2011-12
Notable Latino Books
 
 
From Booklist: "School librarians looking to expand representation of Latino literature in their collections will find this a usable resource. . . . Adult fiction titles with strong sexual situations or strong language are noted, making this useful for collection development and readers' advisory at the high school level."
Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover

Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover by Bessy Reyna.  "The title poem provides the emotional center of this volume in which Bessy Reyna reaches an intense emotional level in each love poem."

—Roberto Fernandez Eglesias

 
From Amazon:  Reyna's style is alternately quiet and intense, yet always insightful, poetic, and literary. Have a box of Kleenex and a dictionary by your side. She'll leave you thinking and discovering multiple layers of meanings in her stories long after you've read them. A Hispanic-American author, Reyna's stories speak to all of us, across ethnicities, age, gender, and social status.
Latino/Latina Studies. "Urayoán Noel's plurilingual, polyphonic, & polymorphous text works are images are performance scores are records of poetry actions are homophonic translations are poems are homages to some of Latin America and the Caribbean's greatest innovators."—Mónica de la Torre
This book was the inspiration for the PBS series. From Amazon: Krantz brings the victims back to life; showing her readers that they are not just eleven statistics in the immigration debate, but eleven people who were seeking something better for themselves and their families. Train to Nowhere is a moving piece of investigative literature that conveys the human side of this tragic case. --John F. Quinn, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Director
The first work written originally in English by this iconic author. 
From Amazon:  Could you abandon someone you love, leaving them behind with absolutely no memory of the life you shared if it meant sparing their life? Could you willingly surrender yourself into the hands of the one that wants you dead, if it meant your loved one would survive? And what would you give to see them again? These are the questions The Dante Family must face in The Kindred.
Cuentos del Norte (Spanish) is crafted very well, and deservingly so, won the Latino Book Festival's Mariposa Award. 
The latest title by Donna Del Oro, author of Operation Familia, Latino Books into Movies Award, 2010, in the Romantic Comedy category, and among Amazon's "Best Chica Lit Books of All Time."
By Teresa Dovalpage, author of A Girl Like Che.