Latine Authors

Juliet respira profundo

By: Gabby Rivera

Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Una historia audaz sobre la transición a la edad adulta de una chica queer que busca su lugar en el mundo.  
 
Juliet Milagros Palante es una adolescente lesbiana puertorriqueña, nacida en el Bronx.  
 
Aún está “en el clóset”, aunque no tanto como ella cree. Una noche antes de viajar a Portland, Oregón, donde ha logrado conseguir un trabajo de... Read more

AOC

By: Lynda Lopez

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Marisa Blake

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a ten-term incumbent in the primary election for New York’s 14th on June 26, 2018, her journey to the national, if not world, stage, was fast-tracked. Six months later, as the youngest Congresswoman ever elected, AOC became one of a handful of Latina politicians in Washington, D.C. Not yet thirty,... Read more

Illegal: A Disappeared Novel

By: Francisco X. Stork

Narrated by: Roxana Ortega & Christian Barillas

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be illegal in the United States?Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara.To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping that they can find a way to bring their pursuers to justice.Sara turns herself over to the... Read more

Un mundo que cambia

By: César Vidal

Narrated by: César Vidal

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

El 26 de diciembre 1991, tuvo lugar un hecho de extraordinaria importancia en la Historia universal. Se trató de la disolución de la Unión Soviética, un acontecimiento de enormes repercusiones que pocos habían previsto. A decir verdad, sólo el historiador Andrei Amalrík y el premio Nobel Alexander Solzhenitsyn , disidentes rusos, habían... Read more

Disposable City

By: Mario Alejandro Ariza

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.
Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today.... Read more

The Distance Between Us

By: Reyna Grande

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border.

Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this... Read more

Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse

By: Chantel Acevedo

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in an action-packed debut middle grade fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.Callie Martinez-Silva didn’t mean to turn her best friend into a pop star.... Read more

Category Five

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After the hurricane, some see destruction and some smell blood.Vieques: a small island just off the northeastern coast of the main island of Puerto Rico.A place struggling to recover after Hurricane Maria, where developers smell desperation and see opportunity.A paradise turned hunting ground for something angry that the storm revived.Lupe,... Read more

Aphrodite

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore.Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to... Read more

The Beast

By: Oscar Martinez

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the... Read more

Youth to Power

By: Jamie Margolin

Narrated by: Jamie Margolin

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any... Read more

The Book of Rosy

By: Rosayra Pablo Cruz & Julie Schwietert Collazo

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Jayme Mattler

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Offers hope in the face of desperate odds” – ELLE Magazine, ELLE’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020“[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir…This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.” – Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED REVIEW“[The] haunting and eloquent…narrative of a Guatemalan... Read more

Where We Go From Here

By: Lucas Rocha

Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Anthony Lee Medina & Luis S...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing debut novel about three gay friends in Brazil whose lives become intertwined in the face of HIV, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Bill Konigsberg.Ian has just been diagnosed with HIV.Victor, to his great relief, has tested negative.Henrique has been living with HIV for the past three years.When Victor finds himself getting... Read more

The Hispanic Republican

By: Geraldo Cadava

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising impact on US politics.In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic candidate. And it’s true—Latino voters do tilt... Read more

Portrait in Sepia

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Blair Brown

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.” 
—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World“Portrait in Sepia tightens the weave of a multigenerational fantasy as complete and inspiring as the real world it parallels … Allende’s... Read more

Paula

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Cynthia Farrell

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”—Los Angeles TimesIn this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable family’s past.When her daughter, Paula,... Read more

The Sum of Our Days

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Blair Brown

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende. ""An inspiring and thought-provoking... Read more

Daughter of Fortune

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Blair Brown

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster... Read more

Shifting Shadows

By: Herman Mendoza

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Herman Mendoza built his kingdom in Queens, New York. He made a fortune selling cocaine with his brothers up and down the Eastern Seaboard. He had apartments around the city for his mistresses and a home in the Poconos for his beautiful nuclear family. But when he and his brothers were busted in a large-scale crackdown, his kingdom crumbled.... Read more

Fracture

By: Andres Neuman

Narrated by: Paul Woodson & Janet Metzger

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman’s Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan’s 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes.



An earthquake unnerves Tokyo on March 11, 2011, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster—and a tectonic stirring of... Read more

Santiago's Road Home

By: Alexandra Diaz

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Three starred reviews!
“Harrowing but deeply illuminating.” —School Library Journal

A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this timely and unflinching novel by award-winning author Alexandra Diaz.

The bed creaks under Santiago’s shivering body. They say a person’s life flashes by before... Read more

Incendiary

By: Zoraida Cordova

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

I AM RENATA CONVIDA.
I HAVE LIVED A HUNDRED STOLEN LIVES.
NOW I LIVE MY OWN.

Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King’s Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of
Andalucía. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata was used by the crown to
carry out the King’s Wrath, a siege that resulted in the... Read more

A Luminous Republic

By: Andrés Barba

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wholly compelling.” —Colm Tóibín

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... Read more

Ghost Girl in the Corner

By: Daniel José Older

Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Trying to shake off the strange malaise that separates her from even her girlfriend Izzy, Tee decides to take over the Bed-Stuy Searchlight for the summer. But then she finds an alluring violet dress in the newspaper office, and a cute ghost girl no one else can see. Izzy can tell Tee's drifting away from her—she misses Izzy's shows and skips... Read more