Latin American Books

I'll Be Your Blue Sky

A Novel

By: Marisa de los Santos
Narrated by: Angela Dawe & Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy Thayer.On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets... Read more

City of the Beasts

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende.Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a... Read more

Forest of the Pygmies

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Isabel Allende & Blair Brown
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

The final installment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy of the journeys of Jaguar and Eagle soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings, and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship, as Alexander and Nadia embark on mission in Kenya that begins as a search for elephants and ends up exposing a system of injustices.Alexander Cold... Read more

The Last Beekeeper

By: Pablo Cartaya
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children Finalist Texas Bluebonnet Award List 2022-23Facing a world dually altered by climate change and those who profit from it, Yolanda Cicerón will have to fight to save the last known beehive from extinction in this stirring new adventure by award-winning author Pablo Cartaya.In a future shaken... Read more

You Only Live Once, David Bravo

By: Mark Oshiro
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

From Mark Oshiro, award-winning author of The Insiders, this time-bending adventure is perfect for fans of Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and When You Reach Me.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 SelectionMiddle school is the worst, especially for David Bravo. He doesn’t have a single class with his best... Read more

God of Neverland

A Defenders of Lore Novel

Defenders of Lore: Book #1

By: Gama Ray Martinez
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

In this magical re-imagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic tale, Michael Darling—the youngest of the Darling siblings and former Lost Boy, now all grown up—must return to the life he left behind to save Neverland from the brink of collapse and keep humanity safe from magical and mythological threats, as well as answer the ultimate question: Where is... Read more

Queens of Wonderland

A Novel

Defenders of Lore: Book #2

By: Gama Ray Martinez
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Enter through the looking glass into Queens of Wonderland, Book Two in the Defenders of Lore series, in which Knights of the Round Vanessa and Michael must follow Captain Hook into Wonderland alongside Alice to crush his treacherous plan and deal with an ongoing war between power-hungry queens

After saving reality and overcoming the numerous... Read more

The Ghetto Within

A Novel

By: Santiago H. Amigorena
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love.A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s... Read more

Monarca

A Novel

By: Leopoldo Gout & Eva Aridjis
Narrated by: Maria Liatis
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

“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 ChocolateA fable for all ages about a Mexican-American girl who transforms... Read more

Once Upon a Quinceanera

By: Monica Gomez-Hira
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Jane the Virgin, this immediately accessible and irresistibly fun rom-com debut will spin readers into an unforgettable summer of late-night dancing, broken hearts, second chances, and telenovela twists.Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Except apparently “happily ever after” for... Read more

Woman of Endurance, A \ Indómita (Spanish Edition)

By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

El poder inolvidable de Beloved de Toni Morrison y la atmósfera evocativa de A Respectable Trade de Phillippa Gregory se combinan en esta revolucionaria novela de Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, que ilustra un aspecto poco conocido de la historia –el comercio transatlántico de personas esclavizadas en Puerto Rico– narrado a través de la experiencia de... Read more

Velorio

A Novel

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
Narrated by: Diana Pou, Vico Ortiz, María Victoria Martínez, Gil René Rodríguez, Jesús E. Martínez, Gabriel S. Rivera Vázquez & Yetta Gottesman
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“This debut novel traces a group of survivors who fall under the spell of an authoritarian cult leader in the days following Hurricane Maria’s destruction in Puerto Rico. It is deeply imagined and deeply felt – imagistic and strange and haunting – and simmering with grief and rage.”  -- Gabriela Garcia, New York Times bestselling authorSet in... Read more

Velorio \ (Spanish edition)

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino
Narrated by: Diana Pou, Vico Ortiz, María Victoria Martínez, Gil René Rodríguez, Jesús E. Martínez, Gabriel S. Rivera Vázquez & Yetta Gottesman
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

«En esta novela, la catástrofe se cuenta con precisión de cronista y belleza poética. Sus voces transcurren entre el tono íntimo y devastador de un diario del desastre y la mirada colectiva de la memoria que ve la esperanza en el linaje de resistencias que han enfrentado al poder desde tiempos ancestrales. Xavier Navarro Aquino nos entrega así... Read more

Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity

By: Angela Velez
Narrated by: Adriana Santos & Sol Madariaga
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventure—a big-hearted, voice-driven YA about two sisters who couldn’t be more different, but become begrudging partners on their school’s cross-country college trip—from debut author Angela Velez. Perfect for fans of Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Han, and Sandhya Menon. Overachiever Luz “Lulu”... Read more

A Long Petal of the Sea

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

“A sweeping historical novel of a man's life, in all his iterations, from Republican revolutionary in Spain, asylum in Chile, military coup and fleeing to Venezuela, and finally returning to his end days in the countryside of Chile. Throughout, Allende explores the ways in which relationships sharpen and define him, especially the great love of... Read more

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Stories

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

“"The Dangers of Smoking in Bed" by Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, revisits themes found in her 2017 collection "Things We Lost in the Fire." Her disquieting stories, populated by ghosts, disappeared adults and exploited children, examine economic pain, social unrest and violence through the lens... Read more

The Rock Eaters

Stories

By: Brenda Peynado
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Ines del Castillo, Sunil Malhotra, Alejandra Reynoso & Jane Santos
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

An NPR Best Book of 2021
NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia
 
What does... Read more

A Nation of Women

An Early Feminist Speaks Out

By: Luisa Capetillo
Narrated by: Melanie Martinez & Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo

A Penguin Classic

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern... Read more

Gordo

Stories

By: Jaime Cortez
Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by... Read more

Certain Dark Things

A Novel

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

“What an engrossing, vibrant, new take on vampires. Part forbidden love story, part revenge caper, part bloodbath, this is easily one of my favorite vampire stories now. I love how Moreno-Garcia creates complex social structures and vampire-specific physical attributes to heighten tensions. This divide between vampires, as well as the... Read more