Latine Voices from El Norte and Beyond

Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera
Narrated by: Thom Rivera
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans.Accompanied by a small group of... Read more

There is a Rio Grande in Heaven

Stories

By: Ruben Reyes Jr.
Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

“I do love a choose your own adventure story. Read more

Where There Was Fire

A Novel

By: John Manuel Arias
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

"Bilingual Spanish/English audiobook narrator Sananes enlivens Costa Rican American poet/writer Arias’ multigenerational saga." —Booklist

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s... Read more

Witches

By: Brenda Lozano
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets.



Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the... Read more

Dominicana

A Novel

By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Coral Peña
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

“This is a book that will stay with you. It’s a story about a 15 Year old Dominican girl, who is married off to a man twice her age bc he can bring her to the United States. Ana, has no control over her situation, and comes to the US, speaking no English, knowing nothing about her new country. Isolated in their apartment, missing her siblings and... Read more

The Great Divide

A Novel

By: Cristina Henriquez
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“A fascinating novel about a wide cast of characters whose lives all intersect during the construction of the Panama Canal. The larger story emerges from many individual experiences; from laborers to housemaids to fishermen, all of whom play a part in the famous engineering feat. Read more

Retrospective

A Novel

By: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Narrated by: Sheldon Romero
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions.

The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country... Read more

Brownsville

Stories

By: Oscar Casares
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Oscar Casares' debut collection of short stories was selected as an ALA Notable book and received tremendous praise from publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Entertainment Weekly. These nine stories follow a collection of unforgettable characters trying to get by while living in the South Texas border town of... Read more

Postcolonial Love Poem

Poems

By: Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

“Pulitzer Prize-winning Postcolonial Love Poem will make you want Natalie Diaz to write a love poem about you. Here, she writes sensual lesbian poems and warm platonic ones, poems about water and basketball and things lost in translation. Her elegant poetry begs to be studied—add this stunner from a Mexican Mojave poet to your shelf, and eat it... Read more

So Far From God

By: Ana Castillo
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

In Tome, a small, seemingly sleepy New Mexico hamlet, Sofia and her four fated daughters reveal a world of marvels where the comic and horrific, past and present, real and fantastic coexist and collide. Over two crowded decades, Sofia tries to hold things together following the disappearance of her husband, Domingo, he of the Clark Gable... Read more

Signs Preceding the End of the World

By: Yuri Herrera
Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award

Featured in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores... Read more

Bless Me, Ultima

By: Rudolfo Anaya
Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic... Read more

The Family Izquierdo

A Novel

By: Ruben Degollado
Narrated by: Rogelio T. Ramos, Thom Rivera, Kyla Garcia, Frankie Corzo, Roxanne Hernandez, Carolina Hoyos & various narrators
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love—and a curse.The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter... Read more

Faces in the Crowd

By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Armando Durán & Roxanne Hernandez
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem... Read more

The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio & André Santana
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

A “masterful…mesmerizing and unflinching” (Patricia Engel, New York Times bestselling author) story about a family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and beyond.

Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a... Read more