New Releases and Preorder Specials

New Releases and Preorder Specials

Piñata: A Novel By Leopoldo Gout Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250781178
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tor Nightfire - March 14th, 2023

“This creepy, fast-paced read brings a fresh voice to horror…. Fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, and V Castro will devour this bloody tale of vengeful spirits and the dark legacy of colonialism.”―Booklist

A Head Full of Ghosts
meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout.


Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure By Robert Lopez Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781953387240
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Two Dollar Radio - March 14th, 2023

"That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can't quite put my finger on any of this.


Valley of Shadows By Rudy Ruiz Cover Image
$34.99
This book is either backordered or a preorder! Please email for more information
ISBN: 9798200953899
Published: Blackstone Publishing - March 14th, 2023

Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction

A 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.


Aniana del Mar Jumps In By Jasminne Mendez Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593531815
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Dial Books - March 14th, 2023

"Beautiful in its honesty and vulnerability, this is a powerful story about dreams and bodily agency that sings from the heart.”—Natalia Sylvester, award-winning author of Breathe and Count Back From Ten


Stella Díaz to the Rescue (Stella Diaz #4) By Angela Dominguez, Angela Dominguez (Illustrator) Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9781250866479
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Square Fish - March 21st, 2023

In Angela Dominguez's Stella Diaz to the Rescue, the beloved Stella learns that sometimes the best way to help others is just to be there for them when times get tough.

It’s a new calendar year, and Stella is determined to make it her best one yet.


You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation By Julissa Arce Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250827821
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Flatiron Books - March 21st, 2023

AN INDIE BESTSELLER

Most Anticipated by ELLE
Bustle Bloomberg Kirkus HipLatina SheReads BookPage The Millions The Mujerista Ms. Magazine and more


The Shoemaker's Magician By Cynthia Pelayo Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781957957104
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Agora Books - March 21st, 2023

A fabled lost movie. An increasing body count. How much do you risk for art?


Post-traumatic: A Novel By Chantal V. Johnson Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316264334
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Back Bay Books - March 21st, 2023

In 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.


The Power of Latino Leadership, Second Edition, Revised and Updated: Culture, Inclusion, and Contribution By Juana Bordas Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781523004089
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers - March 28th, 2023

This updated and expanded edition is the first and only book to offer a leadership model firmly based on the Latino experience and culture.


Sing, Don't Cry By Angela Dominguez, Angela Dominguez (Illustrator) Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9781250881847
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Square Fish - April 4th, 2023

Once a year, Abuelo comes from Mexico to visit his family. He brings his guitar, his music—and his memories.


Carmen and Grace: A Novel By Melissa Coss Aquino Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780063159068
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: William Morrow - April 4th, 2023

"Aquino’s debut novel explores complex ideas: how things that are threatening can also be attractive and whether a debt is owed to the people and places that shaped you."— WASHINGTON POST


Ana María and The Fox (The Luna Sisters #1) By Liana De la Rosa Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593440889
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Berkley - April 4th, 2023

"Pleasingly subversive."--New York Times Book Review

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season.

 


The People Who Report More Stress: Stories By Alejandro Varela Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781662601071
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Astra House - April 4th, 2023

"Alejandro Varela’s The People Who Report More Stress: Stories is a master class in analyzing the unspoken." —The New York Times

"A searing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)


Wealth Warrior: 8 Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market By Linda Garcia Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780306828485
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Legacy Lit - April 11th, 2023

This much-needed conversational guide to the stock market by a financial expert empowers you to heal money wounds, establish financial literacy, and make your money work for you.
 
 Financial educator Linda García breaks down one of the most elusive yet effective financial systems in existence. A single mother at a young age, Linda struggled to survive.


The Cuban Heiress By Chanel Cleeton Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593440483
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Berkley - April 11th, 2023

In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.


Hey Yo! Yo Soy!: 50 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, Tenth Anniversary Book, Second Edition (Nuyorican World Series) By Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, Gabrielle David (Editor), Kevin E. Tobar Pesantez (Editor), Gabrielle David (Contributions by), Vagabond Beaumont (Contributions by), Adam Wier (Translated by), Carolina Fung Feng (Translated by), Sandra Mara Esteves (Introduction by), Jaime A. Estades (Introduction by), Samuel Diaz Carrion (Foreword by), Carmen M. Pietri-Diaz (Foreword by), Jamie “Shaggy” Flores (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, Gabrielle David (Editor), Kevin E. Tobar Pesantez (Editor), Gabrielle David (Contributions by), Vagabond Beaumont (Contributions by), Adam Wier (Translated by), Carolina Fung Feng (Translated by), Sandra Mara Esteves (Introduction by), Jaime A. Estades (Introduction by), Samuel Diaz Carrion (Foreword by), Carmen M. Pietri-Diaz (Foreword by), Jamie “Shaggy” Flores (Afterword by)
$28.99
ISBN: 9781737446569
Availability: Backordered
Published: 2Leaf Press - April 14th, 2023

A bilingual collection of three significant works by a founder of the Nuyorican Movement.
 
This second edition of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez’s Hey Yo! Yo Soy! celebrates the tenth anniversary of the collection’s original publication in 2012.


Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away By Meg Medina, Sonia Sánchez (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Meg Medina, Sonia Sánchez (Illustrator)
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536230673
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Candlewick - April 18th, 2023

The 2020 Jumpstart Read for the Record Selection (2.24 million readers) * An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book * A Publisher’s Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year * A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
 


Trace By Brenda Cardenas Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781636280936
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Red Hen Press - April 18th, 2023

Through image-rich poems regarding migration, transcultural identity, loss, connection, dream, and aging--some translingual, some ekphrastic responses to ephemeral and surreal works of art--Brenda C rdenas' Trace explores conditions of displacement, liminality, and mutability.


Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory (Latinx: The Future Is Now) By Tatiana Reinoza Cover Image
$34.95
ISBN: 9781477326909
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: University of Texas Press - April 18th, 2023

How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.

Printmakers have conspired, historically, to illustrate the maps created by European colonizers that were used to chart and claim their expanding territories.


Pre-Order Now Badge
Latin America Diaries: The Sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries (The Che Guevara Library) By Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Granado (Foreword by) Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781644211007
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Seven Stories Press - July 18th, 2023

The sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries, this book is Ernesto Che Guevera's journal documenting the young Argentine's second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary.


Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking By Tatiana Reinoza (Editor), Karen Mary Davalos (Editor) Cover Image
By Tatiana Reinoza (Editor), Karen Mary Davalos (Editor)
Unfortunately this book is not currently available
ISBN: 9780520390867
Published: University of California Press - April 25th, 2023

The definitive history of a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building.
 
Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States.
 
Officially


The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir By Elio Morillo Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780063214316
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: HarperOne - June 6th, 2023

"Heartwarming... infectious ... [Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars] is every bit the inspiration he means it to be." –Kirkus Reviews


Pre-Order Now Badge
Lobo (Letras Nuevas) By Mónica Rojas, PhD Cover Image
$14.00
ISBN: 9786078756834
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Nostra Ediciones - July 1st, 2023

Lupe Lobo Quezada parece haber nacido para golpear. Después de haber matado a un hombre, el rumor de su crimen llega a oídos de un capo que busca a la nueva figura del cuadrilátero. Lobo carece de todo, pero sus habilidades casi sobrehumanas para pelear le traerán dinero y fama, y también una vida que no termina de asentarse en la felicidad.


Pre-Order Now Badge
Family Lore: A Novel By Elizabeth Acevedo Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063207264
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Ecco - August 1st, 2023

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: Today.com * Time * Electric Literature * Seattle Times * Telemundo * Washington Post * HipLatina * Harper's Bazaar * Elle * AARP * Shondaland


Pre-Order Now Badge
My Documents: Stories By Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (Translated by) Cover Image
By Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (Translated by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143136521
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Penguin Books - February 6th, 2024

The landmark first story collection from internationally acclaimed author Alejandro Zambra, “burning brighter than most anything we’d call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language” (NPR)—now reissued by Penguin with five bonus stories


Pre-Order Now Badge
The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes (Notre Dame Review Book Prize) By Victoria María Castells Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780268205676
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: University of Notre Dame Press - August 1st, 2023

The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes handles themes of loss and exile, aging generations, fable and fairy tale, marriage and hurt, with the island of Cuba at its heart.


Pre-Order Now Badge
Las Madres: A novel By Esmeralda Santiago Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780307962614
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Knopf - August 8th, 2023

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together


Pre-Order Now Badge
The Border Simulator: Poems By Gabriel Dozal, Natasha Tiniacos (Translated by) Cover Image
By Gabriel Dozal, Natasha Tiniacos (Translated by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593447291
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: One World - August 15th, 2023

A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation—and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two

“This crosser is a possession that someone wants but we’re not sure who
and the crosser must often possess themselves. In perpetuity”


Pre-Order Now Badge
Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems By Melania Luisa Marte Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593471340
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Tiny Reparations Books - August 22nd, 2023

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging—for fans of Jasmine Mans and Fatimah Asghar
 
“We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow feel at home.”
 


Pre-Order Now Badge
The Queen of the Valley By Lorena Hughes Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781496736284
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Kensington - August 22nd, 2023

Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers – a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun – into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted h


Pre-Order Now Badge
Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza By Laekan Zea Kemp Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780316304313
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - September 5th, 2023

Fans of The Girl Who Drank the MoonPaola Santiago and the River of Tears, and Disney's Encanto will be captivated by this fantastical novel about a girl who must learn to trust her ancestral powers when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend La Lechuza.

Omega Morales’s family has been practicing magic for centurie


Pre-Order Now Badge
Love of My Lives By Yamile Saied Méndez Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781496737076
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Kensington - September 26th, 2023

How far would you search for the soulmate of your dreams?


Pre-Order Now Badge
Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking (A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery #2) By Raquel V. Reyes Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781639105168
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Crooked Lane Books - September 26th, 2023

It’s time for a savory soirée—but something sinister is stewing—in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala.


Pre-Order Now Badge
Untamed Shore By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593600528
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Del Rey - September 19th, 2023

In this dark coming-of-age noir, a “Patricia Highsmith-like tale of grifts and con artists” (Crime Time), a young woman becomes embroiled in a web of lies and deceit—with potentially deadly consequences—from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night


Pre-Order Now Badge
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer: A Novel By Jamie Figueroa Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781646221219
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Catapult - October 3rd, 2023

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction Debut Novel prize, this fableistic, "beautifully crafted, poetic" debut novel about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss is for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review).


Pre-Order Now Badge
Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America: A Cookbook By Sandra A. Gutierrez Cover Image
$40.00
ISBN: 9780525659259
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Knopf - October 3rd, 2023

An encyclopedic cookbook (from Chiles Rellenos and Tostones to Golden Coconut Chicken and Dulce de Leche Tart) celebrating Latin American home cooking—the first to cover the day-to-day home cooking of all twenty-one nations—by one of the most respected authorities on the subject


Pre-Order Now Badge
Sí, Se Puede: The Latino Heroes Who Changed the United States By Julio Anta, Yasmín Flores Montañez (Illustrator) Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781984860910
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Ten Speed Graphic - October 10th, 2023

Meet the unsung Latino rebels, artists, and activists who changed the United States--from Dolores Huerta to Desi Arnaz to Lin Manuel Miranda--in this bold and entertaining graphic history.


Wings in the Wild By Margarita Engle Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781665926362
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - April 18th, 2023

This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.

Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn’t meet their approval.


Ander & Santi Were Here: A Novel By Jonny Garza Villa Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250843999
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Wednesday Books - May 2nd, 2023

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria.

Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.


The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings 2) By Claribel A. Ortega Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781338745795
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Scholastic Press - May 2nd, 2023

An instant New York Times and Indie bestseller!

Get ready for more magic, mayhem, and monstruos in this magical sequel to Witchlings from Claribel A.


La Guitarrista By Lucky Diaz, Micah Player (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Lucky Diaz, Micah Player (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063254152
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: HarperCollins - May 2nd, 2023

From the creators of Paletero Man—Latin Grammy–winning musician Lucky Diaz and celebrated artist Micah Player—comes a story about a tenacious girl who achieves her wildest dreams with a little help from her community and a broken guitar. 


Plátanos Are Love By Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Mariyah Rahman (Illustrator) Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781665902731
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - April 11th, 2023

A delicious picture book about the ways plantains shape Latinx culture, community, and family, told through a young girl’s experiences in the kitchen with her abuela.

Abuela says, “plátanos are love.”
I thought they were food.
But Abuela says they feed us in more ways than one.


With every pop of the tostones, mash of the man


Miguelito's Confession By Miguel A. de la Torre Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781958901212
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Liminal Books - March 14th, 2023

What is legitimized and normalized by the discrimination and institutionalized violence the de la Cruz family is forced to face? Miguelito might survive in his new adopted country, but at what price?


Sexografías / Sexographies By Gabriela Wiener, Camila Sosa Villada (Prologue by) Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9788439737612
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Literatura Random House - March 21st, 2023

Edición ampliada de las crónicas sexuales de Gabriela Wiener, un recorrido temerario y trepidante por el lado más salvaje del periodismo narrativo, con prólogo de Camila Sosa Villada.


Disorientation: A Novel By Elaine Hsieh Chou Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593298374
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Penguin Books - March 21st, 2023

Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain.


Homegirls and Handgrenades (Celebrating Black Women Writers #8) By Sonia Sanchez Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780807012956
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Beacon Press - March 21st, 2023

Winner of the American Book Award

A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition

“A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”—Maya Angelou


Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures By Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture, Kevin M. Strait (Editor), Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Editor), Kevin Young (Foreword by), Vernon Reid (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture, Kevin M. Strait (Editor), Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Editor), Kevin Young (Foreword by), Vernon Reid (Contributions by)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781588347404
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Smithsonian Books - March 21st, 2023

This timely and gorgeously illustrated companion book to an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition explores the power of Afrofuturism to reclaim the past and reimagine Black futures


While You Were Dreaming By Alisha Rai Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063083967
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Quill Tree Books - March 21st, 2023

In this debut contemporary YA romance by bestselling author Alisha Rai, a girl with undocumented family members goes viral after saving her crush’s life in disguise. A must read for fans of Sandhya Menon and Nicola Yoon. 

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick!


Y/N: A Novel By Esther Yi Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781662601538
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Astra House - March 21st, 2023

“Wondrous and weird . . . Y/N resists the junkiness of the internet . . . against which a well-formed novel like this counteracts, a blast of cleansing heat.” —New York Times
"Gorgeous." —New Yorker
"High Brow x Brilliant." —NY Mag (Approval Matrix)


Sunday Funday in Koreatown (Yoomi, Friends, and Family) By Aram Kim Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780823453283
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Holiday House - March 21st, 2023

Yoomi and Daddy are going to Koreatown today! This story celebrates family, resilience, and Korean culture.

Yoomi has planned the perfect Sunday! But the shirt she wants to wear is in the laundry. And she doesn't have the seaweed she needs for a kimbap breakfast. 


A Bit of Earth By Karuna Riazi Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063098664
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Greenwillow Books - March 14th, 2023

“Karuna Riazi has a way with words. This story will find its way into your heart.”—Tae Keller, Newbery Medalist for When You Trap a Tiger

“As timeless as it is timely, A Bit of Earth is a rare gift.”—Laurel Snyder, author of National Book Award nominee Orphan Island


Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir By Kat Chow Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781538716335
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grand Central Publishing - March 21st, 2023

This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family—perfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander.

Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death.


Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers By Jesse Q. Sutanto Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593549223
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Berkley - March 14th, 2023

A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.


Leaving Atlanta By Tayari Jones Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781538742105
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grand Central Publishing - March 14th, 2023

From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is "one of the most important voices of her generation" (Essence).


Falling Short By Ernesto Cisneros Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9780062881731
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Quill Tree Books - March 14th, 2023

Ernesto Cisneros, Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Efrén Divided, is back with a hilarious and heartfelt novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. A great next pick for readers who loved Ghost by Jason Reynolds or The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez.