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Hispanic Heritage Month 2026

National Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from September 15 to October 15. Let's explore the triumphs and tribulations of this vibrant community and gain a better understanding of our neighbors.

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  • Migrant Heart

    Essays About Things I Can't Forget

    Grande, Reyna,
    With her signature blend of sophistication and raw honesty, Grande interrogates how living between two nations, two languages, and two identities has shaped the woman, mother, and writer she has become. Moving from the legacy of violence in her…
    Book, 2026[New York, N.Y.] : Primero Sueño Press/Atria Books, [2026] — 305.8687 GRANDE 2026
  • Magical/realism

    Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

    Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica,
    A poet and essayist intimately and fearlessly explores the many complicated girlhoods of being a working-class, first-generation, Mexican American daughter of a cumbia musician, in this brilliant collection that examines migration, violence and…
    Book, 2024[New York] : Tiny Reparations Books, 2024. — 814.6 VILLARRE 2024
  • Radical Señora Era

    Ancestral Latin American Secrets for a Happier, Healthier Life

    Dunning, Ann Murray,
    Ann Murray Dunning turn decades of ancestral knowledge, personal lore, and cutting-edge research into a one-of-a-kind book that can help you learn time-tested, simple habits and rituals based on natural living. Rediscover how to do something purely…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Dafina Books/Kensing Publishing Corp., 2025. — 152.42 DUNNING 2025
  • Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing…
    Book, 2024New York : Pantheon Books, [2024] — FIC BALIBRER
  • The Eternal Forest

    a Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora

    Sheppard, Elena, 1987-
    A memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family's exile from the island, through a lyrical exploration of memory, cultural mythology, and the history of Cuban-American relations. History is undeniably dominated by its men, but the stories…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — 305.8687 SHEPPARD 2025
  • Citizenship

    Notes on An American Myth

    Hernández, Daisy
    In this one-of-a-kind book, Daisy Hernández fiercely interrogates one of the most complicated subjects of contemporary life and politics: citizenship. Braiding memoir, history, and cultural criticism, she exposes the truths and lies of how we define…
    Book, 2026New York, NY : Hogarth, [2026] — 323.6097 HERNANDE 2026
  • In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu…
    Book, 2024New York : Viking, 2024. — FIC FUENTES
  • In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republica, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers,…
    Book, 2026New York : Riverhead Books, [2026] — FIC ENRIGUE 2026
  • Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 305.8687 GUTIERRE 2024
  • Dreaming of Home

    How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change

    Jiménez, Cristina
    Cristina Jiménez's family fights to stay afloat as Ecuador falls into a political and economic crisis. When she is thirteen, her parents courageously decide to seek a better life in the U.S., landing in a one-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York.…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — 974.7044 JIMENEZ 2025