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The House in the Pines: Reese's Book Club

By: Ana Reyes

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!

“This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick January 2023)

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago... Read more

Viva Lola Espinoza

By: Ella Cerón

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut young adult novel that’s Pride & Prejudice with a dash of magic, about a booksmart teen who spends the summer in Mexico City, meets two very cute boys, attempts to learn Spanish, and uncovers a family secret that changes her life forever.

Lola Espinoza is cursed in love. Well, maybe not actually cursed — magic isn't real, is it? When... Read more

Pinata

By: Leopoldo Gout

Narrated by: Patricia Loranca Ochoa

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Carmen Sánchez está de regreso en su país de origen, México, supervisando la renovación de una antigua catedral en un hotel boutique. Sus hijas adolescentes, Izel y Luna, están con ella durante el verano y se fueron a pasar las tardes sin supervisión en una ciudad extranjera. Los lugareños tratan a las mujeres Sánchez como forasteras, mientras... Read more

Zero Saints

By: Gabino Iglesias

Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn't put down... Read more

Witches

By: Brenda Lozano

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

What's Coming to Me

By: Francesca Padilla

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans revenge on her predatory boss in an attempt to escape her oppressive town in this equally poignant and thrilling contemporary YA about grief, anger, and fighting for what you deserve, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson and Erika L. Sánchez.

In the seaside town of Nautilus, Minerva Gutiérrez... Read more

Sacrificio

By: Ernesto Mestre-Reed

Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.



Cuba, 1998: Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and falls into a job at a café. He is soon drawn into a web... Read more

The Neapolitan Sisters

By: Margo Candela

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Frankie Corzo & Ana Daniela Osorio

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive-aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels. Now all... Read more

Brown Neon

By: Raquel Gutierrez

Narrated by: Raquel Gutierrez

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.

Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez’s debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For... Read more

Ocean's World

By: Carlos PenaVega & Alexa PenaVega

Narrated by: Carlos PenaVega & Alexa PenaVega

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the authors. Includes an exclusive bonus song, “Ocean’s World,” written for the book!Join Ocean and Kingston as they explore the ocean, discover wildlife, and learn fascinating marine facts in Ocean's World, an action and adventure story for kids!Ocean and his little brother, Kingston, explore the beautiful island of Maui in search of a... Read more

Ana Takes Manhattan

By: Lissette Decos

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Abby Jimenez and Alexis Daria will love this novel about one New York City woman skilled in producing swoon‑worthy reality TV shows but whose own life is a mess, with nothing ever going according to plan.

As a reality TV producer, Ana Karina orchestrates extravagant marriage proposals that always (well, mostly) go as planned. When they... Read more

Blazewrath Games

By: Amparo Ortiz

Narrated by: Victoria Rodriguez

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first-ever World Cup appearance, and when Puerto Rico’s Runner-the only player... Read more

A Changing World

By: César Vidal

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 26, 1991, an event of extraordinary importance in universal history took place. It involved the dissolution of the Soviet Union, an event of enormous repercussions that almost no one had anticipated. In fact, only the historian Andrei Amalrík and Nobel laureate and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, two Russian dissidents, had enough... 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

Más que un rabino (Rabbi)

By: César Vidal

Narrated by: César Vidal

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Millones y millones de personas adoran, veneran y admiran a Jesús de Nazaret. Dios, para algunos, maestro, para otros. La verdad, sin embargo, es que su historia y sus verdaderas enseñanzas son ignoradas por las masas. Siglos de interpretaciones y manipulaciones han ocultado el hecho de que Jesús no era un cristiano. El reconocido historiador... Read more

Mexico - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Russel Maddicks

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This guide to Mexico takes you to the heart of Mexican society. It describes how people socialize and meet members of the opposite sex, the dynamics of daily life, the central importance of family, and the annual cycle of Catholic feasts and fiestas. For business travelers, there are key sections on the economy and vital insights into the... 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

Always Running

By: Luis J. Rodriguez

Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully... Read more

Zonia's Rain Forest

By: Juana Martinez-Neal

Narrated by: Sisa Quispe & Cinthya Gonzales Perez

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Zonia’s home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer?... Read more

The Faraway World

By: Patricia Engel

Narrated by: Gisela Chipé, Frankie Corzo, Inés del Castillo,...

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023

From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection... Read more

The Shamshine Blind

By: Paz Pardo

Narrated by: Aida Reluzco

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, “this fiercely intelligent and utterly original debut” (Anna North, New York Times bestselling author) imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to... Read more

Have You Seen Marie?

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing. The word 'orphan' might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like 'a glove left behind at the bus station.' What just might save her... Read more

El eclipse total de Néstor López

By: Adrianna Cuevas

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales. Pero cuando los animales del pueblo comienzan a desaparecer, la abuela de... Read more

Our Shadows Have Claws

By: Yamile Saied Méndez & Amparo Ortiz

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From zombies to cannibals to star-crossed, shapeshifting lovers, this cross-genre anthology written by superstar YA authors from across the Latin American diaspora offers bold new thrills for every monster fan. In these fifteen original short stories, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are taken from their beds... Read more