Latine Authors

The Real Odessa

By: Uki Goñi

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of... Read more

Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking

By: Raquel V. Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in... Read more

A Touch of Moonlight

By: Yaffa S. Santos

Narrated by: Diana Pou

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

""A delicious culinary romance."" —BooklistFrom the author of A Taste of Sage comes another charming and engrossing novel in which a young woman must navigate her family’s expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity.Larimar Cintrón works hard at three things: her job as brand manager for Beacon Café,... 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

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

Brown Enough

By: Christopher Rivas

Narrated by: Christopher Rivas

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brown Enough, Christopher Rivas's first book, is a literary memoir about what it truly means to be Brown in America. Holding the weight of being a Latino man, Christopher wonders where he falls on the color line, widened through his experience as an ethnically am­biguous actor of color in Holly­wood and the man!) dangers and pitfalls that come... Read more

River Woman, River Demon

By: Jennifer Givhan

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous author Jennifer Givhan brings us an exquisitely written, spell-binding psychological thriller—weaving together folk magick with personal and cultural empowerment—that is perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic.When Eva’s husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and... Read more

A Ballad of Love and Glory / Corrido de amor y gloria (Spanish ed)

By: Reyna Grande

Narrated by: Sara Vivanco & Hernán Espinoza

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Una guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable.El año es 1846. Después de la controvertida anexión de Texas, el ejército de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con México por la disputada frontera del Río Grande. Ximena Salomé es una talentosa curandera mexicana que sueña con construir una familia con el hombre que ama en la... Read more

The First to Die at the End

By: Adam Silvera

Narrated by: Jason Genao, Anthony Keyvan & Kyla Garcia

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this prequel to the bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. #1 New York Times bestseller!It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die,... Read more

Cece Rios and the King of Fears

By: Kaela Rivera

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Karla Serrato

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling sequel to the “spellbinding” (Booklist starred review) and “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly starred review) middle grade fantasy adventure Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, Cece and her sister Juana must journey into the stronghold of Devil’s Alley to challenge the criatura king El Cucuy. Cece Rios thought saving her sister... Read more

Creep: A Love Story

By: Lygia Day Peñaflor

Narrated by: Gail Shalan

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

You meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in this twisted, tragic love story that follows Holy Family High School’s cutest couple—as told through the eyes of the classmate who’s stalking them.Laney Villanueva and Nico Fiore are the perfect couple: beautiful, popular, talented, and hopelessly in love. Everyone looks up to them at Holy Family... Read more

You Only Live Once, David Bravo

By: Mark Oshiro

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Valley of Shadows

By: Rudy Ruiz

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of FictionA 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.Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in... Read more

Bindle Punk Bruja

By: Desideria Mesa

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Boardwalk Empire meets The Vanishing Half with a touch of earth magic in this sexy and action-packed historical fantasy set in the luminous Golden Twenties from debut author Desideria Mesa, where a part-time reporter and club owner takes on crooked city councilmen, mysterious and deadly mobsters, and society’s deeply rooted sexism and racism,... Read more

Until Someone Listens

By: Estela Juarez & Lissette Norman

Narrated by: Estela Juarez

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Author/narrator Estella Juarez takes listeners on the heartrending journey of her family's immigration struggle....her message is powerful, heartbreaking, and hopeful."- AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author, Estela Juarez.

When Estela Juarez's mom is deported to Mexico, Estela knows she has to speak up for her family. Told in... Read more

Woman Without Shame

By: Sandra Cisneros

Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and GOODREADS • A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and... Read more

CHARYTÍN \ (Spanish edition)

By: Charytin

Narrated by: Charytin

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Así siento que ha sido toda mi vida: un huracán, un torbellino, un tsunami arrasador que siempre me ha traído grandes alegrías, me las ha quitado, para volverme a traer más en este incesante vaivén. ¡O tal vez el huracán soy yo! Porque allá donde voy, me dicen que siempre se arma un revolú.” - CharytínDesde una infancia dolorosa con complicados... Read more

Sira \ (Spanish edition)

By: Maria Duenas

Narrated by: Neus Sendra

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuatro ciudades, dos misiones, una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Después de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de María Dueñas. La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira Quiroga... Read more

The Curse on Spectacle Key

By: Chantel Acevedo

Narrated by: Edward A. Mendoza

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process. This new middle grade standalone mystery from the author of the Muse Squad series is perfect for fans of Doll Bones and The... Read more

I Am Diosa \ Yo soy Diosa (Spanish edition)

By: Christine Gutierrez

Narrated by: Maria Victoria Martinez

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Yo soy Diosa no es sólo un libro. Es una iniciación; una activación. Un llamado de regreso al Alma y a la verdadera divinidad de Diosa que llevas dentro. Mereces sentir el poder y la magia que esperan en lo más profundo de tu ser. La divinidad encarnada te pertenece por derecho natural. Estás hecha de estrellas. Eres Diosa en cada célula, con la... 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

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... Read more

Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

Narrated by: Sena Bryer

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts.

Camila Sosa Villada’s extraordinary first novel is a rich, nuanced portrait of a marginalized community: their romantic relationships, friendships and squabbles, difficulties at work, aspirations and... Read more

I'm Not Broken

By: Jesse Leon

Narrated by: Jesse Leon

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse.

"A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives, bodhisattvas all."  —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of... Read more