Diaz, Junot
Summary: "Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DIAGomera-Tavarez, Camille
Summary: Buenos Espíritus es una colección de once cuentos, interconectados con la diáspora dominicana, de la autora debut Camille Gomera-Tavarez. Es un libro centrado en una familia extensa, los Belén, a través de múltiples generaciones. Está ambientado en la pequeña ciudad ficticia de Hidalpa, y también en Santo Domingo, Paterson, San Juan y Washington Heights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH GOMAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEGomera-Tavarez, Camille
Summary: A collection of interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora focuses on one extended family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOMRandall, Julian
Summary: While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican bogeyman if she hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RANAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Two sisters mourn their father's death after his plane crashes on a flight to the Dominican Republic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ACEMéndez, Jasminne
Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACEAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls--frequently embarrassed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEPadilla, Francesca
Summary: After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PADRodriguez, Stephanie
Summary: "A young Dominican girl navigates middle school, her strict mother, shifting friendships, and her dream of being an artist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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Summary: "With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURLupica, Mike
Summary: "It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lupica 2017Díaz, Junot
Summary: Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuké--the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIAAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor-inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch-decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACERivera, Lilliam
Summary: A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIVLupica, Mike
Summary: Twelve-year-old Nick García dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LUPNatera, Cleyvis
Summary: "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATDíaz, Junot
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 468 Dia SpanishDíaz, Junot
Summary: Dominican American, Oscar has never had it easy. A romantic who dreamt of becoming the Domican J.R.R. Tolkien, wanted more than anything else to find true love. But, he may never get the chance thanks to the ancient curse put on his family dooming them for generations to torture, prison, tragic accidents and star-crossed love relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DiaAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALVBurgos, Hilda Eunice
Summary: "A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this honest and warm picture book debut"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021