Curated Lists 2023

Pedro Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while his sister Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, but she can't seem to find her own... until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.
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Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht and her mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England.
Arizona, 2019. Anita Díaz and her mother board another train from El Salvador seeking refuge in the United States. But they arrive with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales.
The Wind Knows My Name is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers - and never stop dreaming.
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Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led - her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila. But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.
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Montserrat is a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta. Urueta thinks he is cursed and wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene of an unfinished occultist Nazi movie to lift it. But Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend…
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The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martínez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially the job at their family's taquería. As Ander gets ready to leave for art school, and while working on a mural, he meets new waiter, Santiago Lopez Alvarado. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist. Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile the sense of home is.
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The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why her matriarch, Orquídea Divina, won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers. When she invites them to her funeral, they hope to learn the secrets. Instead, Orquídea is transformed into a ceiba tree, leaving them with more questions than answers. Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in her descendants, granting them unexpected blessings and powers. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, as it seeks to destroy Orquídea's line.
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