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- Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Essentially the story of Esperanza and her father in law Don Chan, and their fractured relationship. Don Chan joins the family in New York shortly after his wife dies in the Dominican Republic. Esperanza recalls the country as largely...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle – marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars – to pursue her dream of being a SCUBA diving instructor. She could not have predicted the journey ahead when...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid recreation of the...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Then one day,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
The stunning New York Times bestselling novel from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of THE POET X. 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Winner of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. Camino Rios lives for the summers when...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1965
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to...
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the...
In the Time of the Butterflies
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s-1960s
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A powerful tale about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. When Lola’s teacher asks the students to draw...
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland–the Dominican Republic–that Kirkus Reviews calls a “rich and moving saga” and Shelf Awareness calls “a...
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