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A new year, a new stack of paperbacks (ideally). Here are six fresh picks; mostly fiction, all promising.

By Alicia Ramírez Correspondent Far too often, there’s a stopping point for Latinos attempting to uncover family history. There are blank spots and questions not easily answered, spaces filled with wounds and lost stories. Quiara Alegría Hudes embarks on a pilgrimage to discover more about her family’s roots in her memoir, “My Broken Language.” Hudes rose to prominence as the book writer for the Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” and won a Pulitzer Prize for her play �...

I’ve walked by the many interesting buildings on MIT’s campus countless times, and each time I pass by, I can’t help but wonder how each was planned and if there will be more buildings like them. They are so creative that it makes me wonder how the buildings were constructed and how they look on the inside. With spring here, it means I’ll probably start walking around there again on sunny days and after attending the MIT Campus Art and Landscape Virtual Tour at Boston Design Week, I thi...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Hudes coming of age novel explores how she found her voice. • 8 min read GMA Buzz Picks: My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegria Hudes The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights coming-of-age novel explores how she found her voice while growing up in a Puerto Rican household amid the backdrop of an ailing North Philadelphia barrio.ABC News Photo Illustration, Jon Chu If you’ve finished our “GMA�...

Registration required. Click here to register via EventBrite. Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton This event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and The Seattle Public Library Foundation. Thank you to author series sponsors the Gary and Connie Kunis Foundatio...

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided to write The Undocumented Americans the day after the 2016 presidential election, though her first piece on immigration was published when she was a Harvard senior (byline: Anonymous). Anonymous no more, she has since written for the New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and ELLE.com, among others, and her National Book Award-shortlisted nonfiction book came out in paperback today. The Ecuador-born Villavicencio once wrote about music for a jazz pub...

Here Are the 15 New Books You Should Read in April Time 3 days ago © Provided by Time The best new books arriving in April tackle a wide range of subjects, from a sweeping anthology that illuminates the history of Black farmers in the United States to the firsthand account of an EMT in New York City. This month welcomes the return of award-winning authors like Jhumpa Lahiri and Haruki Murakami as well as the first novels from Morgan Jerkins and JoAnne Tompkins. Here, the best books to read ...

By Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune In the middle of winter, people start craving color. Here are 10 books to remind us that eventually our landscape will be filled with color again. Reading the rainbow Published in 1850, the novel is set in Puritan America. It’s the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a child out of wedlock and is forced to wear the scarlet “A” for adultery on her clothing. ‘A Study in Scarlet’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The first ...

If 2021 is shaping up to be anything like 2020, we’re looking at a lot more time with only ourselves for company. Luckily, Latine authors are up for the challenge of helping to fill that time. From a novel-in-verse about maybe falling in love with Selena’s ghost to a memoir about growing up queer and biracial in rural Indiana, 2021 promises us a dizzying variety of novels, memoirs, and poetry to carry us through the remaining lock-in. Here are 10 books coming out (mostly) in the first half...

Here are a half-dozen recommended paperbacks, if your bedside table is currently bare. ‘The Magical Language of Others’ by E.J. Koh Seattle author Koh’s intergenerational memoir, a recent winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, was inspired by letters written to Koh in Korean by her mother, who left her children behind in California in order to return to South Korea for work. A reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle described...