Street Smart Date: August 25
La Isla Bajo el Mar
(The Island Beneath the Sea)
by Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780307476043
$26.95 Hardcover
Vintage Books USA

Zarité, a nine-year-old mulatto girl, is sold as a slave to Valmorain, the French owner of one of the most important sugar plantations in Santo Domingo. Over the next 40 years she tells the story of the slaves, their exploitation, and miserable living conditions. Despite having to serve her master and his two wives, sleep with him, and raise his child, Zarité gains more and more dignity, living her own love story and finally becoming free.

Street Smart Date: September 15
Gabriel García Márquez: Una Vida
(Gabriel García Márquez: A Life)
by Gerald Martin
ISBN: 9780307472281
$19.95 Paperback
Vintage Books USA

Latin-American literature expert Gerald Martin covers the entire life of one of the world's most admired writers, a badly dressed, skinny young man who lived in near-poverty with his grandparents until the age of seven, and who later rose to wealth and international fame. While telling the gripping story of this complex life, Martin considers the tensions between poverty and richness, celebrity and literary quality, politics and writing, and between power, solitude, and love.

Street Smart Date: August 18
El Mano de Fátima
(Fátima’s Hand)
by Ildefonso Falcones
ISBN: 9780307476067
$19.95 Paperback
Vintage Books USA

In 16th-century Spain, the Moors have been expelled after 800 years of dominance and those that have stayed have been forced to convert to Christianity. The country is divided; racial and religious tension lurks everywhere, and nowhere more so than in the beautiful city of Córdoba, the former stronghold of the Moors. When conflict turns into a full-fledged revolt, Hernando, a young and disgraced son of a converted Muslim and the Christian priest who raped her, will finally see a chance to redeem himself. But the realities of war and the love of Fátima will wake him up to the need for peace.

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