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Finn    by Matthew Olshan
Price: $9.99 USD. 60500 words. Published by Bancroft Press on January 1, 2010. .

A modern-day retelling of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Finn tells the story of Chloe Wilder, a quiet girl, part tomboy, part survivor. When Chloe and her grandparents' maid Silvia are torn from their quiet life, they enter a world of adventure and danger. Young people will see Finn as an adventure, older readers as social criticism. All will adore Chloe Wilder.
A Horse in My Kitchen    by Joe Novara
Price: $2.99 USD. 17220 words. Published on January 10, 2010. .

Luz, an eleven-year old Latina, finds a half-frozen newborn foal and gets her African American friend, Zan, to help keep it alive in her kitchen. Luz’s hard working mom directs all the affection Luz longs for onto the baby horse until Holly grows past the ‘cute’ stage. The costs and realities of keeping a growing horse bring mother and daughter together in a dramatic ending.
And Cafe Con Leche    by Evie Alexis
Price: $4.99 USD. 56390 words. Published by eTreasures Publishing  on January 3, 2011. .

While her Mama stresses the importance of maintaining their Puerto Rican heritage, Isabela has other, more rebellious plans. As graduation looms on the horizon, she enters a controversial alliance with the strangest senior male in Preston High. Will her newfound friendship cause her to lose sight of her heritage? Will the family survive Isabela's transition to independence?
Writers on the Storm    by Christy Cauley
Price: $5.00 USD. 113940 words. Published on March 3, 2011. .

Until now, the most important thing in 14-year-old Cornelia Drake’s life was maintaining her rightful place just outside the most popular clique at Storm River High School. But when she is sentenced to community service for writing a racial slur against a Muslim teacher, Mrs. Hakim, Cornelia’s world comes crashing down. Join her on this journey of self discovery and tolerance.
Latinalogue, Puerto Rican Nonfiction Part I    by Odilia Rivera-Santos
Price: $2.99 USD. 13530 words. Published on June 27, 2011. .

Odilia Rivera Santos was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and moved at the age of six to the Bronx. Latinalogue is a collection of nonfiction essays in which Ms. Rivera-Santos explores loss, the experience of making the transition from one culture to another, and how she remade herself from an amalgam of experiences, failures and triumphs.
Lauren's Saints of Dirty Faith: A Dirty Girls Social Club Novel    by Alisa Valdes
Price: $9.99 USD. 97430 words. Published on September 7, 2011. .

In this third installment of the popular Dirty Girls Social Club series by NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Alisa Valdes (formerly Valdes-Rodriguez) we find Boston newspaper columnist Lauren Fernandez running for her life from a handsome sociopathic killer, with the help of her two best friends -- and straight into the arms of a hot, mysterious New Mexico cowboy.
Dirty Little Lies    by Julie Leto
Price: $3.99 USD. 84860 words. Published on October 2, 2011. .

Staying alive isn’t easy when people with guns tell Dirty Little Lies... After blowing her first mission as an undercover operative, ex-gang banger Marisela Morales has a lot at stake. A deadly assassin wants her to become an apprentice and the man she's supposed to be protecting might be guilty of murder. Should she stop the killer's quest for vengeance...or join the hunt?
Blind Date and Other Stories    by Margarete Schulz
Price: $1.99 USD. 7040 words. Published on March 9, 2012. .

A collection of short stories.
Not Dreaming of You (Romantic Comedy)    by Nina Cordoba
Price: $2.99 USD. 77520 words. Published on April 16, 2012. .

Kiki Villanueva believes she had a psychic dream when she was 13 in which she was given a list of her future husband’s attributes. Children are her life, and Kiki has good reason to think she won't have any if she doesn’t marry soon.Since typical dating hasn't been working, she decides that when she goes back to L.A. for the summer, she’ll start using the list to sort through potential candidates.
Mia Like Crazy    by Nina Cordoba
Price: $2.99 USD. 76580 words. Published on April 16, 2012. .

New York attorney Mia Medina isn’t sure what’s happening to her. After working methodically since childhood to escape life in the housing projects, she earned her dream job at a prestigious law firm. Yet, she has suddenly quit after only three years. When a colleague calls to say he’s referred a multimillionaire client to her, she tells herself quitting wasn’t a mistake.