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  In the Time of the Butterflies

  by Julia Alvarez

  A fictional account of the young lives of Mirabal sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, otherwise known in the Dominican Republic as Las Mariposas, describes their suffering and martyrdom in the last days of the Trujillo dictatorship.
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  Be the One

  by April Smith

  The only female scout in the majors, hard-living Cassidy Sanderson impulsively hops a plane to the Dominican Republic to snatch up young phenom Alberto Cruz for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But Cruz may have something even Cassidy's well-trained eye can't catch -- "a bad spirit on him" -- and when she tangles with Joe Galanis, a powerful real estate developer, she becomes ensnared in a tightening triangle of... (more)
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  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Díaz

  The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who — from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister — dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú — a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family... (more)