THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

     Kami Garcia, one of the co-authors of the popular Beautiful Creatures series, has gone solo and has a new series:   The Legion.   Book 1, UNBREAKABLE, is out now to great reviews.   The book is being called a crossed between "Supernatural" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."   It's about a bunch of teens, untrained, uncoordinated, out to save the world.  It's fast-paced, full of intrigue and suspense, with interesting characters.   We love it and you will too.   We have our fingers crossed for a movie!     Happy reading ---mcf SUMMARY:      I never believed in ghosts.   Until one tried to kill me. When Kennedy Waters finds her mother dead, she doesn’t realize that paranormal forces are responsible–not until mysterious identical twins Jared and Lukas Lockhart break into her room and destroy a deadly spirit sent to kill her.   Kennedy learns that her mother’s death was no accident, and now ...

  The Latina Book Club welcomes author Greta Benavides-Adame.   Her new YA novel is an exciting adventure set amid the beauty of Texas and   majesty of Mexico.   Join us as we chat with Greta and learn about her family, her writing, and what she thought about the Mayan cruse that never was.  Also, take a close look at her book cover; Her daughter designed it.  Talent must run in the family. Q:   Tell about your background.   Where did you grow up?   family? A:   Either as a way of compensating a complicated premature debut on this planet (weighing 4 lbs.), or because my guardian angel turned out to be influential, my childhood was happy and privileged, without any mayor bumps or traumas.   My father was the director of the library of a private university in Monterrey, Mexico, and later the director of the state archives in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, wrote six books (historical novels) and a monthly article for a...