THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

The author is not a Latina, but the protagonist is.  Get ready to be scared.  Happy Reading.

Not two weeks ago, a heart broken Alisa Valdes announced that the Ella Book Club was closing so she could concentrate on her career.  But, thankfully, Alisa has had a change of heart and the ELLA BOOK CLUB IS BACK! Their new February selection is WAKING UP IN THE LAND OF GLITTER by the Craft Chica herself, Kathy Cano-Murillo.   For more about the Ella Book Club, visit http://www.ellabookclub.com/ .

This is the national book club launched by author Alisa Valdes.  The ELLA Book Club has 500+ registered members coast to coast.  The Club even has a Facebook page.  Their January selection is Margo Candela's MORE THAN THIS. Visit the ELLA Book Club website for a Skype video interview with Margo:  http://www.ellabookclub.com/ SUMMARY:   After living in Paris for a year, Evelyn Reed-Sinclair returns home to San Francisco nursing a broken heart. An heiress to a coffee and tea empire, she has no desire to participate in the highsociety, party-hopping lifestyle in which her younger sister revels. And when a mix-up leads to a job at a struggling dot com company, Evelyn keeps mum about her true identity and joins the nine-to-five workforce.              Meanwhile, Alexander Velasquez, an ambitious lawyer from a working-class San Francisco neighborhood, signs on with a pos...

Believe it or not, it's December already.  Time for good cheer and holiday shopping.  And, if you are looking for books to stuff in your stockings, here are some great choices.   Merry Navidad & Feliz New Year! --Maria FOR THE COMADRES, COMPADRES & FRIEND BOOK CLUB: LAS CHRISTMAS: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories by Esmeralda Santiago y Joie Davidow FOR THE ELLA BOOK CLUB: NOTORIOUS by Michele Martinez Book 4 in her suspense series FOR THE LATINO BABY CLUB: RENE HAS TWO LAST NAMES by Rene Colato Lainez in Spanish and English

English Language Latina Authors Book Club http://www.lasbmw.com/ Their mission: ELLA Book Club seeks to promote reading among U.S. Latinas by featuring fun, modern books by Latina authors who write in their native language - and the primary language of the vast majority of Latinos in the United States - English! The book club is proud to partner with MANA, a National Latina Organization. NOTE:   ELLA National U.S. Latina Book Club is owned and operated by bestselling author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. If you are interested in having your book included in our selections, please have your publisher contact Alisa at valdes.alisa@gmail.com. Their book of the Month is: SWORN TO SILENCE by Linda Castillo Minotaur Books It’s the first in a new suspense series from Ms. Castillo. It’s about “a gun-toting, cursing, former Amish female chief of police” after a serial killer in Painters Mill, Ohio.