Join the Latina Book Club this week as we feature books with strong, courageous mothers. And remember our Book of the Month, THE CRUEL COUNTRY, another tale of the power of a mother's love. Happy Reading. Happy Mother's Week. "My mother said I came back to her at sea. She said I appeared out of nowhere, like a falling star, and that I had changed from what I once was..." --- Stella Maris Chantel Acevedo heard about the 1980 Mariel Boatlift from a friend whose family actually came over from Cuba during that time. And, from that kernel of an idea she went on to write A FALLING STAR -- the story of two mothers and two daughters written in a very creative style where the past and the present follow and overlap, and where four heroines speak from their hearts. BOOK SUMMARY: Magda Elena Del Pozo and Solamaris Morales grew up in a Havana, Cuba. Different as night and day but best of friends. ...