Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label memoirs

THE LATINA BOOK CLUB SHOP NOW OPEN!

The Latina Book Club has become an affiliate of Bookshop to help support local and independent bookstores.  Visit us at   https://bookshop.org/shop/latinabookclub . Bookshop is an online bookstore that believes bookstores are essential to a healthy culture. They’re where authors can connect with readers, where we discover new writers, where children get hooked on the thrill of reading that can last a lifetime.   By design, Bookshop gives away over 75% of its profit margin to stores, publications, authors and others who make up the thriving, inspirational culture around books! To date, Bookshop has raised $1.5 million dollars. Bookshop hopes to help strengthen the fragile ecosystem and margins around bookselling and keep local bookstores an integral part of our culture and communities.   They are a B-Corp - a corporation dedicated to the public good.  The Latina Book Club is proud affiliate. Please check out The Latina Bo...

BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014

  The Latina Book Club is proud to announce its 2nd Annual Books of the Year list . Our list contains some memoirs, some fiction, some children's books, some collections of poems and more.   Most of the books on our list are written by Latino authors, the ones that are not contain Latino characters of worthy note--all are fun reads.   The Latina Book Club wishes you Happy Reading and a Happy New Year! ---mcf BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 (in alphabetical order by title) A CUP OF WATER UNDER MY BED by Daisy Hernandez CHASING THE SUN by Natalia Sylvester CHOPPER! CHOPPER! POETRY FROM BORDERED LIVES by VerĂ³nica Reyes DESEO DE UNA NOCHE by Alonso Cueto (Spanish) DLEE'S WORLD by Diana Lee Santamaria EVERY HIDDEN FEAR by Linda Rodriguez HANDBOOK FOR AN UNPREDICTABLE LIFE: HOW I SURVIVED SISTER RENATA AND MY CRAZY MOTHER AND STILL CAME OUT SMILING (WITH GREAT HAIR) by Rosie Perez HUNTING SEASON: IMMIGRATION AND MURDER IN AN ALL-AMERICAN TOWN by Mirta O...