THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

The Latina Book Club is celebrating Valentine’s and Galentine’s Days all week long.   Each day we will feature a new Latina romance author for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and remember to Read Latino Lit and Read Romance. DID YOU KNOW?! Romance readers bought $1.08 million worth of romance novels in 2013 according to BookStats!  MEET SABRINA SOL. She calls herself, The Romance Chica, and it fits.  Sabrina writes spicy romance stories featuring smart and sexy Latina heroines.  Sabrina is part of a large, extended Mexican family who loves to laugh and eat.  Because of that, family and food are strong themes in many of her stories. Learn more about The Romance Chica by visiting www.sabrinasol.com . DELICIOUS DESIRES ! Sabrina’s romance series is called Delicious Desires from publisher Entangled: Brazen, and they are hot, hot, hot. Book 1, DELICIOUS TEMPTATION opens the sexy series with a bad boy and a go...

The Latina Book Club is celebrating Valentine’s & Galentine's Days all week long.  Each day we will feature a new Latina romance author for your reading pleasure.  Enjoy and remember to Read Latino Lit and Read Romance. DID YOU KNOW?! A true Romance Statistic:  84% of women read romance novels according to Nielsen.  Women romance readers are between 30-54 years of age and  some have been reading romance for over 20 years.  Men read romances too -- 16% of them.   Meet Priscilla Oliveras.    She writes contemporary romance novels with a Latino flavor that are well-written and full of fun and welcoming characters.  Priscilla is half Mexican; half Puerto Rican. It was her Dad – not a typo! – who introduced her to romance novels while they were waiting in a hurricane shelter in the Florida Keys. Viola! A devoted romance reader was born. Years later, while in college Priscilla decided to try h...

MCT Publications   We are taught in church that there is a HEAVEN and HELL. When we die, we end up in one or the other. But, after what I’ve seen and done in my life, I beg to differ. Yes, there is a HEAVEN, a place of wonderment and joy. We go there either right after death or 100 years after. It just depends on what good deeds we’ve done on EARTH. Now HELL? HELL doesn’t exists after death. Why not? ‘Cause HELL is here on EARTH among the living. Just ask me how I know!                                                     – Angelina Rivera The Latina Book Club congratulates author Maria Hernandez on the debut of her Trapped series, and the birth of a new bold, confident, Latina heroine on a journey ...

The Latina Book Club is a proud reviewer for Multicultural Children’s Book Day , which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.  Below is our review of Anne Broyles new bilingual children’s book. # ReadYourWorld Pelican Publishing Company Translated by Maru Cortes ARTURO AND THE BEINVENIDO FEAST by Anne Broyles is a delightful, heart-warming bilingual children’s book about family, love and bienvenida / welcome.  In this new book, Arturo and his grandmother, Abue Rosa, are preparing a feast to welcome his aunt’s fiancé to the family. However, when Abue Rosa doesn’t feel well and must lay down, Arturo doesn’t want to disturb her and so he takes over the menu with delicious results. As the author states: Food is one of the ways families share love.  Readers will love Arturo’s generous heart and innocent independence.  They’ll also appreciate the warm and colorful illustrations by KE Lewis, and the simple recipes that complete the story.  ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Reflecting on the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Conclusion --- I too choose to stick with Love . Wishing you many blessings in 2018.  Stay positive. My focus word this year is Celebration . I am celebrating small and big things. Join me---mcf I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ---Martin Luther King, Jr. Stick with Love Read Latino

    Stories can’t be featured unless they are available to read.   We all need to share our stories…. – Lisa Guerrero, Journalist, Latina, Leader. We can’t believe how quickly this year has gone by.  We were happy to discover new authors and new stories – stories that made us laugh, cry, cringe, scream and fall in love.  We’ve put together an easy reference list of our books of 2017 for readers everywhere. Remember that books make great gifts all year around, and the best way to support an author is by buying their books, reading their stories and telling your friends and their friends and so on. We wish you the very best for the New Year, and we look forward to discovering new stories and new authors.  Happy Reading. Happy 2018! --- mcf BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying by Laurie Ann Guerrero (University of Notre Dame Press) – poetry All that Glitters by Liza Treviño (Koehler Books) ...

    Tell your super-ego to fuck off, man.  The way you examine every single action, past and present, is twisted. The sin of pride. You’re not that important. You have to forgive yourself once and for all.   --- IN THE MIDST OF WINTER ATRIA BOOKS Isabel Allende starts a new book every January.  IN THE MIDST OF WINTER must have been started during a snow storm because this book takes place during a hard winter in Brooklyn. IN THE MIDST OF WINTER is a heartwarming, captivating, suspenseful, adventurous, gratifying novel.  It’s about love and loss, about justice and redemption, about survival and rebirth, about friendship and family. Allende tackles issues like gang violence, political atrocities, domestic abuse, illegal immigration and human rights se with truthfulness and integrity. Her characters are so realistic they could be your next door neighbors. This novel is fast-paced and with enough plot twists –I did not see that dead...