SUMMER LOVE!


We hope you are enjoying the long hot days and our Summer Reading List!

In case you missed it, the Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club launched its first annual Summer Reading List on June 20 to great acclaim.  

We invite ALL our Comadres to help us celebrate the Summer Reading List by reading the books and writing a book recommendation.  And, for your efforts you will be entered to win one of two $25 gift cards.


Raffle rules:
  • All Comadres who read 5 books off our Summer Reading List and write a book recommendation for each on either Amazon or B&N or Goodreads will get one (1) entry into the raffle for a $25 gift card.
  • All Comadres who read 7 books off our Summer Reading List and write a book recommendation for each on either Amazon or B&N or Goodreads will get two (2) entries into the raffle for a $25 gift card.
  • All Comadres who read 10 books off our Summer Reading List and write a book recommendation for each on either Amazon or B&N or Goodreads will get three (3) entries into the raffle for a $25 gift card.
  • All Comadres who read 15 books off our Summer Reading List and write a book recommendation for each on either Amazon or B&N or Goodreads will get five (5) entries into the raffle for a $25 gift card.

Deadline:  September 23, 2015.  Winners will be announced on September 30, 2015.
Prize:     Two,  $25-Gift certificates


To entice you even further, below is our 2015 Summer Reading List.  It has something for everyone – fiction, classic, memoirs, romance and even a cookbook!

1. A Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia (fiction) – Booktrope Editions
2. Ana of California: A Novel by Andi Teran (YA) – Penguin Books
3. Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx by Sonia Manzano (memoir) – Scholastic Press
4. The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo (fiction) – Europa Editions
5. The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Cristina Garcia (fiction) – Scribner (Simon & Schuster)
6. Empanadas: The Hand-Held Pies of Latin America by Sandra Gutierrez (cookbook) – Stewart, Tabori and Chang (Abrams)
7. The Heart Has Its Reasons by Maria Dueñas (fiction) – Atria Books
8. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (classic) – Vintage (Knopf Doubleday)
9. I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin (YA) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster)
10. Just One Night by Caridad Pineiro (romance fiction) – CreateSpace
11. Letters From Heaven/ Cartas del Cielo by Lydia Gil (children, bilingual) – Arte Publico
12. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (classic) – Hachette Book Group (and other publishers)
13. The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco (memoir) – Ecco (HarperCollins)
14. Shutter by Courtney Alameda (YA thriller) – Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan)
15. Stepdog by Mireya Navarro (memoir) – G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin)


We hope many of you will help us celebrate our Summer Reading List and enter the raffle.  If you have any questions, please email us at info.lcbookclub@gmail.com.

We wish you all a Happy Summer and Happy Reading!

Edith, Julia & Maria
The Leadership Team
Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club

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