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  Updated 1-20-2021   LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS NATIONAL LATINO BOOK CLUB    Comadres & Friends Readers are welcomed to attend any Book Club discussion group.   Please email the local Book Club directly for more information.   Visit www.latinolit.com for our monthly book club selections.   For our   2020 Books of the Year   list, click   here .       MONTHLY TELECONFERENCE Las Monday of the Month, except for holidays Live Teleconference, Free, 7pm Central/ 8pm EST/ 6pm MT/ 5pm PT Register for teleconference at  http://lascomadres.com/latinolit/join-teleconference/ Simultaneous TwitterChat at @ReadLatinoLit.    Use hashtags #ReadLatinoLit, #LasComadres, #LCBC     DISCUSSION GROUPS BY TIME ZONES   EASTERN TIME New York City Book Club The Wednesday before the monthly Teleconference. Usually 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7pm EST via zoom.   For more ...

  LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS NATIONAL LATINO BOOK CLUB  i nvite all Readers to join any of our book club discussions   To join the Book Club, enter here:   http://lascomadres.com/latinolit/join-book-club/   To visit the Comadres Book Club Shop, enter here:   https://bookshop.org/shop/lascomadresbookclub   Attend a Book Club Discussion near you. All Comadres & Friends & Readers welcomed.   Below is a list of the upcoming Comadres Book Club Discussion dates. Join the one most convenient for you.   Please contact the group directly for more information and their zoom connection.      DISCUSSION DATES   December 12 (Saturday) – 9am Mountain via zoom with Phoenix Book Club .  (Every 2 nd  Saturday of the month.) For more information, email  phxbookworm@gmail.com . December 15 (Monday) – 7pm Central via zoom with San Antonio Book Club .  (Every 3 rd  Monday of the month.) For more infor...

RUDOLFO A. ANAYA 1937-2020 The world has lost a grand legend, a literary icon.  Rudolfo Anaya was known as the "godfather" of Chicano literature.  While his novels were primary set in New Mexico, his themes were universal -- family, community, hope, survival, and a little bit of magic to make things interesting.   His primary work will always be BLESS ME, ULTIMA. Over the course of his writing career, Anaya received several prestigious awards, including the Before Columbus Book Award (1980), the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in Literature (1980), the Award for Achievement in Chicano Literature (1983), the Mexican Medal of Friendship from the Mexican Consulate (1986), the PEN-West Fiction Award (1992), and the National Medal of Arts from President George Bush (2002).  Our condolences to family, friends and fans. Read Latino Lit

The Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club recommends the following classical books taken from their Summer Reading Lists.    Read Latino Lit! Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Vintage   In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Algonquin Books   Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig Vintage Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Doubleday   The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho HarperOne   When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Da Capo Press   The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Vintage READ LATINO LIT

PRESS RELEASE LAS COMADRES AND FRIENDS NATIONAL LATINO BOOK CLUB ** Celebrating 10 Years of Connecting Readers Through LATINO Literature ** Third Annual 2017 Summer Reading List June 27, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                     CONTACT: Maria Ferrer Media Relations Coordinator mferrer.lcbookclub@gmail.com New York, NY—Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club (LBCB) is celebrating its  10 th Anniversary of connecting readers through Latino literature.   To com...

Hola, Comadres.  Happy Fall. Our Book of the Month and “Conversation with Book” are below; along with information on our month Teleconference and TwitterChat on September 26.   Join the Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club at www.latinolit.com and register to listen in to the Teleconference and you may win a free book.   Book of the Month WHITE LIGHT by Vanessa Garcia Shade Mountain Press Summary:   Just before her father's sudden death, Cuban- American artist Veronica Gonzalez is offered her first gallery exhibit, a real chance to break into the art world. Torn between the need to mourn and the pressure to create new artwork, Veronica is propelled into a fever-dream of productivity and grief, amidst memories of her tumultuous relationship with her colorful but infuriating Cuban émigré father, a volatile man of outsize appetites and passions who never stopped longing for his homeland. Praised by Nobel l...

Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club   announces their books for July. M ark your calendars for the Teleconference with authors Diana Lopez and Carmen Rita on Monday, July 25, at 8:00pm EST.  Register today at www.latinolit.com for the Teleconference, and you may win a free book.  And, remember to join our Twitter Chat during the Teleconference.  Use our hashtag: #ReadLatinoLit.  Happy Reading!     BOOK OF THE MONTH NOTHING UP MY SLEEVE by Diana Lopez (Little Brown Books for Young Readers). Summary:  Sixth graders Dominic, Loop, and Z stumble upon a new magic shop in town and can't wait to spend their summer mastering cool tricks to gain access to the Vault, a key holders-only back room bound to hold all kinds of secrets. And once they get in, they set their sights even higher: a huge competition at the end of the summer. They work on their card tricks, sleights, and vanishing acts, trying to come up with...