by Teresa Dovalpage
“Go and sell lots of books!” said my friend Raquelita when I left Taos on October 14th to participate in the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. I nodded, encouraged. ¡Pues claro! Wasn’t …

The sound of steam quickly rising from the rice cooker on the kitchen counter, followed by the “ding” of done, is a vivid, burned-in-my-brain memory of my parents’ house.
When I got married, my father gave …

By Lisa Quinones-Fontanez 
I will never forget the day I came across the book that would change my literary life. I was in my college bookstore, buying textbooks when the title caught me by surprise: When …

Giveaway closed: Jackie Won. Thanks to all who left comments!
By Barbara Gomez Trujillo
Ya! Enough is enough!
Spring is here, your New Year’s resolutions are slowly but surely dwindling, and although that big sweater is disguising the …

Listen as Maria Reads The Cazuela That The Farm Maiden Stirred
My 7-year-old found, sitting on the kitchen table, the new book,The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred. It had just arrived in the mail.
A little …

With the Latino love of fútbol and the World Cup starting today, we thought it appropriate to highlight a newly released non-fiction book, The Boys from Little Mexico by Steve Wilson.
The book follows an all-Hispanic …

The new book by Raul Ramos y Sanchez, America Libre, details a world we don’t want to live in, an imagined future we do not want to see, but one that doesn’t really sound that far-fetched …

We are hosting a Latino Book Month giveaway to thank you for stopping by and offering your feedback on our new blog, a rinconcito for all of us.

Maria keeps a new book by her bedside, “Before you were here, Mi Amor” by Samantha R. Vamos. It is beautiful and sweet and boldly illustrated and it has inspired conversations about the years before …

Latino Book Month Giveaway. Just post a comment, tell us what you think of the new blog and enter to win five fabulous books.