In October of 2005, the Cultura Latina Reading Club celebrated its 10^th Anniversary of continuous meetings and discussions of Latino literature. The club is open to any adult and "drop-ins" are welcome at all times. We meet every other month on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. here at the bookstore. These are the book selections through July of 2006. Join us!

Latina detective Romila Chacón joins the FBI and continues her search (this time traveling to So.Calif.) for the serial killer who murdered her sister and has kept killing ever since. Romila is haunted by a drug lord from her native El Salvador who pursues her with as much passions as she pursues the killer. Brainy and literary, this police procedural novel is reminiscent of The Da Vinci Code

The Spanish author of The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel offers us an elegant sophisticated and intellectual thriller when Father Lorenzo Quart is sent from the Vatican to investigate the mysterious deaths of two church leaders at the Baroque church Our Lady of the Tears after the Pope's personal computer is hacked with an urgent plea for help. Steeped in plots and sub-plots as rich and complex as the golden sherries produced in the wineries around Seville.

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Spanglish by Ilan Stavans
Let Their Spirits Dance by Stella Pope Duarte
The Jade Queen by Yxta Maya Murray
Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Hacienda by Lisa de Terán
and
Left Alive by Graciela Limón

   The Cultura Latina Bookstore Reading Club has been meeting on a continuous basis since October of 1994. Call the bookstore for our current list and meeting dates.

  Over the years, these have been some of our Favorite Books.

  The incredible first person narration by a citizen of the Aztec Empire from the height of its glory through its conquest by Spain.

  The biography of a Mexican American family across several generations (and several books, soon to be made into a 10 part miniseries on HBO).

  The tragic story of a modern day "La Llorona", a woman who kills her children and the trail that follows. Based on true events.

  A daughter searches for her archaeologist mother in the jungle of Guatemala.

  A Vietnam vet returns from the war only to find himself embroiled in another war, the San Francisco gang wars, where as an attorney he must deal with the aftermath as a criminal defense lawyer.

  The life and loves of an aging flamenco dancer who lives with her controlling mother as she faces a mid-life crisis.

  A man loves a woman in silence across 50 years!

  Two historical novels by this first-rate writer.

  The non-fiction, researched account of the "repatriation" of close to a million Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the Great Depression.

  The worlds of art history, chess, rare books and murder become enmeshed in this suspenseful thriller/murder mystery.

  A Chinese farmer immigrates to Cuba, marries a Cuban woman and has children who eventually make it to America.