LAS COMADRES CELEBRATES ITS MEMBERS ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR DECEMBER 2023

 

Congratulations to the following Comadres on their accomplishments!

  

Maritere R. Bellas (CA) -- as of Jan 2024, her bilingual children’s book, I have a secret/ Tengo un secreto, now three years old last December, will be available in hardcover format!  Grateful to 1010 Publishing!

Dr. Damary Bonilla-Rodriguez (NY) -- Published new book titled Modern Marianismo: Its Relevance and the Connection to Impostor Syndrome and Perfectionism", which is available for pre-sale on her website: drbonilla-rodriguez.godaddysites.com/shop.  She also won the Latino Diamante, Comunidad Diamante Award from ExpoFE USA.

 Lynette Correa-Velez (IL) -- completed her year-one work anniversary as the Founding Director of Tech Launchpad at Kennedy-King College which is 1/7 City (Community) Colleges of Chicago!

 Eris Garriga (NY) – was named one of 2024’s Honorary Madrinas for El Museo del Barrio’s Three Kings Day Parade.  Eris offers Puerto Rican cookbooks in English and Spanish, homestyle cooking and vegetarian.  Visit her at eriskitchen.net.

 Pearl Garza Fracchia (TX) -- was elected Vice Chair of the Texas Health Resources Community Leadership Council for 2024. One area of the Council’s mission is to provide grants to nonprofits in the area of mental health to ensure a healthy future for North Texans.

Angélica Hendrix (CA) -- became a state board licensed marriage and family therapist and opened a private practice, which is thriving, thankfully.

 Mireya Perez-Bustillo (NY) – was an invited poet at Alternative New Year’s Spoken Word and Performance Extravaganza on January 1 at Westbeth, Greenwich Village.

 Rima Taylor (TN) – got a promotion and ran her first marathon ever!

  

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 This Accomplishments List is published monthly.  

 To read last month's Comadres Accomplishments, visit us here: 

https://comadresconnect.blogspot.com/2023/12/las-comadres-celebrates-accomplishments.html

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NOTE:  these listings are for congratulatory purposes only. We are not endorsing any products, services, or candidates for public office.  

    

Congratulations to all our Comadres!

 

LAS COMADRES & FRIENDS BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCES BOOKS FOR JANUARY 2024

 We read books as we breathe air, to fill up and live. – Ann Dillard, THE LIVING

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR !  READ LATINO LIT !

  

Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club wishes everyone many enjoyable hours reading Latino literature in the new year.  Here are the book selections for January 2024:  

 

      

 

ONE BRILLIANT FLAME

By Joy Castro

Lake Union Publishing

 

BOOK SUMMARY:  Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams.  They all brim with secrets: Zenaida, the daughter of an assassinated Havana journalist; power-hungry Sofia, who plots a fast track to success; Chaveta, Zenaida’s loyal comrade in arms who fearlessly flouts tradition; Feliciano, a charismatic Spanish anarchist; Líbano, the cafetero, silent and watchful; and Maceo, a daring guerrilla soldier who fights a brutal undertow. As lives intertwine, revolution smolders, and passions ignite, the bustling coral island is set to explode.

 

AUTHOR BIO:  Born in Miami, raised in England and West Virginia, and educated in Texas, Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the memoir THE TRUTH BOOK, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans, essay and short fiction collections. 

 

 

ALBORADA (DAWN): A CROSS-CULTURAL MEMOIR IN POETRY

By Nylda Dieppa

Orange Blossom Publishing

 

BOOK SUMMARY:  In Alborada (Dawn): A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry, Nylda Dieppa sketches the formative and transformative experiences of her lifetime-from childhood on the island of Puerto Rico through maturity in the continental United States-as paralleled by the sun's passage through the times of the day.  From the dawning innocence of a girl's first crush alongside the rise of a young woman's longing to belong and be loved, Dieppa shines daylight on the anguish and delights of both growing up and parenting at every age. Her lyrical and narrative poems highlight the shadows cast by culture shock, and they reveal the encroaching darkness of sorrow and betrayal as the sun sets on a thirty-eight-year marriage. Yet ALBORADA also illuminates the wonder of deliverance from midnight's despair to the hope and wholeness of a new day's dawn.

 

AUTHOR BIO:  Nylda Dieppa is an award-winning author, poet, speaker and motivator. Her novel, ALBORADA, has won the Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association and an International Latino Book Award for Cover Design.   

 

 

Visit the Las Comadres & Friends Book Club website for author bios and more information:  https://latinolit.com/

   

 

SAVE THE DATE!  Monday, January 29, 2024 --- for the Book Club’s Teleconference where we’ll interview authors Joy Castro and Nylda Dieppa.

 

 

Register today and you may win a FREE BOOK:  https://latinolit.com/join-teleconference/

 

 

Here is the link to last month’s interviews with authors Melania Luisa Marte and V.Castro on Las Comadres YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/LasComadresParaLasAmericas

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