December Recommendations

December 10, 2009 by Marcela Landres  
Filed under Marcela's Book Picks

Marcela LandresA former Simon & Schuster editor, Marcela Landres is the author of the e-book How Editors Think and specializes in helping Latinos get published.

Check out her webpage at: www.marcelalandres.com.

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Sister Teresa: A Novel by Barbara Mujica (Overlook)

A richly researched and gripping account of the original wise Latina, Saint Teresa of Avila.

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Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Edel Rodriguez (Atheneum)

Pride and inspiration leap off the pages of this bilingual children’s book about the woman who single-handedly made “wise” and “Latina” synonymous.


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