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EXCLUSIVE NEWSLETTER: September 30th Latine Book Releases

Bindery refers to a studio, workshop or factory where sheets of (usually) paper are fastened together to make books, but also where gold and other decorative elements are added to the exterior of books, where boxes or slipcases for books are made and where the restoration of books is carried out.

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• June Book Club Poll: Help select our June Bien Leidos Book Club read!
  A MODERN GOTHIC HORROR?? Say less! This is the book I am leaning towards, so I have TWO options in case you want to save it for spooky season instead.

  • Fireblooms: speculative Queer YA romance set in a town that uses technology to prevent hate speech and bullying. SPECULATIVE LGBTQ ROMANCE, COMPLEX LATINX FAMILY DYNAMICS
  • And I'll Take Your Eyes Out by A.M. Sosa: Debut following a queer Chicano’s cannon-shot into adulthood amidst familial turmoil and the suffocating violence of Stockton, California in the early 2000s.

• March 3rd Latine Book Releases

  • Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue and translated by Natasha Wimmer (Audiobook): Alt-Western historical fiction taking place in multiple timelines from multiple POV's about how the West was "won".
  • Diorama by Carol Bensimon and translated by Zoe Perry and Julia Sanches (Audiobook): Brazilian translated literary fiction about Cecília reexamining the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father, after many years trying to outrun her past.

• Estela, Undrowning by Rene Pena-Govea (audiobook): Estela Morales navigates her struggles with anxiety, eviction, and both external and internalized racism as she attends one of San Francisco’s most exclusive high schools.

• Gooool! A Bilingual Book Of Soccer by Mike Alfaro and illustrated by Gerardo Guillen: Just in time for the World Cup!

• Red Stones: A graphic account of the Salvadoran Civil War by Ernesto Saade: Saade documents how in 1981, the Salvadoran Civil War reached Miriam's village of Santa Marta and what occurred.

• El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine Ulloa (Audiobook): A human history of El Paso revealing the violence, power, and privilege at play in America’s most famous border town.

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• World Cup Book Recommendations by Latine Country:
  Eight books recommended for various Latine Countries and cultures for the World Cup season.