Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Great Giveaway

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

I am excited to be able to share with my readers a chance to win a set of these five wonderful books – that’s right the winner(s) will receive a copy of each of these great reads!  (Thank you to Valerie and Hachette Book Group)

hispanic month

  1. Zumba® By Beto Perez , Maggie Greenwood-Robinson
  2. Evenings at the Argentine Club By Julia Amante
  3. Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz By Belinda Acosta
  4. Tell Me Something True By Leila Cobo
  5. Amigoland By Oscar Casares

Here is how to enter this giveaway!

1 entry for leaving a comment about a book, or author you have read from another culture than your own – please mention the title and or author

earn a 2nd entry by blogging or tweeting about this giveaway (please let me know on a separate post)

earn a 3rd entry bu commenting on any non giveaway post and letting me know on a separate comment

I will give away up to 5 sets of these books – 1 set per every 10 comments left here.  If we have 50 comments by the time the contest ends we will be able to give away all 5 sets.

Contest will be open to USA and Canada residents only (no po boxes)

Contest closes on October 15

This giveaway is now closed and winners have been announced

66 thoughts on “Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Great Giveaway”

  1. I’m sure there are others, but the first title that came to mind was The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It really brought post Civil War Barcelona to life!

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  2. I love Amy Tan and all her works. I just finished reading her autobiography – “The Opposite of Fate” – where she explains that although she happens to be Chinese-American, she doesn’t want to be known as such. She’d prefer to be known as an American author who just so happens to write about Chinese-Americans.

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  5. I recently read (and reviewed) “Come Sunday,” by Isa Morley, which focused on a young woman who grew up in the African plains, and when her current life no longer makes sense, returns there for answers.

    I’m at chezraine@yahoo.com

    BTW…love your new look! When you say you’re going to make changes, you really do!! WOW!

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    1. Thanks Laurel – for the book title and the compliment on the blog. I am still messing around with it but thought a header update was in order…. I think I like it too.

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  9. One of my favorite authors is Jhumpa Lahiri — her work is seriously, seriously incredible! And I know I’m not alone in thinking that, considering she has that lovely Pulitzer Prize and all 🙂 My favorite novel is The Namesake, which centers around an Indian couple living in the U.S. — and their two American-born children. Considering I knew very little about India or Indian culture before I started reading, I feel like I learned a great deal. And the story was incredibly moving. Her short story collection Interpreter Of Maladies was amazing, too, and I have Unaccustomed Earth in my TBR stack!

    Thanks for the chance! 🙂

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  12. I read tons of books about other cultures since my goal this year was to read mostly foreign authors or books based in foreign countries. Here are just a few I have read:
    The Bastard of Istanbul :: Elif Shafak
    Brick Lane :: Monica Ali
    Coming Together :: Joyce Norman and Joy Collins
    Five Quarters of the Orange :: Joanne Harris
    Hanna’s Daughters :: Marianne Fredriksson, Joan Tate (Translator)
    The Last War: A Novel :: Ana Menendez
    Life of Pi :: Yann Martel
    Sarah’s Key :: Tatiana de Rosnay
    The Shadow of the Wind :: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    The Space Between Us :: Thrity Umrigar

    I have loved them all.
    Rebecca

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    1. Rebecca – WOW! You are adding to my wish list! LOL I have Life of Pi but have not read it yet…. we read Sarah’s Key for book club earlier this year and I loved it!

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  19. What an awesome set of books! Please count me in!
    I really liked Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate. It was quite a novel.

    JHolden955(at)gmail(dot)com

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  23. I love reading about people from other places. In fact, it is one my favorite things about reading. I just finished the Summer Vacation reading challenge where I read 6 books that took place in different countries.

    Thanks for entering me!

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  24. One of my favorite books about another culture is The Chosen by Chaim Potok. And I’m reading a book right now called Palace of Illusions that is a retelling of the Indian Mahabharat. It is very interesting! I love reading about other cultures.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  25. The latest book from another culture that I read was “B as in Beauty” by Alberto Ferreras. I thought it was interesting.

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  30. I’m Indian and I read a lot of books; international literature being my favourite for it’s diversity and uniqueness. My favourite hispanic author/writer/poet is Pablo Neruda for his electric words and visually stunning writing. Please accept this as my entry. Thank you!

    Aliya D.
    aliyadaya(at)shaw(dot)ca

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  31. I always enjoy books about different cultures – but really enjoyed this book last month.

    An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

    Please enter me in this contest

    beachlover20855[AT]yahoo[DOT]com

    thanks

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  33. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Still one of my favorites. I’d call it a classic.

    bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  35. My favorite book is still “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.” Even though I am a little bit Choctaw, this book is written about a different time and the way that Indians were treated during that time. Thank goodness that these real Native Americans are no longer treated in this manner.

    Thank you,

    Christine
    womackcm@sbcglobal.net

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    1. We read that for book club a couple years back. I could not get through it – it was so sad. Those who did finish it loved it and I probably should try again. Thanks Christine for the reminder of a great read.

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  37. Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, bit excellent books. I’d like to drop my name in the virtual hat – thanks for the giveaway.

    glenn_pessano AT yahoo DOT com

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  38. I read and reviewed “Tales Of Priut Almus” by Robert Belinky.
    I absolutely loved this book!!
    It is about an orphanage in Russia.

    (I think I remember you doing a review of it also.)

    lelou2 at ymail dot com

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    1. Hi Tea… I really am! There is something about these youthful fun voices in the YA books. I just feel like it is a refreshing break – their worries are nothing like our adult ones…. 🙂

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  44. Please enter me in this great giveaway! I recently read A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtmanche about the Rwandan genocide.

    saemmerson at yahoo dot com

    Sarah Emmerson

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  46. I recently read Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathenane. It was a fascinating, heart-wrenching memoir of a boy growing up in South Africa.

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  48. Thanks for the giveaway. I have read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Life of Pi by Yann Martel recently and both were very interesting and very good.

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  53. I do try to mix it up. I read all kinds of different authors from all over the world. I will go with Hispanic as this is for Hispanic Heritage Month: The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

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