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Sandra C. Lopez

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Born

in Southern California, The United States

Website

http://www.sandra-lopez.com

Genre

Young Adult, Chick Lit, Contemporary

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Member Since

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Sandra C. López is one of today's influential Latina authors in Young Adult literature. Her first novel, Esperanza: A Latina Story, was published in March 2008 WHILE she was still in college. Since then she has published several other books, including the Single Chicas series. She was named as one of "2011 Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch" by Latino Stories, and her book, Beyond the Gardens, was a Silver Medal winner of the 2016 Global Ebook Awards in Multicultural Fiction and won first place in the Int'l Latino Book Awards. She also works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Art, literature, and travel are her passions, and she aims to keep doing them as long as she can. For inquiries regarding events and projects, please co ...more

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Blog Tour: ARABESQUE by MG da Mota

ARABESQUE

by M G da Mota

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GENRE: historical psychologicaldrama

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Awoman living alone in a coastal Sussex town in 1998 plants a copper beechsapling at 3 a.m. on a dark, cold night. Why?

A ballet dancer in1960s East Germany is oppressed, longs for escaping with his little daughterbut not his wife. Why? Will he make it?

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Average rating: 4.1 · 164 ratings · 128 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Single Chicas 4.08 avg rating — 104 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Gardens 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esperanza: A Latina Story 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sandra Lopez rated a book really liked it Winter's Embrace by Pamela Ackerson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A woman just bought a fixer-upper house and gets close with her realtor. Who would’ve thought that a woman would meet her crush window shopping? An overworked mother and wife gets a nice holiday surprise. Sweet and lovely holiday stories!
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it Mistletoe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #1) by Leslie Meier (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Lucy Stone was working her night job when she stumbled across a suicide in the parking lot. But Lucy didn’t really thing the death was a suicide. The narrative was nice and easy, but slow. Spent too much time on the rat race of Christmas and not enou ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it 25 Moments Under The Mistletoe \| Enemies-to-Lovers \| A Single Dad & Second Chances \| Small-Town Love : Readers, Writers & Cozy Small-Town Chemistry \| ... ... and Much More (Echoes of Love and Loss) by Nora S	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
These were kind of cute with a sweet sentiment. Reading these felt like flash fiction. They weren’t quite formatted like stories; they felt more like Haiku. Example: “The piano stopped. Started again. Stopped.” Was it too much to ask to get complete ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book it was amazing Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #13) by Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
After tossing out that letter, that’s when all the bad luck started. Not just for Mary Anne, but for all the girls in the BSC. Oh no! The girls were doomed unless they could figure out how to break the curse. The question was: who sent the letter and ...more
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This graphic novel is all about tryouts and making the team. Who will make it and who won’t? One of the twins helps a friend practice his basketball skills while the other tries to sabotage a fellow student’s chances of making the cheerleading squad. ...more
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A lovely rhyming ode to what happens when a loved one passes away. In this delightful story, the author adds a holiday twist to it. “You see, Santa needed feathered friends to spread a message that has no end.” This story features the unlikely helper ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book liked it Mischief Takes The Case: a Missy Flynn novella by Leslie Savisky (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Missy was a mystery writer operating a bookstore with her ex-husband. She only ever wrote mysteries, but suddenly she had the chance to solve a mystery like her amateur detective character. The case she was presented was a possible attempt on an old ...more
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Sandra Lopez rated a book really liked it Locker 13 (The Nightmare Room, #2) by R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It’s Luke’s first day of Jr. High and he gets assigned Locker 13. This one is a little slow with all the basketball and swimming stuff. For a while, Luke gets weird dreams about Locker 13. Luke’s luck seems to turn around when he finds his friends go ...more
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Maggie’s horror began with a fortune teller’s reading indicating that she will bring evil. What evil? Soon, bad things start to happen. A lot of freaky accidents happen. Was Maggie causing all this destruction? Did she have freaky powers? I’d be frea ...more
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