In Gordito Doesn’t Mean Healthy: What Every Latina Mother Needs to Know to Raise Happy, Healthy Kids, American Dietetic Association spokesperson Claudia González and health journalist Lourdes Alcaniz examine the child-obesity crisis and offer Latino parents comprehensive advice on prevention and care.
 

The Miami Bombshells, a group of 40-something Florida women, share everything with each other—and with their readers—in Entre Nosotras: De Mujer a Mujer (Dish and Tell: Life, Love, and Secrets). The book is a compilation of essays about being a wife and mother, having a high-powered career, battling depression or illness, dealing with rape or a cheating spouse, and much more.

Sofia Quintero’s Divas Don’t Yield is the story of four Latinas on a cross-country road trip: Jackie, the group’s leader and an athletic Dominicana; Hazel, who is secretly in love with best friend Jackie; Irena, whose bags are packed with tarot cards, a yoga mat, and incense; and Lourdes, who’s contemplating forgoing med school for a
photography career.

Patrick Sanchez’s third novel, Tight, examines the world of plastic surgery from both sides of the mirror with its story of three women in search of perfection. Tight follows on the heels of Sanchez’s previous novels, The Way It Is and Girlfriends.

Learn how to cook delicious diabetic meals that everyone will enjoy with Diabetes Cookbook for Dummies. Diabetes expert Alan Rubin and dietician Fran Stach offer tips for healthy diabetic eating, as well as a smorgasbord of recipes, including Mango Tortilla Salad, Feta Bruschetta, and Shrimp and Papaya Enchilada With Avocado-Tomatillo Salsa.