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No 58 June 2011  
America Reads Spanish and ALA partnering in the FREE PASSPORT TO LIBER 2011
America Reads Spanish, American Library Association and LIBER International Book Fair are partnering this year to provide support for American librarians to attend the 29th edition of the Spanish International Book Fair (LIBER) in Madrid from October 5 - October 7, 2011.

Larry Bennett discusses his new position at BookMasters
Larry, you have recently joined BookMasters from Baker & Taylor. What prompted you to take that decision?
Baker & Taylor is a great company and it was a very difficult decision to leave. However, BookMasters offered me a unique opportunity to best utilize my skillsets in Spanish and POD to help publishers sell more books.  

                                                                                                       

The Spanish publisher Cuento de luz succeeds in New York
"Cuento de Luz" participated in the most important book fair in the United States “Book Expo America 2011" and in the international literary contest “Latino Book Awards 2011 ". Ana A. de Eulate, editor and founder of Cuento de Luz, returns home with 3 prestigious awards.

Over the past 15 years, traditional bilingual education programs have fallen out of favor in the United States. Criticized for isolating English-language learners (ELLs) in remedial classrooms with watered down instruction, states like California, Arizona and Massachusetts scrapped bilingual programs in favor of English language immersion.


 
   

 
   
 
 
 
 
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La casa maldita 

Russell Brand
Actor   
In the Greek Theater of Los Angeles we had the opportunity to talk with the comedian of the moment Russell Brand. His sense of humor and his sex appeal are the best attraction for this brit that in our interview confesses to be in love with Spain and the Spanish language. Brad is not very shy at the time to talk about this past and he even tried to talk in Spanish during the interview. As an avid lover of the Spanish culture he confesses he is reading the classics of the Spanish literature.
Cosas que ya no existen
Cristina Fdez. Cubas
With an admirable mastery of narrative resources and a dazzling ability to recall, the author weaves her strongest memories to form a magical maze of characters, feelings, historical moments, disappointments and fascination in this particular story in which the real stars are scenes from the past with a common characteristic: they belong to an extinct era, to a world that is already over. 

   
El ruido de las cosas al caer
Juan Gabriel Vasquez 
The exotic escape and subsequent capture of a hippopotamus the final remnant of the incongruous zoo Pablo Escobar used to flaunt his power is the spark that activates the mechanisms of Antonio Yammara s memory, protagonist and narrator of El ruido de las cosas al caer a dark balance from a time of terror and violence, set in a Bogota painted as a region full of literary significance.
 

El Hijo de Hamas
Mossab Hassan Yousef      
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to follow in his footsteps. But everything changed when Yousef embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader.  

Dale Carnegie      
The ability to communicate with others is a component to achieve success. All you need is free will and resoluteness. We can turn a boring meeting into a dynamic event. It requires courage, selfconfidence, pay careful attention to other members, and manage conflict. It'll teach you how to improve important steps to success in every aspect of your life. 
         
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