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Reforma
National Conference (RNC IV) to take place September 15-18, 2011 in
Denver, Colorado
Please
save the date and join us for the Reforma National Conference (RNC IV)
to take place September 15-18, 2011 at the Westin Denver Downtown Hotel
in Denver, Colorado. The conference, celebrating Reforma's 40 years of
library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish speaking,
promises to bring professional development workshops, keynote speakers,
exhibits and gala events reflective of our organization's collective
experience and excellence.
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Ernesto
Martinez Joins Bookmasters as Manager of Spanish Language Products and
Programs
ASHLAND,
OHIO—July 6, 2011—Further expanding its
international team, Bookmasters has added Ernesto Martinez as Manager
of Spanish Language Products and Programs. For the past five years,
Martinez was Borders’ Spanish language book buyer. In his new
role, he will manage Bookmasters’ rapidly growing
Spanish-language book and content services division.
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Springville
library home to Spanish book club
On the first and third Tuesday of
every month, members of the Spanish book club Circulo de Lectores meet
in a room adjacent to the Springville library. A few men and women take
turns reading the short story "Una carta a Dios," "A Letter to God," by
Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes.
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Jack Black
Actor
Jack Black, well
known for his persona in the big screen, is much more relaxed in
reality or at least that is the illusion that he projects during the
interview. We are sitting with him at the hotel Casa del Mar in Santa
Monica. With Jack we had dreamt the action of Poh in the franchise Kung
Fu Panda, and in the film School of Rock. His portraits are always a
great adventure for the audience. With a fantastic curiosity and a
passion to learn Jack has taught himself a few languages as Spanish and
French and he confesses trying constantly perfecting his Castilian
watching Spanish movies in his original version.
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Conquistadora
Esmeralda Santiago
Even as a young girl
in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island
of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with
Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love
with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces
the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they
have inherited on the island.
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La hija del papa
Cesar Vidal
Rome, 1871. The
Government of a recently unified Italy summons cavaliere Di Fonso to
examine a priceless manuscript guarded by the Jesuits. It does not take
long for Di Fonso to date the manuscript to the early sixteenth
century, a time where Italy was being torn apart by the constant
rivalries with Spain and France and the intrigues of the Papal court,
subjugated by a Spaniard from the Borgia family who was crowned as Pope
Alexander VI.
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Los días del arco iris
Antonio
Skarmeta
The protagonist and the narrative voice of
Rainbow Days is Nico, a youth who was forced to witness how his father,
a college professor, was taken away by the authorities in front of the
entire class. From that moment on, Nico struggles to ensure his
father’s safe return. With the help of his girlfriend
Patricia Bettini, and with a healthy dose of imagination and humor,
Nico opens a path to freedom in a country silenced by
dictatorship.
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Los enamoramientos
Javier
Marías
The last
time I saw Miguel Desvern or Deverne was also the last time he saw his
wife, Luisa. This was not only strange, but perhaps also unfair, since
she was just that, his wife, and I was just a stranger…" Los
enamoramientos, Marías' latest work, is a reflection on the
state of infatuation, considered as something positive and even
redeeming to the extent of justifying all: the most noble and selfless
actions but also the largest excess and abuses.
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