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No 60 August 2011  
Grupo Planeta acquires world Spanish-language rights to Amanda Hocking's books and are available in the U.S. through Perseus Distribution
Self-published best-selling author, Amanda Hocking, has sold over a million copies of her books and earned two million dollars from sales, something previously unheard of for self-published authors. Grupo Planeta has acquired world Spanish-language rights for three of her book series.
Isabel  Allende returns with “El cuaderno de Maya”
Each new book by Isabel Allende is a literary event and “El cuaderno de Maya” (Vintage Español) is no exception. The novel tells the story of Maya, a 19-year-old teenager from the U.S. who falls into drugs, alcohol and must flee the country to avoid those who seek to kill her and in the process discovers a family secret. The plot moves between the U.S. and the island of Chiloe, in southern Chile. In this new novel Isabel Allende leaves the past to tell a contemporary story. We spoke with her by phone from her home in San Francisco.
                                                                                                       
The Percentage Of Book Readers In Spain Reached 61.9% Of The Population During The First Semester Of 2011
Barometer of Reading and Book-Buying Habits
• 58% of the Spanish population 14 years of age or older reads in its leisure time and 28.8% of Spaniards read everyday or almost every day.
HACU announces conference workshops
The Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU) has announced the workshops of its Annual Conference, "25 Years of Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success."The conference will take place on Oct. 29-31, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas, where the association was founded in 1986.
 
 
   

   
 
 
   


HACU President among most influential leaders

   


Tomás Borges
Mexican author    
Tomás Borges has written a poignant book to help us understand the struggle between drug traffickers and the government of Felipe Calderón in Mexico. El arte de la guerra para narcos (Grupo Planeta) is a rigorous report of the clashes between these two forces since December 11, 2006 when Calderón launched Operation Michoacán, also known as the "war against organized crime". According to Borges, Mexico contributes with the dead and the United States with the consumers.
La sicaria de Polanco
Joaquín Guerrero-Casasola
Karina, a middle-aged woman with two teenage children lives in Mexico City. Suddenly her husband dies and his ex-partners assault her and violently threaten her warning to settle a debt her husband left. When the more depressed she feels, a stranger gets in her way offering help.
35 muertos
Sergio Alvarez 
Thirty five years of brutality are reconstructed by a narrator who always happens to be in the wrong place doing the wrong things. The misfortunes of this loser and the many characters that come across his path serve to recreate life in Colombia at the dusk of the 20th Century. Written with elements taken from historical fiction, adventure novel, self-fiction, thriller, and even romance serials, this unbridled journey through the heart of Colombia becomes a captivating literary excursion and provides new evidence that revelry, violence, exile, and oblivion continue to rule Latin America. 
El tiempo escondido
Joaquín Barrero      
A woman is the center of the mystery. Two murders. The hatred of the Spanish Civil War and the love that exceeds the time and limits. An exciting intrigues running through the history of Spain that reaches the heart. In a village aloof from the west mountainous region of Asturias, appeared the remains of two men that had disappeared 60 years ago.     
El alma del liderazgo
Deepak Chopra      
Bestselling author and spiritual guide Deepak Chopra invites you to become the kind of leader most needed today: a leader with vision who can make that vision real. Chopra has been teaching leadership to CEOs and other top executives for eight years, and the path outlined here applies to any business, but the same principles are relevant in every community and area of life. The Soul of Leadership aims to fill the most critical void in contemporary life, the void of enlightened leaders. In this unique handbook you are shown how to do just that. 
 
         
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