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No 63 Nov. 2011  
Eugenia Rico invited by the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
Eugenia Rico studied Law, International Relations, Dramatic Art and Cinema but she abandoned everything to search for literature and poetry. She traveled through the whole world, including India, South America, China and Africa until a 'saddhu' told her to come home and write.

HarperCollins to Acquire Thomas Nelson
In a deal that will unite the country’s two largest religion book publishers, HarperCollins, parent company of Zondervan, has reached an agreement to acquire Thomas Nelson for an undisclosed price. HC expects to close the purchase before the end of the year.
 
                                                                                                       

Baker & Taylor to Offer BLIO to Spanish Publishers
Perhaps Baker & Taylor, the market leader in digital content distribution, is pleased to offer Blio, a cutting-edge e-reader technology that delivers the most advanced, flexible and open reading platform in the world. Blio brings novels, children's books, travel guides, cookbooks, and textbooks to life on screens in full color and with life-like animation.

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Actress    
The sexy 27-year-old actress Olivia Wilde is an avid reader who speaks Spanish and fell in love with flamenco in a long trip she made to Seville. In Los Angeles we had the opportunity to talk with Olivia Wilde whose film "Butter" will be released this autumn.  
Los Recuerdos de Ana Calderón
Graciela Limón 
They said that no boy could live where I had lived. I knew my father resented me for what I had done to my mother's insides." After her birth, Ana Calderón's mother isn't able to carry a male child to full term. And when her mother dies, she becomes fully responsible for her seven younger siblings. But even worse, she will carry forever her father's resentment. 

Tarántula
Thierry Jonquet  
Richard Lafargue a plastic surgeon has a secret operating theatre where Eve is imprissoned. Other characters are introduced. A criminal on the run after murdering a policeman, an abducted man who finds himself chained, naked, tortured by a stranger, whom he calls 'Mygale', after a tropical spider. These characters are caught in a web, doomed to meet their fate.

20 Pasos hacia adelante
Jorge Bucay       
In this new work, Bucay coaches on how to change the I want into an I can , so that desire is not conditioned by a limitation. Readers will come to realize that in most cases, our preconceived notions of can t and shouldn t arise from historical information captured in our psyche from a time when we either couldn t or didn t know.     

Historia del Rey Transparente
Rosa Montero 
In the turbulent twelfth century, Leola, a young peasant girl, takes a dead warrior s armor to hide behind the mask of a man. This is the beginning of the dramatic voyage into the story of her life. It is an extraordinary journey into the unknown side of the Middle Ages. It is a fable that will move us by its sheer epic greatness, one of those books that is not read but lived, breathed, and tasted. Montero novel is bursting with the power of a literary work on its way to becoming a classic.
 
 
         
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