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No 81 May 2013  
Report suggests that dual language in early education is best for young English-language learners
Young ELLs who are still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most in early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages, writes Lesli A. Maxwell on her “Learning the language” blog.

Santillana is unveiling its new catalog with more that 600 titles for children of all ages, from Pre-K to 12 grade. The books come in a variety of text types, formats, proficiency levels, curriculum topics, writing and illustration styles.

Trade publishing and ebooks sales grew in 2012
Trade publishing grew by nearly 7%, ebooks expanded nearly 45%, according to BookStats industry survey for 2012. This is U.S. publishing’s most comprehensive annual survey now available. 

Guide to Spanish Reading is a hit in Florida library conference
The Essential Guide to Spanish Reading had a huge success at the 2013 Florida Library Conference in Orlando, Florida, held early this month. 

Inferno: Spanish Edition' published by Vintage Books is #1 best selling title in Spanish in the US for week 20

 
 




   

 


 
   
Editorial Corimbo offers classic titles (Rafael Ros talks about them)


Ryan Gosling
Actor, director, producer,writer, musician 
Ryan Gosling is one of the most attractive actors in Hollywood, probably the world’s hottest actor and with him we had the opportunity to talk in Los Angeles. In person he is normal, not a diva, maybe because he has been in the spotlight since he was a kid. And make no mistake — that’s what he is; he started out like Britney, Christina and Justin, on The Mickey Mouse Club, age 12. But today, a grown-up 32-year-old, there have been no sex tapes, no drug busts, no whiffs of scandal. 
 
El secreto del mal
Roberto Bolaño
This volume is the inevitably incomplete framework which was going to be Roberto Bolaño’s fourth book of short stories. The basis for these narrative pieces and sketches is some of Bolaño’s latest material, that which he was working on right up until his death. The title under which all these stories come is the same as that of the story that begins: “This story is very simple although it could have been very complicated. Also: it is unfinished, because these kinds of stories do not have an ending”.  
 

La relación madre hija
Yvonne Poncet-Bonissol 
No relationship is quite as primal as the one between a mother and her daughter. Often mothers offer advice, often this advice sounds like criticism, and often daughters live an ongoing conflict with her mothers that never seems to go away. This book is full of both approachable research and clear advice for mothers and daughters of every age.
 

  

 
Dulce enemiga mía
Marcela Serrano
 
In Dulce enemiga mía, Marcela Serrano once again showcases her unique talent for penetrating the female soul and psychology. This group of twenty short stories features a host of women young and old, fragile and powerful, adventurous and timid, housewives and intellectuals. From the Balkans to Chile, common threads unite them: laughter, friendship, love, sex, fear, hypocrisy, loneliness and abandonment.«It isn’t change what really hurts, its the resistance to it. And she felt illuminated, like a Tibetan  

 

Inferno
Dan Brown   
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces…Dante’s Inferno.  
 

     
 
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