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No 84 August 2013  
Miami Book Fair International to celebrate Spain's contributions to the U.S.
As a recognition to its historical, cultural, social and economic contributions to our country, Spain will be an integral part of the Fair in its 30th anniversary, thanks to the join efforts of the Miami Book Fair International and the Consulate of Spain in Miami.
 

Bilingual children have a two-tracked mind
In a study examining how bilingual children learn the two different language sound systems they are acquiring simultaneously, Ithaca College faculty member Skott Freedman has discovered insights that indicate children can learn two native languages as easily as they can learn one.

Anaya presents its releases for the second half of the year
Anaya Infantil y Juvenil announces its latest releases. “Cat and Mouse”, “Mi primera sopa de libros” and “Pinch of salt – A Little Bit” will be available by September reports. 
 

Major PBS Series “Latino Americans” to premiere nationally during Hispanic Heritage month 2013
PBS announced that Latino Americans, a landmark three-part, six-hour documentary series narrated by actor Benjamin Bratt, will air nationally on PBS on three consecutive Tuesdays, premiering on September 17, September 24 and October 1. The series will also be broadcast nationally in Spanish on Vme, the Spanish-language channel on public television, over six consecutive Fridays beginning on September 20. 

The "Real Academia Española" celebrates 300 years                   
 

U.S. Spanish is being recognized

 
 




   

 


 
   
Eduardo Mendoza


Until now Chris Pine was the star of romantic comedies but his new character as Captain James T Kirk in the saga Star Trek is going to change all that. Pine is all smiles when we meet with him in the Four Seasons Hotel of Beverly Hills, the first words to us were in Spanish because, as he says, a good Californian guy should speak Spanish.   
 
La lluvia del tiempo
Jaime Bayly
Tell No One recounts the personal trajectory of a child born to Lima s wealthiest bourgeoisie. It is within the nucleus of his family, where the most brutal male chauvinism and classicism coexist with the strictest prudishness, that he discovers his own homo-erotic identity. This sexual identity carries him not without an occasional heterosexual episode to the vortex of drug addiction and the core of coke addicts, to the very limits of urban male prostitution.    
 

El héroe discreto
Mario Vargas Llosa 
El héroe discreto simultaneously recounts the life of two very different men. Felícito Yanaqué is a small-business owner from Piura who is being blackmailed. Ismael Carrera is a successful businessman from Lima who is plotting a shocking reprisal after his two good-for-nothing sons tried to have him killed. Past the men s differences shines one common trait: both are quiet rebels trying to take charge of their own destinies. While Ismael defies every convention of his social class, Felícito uses a few vital maxims as a foothold against blackmail.  

  

 
A guide to different beliefs, non-beliefs, and all major religions. The search for the truth is a universal concern of all times and all cultures, not focusing only on actual but in all religions, current and disappeared. Orbaneja answers questions that arise from those who are curious about religion, whether believer or not.  

 

A contracorriente
Manuel gutiérrez Aragón   
Can you permanently escape from the past? What is the path that leads the protagonist from a small town in Alicante to become a guerrilla fighter in the Columbian jungle, a debt collector in Madrid, and a high executive in a media company? This is a fun and dramatic novel that goes from the jungle to the business, a guerrilla fighter that turned into a business man.
  
 

     
 
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