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No 93 June 2014 
 
 
 
Jorge Franco
The Outside World takes place in Medellín. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest.It is 1971, and this girl s father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader of the crime ring, whose intention is to demand a million-dollar ransom from the family. El Mono has reasons aside from economics to kidnap don Diego: a romantic obsession with the man s daughter, Isolda, .....
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Sergi Pamies
Put In the twenty-six stories that make up this volume, Pàmies looks for the balance between causticity, vitality and melancholy. The author uses those instruments to submerge himself in the stagnant waters of love, to explore the dependence on inherited memory and the pain of absence and to reflect on the pleasures of writing without knowing if there is a frontier.
 
Elmer Mendoza
Due to the great success of the saga of Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta, Élmer Mendoza delivers now the first chapter of the series starring "el Capi" Garay. Barely 18 years old, he must come up with a plan to produce four million dollars in three days after receiving a threatening call: his father has been kidnapped. It is time to show everyone and himself that he isn't a useless teenager. He sets out to Xilitla to try his luck as negotiator and comes across The Mystery of the Calavera Orchid on the bookshelf of a hotel. 
 
Carlos Montaner
The year is 1947. Rafael Mallo, prisoner in a Francoist penitentiary, is waiting in agony for his execution. A Trotsykist writer educated in Moscow, he has been locked up for seven years. Surprisingly, though, he is freed, and he is soon reunited with a former lover, Sarah Vandor. They had—and now resume—a stormy relationship. It’s the beginning of the Cold War. The USSR and the United States are secretly opposed in the land of ideas, but that doesn’t mean that heads won’t literally roll. Who is behind these crimes? It’s difficult to know.   
OverDrive, the world’s largest supplier of digital content to public and school libraries, is adding new foreign language titles to its catalog. Some 30,000 new titles from major European publishers, including Spanish's Libranda, have been incorporated, adding to the accessibility of content for native speakers and interested language learners alike.
Madrid Book Fair closes with 5% increase in sales and asking the government for help
"Relief, concern and urgent help. And changes in reader-buyer's DNA. Those are the words that surrounded the closure of the 73rd Madrid Book Fair on Sunday, ending with a 5% increase in sales. A fact that consolidates a boost to the waned publishing industry in Spain, falling since 2008 (with an accumulated near 40% drop in income). So far the Fair represents 20% of annual sales, but now the question is whether that percentage will grow.”
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“Nose-guard. Knouse-gourd. Knausgaard. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s name was on everyone’s lips. Some were uncertain how it should be pronounced and said as much, other simply raved about the Norwegian author and his six-part autobiographical novel. From the evening cocktail parties with a view that stretched out to the Statue of Liberty to the climate-controlled floor at BookExpo America (BEA), Knausgaard inevitably would be mentioned.”
REFORMA announces 2014 scholarships recipients 
Maria de Lurdy Martinez Serrano from California, and Claudio Leon from New York, are the recipients of the 2014 awards. REFORMA scholarships are open to students who qualify for graduate study in Library and Information Science, and who are Spanish-speakers or interested in serving Latinos or the Spanish-speaking.
 
 
Actor, comedian, director, producer and writer   
In reality Steve Carell doesn’t look like his characters. He’s always beyond friendly and extremely giving with his time. He’s absolutely one of the nicest actors we’ve ever had the fortune to talk to. In his upcoming comedy, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Carell stars as a Vegas magician whose relationship with his partner (Steve Buscemi) becomes strained as the two start getting upstaged by a hipper illusionist (Jim Carrey). In the hotel Paris in Vegas we had the opportunity to talk with Steve about his career, his vague knowledge of Spanish culture and how a star keeps his head on the shoulders.
 
   
ARS TV: Homenaje a Gabriel García Márquez y Quino en FLM2014
   
 
America Spanish writer Almudena Solana's latest novel “Efectos secundarios” (Side Effects) was recently published by Planeta. The author talked to ARS about her commitment with PEN Center USA, her wish to move to the U.S. and her latest project: Literature with fabrics.
   
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Thirteen young Latinos and Latinas living in America are introduced in this book celebrating the rich diversity of the Latino and Latina experience in the United States.
Juanita lives in New York and is Mexican. Felipe lives in Chicago and is Panamanian, Venezuelan, and black. 
  
 

 
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