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Agreement between Nielsen BookScan and ARS
Nielsen BookScan, part of The Nielsen Company
(US) LLC and, America Reads Spanish (ARS) have reached an agreement to
publish a free, weekly list of the Spanish top seller titles in the US
market in www.americareadsspanish.org.
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New "Essential Guide to Spanish Reading for
Children and Young Adults" released
The
new "Essential Guide to Spanish Reading for Children and Young Adults"
will be officially unveiled May 28th, 6:00 pm at Instituto Cervantes in
New York. The promoter of the Guide, America Reads Spanish (ARS) is a
conjoint initiative of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX)
and the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds (FGEE) to promote the
reading of Spanish in the US.
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Cervantes Institute to teach Spanish to
Starbucks workers
Spain's Cervantes Institute will teach Spanish to
some 100,000 Starbucks workers throughout the United States. By virtue
of an agreement signed Tuesday, those 100,000 workers will be able to
learn Spanish via the Institute's online Virtual Spanish Classroom
(Aula Virtual de Español), or AVE. The course will last one
year and quarterly reports will be issued to evaluate how the students
are progressing in learning the language, according to a press release
on Tuesday by the Cervantes Institute.
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Great success of Spain Publishing Houses in
BookExpo America
BookExpo America (BEA) was a complete success for
the 40 publishing houses from Spain. The U.S. book fair kicked off its
107th edition on May 28 in New York, and Spain had its own pavilion at
the event where the 40 publishing houses showcased their wares and
services. Spain’s agenda at the fair included a professional
meeting of the Spanish firms participating in the BEA with a number of
U.S. distributors, bookstores and librarians who have shown interest in
becoming more familiar with the new titles the publishers have put out
this year.
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Manuel Rivas in the upcoming
“Spanish Authors in America” program presentation
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New Latin American and Caribbean
encyclopedia unveiled
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Colombia’s Evelio Rosero wins
British prize for foreign fiction
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Three Percent, a great resource for
international literature at the University of Rochester |
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Chris Pine
Actor
Variety magazine has tipped Chris Pine, who plays
Captain Kirk in a new movie version of Star Trek out in May, as one of
Hollywood’s most promising up-and-coming actors. But what
many people do not realize is that this 28-year-old blue-eyed blonde,
Los Angeles native and stereotypical WASP at first glance also has a
good command of Spanish.
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Antonio
Gala
"I
promised that the publishing of my poem books, in case were done, would
be posthumous. My concept of privacy and decency dictate it. However, I
couldn't refuse the request of my readers and publishers. To them,
without any doubt, I dedicate this book" Antonio Gala.
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La luna roja
(Red moon)
Luis
Leante
A Turkish writer, Emin Kemal
was in the midst of a career decline when he dies under strange
circumstances. His Spanish translator is implicated in the writer s
death, and finds himself caught up in a plot that will force him to
uncover his own past and the life of Emin Kemal in Istanbul. And in the
center stands an ambitious woman neither of them can escape.
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El Padrino
(The
Godfather)
Mario
Puzo
The story of Don Vito
Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the
most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that
Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the
Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is
full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading
unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience
the triumphs and failures of the human condition.
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Collins Spanish Compact Dictionary
(Collins Dictionary)
Harper
Collins
Collins Compact Spanish
Dictionary is an easily portable essential reference guide. Its clear
layout allows for quick and easy accessibility when you most need it.
Collins Compact Spanish Dictionary is designed for all those studying
Spanish as a hobby or who need maximum information in a handy travel
format. / Collins Compact Spanish dictionary offers comprehensive and
up-to-the-minute coverage of Spanish and English, with additional notes
warning the user of those words which are easily confused like 'flan'.
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