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Top 20 Best
Sellers Nielsen-ARS
Nielsen BookScan,
part of The Nielsen Company (US) LLC and America Reads Spanish (ARS)
present the free, weekly list of the Spanish Bestsellers titles in the
US market for the week ending on June 28, 2009.
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In recognition for his literary efforts. Dr. Camilo
Cruz, one the most prolific Latino writers in the United States in the
area of personal development and leadership, received the
"International Latino Book Award" for three of his books in a ceremony
that took place May 28 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York during
Book Expo America.
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Mexico's Jorge Volpi wins Spanish
non-fiction prize
Mexican writer Jorge Volpi was honored with the
second edition of the Debate-Casa de America non-fiction prize for his
work "El Insomnio de Bolivar" (Bolivar's Insomnia), the institution
said in a communique. The winning work, a tour of Latin America "from
its mythical past to its imagined future," was chosen by the jury from
among the 42 works presented. The award, which carries a cash prize of
$50,000 and the publication of the work in Spanish-speaking countries,
is sponsored by Madrid's Casa de America cultural center and museum and
Random House Mondadori publishing house through its Debate imprint.
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Spanish digital library launches
print-on-demand
Web surfers all over the world can now buy printed
copies of 85 works from among the 18,000 available at the Biblioteca
Digital Hispanica (Hispanic Digital Library) thanks to a new
print-on-demand service. The service has emerged from the pact on
cooperation between Spain's National Library and online-publishing Web
site Bubok. After digitalizing 18,000 volumes, the Library has started
the program with the aim of "giving users the opportunity to, instead
of printing page by page, receive in their homes the printed and bound
work," director Milagros del Corral said Monday.
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Spain's National Library to sign Google
Books deal
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Ángela Becerra
believes that literature is the best thing that ever happened
to her, besides having her children
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Summer break a time for kids to
keep reading
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Spanish Biographical Dictionary to be fully
available online in 2010 |
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Paul
Walker
Actor
Tall, athletic, blonde. That all American look made
him an actor and The Fast and the Furious put him on the map. But Paul
Walker is more than just another pretty face in Hollywood. This
25-year-old native of Glendale, California has just one dream and it
has little to do with cinema. His goal: to create a marine reserve in
Central America.
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Andrés Neuman
Searching
for an inn to spend the night, Hans stops his horse-drawn carriage in
Wandernburgo, a city located between Saxony and Prussia. The following
day he happens upon an organ grinder in the citys market square. Moved
by the music, he approaches the man, giving him some money. They become
fast-friends and Hans stay in the town extends indefinitely.
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La mano de Fátima
(La mano de Fátima)
Idelfonso
Falcones
Set in opulent 16th-century
Cordoba, this is the story of Hernando, a young morisco who is torn
between two cultures and two loves. Long-awaited second novel by a
writer whose "Cathedral of the sea" has become a world-wide bestseller.
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La chica que soñaba con una cerilla
y un bidón de gasolina
(The
girl who played with fire)
Stieg
Larsson
This second novel is even
more gripping and astonishing than the first. What makes it outstanding
is the author’s ability to handle dozens of characters and
parallel narratives without losing tension. Larsson was a fantastic
storyteller. This novel will leave readers on the edge of their seats.
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Sables y utopías: Visiones de
América Latina
(Essays by Vargas Llosa. His Vision About Latin America)
Mario Vargas
Llosa
The essays in this volume
were selected to shed light on Vargas Llosa s liberal postulates, his
stance on the Latin-American reality, the hopes and threats he
anticipates for the continent, and his ideas and commitments. In
addition to portraying the author s intellectual trajectory, this is an
analysis of the most important events to mark the recent history of
Latin America.
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