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Top 20 Best
Sellers Nielsen-ARS for the week ending on August 2
Nielsen BookScan,
part of The Nielsen Company (US) LLC and America Reads Spanish (ARS)
present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the
US market for the week ending on August 2, 2009.
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The 22 Spanish Language Academies are working
diligently to meet an Oct. 5 publishing deadline for the
“Diccionario de Americanismos” (Dictionary of
Americanisms), a project its director described as “the most
ambitious effort to date to compile the lexical wealth of the
Americas.”
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Cervantes Institute of Chicago full of
resources
The Cervantes Institute of Chicago is a very active
organization that offers a lot of resources for the lovers of the
Spanish language. Blogs, meetings, author’ s presentations,
literary contest, etc.
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Huge turnout for ALA’s 2009 fair
The American Library Association’s annual
fair, held from July 9-15 in Chicago, was among the best attended in
recent years. The ALA 2009 event drew almost 30,000 people, a good sign
the publishing market once again is starting to pick up steam. America
Reads Spanish took part in the fair as in previous years and saw strong
demand for its free guide to books in Spanish for children and
adolescents. A total of 600 copies were handed out, proof of the
popularity of this initiative.
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Colombia's Ospina receives Romulo Gallegos
lit prize in Caracas
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Best poetry from Spain, Latin
America gathered for anthology
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Ruiz Zafón says
success opens doors for other Spaniards in U.S.
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Nicaragua's Cardenal receives Neruda Prize |
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Carlos
Cuarón
Writer,
director and producer
Mexican writer, director and producer Carlos
Cuarón is the brother of filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón,
who made a big splash in Hollywood with Y tu mamá
también (And Your Mother Too). Not many are aware, however,
that the 42-year-old Carlos shared the Best Original Screenplay Oscar
nomination for that film with his more famous sibling.
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Berlitz
Publishing
New from
Berlitz, 5-Minute Spanish is a beginner-level workbook with audio CD
containing daily lessons that teach and review the basics through fun
and engaging activities. Great for self-study or classroom use, the
daily lessons feature audio interactivity, engaging exercises, and
four-color design with illustrations and photos.
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Los hombres que no amaban a sus mujeres
(The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo)
Stieg
Larsson
Once you start The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. Mikael Blomkvist, a
once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life
rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected
(and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an
old-school titan of Swedish industry.
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Gracias por el fuego
(Thanks
You For The Fire)
Mario Benedetti
Ramon Budino wants to kill
his father, a man who represents the worst of Uruguay: an entire social
class that fled from their responsibilities fearing censure and
condemnation. Even after a hundred years of independence, caudillismo
prevails as a clear sign that nothing has changed. Ramon s minutely
planned yet frustrated murder attempts are an accurate metaphor of the
spider s web he s been trapped in for years.
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Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
(The Old Man Who Read Love Stories)
Luis
Sepúlveda
In a remote Ecuadorean river
town, an elderly widower-who finds comfort in reading romance novels
brought to him by the visiting dentist-joins in the hunt for an enraged
ocelot whose cubs were killed by a gold prospector.
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