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No 41 November 2009  
LIBER a big success, ARS best librarian award presented
The International Book Fair, known as LIBER, wrapped up on Oct. 9 after achieving a very satisfactory sales balance sheet for its 27th edition. As in earlier years, LIBER was the venue for the presentation of the ARS Best Librarian Award, which this year went to Andrew Medlar of the Chicago Public Library.  

Miami Book Fair celebrates its 26th year
The books are coming. And the readers and writers will follow, as they do by the hundreds of thousands every year for the Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November in Miami. Among the noted authors who have already confirmed this year are Margaret Atwood, Al Gore, Barbara Kingsolver and Ralph Nader.
                                                                                                       

Adan Griego at LIBER
Adan Griego unveiled a very interesting presentation as guest at LIBER 2009. He was invited to participate by ICEX and FGEE under the campaign America Reads Spanish.


A study released in Washington emphasizes the potential for the growth of Spanish in countries like the United States and Brazil, as well as the economic value that translates, for example, into higher salaries for bilingual Hispanics in the United States.

Immigration novel garners Spain's Planeta Prize
Top 20 Best Sellers Nielsen-ARS for the week ending on November 1
 




 
 


Freda Mosquera




Paul Gasol
Basketball player
It was less than two years ago that Spaniard Pau Gasol arrived in Los Angeles as a new member of the city’s beloved Lakers. But that’s been plenty of time for everyone there to learn to pronounce the name of this 29-year-old, seven-footer. 
El cojo y el loco 
(The madman and the cripple)
Jaime Bayly 
Bobby's destiny turned sour the day he became a cripple. Ashamed of him, his parents send him to study abroad, and onboard the ship he's abused and mistreated by the crew. Humiliated, Bobby reaches a decision: never again to be a victim but become the one victimizing.

Espía de Dios
(Spies of God) 
Juan Gómez-Jurado  
A routine plot doesn't do justice to the intriguing premise of this debut thriller, a bestseller in Spain, about a serial killer stalking the cardinals poised to vote on Pope John Paul II's successor.  

Castillos de cartón 
(Carton castles)
Almudena Grandes  
Maria Jose Sanchez works as an art appraiser in an auction house in Madrid. One day she receives a call from a former colleague and lover, Jaime Gonzalez, announced that its common friend, Marcos Molina Schulz, has committed suicide.

(From my heaven)
Alice Sebold   
When we meet Susie Salmon we already know that she is in heaven, her new home. From there she will tell us about her murder at the hands of a neighbor.
         
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