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