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Gripe Aviar
Marc Siegel
The most important thing to know about the avian flu pandemic is that it probably ain't coming, argues this brisk debunking of the latest medical scare story.
 
 Todas las familias felices
Carlos Fuentes
A collection of stories that embodies the narratives contained within the encroaching conflicts of today’s Mexico, and, by extension, to Latin America and the modern urban world.
 
    
 
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport, who flees a maximum security prison in Australia for a city where he can disappear.
 
 Grandeza para cada día
Stephen R. Covey & David K. Hatch
This collection of inspiring stories, the best from the Reader’s Digest archives, are brought together with pertinent commentary from Dr. Stephen Covey to become an inspiring and life changing resource.
 
Works by Muñoz Molina, Volpi highlight Spain’s fall offerings
The latest works by acclaimed authors like Antonio Muñoz Molina and Jorge Volpi, as well as books published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, highlight Spain’s upcoming fall releases.
Fuentes offers harsh depiction of Mexican reality in latest book
The family with its secrets and sorrows and unhappiness inflicted by its own members is the theme around which renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes’s latest work – titled “Todas las familias felices” (Happy Families) – revolves. “It’s the chorus of the voiceless, of those who don’t know their mother or father, who live in the street, crazy from drugs,” Fuentes said.
Colombia guest of honor for upcoming LIBER book fair in Madrid
Final preparations are being made for the 2006 LIBER International Book Fair in Madrid, which will get underway in late September at the city’s IFEMA fairgrounds and honor Colombia as guest country.
Writers to discuss “ideal library” at Strasbourg gathering
A group of 37 writers from various countries, among them Spaniard Jose Manuel Fajardo and Argentine Alberto Manguel, will take part in a literary conference Sept. 26-30 in Strasbourg, France that will features debates on topics such as which books should be included in the “ideal library,” the organizers of the event announced.
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AMIGOS DEL ESPAÑOL
Maria Celeste Arraras
Anchorwoman of the Telemundo news program “Al Rojo Vivo”.
Maria Celeste Arraras has worked for more than 20 years as a journalist. Best known as the anchorwoman of the Telemundo news program “Al Rojo Vivo” – loosely translated as “Red Hot” – she has also embarked on other projects including writing and acting.
 
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REFORMA
Established in 1971 as an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), REFORMA is committed to the improvement of the full spectrum of library and information services for the ever-growing population of Spanish-speakers and Latinos in the United States.
 
ARS ON THE ROAD
ARS invites U.S. librarians to Spanish book fair 
As part of its goal of promoting the reading of Spanish-language books in the United States, the America Reads Spanish campaign has invited 42 U.S. librarians to take part in LIBER 2006, an international book fair scheduled for Sept. 27-29 in Madrid.
 
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Jorge Volpi
Mexico’s Jorge Volpi will wrap up his trilogy on the 20th century with the release this September of his latest novel “No sera la tierra,” a work in which the end of socialism serves as backdrop for a story of three women from different places, generations and professions.


 

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