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January
Reviews of the Latest Spanish-Language Titles for Adults
Here you'll find
the latest English-language coverage of Spanish-language authors, book
reviews (criticas libros), best sellers, and more from the editors of
Library Journal and School Library Journal. In response to reader
demand following the suspension of Criticas in February 2009, LJ and
SLJ have resumed reviewing Spanish-language books for adults and
children. Adult books will be reviewed monthly, and children's titles
every other month.
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Greenburgh
Public Library stars book exchange program with Biblioteca de Irun
The
Greenburgh Public Library, located at 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY
(US), announces a new international educational book exchange program
with Biblioteca Municipal de Irún (Spain). Believed to be the
first of its kind in Westchester County as well as in Spain, the
exchange is the first international book exchange to be entirely
financed through private funding for the benefit of public
libraries.
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Kaiser Survey Finds Kids Keep
Reading Books
A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation
found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as
children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young
people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically,
especially among minority youth. In spite of all this media exposure,
over the past 5 years, time spent reading books remained steady at
about :25 a day, but time with magazines and newspapers dropped (from
:14 to :09 for magazines, and from :06 to :03 for newspapers).
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More than 5 million students are learning Spanish
in Brazil, the Cervantes Institute said in a preview of its annual
report for 2009.Compared with the 1 million Brazilian students in 2006,
the report, "2009 Yearbook: Spanish in the World," says that now there
are more than 5 million students taking Spanish in Brazil, from primary
school to college level, the Cervantes Institute said Monday.
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Most Downloaded Audiobooks
from the Library Overdrive
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Culture as an economic engine
and digitalization to be EU’s main cultural focus in 2010
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Zoe Saldana
Actress
Zoe Saldana, whose parents are of Dominican and
Puerto Rican descent, has been given the nickname
“queen of science fiction” because of her roles in
two upcoming movies: as Lt. Uhura in the new version of Star Trek and
as an alien in James Cameron’s Avatar.
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Rubén
Aguilar V.
Drug
trafficking has become a crucial matter in Mexico s recent history.
Ruben Aguilar V. (Mexico s press secretary during the presidential term
of 2000 to 2006) and Jorge G. Castaneda (renowned political analyst and
former Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003) tackle the matter
from a different perspective.
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Kalashnikov
(Kalashnikov)
Alberto
Vázquez-Figueroa
Kalashnikov began with a
call by the European Parliament in order to capture the greatest war
criminal there, Joseph Kony, and is well known, that in addition to
murdering, raping and enslaving thousands of children, used them as
soldiers in his army. Given the impotence of the institutions, a small
group of MEPs decided to violate the laws they have sworn to
defend.
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Los detectives salvajes
(Wild
detectives)
Roberto
Bolano
In this his latest novel,
Bolano presents the life of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, a
Chilean priest and minor poet who, under the pseudonym H. Ibacache,
doubles as one the country's most important literary critics. "Now I'm
dying," Sebastián declares in the book's first line, "but I
still have a lot to say... There are some things that must be cleared
up."
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(The kindly ones)
Johnatan Littell
Maximilien Aue leads a
discreet life as a husband and father in a quiet part of France. Thirty
years later he sets out to tell the story of his past, not because he
feels the need to justify his actions, but because he wants to describe
history as he witnessed it... because Maximilien is a former Nazi
officer.
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