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Nora de Hoyos Comstock
President
and CEO of Las Comadres Para Las Americas
Las Comadres is a nationally known Latina
organization empowering women to be actively engaged in the growing
Latino/Hispanic communities through online and face to face networks.
Nora transformed the informal in-home gathering into the national and
international Las Comadres network.
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Hernán
Carlos Pascual
Winner of
the Grijalbo Prize for Historical Novel! Doña Leona Vicario,
the main character, is one of the most important women in the history
of Mexico. She was a supporter of the Mexican War of Independence and
from her residence in Mexico City, she was able to provide intelligence
and money to the rebel movement. With dextrous precision, Pascual
weaves an amazing story of romance and humor amid the backdrop of the
Mexican Revolution.
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Pablo
Cárdenas is a film screenwriter with a new project: a
screenplay for a movie about Tina Modotti, worldwide Italian
photographer, well-known not only for beeing one of the most important
photographers of the 20th Century but also for her tragic life.
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Amores Virtuales
Marina
Castañeda
Ulises Blanco, psychiatrist
and recently widowed, is receiving mysterious emails that lead him to
an emotional crisis and an obsessive search for the anonymous sender of
these messages, until he reaches an ending so surprising it turns his
world literally upside down. Castañeda effortlessly embues her
novel with a complex mix of psychology, emotional intrigue, and the
world of the Internet.
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(The armies)
José
Emilio Pacheco
Carlos, the main character
in this novel, remembers that at the end of the forties
everything seemed possible in Mexico. The country's
industralization was moving forward, English words were
incorporated into their language and the old world remained in the past.
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