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No 48 July 2010  
Learn about the Family Library of the Guide to Reading Service
The Family Library is a selection of books intended to provide an appropriate approach to the world of children and youth, their problems and development. Parents, teachers, and librarians will also find works which collect direct experiences in the form of testimonials and memoirs.

Illegal book downloads reached a value of 200.5 million Euros during the last six months of last year, which amounts to average piracy rate of 19.7%. These are but a few figures, the first ones to be available for the book market, which resulted from the first observational study of piracy and consumption habits of digital content.
                                                                                                       

Top 20 Spanish Best Sellers Nielsen-ARS for week 27 (week ending 7/11/2010)
Nielsen BookScan,  part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for the week 27 (week ending 7/11/2010).

The  Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez and the Ministry of Education have co-published the study Bibliotecas Escolares “entre comillas” (Educational Libraries “in quotation marks”)which may be downloaded at:
http://www.fundaciongsr.es:80/activos/texto/wfun_pdf_0255-M5Slpjc16bFDZ8pF.pdf


 
   
   
 
 
   
Interview: Ana Galán

   

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.

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.

 
Mujer infinita
(A timeless woman)
José Ignacio Valenzuela
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.

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.

(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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