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No 50 October 2010 
Vargas Llosa is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

The school library is an important resource for English language learners. It may be the first place many students and their families get experience using a lending library. What can school librarians can to show ELLs that libraries are welcoming places of entertainment and enrichment?
                                                                                                       

59% reads books, but only 0.8% uses e-Readers, and 20.9% of readers do so for work or study.  Men read more than women, but women read more books and magazines, while men read more newspapers and comics.

The  New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio Join Forces for Nueva York (1613 – 1945): the First Exhibition to Explore Centuries of Interaction Between New York City and the Spanish-Speaking World.


 
  

  
 
 
  

Interview:

Antonio María Ávila
Executive Director of FGEE

  


Maria Marín
Business woman  
Puerto Rican motivational speaker, businesswoman and columnist Maria Marin has devoted her energies to the subjects of personal improvement and the “art of negotiation” through her company Voice of Empowerment. Marin is known at the workshops and conferences she gives for her persuasive and enthusiastic style and that ability to inspire combined with her expertise have led her to become the only Hispanic woman to teach negotiation skills worldwide.

Celia Ruiz Ibáñez 
Ideal both for children who are just beginning to learn Spanish and for young, native speakers looking to increase their vocabulary, this picture dictionary uses fairy tales to help children learn more than 5,000 words. Each letter in the alphabet centers around one particular fairy tale or story—for example, all of the words listed under the letter “a,” such as “abacus,” revolve around the fairy tale Aladdin.

 
No hay silencio que no termine
(Even silence has an end)
Ingrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. 

Pide mas, espera mas y obtendras mas
María Marín   
Maria Marin explains how she became an expert in the "art of doing business", becoming the only Hispanic woman to bring this subject to world knowledge.

(Fall of giants)
Ken Follet  
Fall of Giants delivers all the elements that fans of Ken Follett have come to treasure: historical accuracy, richly developed characters, and a sweeping yet intimate portrait of a past world that you'll fully inhabit before the first chapter is through. The story follows five families across the globe as their fates intertwine with the extraordinary events of World War I, the political struggles within their own countries, and the rise of the feminist movement.  

     
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