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Lightning Rider by Jen Greyson

2013-05-15T15:24:41Z

Heiress to a time-traveling dynasty, Evy Rivera is finally claiming her birthright as a lightning rider. Problem is, she’s forced to learn it alongside Constantine, a prickly, obstinate Roman warrior who constantly challenges her to be the woman he sees in her.

Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly

2013-04-17T11:38:29Z

Jenni Rivera was the top-selling artist within the Regional Mexican music genre. With a weekly radio show, her own reality show, a makeup and clothing line, and her own foundation, she was at the height of her career and life.

BajaLibros Launches Spanish-Language eBookstore in U.S.

2013-04-12T11:30:01Z

BajaLibros, one of the Latin America’s largest and most well known digital bookstores has announced plans to come to the U.S.

BajaLibros is headquartered in Argentina and has a 50,000 ebook inventory of free and for-pay publications. The book selections are available through the BajaLibros’ app for Apple and Android, as well as Barnes & Noble’s Nook. BajaLibros also offers its own ereader that retails for $155 in the U.S.

BajaLibros’ inventory rivals that of the Nook which is one of the largest in the U.S. for Spanish ebooks. Amazon has around 54,000 titles for sale and the Nook store offers over 58,000 Spanish language titles. The BajaLibros site is easy to navigate with verticals offering free books, Best Sellers, academic publications and books in other Romance languages like Portuguese and Italian.

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Dying for the Truth (Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco)

2013-04-09T16:28:58Z

What is the value of telling the truth? For independent blog reporters in the midst of the Mexican Drug War, it’s as important as their very lives, which are threatened on a daily basis.

Spanish Author and National Prize for Literature Winner Jose Luis Sampedro Dies

2013-04-09T13:44:50Z

Spanish writer, economist and academic Jose Luis Sampedro died in Madrid, his family told Efe on Tuesday. He was 96.

He passed away in the wee hours of Monday.

Respecting the author’s express wishes, news of his death was not announced until Tuesday because Sampedro wanted to go “in a simple way and without publicity,” according to his widow Olga Lucas, whom he married in 2003.

The writer of “La Sonrisa Etrusca” (The Etruscan Smile) and “La Sombra de los Dias” (The Shadow of Days), and one of the most active critics of the current social and economic situation, will be cremated Tuesday at La Almudena Cemetery in the strictest intimacy.

Sampedro’s death signifies the loss of one of Spain’s moral guideposts in the last half of the 20th century.

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Latino Boom II: Catch the Biggest Demographic Wave Since the Baby Boom

2013-04-03T14:53:16Z

Understanding the growing Latino community is one of the keys to success for every marketer, politician and corporation in the United States.

Spanish Book Lovers Await LeaLA Book Fair in May

2013-04-02T11:49:39Z

The Spanish Book Fair of Los Angeles, or LeaLA, the biggest competition of its kind in the United States, expects to attract close to 100,000 visitors for its third edition, to be held May 17-19, organizers said.

“In this, its third year, LeaLA expects to welcome more book lovers than in previous years,” Marisol Schulz, director of the event since it started in 2011 and who is now also director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico, told Efe.

In its third year the fair will offer a “program of the highest quality and greatest diversity,” with more than 150 authors, 100 publishing houses and 200 sales booths,Schulz said.

Among the participants this year will be Mexican novelists Beatriz Rivas, Paco Ignacio and Benito Taibo, the winner of the Nuevas Letras Prize Daniel Krauze, and U.S. writers Maha Akhtar, Jose Luis Orozco and Francisco Hinojosa.

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Junot Diaz’ ‘Miss Lora’ Wins World’s Richest Prize for Short Story Writing

2013-04-01T16:48:43Z

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Junot Diaz’ short story “Miss Lora” has won the prestigious London Times Short Story Award for 2013 and a cash prize of 30,000 English Pounds ($45,000). This awards is the world’s richest short story prize given out.

The Dominican author won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, his first book, and is the recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award.

“Miss Lora” is written in Spanglish and takes place in New Jersey during the ‘80s. It tells the story of the in appropriate relationship between an older woman and a teenager. The judges panel noted that Diaz story stood out “with its precise, unflinching prose, and with its brilliant evocation of an immigrant world struggling with modernity.”

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Week Ending March 28, 2013

2013-03-31T16:56:55Z

Argentine Illustrator Wins Prestigious Astrid Lindgren Award for Children’s Literature

2013-03-28T10:59:26Z

The Argentine children’s author and illustrator, Isol, has won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial award for her body of work.

Isol, who was born in Buenos Aires, has written and illustrated 10 books starting with ‘A Dog’s Life’ in 1997. The author-illustrator’s real name is Marisol Misenta and her work has been published in 20 countries.

The author will be awarded $770,000 by the Swedish crown that sponsored the award in honor of author Astrid Lindgren who created the Pippi Longstocking character. The award is considered the world’s largest award for children’s literature.

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