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El caso Neruda. (The Neruda Case) Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott Coll., Decatur, GA - 11/01/2008 Ampuero, Roberto. Colombia/U.S.: Norma (La otra orilla). 2008. 330p. ISBN 978-958-45-1189-8. pap. $22. FICMore
El navegante dormido. (The Sleeping Navigator)
Sophie Lavoie, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton - 11/01/2008 Estévez, Abilio. Spain: Tusquets, dist. by Urano Pub. 2008. 376p. ISBN 978-84-8383-068-0. pap. $23.95. FICMore
La voluntad y la fortuna. (Will and Fortune) María Elena Cruz, Dedham, MA - 11/01/2008 Fuentes, Carlos. Mexico/U.S.: Alfaguara: Santillana. 2008. 552p. ISBN 978-970-58-0446-5. pap. $19.99. FICMore
El interior del bosque. (Inside the Forest) Carolyn Kost, Stevenson Lib., Pebble Beach, CA - 11/01/2008 Fuentes, Eugenio. Spain: Tusquets, dist. by Urano Pub. 2008. 331p. ISBN 978-84-8383-078-9. pap. $23.95. FICMore
La soledad de las vocales. (The Solitude of Vowels)
Carlos Rodríguez Martorell, East Elmhurst, NY - 11/01/2008 Pérez Álvarez, José María.
Spain: Bruguera: Ediciones B, dist. by Urano Pub. 2008. 153p. ISBN 978-84-02420-47-3. pap. $22.95. FICMore
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Automated Systems Librarian, South Texas College; Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint October 28, 2008 Halloween parades & los gatos black
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Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Automated Systems Librarian, South Texas College; Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint October 17, 2008 New graphics and PSAs to promote bibliotecas
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Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Automated Systems Librarian, South Texas College; Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint June 28, 2008 Ruében Martínez redux
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Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
A place of refuge
In this issue’s cover story, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and...