Criticas Connection: March 1, 2008

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MARCH 1, 2008

New Report Describes Five Strategies Libraries Use To Serve "New Americans"

Antonio Orlando Rodríguez Wins Premio Alfaguara

Penguin Launches Celebrity-Oriented Hispanic Imprint

Jorge Pinto Books Launches Children's Imprint

Antonio Orlando Rodríguez Wins Premio Alfaguara
Cuban-born, U.S.-based writer Antonio Orlando Rodríguez is the winner of this year's Premio Alfaguara (Alfaguera Prize) de Novela for his novel Chiquita ("Little One"). The jury highlighted the novel's "elegan[ce]" and "notable narrative charm and restless imagination."

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Penguin Launches Celebrity-Oriented Hispanic Imprint
A new personality-driven Hispanic imprint, Celebra, has been announced by Penguin. The line's first book—His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S., by television star Geraldo Rivera—published February 26. Celebra will operate under the New American Library umbrella, utilizing that group's sales, marketing, publicity, and design departments.

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Jorge Pinto Books Launches Children's Imprint
Jorge Pinto Books introduced its children's imprint, Paula Books, and presented its first title last February 27 at the Americas Society in New York City. La Tortuga Golosa, which was simultaneously released in English as The Turtle's Shell, is part of the imprint's first series, "Once Upon a Time...America."

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Broward County Knows Día!

Florida's Broward County Public Library (BCPL) knows how to celebrate Día de los niños/día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day). Last April, patrons got to enjoy a week-long multicultural book festival where Maya, Miguel, and Dora the Explorer, along with several other characters from popular children's literature, visited the system's libraries big and small.

Audio Best Sellers – MARCH 1

Empezar desde zero. RBD. (EMI Latin. 2007.)

La vida es un ratico. Juanes. (Universal Latino. 2007.)

Los extraterrestres. Wisin & Yandel. (Machete Music. 2007.)

Now Latino. Various. (Emi Latin. 2007.)

Éxitos en 2 tiempos. Olga Tañon. (Univision Records. 2007.)

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