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Happy New Year 2016!!!!

May all your wishes come true in 2016! Best wishes to you and your loved ones on behalf of American Reads Spanish.

Get to know this week's list of best selling titles in Spanish for week 52 ending on December 27th., 2015.

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 week 52 of 2015 (week ending 12/27/2015).

ESPN Deportes to broadcast the Super Bowl in Spanish for the first time in 50 years.

The NFL and CBS reached an agreement with ESPN to air the next Super Bowl in Spanish for the first time ever. Football is followed by millions of Spanish-speaking fans around the world, it only seemed logical to show it in Spanish in the U.S.

Florida school district expands dual-language offerings in schools.

At Beauclerc Elementary and four other Duval public schools, students who speak English are learning half the time in Spanish, and students who are Spanish speakers are learning half the time in English.

Illinois bank caters to Spanish-speaking clients.

The Bank of Edwardsville has opened a new branch in Fairmont City staffed by bilingual tellers, bankers.

Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa keeps up with promise of donating books to Peruvian community.

Vargas Llosa has recently announced that hew will donate books to Arequipa, Peru's Regional Library on March of 2016. This is a promise he issued after winning the Literature Nobel Prize in 2010.

Merry Christmas!

May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow!

New children's book series in both English and Spanish.

Author Jill Brazier released her new bilingual children's book series "Doley, the Guatemalan Street Dog".

Spanish language book club La Tertulia celebrates important milestone.

More than 30 years ago, La Tertulia book club in Chicago, IL began as an offshoot of a Spanish language class at New Trier Extension (a community education program). Half of the current club members were in that class.

Spanish Ministry of Culture grants first round of quality certifications to bookstores.

An effort to protect independent bookstores and promote reading habits was launched last month. While many bookstores in Spain have already obtained a good quality certification, 29 more have turned in their registration in hopes to boost their image and attract more customers.

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