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The October edition features the upcoming Miami Book Fair International, Liber 2013 reviews, highlights on the latest awards received by writer Clara Sanchez (Planeta) and Dr Montiel-Overall (Achievement in Library Diversity Research). ARS interviewed this month Teresa Mlawer and “The Last Song” author, Nicholas Sparks, as Amigo del Español. Don't miss the latest on books releases and industry news.

The Spanish-language book market in the United States has a better appeal to the Latin population with more accessibility to Spanish-language publications. There's a mix of publications that touches upon religion, health improvement, biographies, novels and classic children books.

The University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies is pleased to announce the 2014 National Latino Children’s Literature Conference to be held in Tuscaloosa, AL on March 13-14, 2014. This exclusive conference was created to promote high-quality children’s and young adult books about the Latino cultures, and to offer a forum for librarians, educators, researchers, and students to openly discuss strategies for meeting the informational, educational, and literacy needs of Latino youth (children and teens) and their families. Featuring nationally-acclaimed Latino literacy scholars, award-winning Latino authors and illustrators of children’s and young adult books.

Founded in 1964, Alfaguara has supported Spanish and Latin American literature, building a two-way street for published works on either side of the Atlantic, while the prize has subsequently established itself as a benchmark for quality literary awards given to unpublished work written in Spanish. Its prestige throughout the Spanish-speaking world secures the winning works international distribution, reaching over 400 million Spanish-speakers.

Voxxi publishes this complete report on the impact of bilingual education, entitled “Bilingual education: Why gutting it hurts us all”, exploring different aspects of these programs that are being cut in some states.

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 42 of 2013 (week ending 10/20/2013).

Under the motto “El español en el libro: del Atlántico al Mar del Sur” (The Spanish in the book: from the Atlantic to the southern oceans,) the event congregates professionals and experts from all Spanish-speaking countries and other parts of the world. The academic program is structured around four themes: "The book between the Atlantic and the Pacific,” “The Book Industry,” “Book, reading and education" and "The Book between creation and communication." The congress ends today.

The Spanish-speaking world is the battlefield where global giants of cultural distribution and the analog-digital entertainment maintain with the traditional publishing industry, in full and rapid change. It is the struggle for a market of nearly 500 million speakers with a high proportion of young and expanding educational structure. These are some of the warnings and concerns exposed at the 5th “Congreso Internacional de la Lengua.”

David Unger will launch his novel ¨Para mí, eres divina¨, on Wednesday, October 23. The author will do a reading in English, while Peruvian actress Gy Mirano will be reading the Spanish version.