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This e-newsletter is for members of the Random House, Inc. Spanish Language List! Thank you for joining. As a member you will receive an email each month featuring recommended titles for your Spanish-reading patrons, as well as Latino-focused titles of interest.

In This Issue:

- Huge Drop-ins!

- For the Shelves: Summer reading!

- RH Spanish bestsellers

- Contest! Win a free copy of Casi la luna by Alice Sebold

Three HUGE drop-ins you won't want to miss from Random House Spanish

La última lección
(The Last Lecture)

by Randy Pausch
978-0-307-39226-8 | Grijalbo

Professor Randy Pausch captured not only his students, but the entire nation, with his last lecture about "fulfilling your childhood dreams." Now the book version of his speech has topped the New York Times bestseller list. Don't miss the Spanish Language edition!

El Juego del Ángel
(The Angel's Game)

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
978-0-307-45537-6 | Vintage Español

As possibly the biggest international Spanish book launch in history, this prequel to international bestseller La sombra del viento has already hit #1 on the BN.com bestseller list for Spanish books!

El tercer Jesus
(The Third Jesus)

by Deepak Chopra
978-0-307-38916-9 | Vintage Español

Who is Jesus? In El tercer Jesús, Deepak Chopra provides an answer that is both uplifting and challenging to current belief. There is not one Jesus, Chopra writes, but three: the historical man, the church's symbol, and the radical, mystical teacher who taught his followers to change the world.


Jorge Amado
Gabriela, clavo y canela
(Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon)

978-0-307-27956-9 | $14.95 | Vintage | TR | June

In this fascinating book, well-known Univision commentator Karla Martinez talks not only about her own struggles and successes, but how everyone has the capacity within them to find good in even the most bleak of situations. She has truly become a beacon of light for millions of her fans with her never-ending enthusiasm and her indomitable zest of life.


Fernanda Familiar
El tamaño si importa
(Size Does Matter)

978-0-307-39207-7 | $16.95 |
Mondadori | TR| June

From the author of Mamas de teta grande (Helicopter Moms) comes this latest relationship manual from Fernanda Familiar. Fernanda tackles issues of sexual satisfaction and fulfillment not only in the bedroom, but in other areas as well. A must read for women, and any man who wants to please them.



Jose Luis Villegas
Lejos de casa
(Far from Home: Latino Baseball Players in America)

978-1-4262-0313-8 | $21.95 | National Geographic | TR | March

With extraordinary photographs and fact-filled essays, Far From Home gives the sports fan and the historian alike reason to celebrate the incredible rise of the number of Latino players in American baseball and the courage and conviction they have needed to accomplish the feat of getting there.

 


Jorge Amado
Doña Flor y sus dos maridos
(Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands)

978-0-307-27955-2 | $14.95 | Vintage | TR | June

When the wayward Vadinho dos Guimarães dies, his long-suffering widow Doña Flor devotes herself to her cooking school. Eventually, she remarries with a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not. Yet, Flor longs for her first husband's exhausting sensual pleasures so powerfully that it brings the ghost of Vadinho back from the grave-right into her bed.


978-9-5870-9470-1 | $10.95 |
Circulo de Lectores | TR | June

The Americas are filled with myths and legends from indigenous tribes, Aztecs, Mayans, and the like, and these stories give us an insight into the people and culture that lived those many years ago. Collected here, they can help provide original insight into an America before the European settlers.


Various
Frases Memorables
(Memorable Phrases)

978-9-5828-1042-9 | $12.95 | Círculo de Lectores | TR | June

Within these pages are the world’s best-known quotes from throughout the ages. This complete dictionary of phrases breaks its contents down into categories and themes for easier browsing. A great resource for those looking to find a few inspirational words and for those looking to write them.

RH Spanish Bestsellers

  1. La inmigración y usted
  2. Un mundo sin fin
  3. El amor en los tiempos del cólera
  4. Amando a Pablo, Odiando a Escobar
  5. Las mujeres y el dinero
  6. Jesús de Nazaret
  7. La culpa es de la vaca
  8. La ladrona de libros
  9. El ataque contra la razón
  10. Nada: Una novela

Win a free copy of La casi luna (The Almost Moon)

In her highly anticipated second novel, after the groundbreaking The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold strikes two notes: grim and grimmer. Within its pages, Helen, a middle-aged, depressed divorcée, kills her elderly mother and spends the next twenty-four hours reliving her miserable childhood and her attempts to break free of it.

To enter, simply provide your mailing address (sorry, no PO boxes!) in an email with subject line "Luna" and send it to library@randomhouse.com.

The first 5 respondents will receive a free copy!


 



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