tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18056637719089442002012-02-10T09:52:51.943-08:00Interviews, News, Reviews about the latest books in the Hispanic Book WorldHispanic Book Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08358020768525900003noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1805663771908944200.post-48182180274399739812007-11-12T10:28:00.000-08:002007-11-12T12:39:22.929-08:00

Look for Marlene Perez's teen novel The Comeback, scheduled tentatively for Spring 2009 publication. The novel is an amalgam of teen popularity-themed novels with a twist---a popular girl is given the boot by the most exclusive clique at school and concocts a plan to win back her place in the popular circle. Perez is the author of another teen opus Unexpected Development published by Roaring

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In an interview with Greensboro News and Record journalist, Peruvian-born, Chilean-national and The House of Spirits author Isabel Allende elaborated to journalist Tina Firesheets (firesheets...this story has got passion written all over it) about her previously confessed fantasies of Spaniard star Antonio Banderas. "The dream was after meeting him. Of course I have not told him about my erotic

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Carmen Rodrigues is joining Gaby Triana, Gary Soto, and a host of other Hispanic writers who are writing for a teen audience. The West Palm Beach resident's non-descriptively titled book Not Anything centers around Susie Shannon, a Miami teen who's in the middle of her identity crisis and has to tutor Danny Diaz, a school hottie, and in the process learns more about herself than she imagined.The

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The Miami Book Fair, which is scheduled to take place from November 4-11 while the street version of the fair will run from November 9, 2007. A sample list of Hispanic authors who'll be making appearances and signing books: Teresa Rodríguez (The Daughters of Juarez), Raul Ortega (Desde la isla), Jorge Ramos (El regalo del tiempo), Gaby Triana (Backstage Pass), Andrea O'Reilly (Cuba: Idea of a

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Ernestina Sodi, Thalia's sister and the mother of the twenty-something Mexican actress Camila Sodi will soon release an English version of her 2006 autobiography Lìberanos del Mal. Deliver Us from Evil will recreate Sodi's headline-creating kidnapping and brutal rape. Ernestina has, in the past, gotten a lot of heat for her candidness, particularly from family member Laura Zapata who publicly

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Nobel Laureate and current Mexican resident Gabriel Garcìa Marquez's 1985 classic novel Love in the Time of Cholera was selected by Oprah Winfrey's bookclub. This is of course, very timely, as the book's film version will be released in November. This marks the second time that the fantasy novelist's book has gotten this honor. In 2004, Ms. O hand-picked Gabriel Garcìa Marquez's most celebrated

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What's a Latina to do when her writing career is going amuck and when her wisecracks aren't enough anymore to smooth out her days? She resorts to the party life, of course. Such is the life of Milagro de los Santos (her name no coincidence we can be assured), the protagonist of Mary Acosta's upcoming book Happy Hour at Casa Dracula. Senorita de los Santos goes to a cocktail party and begins to

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Anjanette Delgado, a television producer who has worked with HBO Latin America, Telemundo, CNN, NBC, and Telemundo will be releasing her first novel The Heartbreak Pill (Atria Books). The book's plot centers on Erika Luna, who like Delgado, is a Miami resident. Erika is quite the mujer. After receiving the boot from her husband, the heart-shattered Erika decides to invent a pill that will rid the

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You've seen her prance on the stage, as she sensuously sings the lyrics to the song "Morena". And you wanted to be like her as you watched her as Rosalinda, as Maria del Barrio. And when she had her million-dollar wedding to the record label mogul Tommy Mottola, how you wished you had a fairy tale union like that, complete with the designer princess gown and gorgeous veil. Well, now you can. Well

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Roberto Santibanez was a chef for decades. Martha Stewart's Living, Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazine readers have all tried his recipes. It only seemed natural for him to release his own book. There's been many Mexican cookbooks, but never one this down-to-earth and practical. In fact, we don't know what makes our mouths water more, the Shrimp and Vegetable Skewers or the Rack of Lamb with

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Avalon Publishing released a slew of "handbooks" (the Moon Series) about hot spots in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua. In the series there is even Moon Cuba, by award winning travel writer Christopher P. Baker. For many who may want to travel to Cuba but are afraid of restrictions, Baker's book details how you can travel there legally. The book is full of ideas and trip

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Award-winning writer Caridad Ferrer's book It's Not About the Accent is set to be released on August 21st. Ferrer's publisher Pocket books is likening the book to Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's book The Dirty Girls Social Club. But the fact of the matter is, the talented Chica is in class by herself. The Jacksonville, FL-residing Ferrer is known for her humor and wit---much centered on her heritage as

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HBJ came across this little treasure entitled The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston (University of North Carolina Press). Scholar Roberto Trevino restricts his study to Hispanic mainstay state Texas, but his observations and his readings of Mexican Catholics might have been about the Dominican community in Nueva Yo or Cubans in Miami's Little Havana---so on point

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Her book When I Was Puerto Rican was declared a classic even before it hit galley stage. Now Esmeralda Santiago is ready to conquer other worlds...With the popularity of the telenovela Zorro and its ranking among Hispanic viewers on the television network Telemundo, it's no wonder at all why Santiago's next literary move is set in the century next to last. The backdrop of Conquistadora is none

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Written in collaboration with Ignacio Ramonet, the editor of the French publication Le Monde Diplomatique Castro's autobiography---an English hardcover version of Debate's Spanish edition of Fidel Castro: Biografia a dos voces---promises to delivery the goods on Castro's life, told from his own words (hence the A Spoken Autobiography subtitle).Whereas Nation Books tried to give a compelling

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Mexican pop star Thalia Sodi is known for a couple of things. Firstly, as the teeny-boppy actress in Quinceanera with Lucero. And of course, in the succeeding telenovelas that followed like Maria del Mar, Maria Mercedes, Maria del Barrio, Rosalinda...Get our drift? Now if you would please, add her to the list of Latina authors. According to our sources, Thalia: !Belleza!: Lessons in Lipgloss and

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is most known for his opus One Hundred Years of Solitude. In late May, he ended his civil war-imposed exile by visiting his hometown of Aracataca, Columbia. Associated Press reporter Darcy Crowe reported on the mass adulation that greeted Garcia Marquez as he and his wife Mercedes Barcha visited the town many believe to be the inspiration for Maconda, the fictional town in

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It's nearly fifteen years since the first Quinceanera book was written by Mary Lankford (Millbrook Press). Now the celebration of a teen's coming of age is the subject of several upcoming and newly-release books this year. The paperback version of Malin Alegria's 2006 book Estrella's Quinceañera was released by Simon Pulse last month. Adriana Lopez's story collection Fifteen Candles (Rayo) will

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Big behind, small behind, caramel-complexioned, light-complexioned, mole, no mole; raven-haired, blond-haired. Like her other sisters, the Latina woman cannot stop comparing herself to others. On one side, there is the hot, oversexed Latina that could be from Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba or Venezuela, but who everyone seems to put in the basket. On the other hand, there's the plump, curve-rich

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