Globalization and Its Discontents/El Malestar en la Globalizacion
Joseph E. Stiglitz
  - $15.95 (English)
  - $19.95 (Spanish)

Okay, so Joseph E. Stiglitz, who served on Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and later became Chief Economist at the World Bank, may not be the poster-boy for anti-globalization but he does offer up a critique of the current polices that the IMF and World Bank use to benefit corporations on Wall St. rather than developing countries. Stiglitz enters the anti-globalization debate not from the outside trying to abolish the institutions but rather from the inside in the hopes of reforming the institutions to benefit developing countries.

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Cancionero Completo
Jose Alfredo Jimenez
  - $26.95

Do ever wish you could sing along with Mexico's greatest composer of rancheras but just can't seem to get the words right? Well, here's your chance to own Jose Alfredo's definitive song book that contain all the classics such as Que Bonito Amor and Te Solte la Rienda. So come pick up the book, find somebody who can play a guitar, drink a bottle of tequila and go serenade that special someone and let them know how tormented it is to be in love with them.ĦAjua!

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Rayuela (Spanish title)/Hopscotch (English Title)
Julio Cortazar
  - Random House

A classic in Latin American and World literature. Oliviera is an Argentinean living a self-imposed exile in Paris during the fifties. During the day or evening he hangs out with "the Club-" a bohemian hodge-podge of characters that lie about and intellectualize. The real beauty to the novel is its narrative structure that shatters linear continuity and forces the reader to traverse between the past and present.

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Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
  - Penguin

The Holy Mother of mothers of Spanish Literature. If you ain't got it on your shelves then you ought to be turned over to the Holy Brotherhood for imprisonment or until the Knight of the Sorry Face decides to right your injustice but he probably won't until you buy the book. Don Quixote is the anti-hero who adopts the antiquated, if not fictional, role of Knight errant. He's an outdated man living in a modern world and very reflective of the way Spain's nobility was failing to modernize Spain in the 17th century.

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El Hombre Duplicado
Jose Saramago
  - $19.95

Maybe you hated the Matrix Reloaded and wish that the writing would have reflected more the ideas of copies and simulacras and you'd prefer a book. Well, Jose Saramago offers up doozy with El Hombre Duplicado. When Tertuliano Maximo Afonoso watches a video and discovers a man that looks exactly like him, he goes in search of him and along the way begins to unravel the deepest part of his soul.

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Atravesando Fronteras
Jorge Ramos
  - HarperCollins
  - $24.95

Jorge Ramos has been the news anchor for Univision for the past seventeen years. He's not that well known in the United States but yet managed to reel in about 1,000 fans at a reading at a Barnes & Noble in Houston. His journalistic work has been a search fro him to find a place in this world and in his autobiography gives a tale to the tape which has measured his life.

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El Libro de Abrazos
Eduardo Galeano

A selfish personal pick which I can't emphasize enough how much I like this book and how much more I like the writer-Eduardo Galeano. Whatever he's writing, whether it's Las Venas Abiertas de Latina America or El Libro de Abrazos, he's able to wield the sword in one hand and the plume in the other. El Libro de Abrazos is some the finest prose pieces ever written and was largely produced while Galeano was exiled from his native Uruguay and traveled trough Latin America.

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Toda Mafalda
Quino
  - $69.95

Many of you grew up with her in Argentina and Latin America and many of you probably remember her from your high school Spanish courses taught by Mr. Smith. For the latter, Mafalda was probably a great relief to to be able to read how people actually spoke and the former it's your chance to relive you childhood. Toda Mafalda is a hardcover comprehensive collection that will appeal to a broad spectrum of people. There are also individual volumes available for $12.95.

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Nuestra Arma Es Nuestra Palabra: Escritos Selectos
Subcomandente Insurgente Marcos
  - Seven Stories

From the man who made revolution into a spectacle comes these selected writings. Many a right winger have tried to discredit Marcos as a farce but when everyone believed that the PRI couldn't lose it's political stronghold in Mexico. The Zapatistas laong with Marcos began to engage an insurgent uprising against Mexico and ten years later, the PRI finally lost a presidential election. It wasn't solely the Zapatistas that did away with the PRI but they sure helped. So while the PRI may not be what they were and the Zapatistas may be strong, these writings will help people remember the long strange history Mexico and Los Zapatistas share.

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Vivir Para Contarla
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  - Random House
  - $25.00

Who's the man? Who's the man? What Spanish list wouldn't include Garcia Marquez? He's the man. And his latest book is a memoir which for someone who relishes writing about memory whether it's unrequited love or the history of Macondo, you know he'll do wonders for his own story.

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