Sips 'n Cups Cafe and Reading Room: Politically Correct Christian Fiction

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Novel Journey: She Reads

Novel Journey: She Reads

Short Story Contest Winners

The winners of the short story contest are listed below:

English
1st Place Mamatha Vaddi Sparks – “The Palestinian Dishwasher” ( Euless )
2nd Place Lori Rader Day – “The Calamities” ( Chicago )
3rd Place Barbara Graettinger – “Toots and the One Legged Rooster” ( Irving )
Honorable Mention Rosa C Fleming Stevenson – “A Love Story” ( Dallas )

Spanish
1st place Ariel González – “La Obsesion” (Miami)
2nd place Gustavo Green – “Propiedades de los Peces de Mar”(Argentina)
3rd place Mary Cornalino – “Tatuajes” ( Uruguay )

According to the judges you are all winners, the selection was really hard, they told us they had to go deep into plot development to make the final determination. Judges were on site Sunday to meet and greet the contestants and to provide comments and recommendations. .

Judges were:
Dr. Yvonne Jocks, multi-published novelist
Vicki Sapp, Associate Professor of English, Tarrant County community college
David Bedford, Spanish language professor, Texas Christian University
Ivan Mino, Chair of World Languages Department, Tarrant County Community College

The fair was a tremendous success with over 5,358 participants. Everyone enjoyed meeting the authors and taking part in the workshops.

Please mark your calendars for next year Dallas International Book Fair October 22-24, 2010.

Congratulations To All

Miriam Rodriguez
Assistant Director
Dallas Public Library

Ten Reasons you should come to the International Book Fair

1. You can dine with famous international celebrities.
2. You can get first edition books, signed by the authors.
3. You can see an Asian tea ceremony.
4. You can watch a play.
5. You can listen to live music.
6. You can see original art work.
7. You can learn about other cultures, other history.
8. You can make some really cool things.
9. You can win some really cool things -- like a $100 gift card to
Half-Price Books.
10. You can discover Bilingual SpeedReading, the easy way to read a second language.

You can do all this, and still make it home in plenty of time for Trick-or-Treat.

So have some fun -- and treat yourself to the International Book Fair.

SACANDO A LA LUZ HEROES LATINOS:YNCA GARCILASO DE LA VEGA (LOOKING FOR HEROES)

¿Cuáles son tus héroes?...¿Tienes suficientes? Con el despliegue de tiempo y sueños de la niñez y adolescencia, recuerdo leer con bastante renuencia el libro Los Comentarios Reales, al que hoy me aboco a rendirle tributo y así ser un eslabón entre aquellos maestros que me lo enseñaron y la comunidad del pueblo que me acoge. En esos años juveniles, apertrechada con mis canciones favoritas que transmitía la radio, en un inglés que no entendía pero que me entretenía imitar, era su escritor, el cusqueño Gomez Suarez de Figueroa -que así lo bautizaron a quien años más tarde decidió tomar el nombre de su padre Garcilaso de la Vega uniéndolo al "Inca" de su madre- alguien absolutamente ajeno a mí. A simple vista, este visitado escritor era un hijo natural de dos nobles, de dos mundos opuestos y dependientes a quien lo salvó la educación de las penurias de ser mestizo en una época colonial. ¡Cuán dificil hacernos comprender a los jóvenes que uno se vale de los héroes que escoge para inspirarse en la vida años más tarde! Yo quiero dar lo mejor de la tierra que me vió nacer a las generaciones que hacen el país que ahora es mío.
A la charla sobre el legado del Inca y el video que serán en español, quiero por deferencia a maestros de habla inglesa poner a disposición de ellos esta bio en Inglés
http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/durand/biographies/garcilaso.html

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