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Publisher Spotlight—Pinto Books, A Publisher with Garbo

In Spanish, garbo means a jaunty air: elegance and grace. The quintessence of garbo in the independent publishing world is Pinto Books, a New York City-based multicultural house that favors books with substance in English and Spanish, the kind to be read many times. More

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