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  • LA VIDA SECRETA DE REBECCA PARADISE
    The Secret Life of Rebecca Paradise
    Author:
    PEDRO MAÑAS
    Publisher: FUNDACION SANTA MARIA
    Úrsula is an eleven-year-old girl with a rather complicated life. She has changed schools several times and her mother is on the run after stealing a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.... No... That's not right. Úrsula is an eleven-year-old girl who goes by the name of Rebecca and hates magicians because one of them made her mother disappear.
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  • La vida sense la Sara Amat
    Life without Sara Amat
    Life without Sara Amat
    Author:
    Pep Puig
    Publisher: Raval Edicions S.L.
    Who now remembers Sara Amat? She was just thirteen when she disappeared one summer night and was never again heard from. There was a single news item the following day in the Diario de Terrassa, and a great deal of speculation and many rumours.
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  • La vida y las muertes de Ethel Jurado
    La vida y las muertes de Ethel Jurado
    Author:
    Gregorio Casamayor
    Publisher: Acantilado/ QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    'Ethel Jurado had approached the group to ask for help,' Marcos Recaj tells us in this novel, 'and we gave her our unconditional support.
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  • La vigilia
    The Vigil
    Author:
    Marc Artigau i Queralt
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    Raimon writes for the radio and lives with his brother Blai who was traumatised by an accident he had in the forest when he was small and who now lives a very simple life working in an occupational therapy workshop. One day, Raimon is offered a job by Celia, a mature lady who has always listened to his stories.
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  • la visión abierta
    Open Vision
    la visión abierta
    Author:
    Victoria Cirlot
    Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.
    The myth of the grail provides the title for this book about the possibility of perception beyond the physical world. The occult and the invisible are objects for the imagination, which in the Middle Ages was seen as a visionary experience granted by God. The first chapter opens to a vision based on a confrontation between an older culture, with a mystic such as H.
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  • La visita
    The Visit
    Author:
    Margarita del Mazo
    Publisher: Ediciones Jaguar
    A visitor appears every night in the bedroom of the family’s youngest member and makes him tremble, but is it from fear or excitement? Enthralling to the last page, del Mazo’s books and their illustrations by Natalia Colombo take on the fear that young children have of the unknown, helping them to deal with situations they cannot control and to face up to their fears.
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  • La visita (GLOBITO, LOS TREMENDOS y LAS PAPLINIAS)
    The visit (GLOBITO, the TREMENDOS and the PAPLINIAS)
    La visita (GLOBITO, LOS TREMENDOS y LAS PAPLINIAS)
    Author:
    Marisa López Soria
    Publisher: Galimatazo Editorial S.L.
    GLOBITOS are creatures with a special charm: gentle, warm and loving. But their naive approach to life gets them in trouble sometimes. It is the kind, friendly PAPLINIAS, who love the GLOBITOS, who intervene when the strict, fussy TREMENDOS come along to put things back in order. One afternoon GLOBITO goes to his friends' house to have chocolate with churros.
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  • La volta dels 25
    The 25s Tour
    La volta dels 25 / La vuelta de los 25, Marc Serena (La Magrana)
    A Chinese ecocolgist, a Peruvian shaman, a Maori from New Zealand, a future Russian cosmonaut…What do they have in common? What worries them? How do they live? How do they face the future? These are the questions that the journalist Marc Serena has put as he travels around the world, living with 25 young people of his age, 25, from 25 countries.
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  • La voz de los flamencos. Retratos y autorretratos
    Flamencos’ voice. Portraits and self-portraits
    Author:
    Miguel Mora Díaz
    Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.
    Read report: La voz de los flamencos: Retratos y autorretratos
    An indispensable book about Flamenco, with 28 interviews, three authors dictionaries, more than 100 photographies and a CD with 20 tracks comprising a Century of Flamenco Art.
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  • La voz del pasado
    The voice from the past
    Author:
    Fernando Rueda
    Publisher: Ediciones Martínez Roca
    Ela is a promising, ambitious young civil servant who has just been named director of operations of CNI, the Spanish intelligence agency, a secret service post occupied by a woman for the first time in history. She is very attached to her grandfather, who has given her a series of tapes he recorded as his will.
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