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  • Las aventuras de Thor
    The Adventures of Thor
    Las aventuras de Thor
    Author:
    Gisela Baños
    Publisher: SHACKLETON BOOKS S.L.
    In the faraway kingdom of Asgard live the most powerful gods of Nordic mythology. One in particular was famous for his great feats, ferociousness and exceptional strength - Thor, the great god of thunder. With his magic hammer Thor protected gods and humans from the threat of the terrible giants, who lived on the frozen peaks of Jötunheim.
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  • Las aves
    The Birds
    Las aves
    Author:
    ANA GERHARD
    Cecilia Varela
    Publisher: EDITORIAL OCÉANO, S.L.
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    Since ancient times birds have fascinated men and caught their imagination. Their singular characteristics have allowed them to represent such diverse concepts as liberty, innocence or peace. One of these peculiarities is that, instead of vocal chords, they have a vocal organ called a syringe. This enables a whole range of birds to sing.
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  • Las batallas silenciadas
    Silenced Battles
    Las batallas silenciadas
    Author:
    Nieves Muñoz
    Publisher: EDITORA Y DISTRIBUIDORA HISPANO AMERICANA,S.A (EDHASA)
    Verdun, 1916. When the Great War breaks out, Irene Curie wants to be as close to the front as possible. Convinced that she will help save many lives, she sets out to teach radiology to surgeons in field hospitals using portable devices devised by herself and her mother, Marie Curie.
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  • Las bondades de un asesino
    The kindness of a murderer
    Las bondades de un asesino
    Author:
    Sergio Martín
    Publisher: Drácena Ediciones SL
    Maybe it’s because it’s a sharp, dirty parody set in a provincial town in England, or maybe it’s because of its lewd, irrelevant and sometimes outright provocative language; whatever it is, The Kindness of a murderer immediately brings to mind the magnificent film comedies of Guy Ritchie and Danny Boyle.
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  • LAS BRUJAS TRILLIZAS
    The Witch Triplets
    Author:
    CARMEN GIL
    Publisher: Editorial CCS
    Fun is guaranteed with this story of Braulia, Brígida and Brunilda, the witch triplets famous at the Witch Academy for their pranks and for always putting their foot in it. They have just been awarded their Witch Diplomas and, as part of the practical training, the Head Witch sends them to a school for ordinary, everyday human beings.
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  • Las Cartas Robadas
    Stolen Letters
    Portada Las Cartas Robadas de Lorenzo de Medici
    Author:
    Lorenzo de Medici
    Agent: Agencia literaria Albardonedo
    Paris, 1623. Secret letters. Lost jewels. A secret code. A Queen and a court painter. Camogli, Italy, 2010. Ann Carrington, a history teacher from the US, is on holiday. She has arranged a meeting with a Professor Scopetta to show him some of Maria de Medici's unpublished letters and reveal a secret, but things get complicated when she discovers the professor has been murdered.
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  • Las células madres, el genoma y las intervenciones genéticas
    Stem cells, the genome and genetic intervention]
    Author:
    Daniel Soutullo
    Publisher: Talasa Ediciones
    The three themes that make up the title of this book have for the last few years occupied the pages of newspapers and magazines, and been the focus of ethics debates not only by specialists, but also by a wider public interested in the consequences and problems that the advances in science imply for human beings.
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  • Las chicas terribles
    Terrible girls
    Author:
    Pablo Vázquez
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    Vindictive secretaries, Mcjobs, spam, impossible loves, domestic possessions, neighbourhood pimps, amateur boys in love with their female best friends, MSN murders, white trash girls, gigantic beetles, nymphomaniacs with webcams, crazy spiritualists, junk food, water aerobics… and above all girls, dozens of them, terrible or wonderful, real or imagined, but always surprising and necessar
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  • Las ciegas hormigas
    The blind ants
    Author:
    Ramiro Pinilla
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    When an English boat brings coal for the furnaces, becomes stranded off the Cantabric coast, finally breaking and dumping its load into the sea. The whole village of Algorta, during the night, wakes up to pick the very much needed coal up. Sabas Jauregui is aware that he cannot let such an opportunity go by, and involves his whole family.
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  • Las cinco muertes del barón airado
    The five deaths of the angry baron
    Author:
    Jorge Navarro
    Publisher: EDITORIAL SEIX BARRAL, S.A.
    Detective novel set in turn of the century Barcelona. Baron Castellfullit is at the centre of a plot of hatred that culminates in a failed assassination attempt that will cost the lives of five people. Everyone has a motive for killing the baron. Behind the suspect is the figure of the young painter Ramón Casas, who reconstructs this story.
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