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  • Una bala para el comisario Valtierra
    A Bullet for Commissioner Valtierra
    Una bala para el comisario Valtierra, Sergio Bufano (RBA Libros)
    Commissioner Valtierra, a nostalgic, tango-loving native of Buenos Aires, is chief of the Political Section of the Buenos Aires police and has blood on his hands. A revolutionary group has condemned him to death for all the torture and murders in which he has been involved and to avenge their comrades.
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  • UNA BALA PARA EL RECUERDO
    A Bullet for the Memory
    Author:
    Maite Carranza
    Publisher: SANTILLANA INFANTIL Y JUVENIL S.L.
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    1938. Barruelo. 13 year old Miguel believes that his father, a Republican miner, died at the Front. Then, unexpectedly, comes the news that he is in a prisoner camp close to Oviedo. His mother begs the boy to bring his father home so Miguel sets off to find him, accompanied by his inseparable dog, Greta.
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  • UNA CASA JUNTO AL TRAGADERO
    A House Next to the River Tragadero
    Una casa junto al tragadero
    Author:
    Mariano Quirós
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    El Mudo (the Mute) lives on the outskirts of a strange town in northern Argentina, with his dog India. Years ago he arrived from the city and moved into a mysterious house in the mountains, next to the river Tragadero. He tries to avoid everyone apart from Insúa, the owner of the general store, who tells him stories about the river and teaches him to survive by hunting monkeys.
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  • Una dama en juego
    Lady at stake
    Author:
    Carla Montero Manglano
    Publisher: CÍRCULO DE LECTORES, S.A.U.
    1913. The great European powers are taking sides in what seems an inevitable war. A young Spanish woman, Isabel de Alsasua, is the new arrival in the countyshire of Brunstriech - here, at the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she starts a new life under the tutelage of her aunt. It is a life more turbulent than she could have ever imagined.
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  • Una duende en el Thyssen
    An Elf in the Thyssen
    Thessen-eko iratxo (en euskera)
    Author:
    Rafael Mendoza
    Publisher: Editorial Saure
    The protagonist of this story is born out of a legend. In the times of Philip V, the gardeners of the Retiro spoke of an elf who swapped the flowers they planted for others. In this story the elf has woken up angry and will have to make a trip to get her good mood back. She achieves this thanks to the influence of art which, in its diversity, assimilates and embellishes everything.
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  • Una família exemplar
    An exemplary family
    Author:
    Genís Sinca
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    'Una familia ejemplar' is a hilarious satire, a tragicomedy that takes a look at the disproportionate ambition that sometimes makes reasonable people lose their heads, and also a searing critique of great family sagas.
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  • UNA HABITACIÓN EN BABEL
    A room in Babel
    Author:
    ELIACER CANSINO
    Publisher: Grupo Anaya
    The Tower is the largest building in the village, an inhuman block inhabited by as many people as live in the rows of houses that have just been built on the outskirts. People are installed in shelves in the air, like books, each one with their own story, some good and others bad, some about to open up and others to be closed.
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  • Una historia inmoral
    An Inmoral Story
    Una historia inmoral
    Author:
    Victor Alexandre
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Is it possible for a man secretly to hire sex professionals so as to revive his desire for his wife? Is it not paradoxical for a husband to go to a third party to reestablish his sexual life with his partner? Is jealousy love or wounded vanity? What boundaries are we prepared to cross for the sake of love? What revelations are we prepared to hear about the person we love?
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  • Una historia sencilla
    A Simple Story
    Una historia sencilla
    Author:
    Leila Guerriero
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    In January 2011, Leila Guerriero travelled to a small town in the interior of Argentina to tell the story of a dance competition: the Laborde National Malambo Festival. The malambo is a traditional dance of the Argentinian gauchos and the festival ends with the crowning of a champion.
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  • Una idea peregrina
    The Idea of a Pilgrimage
    Author:
    Alfonso Biescas
    Publisher: Ediciones Luciérnaga
    'It was snowing that January afternoon, it was cold, very cold. My heart was frozen; the north-east wind frosted my footsteps. Walking along the seaside, I remembered. It had been a difficult year, hard, very hard. Both my parents had just died after long, debilitating illnesses which prolonged their agony. I thought about death, my present sadness, my future loneliness.'
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