New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010 - L

  • La última respuesta
    The ultimate answer
    Author:
    Alex Rovira
    Francesc Miralles
    Publisher: International Editors'Co.
    Is there a formula that can change people’s destinies? There is an extremely powerful force that can change our perception of the universe and our own lives. Until now no one has been able to explain it. Albert Einstein worked it out in his time using a mathematical equation, but for some unknown reason, he decided it must be kept hidden.
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  • La Auténtica Historia de las Minas del Rey Salomón
    The True Story of King Solomon’s Mines
    Author:
    Carlos Roca
    Publisher: Ediciones Noufront SL
    A unique story which goes beyond fiction to show us the events and protagonists of one of the most violent moments of the 19th century in colonial Africa, an episode which inspired Henry Rider Haggard to write King Solomon’s Mines.
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  • La bailarina y el inglés
    The dancer and the Englishman
    Author:
    Emilio Calderón
    Publisher: Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency
    An amazing journey to India in the best tradition of the adventure novel. This is the unusual adventure of a British man, born in India, during the time of the Second World War. With no experience, Masters is named Jay Town’s chief of police.
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  • La Ciudad de los hombres perdidos
    The City of Lost Men
    Author:
    Elisa Casanova Barquero
    Publisher: E-diciones KOLAB
    This is a strange novel, a mixture of the old collections of Oriental tales that were so common during the Middle Ages and 20th century adventure novels. Like Scheherazade in the Thousand and One Nights, Zhair must go through many stories, some cruel, some fabulous, to discover the secret jealously guarded by Shibam Kabir, the strange king of the city.
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  • La ciudad desplazada
    The displaced city
    Author:
    JOSÉ MARÍA CONGET
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    The crossroads of chance; the troubles of thwarted love but also the catastrophic shared passion when updating a celebrated story by Cervantes; memory and its treacheries; these are just some of the protagonists that make up the eight stories of La ciudad desplazada.
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  • La Dona que Fudia de la Boira
    The Woman who Fled from the Fog
    Author:
    Albert Llimós
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Albert Llimós recounts the story of an authentic, anonymous heroine of the 20th century, who survives and lives with the nobility and misery of the human condition. Teresa has grown up without a mother, in an environment which forces her to discover the wickedness and violence of the human condition at too young an age.
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  • La estrategia del agua
    The water strategy
    Author:
    Lorenzo Silva
    Publisher: A.C.E.R. Agencia Literaria
    In this exciting new detective novel by Lorenzo Silva we meet the now famous investigator from the Bevilacqua Guardia Civil (more incisive and ingenious than ever in his comments and attitude) and his colleague Virginia Chamorro, along with a new character, Arnau, a young man they have to train.
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  • La Fam al Món: Passat i Present
    World Hunger: Past and Present
    Author:
    Josep Maria Salrach
    Publisher: Eumo Editorial
    This book offers us an overview of a problem which has been man-made and well documented, and has persisted throughout the history of humanity: hunger. At the end of this journey from antiquity up to the present day, the author concludes that whatever the mode of production and the way of life, the bitter pangs of hunger have been experienced everywhere.
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  • La gallina Crestazul
    Bluecrest the Hen
    Author:
    Daniel Nesquens
    Publisher: Almadraba Editorial
    Bluecrest the hen loves pecking and scratching about in the ground for bugs to eat. She also loves pirate stories: she takes them off to her favourite nook to read there. She reads so much that she forgets to lay eggs, thinking she is a ‘Long John Silver Hen’. The other hens in the chicken run watch her with a mixture of disbelief and envy.
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  • La herencia de la tierra
    The heritage of the land
    Author:
    Andrés Vidal
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    In tumultuous 19th century Spain, one man, Rosendo Roca, refuses to accept his fate and considers a risky proposal that will end up affecting his whole life. As he struggles to succeed, he will have to contend with the aristocracy and the proletariat, with tradition, war, and disease, and with all the contradictions characteristic of a period in constant turmoil.
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