New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010 - L

  • La libertad esta dentro
    Freedom is within us
    Author:
    Idota Ronzón
    Publisher: Plataforma Editorial S.L.
    Prison equals to punishment, but it can also mean redemption. This book is a heart-breaking story of 10 real –life examples about misanthropy, hatred, cruelty, ambitions or mere disgrace. A piece of journalistic work that tells us about the experience of 10 people, some of whom hiding their identity, in order to discover never heard-of details of their crimes.
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  • La maldición del Rey Sabio
    The curse of the Wise King
    Author:
    José Guadalajara
    Publisher: Pamies Editorial
    The last years of the life of a king who had aspirations to the imperial crown. A king who tryed to embrace all the knowledge of his time and to pass it on for posterity. An unforgetable king. 1281. Alfonso X arrived in Seville to prepare the campaign against the kingdom of Granada. There, he is informed about the revolt of his son Sancho, supported by a great number of nobles.
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  • La mejor cocina con flores, plantas y frutos silvestres
    The Best Recipes for Flowers, Plants and Forest Fruits
    Author:
    Iolanda Bustos
    Publisher: Salsa Books ediciones
    This is a cookery book for all tastes, based on ingredients that were once well-known and popular but are now in danger of being forgotten.
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  • La meva guia de ioga
    My guide to yoga
    Author:
    Gloria Rosales and Gordana Vranjes
    Publisher: Viena Edicions
    My guide to yoga is, above all, an invitation to all those people who believe that yoga might be helpful to them but have never dared to enter a yoga centre because they fear not to be flexible enough or simply because of the uncertainty involved in taking a step into the unknown.
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  • La mitad mejor
    Half lives
    Author:
    Marcos Herrera
    Publisher: 451 Editores
    Read report: La mitad mejor
    The fast-paced, hallucinatory lives of the outsiders in a city torn asunder by violence. A world populated by armed beggar children planning to seek revenge and get rich quick. A tramp who collects cardboard, involved in his own private, low-life crusade. Unruly prostitutes. Unimaginable drugs. A half journalist, half detective, who has been commissioned to solve three mysteries.
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  • La nit de les papallones
    The Night of the Butterflies
    Author:
    Jordi Coca
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    Read report: La nit de les papallones
    La nit de les papallones is a novel that portrays the colourful Barcelona nightlife of the 1970s, and at its centre is Carla, a burlesque dancer who turns heads with her aesthetically dazzling and emancipated performances.
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  • La princesa y el amor
    The princess and love
    Author:
    Ecir’s staff
    Publisher: Editorial ECIR
    A terrible disease threatens the lives of an entire population. The townsfolk are from a diverse range of religions; Christian, Jewish and Muslim. The tale tells how despite their different beliefs the community is able to come together in order to overcome the deadly disease.
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  • La rosa escondida
    The Hidden Rose
    Author:
    Reyes Martínez
    Publisher: Ediciones Temas de Hoy
    After selling more than 300,000 copies of her first two books, the author of Un burka por amor and Amor cruel returns with a new novel based on a true story. The book is based on the heart-wrenching story of an immigrant who flees the Bosnian war to go to Spain.
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  • La ruta de los contrabandistas
    The Smuggler’s Path
    Author:
    José Luis Caballero
    Publisher: Mt ediciones
     A woman seeks revenge whilst a Nazi agent seeks information, both united by a common foe: The Spanish Republic.
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  • La señora de la mafia
    The Lady of the Mafia
    Author:
    Juan Martorell
    Publisher: MR Ediciones
    Love and Death in New York On a cold night in a Brooklyn suburb in 1968, the young John Di Mateo is murdered in cold blood by the police during a raid. His sister Laura –unjustly accused of being an accomplice and jailed for a year in New York Women’s Penitentiary– swears that she will have her revenge on all those implicated in the murder.
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