New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011

  • La bicicleta de la Selva
    Selva's Bicycle
    Author:
    Mónica Rodríguez
    Publisher: Grupo Anaya
    Selva is a special little girl who has blue skin and comes from a country where there is nothing but sand. She has a rusty bicycle with no bell, but with a great story hidden in its saddle. Many years later, the protagonist remembers how their friendship with Selva began, the story of the bicycle and the great adventure they experienced together when they decided to go in search of the desert.
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  • La bruja
    The Witch
    Author:
    Enric Lluch
    Óscar T. Pérez
    Publisher: Algar Editorial S.L.
    Maruja the witch is always getting into trouble. The latest was when she asked to be transferred to Hansel and Gretel's house of chocolate. What will the bossy witch Mandona do when she finds out that she has turned the story upside down?
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  • La búsqueda de sí mismo. Reflexiones sobre El Principito
    The search for oneself. Reflections on The Little Prince
    Author:
    Manuel Ballester
    Publisher: Milyuna ediciones
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince is a work whose rich message contains a series of signs and nuances, profound reflections that at times escape the simple reader.
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  • LA CÁMARA DE PANDORA. La fotografía después de la fotografía
    Pandora's camera. Photography after photography
    Author:
    Joan Fontcuberta
    Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili, SL
    The technological paradigm shift to which photography has been subject over the last few years has not only revealed the photographic nature of our culture, but has also shaken some of the foundations that appeared to be an unseparable part of the medium.
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  • La cátedra de la calavera
    The professor of the skull
    Author:
    Margarita Torres
    Publisher: Ediciones Temas de Hoy
    'La cátedra de la calavera' tells the story of the first steps in the life of the University of Salamanca, an institution created in the 12th century, but which started to enjoy international renown when Isabel La Católica decided to turn it into the Spanish Sorbonne.
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  • LA CIUDAD CAUTIVA. ORDEN Y VIGILANCIA EN EL ESPACIO URBANO
    The captive City. Order and surveillance in the urban space
    Author:
    José Miguel G. Cortés
    Publisher: EDICIONES AKAL SA
    There are two central fears at the root of the terror that shapes life in the city. The first is related to economic inequality; the second to a lack of knowledge of others and the fear of losing one's identity. Uncertainty and confusion have increased due to the speed of change in the last few decades, which has caused cities to be seen as dangerous places.
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  • La cocina de la salud
    Cooking for health
    Author:
    Ferran Adrià
    Josep Corbella
    Valentín Fuster
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    La cocina de la salud demonstrates how to have a healthy diet and enjoy eating. The book follows the life of a family over a normal day to illustrate how to improve, among other things, breakfast, food shopping, storing food at home and how to cook it.
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  • La consultora
    The consultant
    Author:
    Javier Uriz
    Publisher: ALIENTA EDITORIAL
    María Begino is a young consultant who has been entrusted with an impossible task. Determined to carry it out in spite of everything, she adopts a false identity to infiltrate a client's business, assisted by her French ex-lover and a Swiss professor of psychology, with whom she forms a very special 'ménage à trois'.
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  • La dona que fugia de la boira
    The woman who fled from the fog
    Author:
    Albert Llimós
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Albert Llimós tells the story of a genuine anonymous 20th century heroine, who lives through the grandeur and misfortunes of the human condition.
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  • La felicitat dels dies tristos
    The sad days of happiness
    Author:
    Pere Antoni Pons
    Publisher: Editorial Empúries
    A sentimental, literary novel, full of humour, passion and melancholy, 'La felicitat dels dies tristos' tells the story of Tabou, a university student marked by a family history as intense as it is complicated. Tabou falls in love with Elisenda, his beautiful, full-of-life classmate, who soon reveals that he can never have her.
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