New Spanish Titles - Year 2014

  • Cautivas
    Captives
    Author:
    Miquel Pajares
    Publisher: Plataforma Editorial S.L.
    Nevena's past as a sex slave comes back to haunt both her and her daughter Marina. During the time when she had been forced into prostitution, she had lived in several countries and been owned by a number of masters; although she had been subject to many criminal acts, one very concrete thing that happened during those times has consequences twelve years later.
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  • CONTREBIA LEUCADE
    CONTREBIS LEUCATE
    El último bastión Celtíbero
    Author:
    AGUSTÍN TEJADA
    Agent: JULIO F-YÁÑEZ AGENCIA LITERARIA S.L.
    It is the first century BC. After rebelling against Sulla and seeking refuge in Africa, the Roman general Quintus Sertorius is advancing through the Iberian peninsula without opposition. The Lusitanians have joined their forces and there are few who dare confront them, although there is a rumour that Rome has formed another army led by Pompey to try and finish him off.
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  • Cuando el frío llegue al corazón
    When the cold gets to your heart
    Cuando el frío llegue al corazón
    Author:
    Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    This is a story in which goddesses, cows and first love all intermingle. A marvellous, realistic tale about one summer in a northern city, and about the discovery of sex. With his father on remand, young Ludi Rivero Pelayo is free to enjoy life with no authority figure bearing down upon him, and the summer is his.
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  • Diario de un estudiante. París 1914
    Diary of a student. Paris 1914
    Diario de un estudiante. París 1914
    Author:
    Gaziel
    Publisher: Editorial Diéresis, S.L.
    París, 1 August, 1914. In Madame Durieux's pension, young people from all nations come together, in a cosmopolitan mix of races and tongues, all eager to enjoy the febrile vitality of the City of Light. But on that day, everything changes. France starts mobilising its men for the war against Germany.
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  • Dos taüts negres i dos de blancs
    Two Black Coffins, Two White Coffins
    Dos taüts negres i dos de blancs / Two Black Coffins, Two White Coffins
    Author:
    Pep Coll
    Publisher: Raval Edicions S.L.
    The massacre of a family of farm labourers in Carreu in 1943 shakes the local community and surrounding villages of this corner of Pallars Jussà, Catalonia. But news of the mass murder did not get much further. In an age when it was necessary to offer an image of Spain as a peaceful paradise, censorship silences the press.
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  • El amor no es un verso libre
    Love is not a free verse poem
    El amor no es un verso libre
    Author:
    Susana Fortes
    Agent: Pontas Literary & Film Agency
    Madrid, 1935. A young American woman arrives at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where the creme de la creme of Republican intellectuals get together. Real and fictional characters meet on the city's streets. The famous evenings spend in the 'colina de los chopos' attract arists, musicians, dandys, poets, dreamers and students from all over.
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  • El brillo de las luciérnagas
    Fireflies' glow
    Author:
    Paul Pen
    Agent: DOSPASSOS Agencia Literaria
    He is a ten-year-old boy, curious, dreamy and highly imaginative. He would be like all other little boys, if his entire life wasn't spent shut up in an impenetrable cellar with his parents, his two siblings and his grandmother, all horribly disfigured by a mysterious fire no one speaks of.
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  • EL CABALLERO DE SAN PETERSBURGO
    The Gentleman of Saint Petersburg
    Author:
    Mayra Montero
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    Towards the end of the 18th century, the young Creole girl Antonia de Salis meets a fascinating Venezuelan soldier in Russia, Francisco de Miranda, the father of Hispano-American independence.
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  • EL CABALLERO DEL PANECILLO VERDE
    The Knight of the Green Roll
    Author:
    JOSE GONZALEZ TORICES
    Publisher: Editorial CCS
    Young Mario Lucas is fascinated by the world of the stars. He was absolutely certain that in one of those far off places, on the Pulsars, lived "The Little Green Men". These pacific, galactic beings, who observe everything from high above, would come down to Earth to sort out the mess the humans were in. It was just a matter of waiting.
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  • El caso Ruglons
    The Ruglons Case
    Author:
    Javier Zuloaga
    Publisher: Grup 62
    Maruja Sanz is a young girl of humble origins from Valgonzález, a small Castilian town near Segovia. At the end of the sixties she decides to abandon her roots and the life she has led with her parents with the aim of belonging to a different world, one she assumes to be much better, and climb the social ladder.
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