New Spanish Titles

  • EL MISTERIO DE LA SONRISA DE LUCAS
    The Mystery of Lucas's Smile
    EL MISTERIO DE LA SONRISA DE LUCAS
    Author:
    CARMEN GIL
    Publisher: TRIQUETA VERDE, SL
    In a distant city, there is a mystery greater than a field of daisies or a cloudless sky. It's the mystery of Lucas's smile, which appears on his face day and night, in summer and winter, 365 days a year. Well, 366 on leap years. Scientists from all over the world come to study the phenomenon without success. Not even Lucas can explain it. He's simply happy.
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  • El niño que no quiso llorar
    The Boy Who Didn't Want to Cry
    El niño que no quiso llorar
    Author:
    José Antonio Jiménez-Barbero
    Here again, staring at the mirror, here again with same idea of taking his own life. In his clenched fist, Mum's sleeping pills, the only hope of escaping the hell his school mates make for him; his only reason to live the love he has for his little sister Teresa. Years of bullying at school have reduced Santiago to a shadow of himself.
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  • El Príncipe Feliz y otros cuentos
    The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    Author:
    Oscar Wilde
    Publisher: Editorial Juventud S.A.
    This beautifully illustrated anthology brings together three of Oscar Wilde's best-known stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, and The Selfish Giant. The stories contain some of the themes that most preoccupied the author - selfishness, inequality and suffering - and consider how to counter them with love, compassion and generosity.
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  • El rai dels innocents (castellano: La balsa de los inocentes)
    The raft of the innocent
    Author:
    Quim Español
    Publisher: EDICIONS DE 1984 S. L.
    David, the innocent young protagonist of this novel, lives on the outskirts of a city.
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  • EL RECUERDO DEL OLVIDO
    The Memory of Forgetfulness
    EL RECUERDO DEL OLVIDO
    Author:
    KAREN PERALTA
    Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL DE LIBROS SL
    After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.
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  • El reloj de Clío
    Clio's Watch
    El reloj de Clío de Emilio González Déniz
    Author:
    Emilio González Déniz
    Publisher: Ediciones La Palma
    A folder has been found with two hundred typed pages signed by the writer Teseo Yedra. Three decades after the author sent it to her agent, and with no record of it ever being received, experts on her writing have no doubts that this was the highly anticipated new novel of the author, who has just won a great literary award.
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  • El sombrero que voló
    The Hat that Blew Away
    El sombrero que voló
    Author:
    José Carlos Román / Mónica Carretero
    Publisher: PINTAR PINTAR COMUNICACION, S.L.
    Señora Filomena goes out for a walk, in her Sunday best and a new hat that everyone admires. But the wind begins to blow and Filomena's hat flies off, much to her dismay. So begins the journey of this elegant and volatile hat, which on its way meets a family of mice that makes their home in its crown: kitchen and the living room downstairs; upstairs, a bed, with a springy mattress.
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  • El sonido de un tren en la noche
    The Sound of a Train at Night
    Author:
    Laura Riñón Sirera
    Publisher: Twin Brooks Press Sl.L
    The route of Clementia's life was laid out before she was born, she was destined for an existence of happiness, good fortune and privilege. Born into the heart of a noble family in Madrid, she was always a happy child. However, her eyes were opened when she once overheard her grandmother, nicknamed the Spiteful, speaking through gritted teeth: "No tears today means tears tomorrow".
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  • El telescopio de Galileo Galilei
    Galileo Galilei's Telescope
    Author:
    David Aceituno y Srta.M
    Publisher: Norma Editorial, S.A.
    Discover the revolutionary scientific feats that Galileo achieves as he looks through his telescope into the skies. Where does the Earth end? What are stars made of? There's only one thing Galileo likes more than asking questions: and that is finding the answers. How can he bring the sky closer?
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  • El valor de la memoria. De la cárcel de Ventas al campo de Ravënsbruck
    The Value of Memory. From Ventas Prison to Ravënsbruck Camp
    Author:
    Mercedes Núñez Targa
    Publisher: Libreria y Editorial Renacimiento, S.A.
    Read report: El valor de la memoria: de la cárcel de Ventas al campo de Ravensbruck.
    From Franco's prisons to Nazi extermination camps, Mercedes Núñez Targa, a twentieth-century woman of conviction, (Barcelona 1911-Vigo 1986), tells her incredible odyssey. The story is told in the first person with sincerity and talent, mixing autobiography with sociological analysis, and her testimony is made especially interesting by the female perspective of the narrative.
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