New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012 - L

  • L'HOMME
    L'HOMME
    Author:
    David Peña Puño
    Publisher: CREAM EBOOKS
    This silent graphic novel was produced during the ’24 heures de Angoulême’, a competition in which the only rules were that the action takes place in a museum, that it had 24 pages and was drawn in 24 hours. I believe I did it in 19.
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  • La col·laboradora
    The collaborator
    La colaboradora
    Author:
    Empar Moliner
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    La colaboradora is the story of a woman who works as a ghostwriter at a publisher in Barcelona. With her own particular brand of humour, Empar Moliner constructs a surprising storyline, with characters who exemplify the world of contemporary publishing. La colaboradora is a book with multiple plot threads, full of humour and irony.
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  • La confesión de Carmen
    Carmen’s Confession
    Author:
    Román Gubern
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    Following the death of Prosper Merimée in Cannes in 1870, a number of literary sketches, first drafts and unfinished manuscripts were found in his study, with no certainty as to whether or not he intended to publish them.
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  • LA DAMA Y EL DRAGÓN
    The Lady and the Dragon
    Author:
    Gema Bonnín
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    The day Erika met Hayden both were children, but she felt something so strong that she ran away. And in her flight she met a dragon. Because of that meeting she becomes the Lady of the Dragon, a mysterious young woman, champion of justice and on whose head the King has put a price.  
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  • La dona veloç
    The fast woman
    La mujer veloz
    Author:
    Imma Monsó
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    Nes is a 48 year old psychiatrist who lives with the burden of an abnormally accelerated perception of time. The daughter of a surgeon in a provincial city, she comes from a family which is divided into two categories: the fast and the slow
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  • LA ESTRATEGICA DEL PARÁSITO
    The parasite’s strategy
    It hides; you can’t see it, but it’s always there, observing you, watching you, spying on everything you do and say. It’s not a vampire, but it feeds off you, it depends on you, that’s why it hides and uses you. And, meanwhile, it grows and grows without stopping, like a parasite.
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  • La frontera negra
    The Black Frontier
    Author:
    Silvestre Vilaplana
     A person is buried alive, a young man disappears mysteriously, a fake spiritualist session does not turn out as expected, a remote village in the Amazon is dominated by a diabolical being and attacked by two strange men…The time has come. The dreaded time is approaching and a series of unusual events all over the world are leading up to it. But what is the black frontier?
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  • La generación Google. De la educación permisiva a una escuela moderna.
    The Google Generation. From a Permissive Education to a Modern School
    Generación Google
    Author:
    Eugenia de Pagès
    Publisher: Editorial Milenio - Arts Gràfiques Bobalà, S.L.
    In schools today, the short attention span of pupils together with a lack of boundaries make for a lethal combination in any kind of learning environment. What can be done about this?
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  • La hora de los grandes "filántropos"
    The Hour of the Great ‘Philanthropists’
    Author:
    Joan Carrero
    Publisher: Editorial Milenio - Arts Gràfiques Bobalà, S.L.
    Lays out the project of financial concentration and centralised control of the global economy. In the banking ‘rescue’, the banks of the great ‘philanthropist’ financiers have received over 16 billion dollars and have left the ‘crisis’ to continue scheming and carrying out their project of world domination.
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  • La isla de Bowen
    Bowen’s island]
    Premio EDEBE de Literatura Juvenil 2012
    Author:
    César Mallorquí
    1920. It all began with the murder of the English sailor Jeremiah Perkins in Havoysund and the mysterious packet he sent to Lady Elisabeth Faraday before he died. Or perhaps the story begins before, when some strange relics were discovered that led to Professor Ulises Zarco, director of the geographic society SIGMA, to embark on an incredible adventure on board the Saint Michel.
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