New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012

  • La mutación sentimental
    The Sentimental Mutation
    Author:
    Carme Torras
    Celia is a thirteen-year-old girl who was cryogenically frozen because she was suffering from a terminal disease, and is now returned to the 22nd century to be adopted. In a future society where everyone has a robotic assistant Celia clashes with her adoptive mother’s way of thinking, acting and relating, and with her environment, so different to that of her biological family.
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  • La pell negra
    black skin
    Author:
    Zeneida Sardà
    Born into a family of intellectuals and nurtured by reading certain books at a young age, Leila feels how her calling as a writer grows inside her. Her plans will be propelled hopelessly forward by an uncontrollable passion. Leila loses control of her own life, which becomes stamped by the indelible mark of lived experience.
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  • La primera decisión de Guillermo
    Guilermo's first decision
    La primera decisión de Guillermo
    Author:
    Carlos del PIno Velasco
    Guillermo has to stay at home alone for a while and a multitude of negative thoughts invades his head; he feels in danger, his heart thumps, he loses control and finally he faints. He suddenly finds himself in a mysterious world full of different paths, which Guillermo has to decide between: something that scares him a lot because until now he has always had someone there to do it for him.
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  • La puerta del infierno
    Hell’s Door
    La puerta del infierno
    Two forty-something Colombians meet in a street in Paris and launch themselves immediately into a frenetic conversation, which, against the backdrop of the revolutionary movements of the 60s, particularly the Colombian Freudo-Sartro-Marxist variant which has never before brought into narrative, provides the reader with a vision of the fleeting nature of things, the doubling of life and death, t
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  • La sacerdotisa de la luna
    The Priestess of the Moon
    La sacerdotisa de la luna
    Author:
    Emma Ros
    Publisher: International Editors'Co.
    Agent: International Editors'Co, S. L.
    Hernán Cortés has destroyed Tenochtitlán in Mexico but he has not been able to eradicate the people’s beliefs. And Ameyali, the ancient priestess of Xochiquetzal, does not accept defeat, even when her gods seem to have been conquered by the invader and power struggles between the Spanish separate her from her son.
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  • La tomba de Mary Jay
    The Tomb of Mary Jay
    Author:
    Alan Monroe Finch
    Publisher: Edicions Bromera, empresa editorial, S.L.U.
    Maretonhampstead has the longest name of any village in England but it was soon to be known for a more extraordinary event: the legend concealed by the tomb of Mary Jay. One night, 11 year old John Wilcox and his cousins decide to camp beside the grave to discover its secret. The night will be longer than John could have imagined and will have serious and terrible consequences.
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  • La torre prohibida
    The forbidden tower
    Author:
    Ángel Gutiérrez y David Zurdo
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    After being involved in an accident resulting in complete memory loss, Jack Winger is admitted to a convalescent clinic. There he learns that he was a crime reporter, that no one has visited him in hospital, and that all the interns suffer from amnesia. What nobody tells him is that all the patients suffer from recurring nightmares: terrible dreams that are repeated every night.
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  • La vida buena
    The good life
    Author:
    Javier Sádaba
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    Este libro explora los diferentes modos de vida que aportarían una accesible felicidad, un sensato bienestar.
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  • La volta dels 25
    The 25s Tour
    La volta dels 25 / La vuelta de los 25, Marc Serena (La Magrana)
    A Chinese ecocolgist, a Peruvian shaman, a Maori from New Zealand, a future Russian cosmonaut…What do they have in common? What worries them? How do they live? How do they face the future? These are the questions that the journalist Marc Serena has put as he travels around the world, living with 25 young people of his age, 25, from 25 countries.
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  • Las historias de terror del libro rojo de David
    The horror stories from David’s red book
    los sin miedo
    Author:
    José María Plaza
    David is a member of the Fearless Ones, the gang of friends who appear in the mystery and adventure series of novels written by José María Plaza. He is always telling horror stories to his friends (not always at the best moment), which he gets from an old manuscript he found in his grandfather’s house.
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