New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010

  • El Cuadro Perdido de Picasso
    Picasso’s Lost Painting
    Author:
    Eugenia Tusquets
    Publisher: Editorial Funambulista
    In 1992, antiques dealer Madame Claudel buys a mysterious, unsigned painting in a Paris street market. Extensive investigations lead her to believe that this could be Picasso’s missing Don Tancredo work which he painted for his first French exhibition. To verify this, the painting would first need to be authenticated by Picasso’s daughter Maya.
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  • El dia revolt - Literatura catalana de l'exili
    The Tormented Day
    Author:
    Julià Guillamon
    Publisher: Editorial Empúries
    El dia revolt. Literatura catalana de l’exili collects together forty-two studies written by Julià Guillamon about the children of the 1939 Catalan exodus in France, Argentina, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico.
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  • El eco del terror, ideología y propaganda en el terrorismo Yihadista
    Author:
    Manuel R. Torres Soriano
    Publisher: Plaza y Valdés
    Terrorism means communication. Violence and propaganda have been linked within the history of terrorism. Technological developments our information society’s current demands, have encouraged these organisations to upgrade the relevance and sophistication of their communications.
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  • El estupor y la maravilla
    Author:
    Pablo d’Ors
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    “A museum visitor is, in general, someone who is not interested in museums, someone who is scarcely interested in art. It is clear to everyone that you do not go to museums for enjoyment, but simply to say that you have been there. What is more: a museum visit is, on principle, a truly funerary experience.
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  • El funeral celeste
    Celestial funeral
    Author:
    Jordi Sierra i Fabra
    Publisher: Editorial Bruño
    Read report: El Funeral Celeste
    Isaac is spending the summer studying on his own in the city. His life changes when he meets Yam-Mey in a Chinese restaurant. After trying for several nights, he manages to break her silence, only to find out about an unknown and cruel world in which the mafia exerts its power. There is a big secret hiding in the basement of the restaurant, a tragedy that could get them killed.
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  • El huerto escolar ecológico
    Author:
    Montse Escutia Acedo
    Publisher: Editorial Graó
    Have you ever seen a snail dreaming of a lettuce? Have you ever felt a tomato’s heartbeat? Have you ever swum in cabbage leaves? Have you ever explored earthworm’s tunnels? Have you ever walked along a bean plant? Positive answers to these questions are probably only found in fairy tales. Bedtime stories we never tire of telling our children or tales told at school.
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  • El huerto urbano
    The Urban Garden
    Author:
    Josep Maria Vallés
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    This book gives basic steps on how to grow vegetables on balconies and terraces. The book is meant for those beginners who have started on this passionate journey towards growing home grown produce. It also describes in detail the vegetables that best adapt to be grown in containers.
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  • El ladrón de morfina
    The Morphine Thief
    Author:
    Mario Cuenca Sandoval
    Publisher: 451 Editores
    Korea, the middle of the war. One night in 1951, Flaco (Skinny) Bentley, a recruit in the United States 187 Air Transport Squadron, parachutes onto the battlefield, eight thousand miles from home. During the war, he experiences death and horror, but also comes across a Colombian angel, an officer-artist who draws tanks with his typewriter, morphine traffickers and sex.
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  • El muñeco de nieve
    The snowman
    Author:
    Romy Bartsch
    Publisher: Editorial ECIR
    The story takes place during a typical Northern European Christmas Eve. Paul, the main character, has moved with his parents to a new city, and his first task is finding himself some new friends. Thanks to his ingenious idea of creating a funny faced snowman, Paul manages to achieve his goal.
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  • El sueño de la pequeña Efwa
    Author:
    Angels Consuegra
    Publisher: ING Edicions
     This is a story based on the life of a real African girl called Efwa, taken into an orphanage in Ghana. Efwa can’t speak or walk due to cerebral palsy, but despite that, she’s always happy and smiling. Our little ones will get to know Efwa and we’ll find out about her life, her environment and how the smallest things make her happy.
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