New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - S

  • Sabor a chocolate
    The Taste of Chocolate
    Author:
    José Carlos Carmona
    Publisher: Punto de Lectura
    Over sixty years ago, Adrian Troadec saw a girl leaving a music class. Two world wars later, the chocolate factory he opened to win her is still open. Set between two continents, games of chess and violin notes, The Taste of Chocolate is an unfinished symphony of love and dreams. A novel as intense and addictive as the best chocolate.
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  • Sakamura, Corrales, y los muertos rientes
    Sakamura, Corrales and the Laughing Dead
    Author:
    Pablo Tusset
    Publisher: EDICIONES DESTINO, S.A
    Three foreigners dead on the Costa Brava, all three red as crabs and with inexplicable smiles on their lips. The case seems clear for National Guardsman Rafael Corrales: it must have been jellyfish, whose poison doesn't affect the locals because they have 'better skin'.
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  • Sapo Manuel Quenorrana
    The Frog Manuel Quenorrana
    Author:
    José Campanari
    Publisher: EDITORIAL MIL Y UN CUENTOS
    The classic character of the popular stories: the enchanted prince turned into a frog who can only be released from his enchantment by the kiss of a princess. The story is rewritten so that the Frog Manuel Quenorrana doesn't want to stop being a frog: quite the contrary, although a princess might spend her whole life in the pond kissing frogs and toads without any luck.
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  • Segunda parte
    Part Two
    Author:
    Javier Montes
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    What do we inherit from those who are absent? How much - or for how long - are we allowed to miss them? Do things speak when their owners have gone? Is love or its memory sweeter?
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  • Ser y estar sano
    Being and Being Healthy
    Author:
    Julio Zarco
    Publisher: Península
    'A well-lived life is one which is lived with full consciousnesss and absolute responsibility, not only for oneself but also for others. For humans, the most valued posession is life itself, and for that reason, living life fully is an art, perhaps the most sublime of arts.' Dr Jullio Zarco
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  • Siete colores de Canarias
    Seven Colours of the Canary Islands
    Author:
    Francisco Javier Bello Lecuona
    Publisher: BLEX EDITORES
    The Canary Islands seen through the kaleidoscope of colours that are its beaches, skies and water. Incredible photographs accompanied by geological notes by experts and specialists.
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  • Sistemas de Seguridad y Confortabilidad
    Security and Comfort Systems
    Author:
    TecnoProducciones Multimedia
    Publisher: TecnoProducciones Multimedia
    This 115-page multimedia monograph explains the various physical principles underlying the circulation of refrigeration fluid, plus the mechanical and electronic functioning of the systems and elements involved in the acclimatization of cars.
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  • Sombras de unicornio
    UnicornShadows
    Author:
    Raquel Martínez
    Publisher: Algaida Editores
     Claudia - a journalist, born in Ovieda but brought up in Argetina from an early age - returns to Spain to start a new life. She settles in Madrid and begins to work in the Unicorn bar, where she meets Edgar, a an upper class Mexican man who is also escaping from a tumultuous past.
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  • Sospecha
    Suspicion
    Author:
    José Ángel Mañas
    Publisher: EDICIONES DESTINO, S.A
    The sales assistantant of a pharmacy in one of the Madrid districts is raped and murdered. Inspectors Pacheco and Duarte, on the trail of a psychopath recently released from prison who is hanging around the area, receive a tip-off that he might have been threatening her and had visited her the week before the murder.
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  • Sota la pell
    Under the Skin
    Under the Skin
    Author:
    Llorenç Capdevila
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Under the Skin is a psychologically introspective, noir novel based on a real-life story: in 2005 the body of an unknown prostitute was found on the Eje Transversal train line; she has a strange erotic tattoo. Coincidentally, or otherwise, the tattoo is the same as that of a man killed in Darnius a couple of years before.
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