New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - L

  • L'estany de foc
    The Pool of Fire
    L'estany de foc
    Author:
    Silvestre Vilaplana
    Publisher: Edicions Bromera, empresa editorial, S.L.U.
    Some books are extremely dangerous. Under a veil of knowledge they conceal superstitions and heresies that go against the word of God. But one is especially perverse. It is a book kept in secret by a few men which becomes an obsession for the Inquisition and which, at the end of the 15th Century, generates the greatest persecution ever carried out against a book and its owners.
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  • La canción de la concubina
    The Concubine's Song
    La canción de la concubina
    Author:
    Jaume Sanllorente
    Publisher: Espasa
    In these pages, there is love and a great deal of unbearable pain; there is death in life and destruction, but also justice and hope. Through this novel and its protagonists, Jaume Sanllorente offers the reader a impressive, poorly understood reality: human trafficking and the people who dedicate their lives to fighting it.
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  • La ciencia de los superhéroe
    The science of superheroes
    La ciencia de los superhéroe
    Author:
    Juan Scaliter
    Publisher: EDICIONES ROBINBOOK, S.L.
    When comic book superheroes first appeared, their powers came from other planets, strange mutations or  experiments gone wrong.
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  • La conducta de las mariposas
    The Behaviour of Butterflies
    La conducta de las mariposas
    Author:
    Pablo Mahaux
    Publisher: El Aleph Editores
    In this world, and in other possible ones, a man never knows the future awaiting him. The same is true of novels, all of them, and also of many of their characters.
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  • La cosecha de Samhein (El ciclo de la luna roja)
    The harvest of Samhein (The red moon cycle)
    La cosecha de Samhein (El ciclo de la luna roja)
    Author:
    José Antonio Cotrina
    Publisher: Editorial Hidra
    Twelve lives in a city which is determined to destroy them . A court of fantastic beings divided between keeping them alive and abandoning them to their fate. And all of them awaiting the arrival of the Red Moon which will unleash the time of nightmares …and miracles.
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  • La edad de la ira
    The Age of Anger
    La edad de la ira
    Author:
    FERNANDO J. LÓPEZ
    Publisher: Espasa
    Headline: Marcos, a middle-class teenager, kills his father and leaves one of his four siblings badly wounded. The first reactions: Friends, family, Marcos's teachers: no one can understand what happened. No one foresaw it. The media is full of images of the murder. Once again, teenage violence monopolises the news.
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  • La empresa en la web 2.0
    Businesses on web 2.0
    La empresa en la web 2.0
    Author:
    Javier Celaya
    Publisher: Gestión 2000
    Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tuenti have all exploded into society with astonishing force. If these social networks are radically changing the way citizens communicate and relate to each other, do you really think that the world of business can remain isolated from this transformation?
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  • La fiesta del sol y la luna
    The festival of the sun and moon
    La fiesta del sol y la luna
    Author:
    Enrique Hurtado López
    Nareme Melián Mahugo
    Publisher: Ediciones Fortuna
     The Sun and the Moon make a lovely happy couple and so they have lots of friends. They like to organise parties and picnics in their house up on the hill. Hardly a day goes by without them inviting someone round! Everyone brings a friend or relation with them, because no one wants to miss out on the parties thrown by the Sun and the Moon.
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  • La guia fantàstica
    The Fantastical Guide
    La guia fantàstica
    Author:
    Joles Sennell (pseudonym of Josep Albanell)
    Publisher: ANIMALLIBRES EDITORIAL S.L.
    Do winged unicorns exist? Do they write with their own feathers? This story begins in a junk shop and with a special book in which readers can find "The book of nonsense", "Machines and How to make Extraordinary Journeys" or "The Fantastical Guide to Worlds of Drawings", according to their fancy.
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  • La Hermandad del Halcón. Te di mi alma
    The Brotherhood of the Falcon: I Give You My Soul
    La Hermandad del Halcón. Te di mi alma
    Author:
    Anna Casanovas
    Publisher: Esencia
    Army captain William Fordyce, future Duke of Wessex, has spent the last year in hell: he enlisted in order to find his brother, Alex, and his squadron was ambushed and massacred; but his real nightmare began days later, when he woke up in chains in Chablis prison.
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