New Spanish Titles - Year 2013 - A

  • Adorables criaturas
    Adorable Creatures
    Author:
    Dolores Payás
    Agent: Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency S.L.
    End of the 19th century. León de Ubach, owner of an industrial Colony, returns from England with a splendid wife on his arm: Inés is beautiful, cultured, and thirty years younger than him. They are accompanied by Tessa, her sister, a hardened Suffragette who in London lived as a free woman.
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  • Al acecho
    Lying in Wait
    Author:
    Noemí Sabugal
    Publisher: Algaida Editores
    In March 1936, Madrid is a city in turmoil after the recent electoral victory of the Frente Popular. In an alleyway in the city centre a fourteen year-old girl is found strangled, and her body shows unusual decorum: a perfect bow around her neck, her hands crossed on her chest, her dress neatly arranged over her rigid legs. And she won't be the last.
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  • Anillo de compromiso
    Engagement Ring
    Foto Anillo de compromiso
    Author:
    Luis Enrique Valera Muñoz
    Publisher: Brosquil Ediciones S.L.
    A humorous novel which follows the pattern of classic detective fiction, adapting this to the Valencia of the 1980s. Two characters are involved in a dangerous adventure to try and get back a strange jewel.
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  • Aprendí a sufrir
    I Learned to Suffer
    Aprendí a sufrir
    Author:
    Mateu Carrió
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    Wamba is an eleven-year-old captive boy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He and his family are constantly controlled by soldiers who force them to work in the dangerous coltan mines, a highly-prized mineral in the first world. Wamba's parents are hit the hardest when their son is snatched from them to be recruited by a guerrilla group which will turn him into a real boy soldier.
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