New Spanish Titles - L

  • La huerta de Simón
    Simón's Vegetable Patch
    La huerta de Simón
    Author:
    Rocío Alejandro
    Publisher: Kalandraka Editora
    Simón the rabbit planted a lot of carrots, but someone suggested he try lettuce, someone else tomatoes, someone else eggplants… and the vegetable patch grew, and had not just vegetables but some very special gardeners: the rat, the hen, the goat, the piglet, the vixen… The 10th International Composteia Prize for illustrated books honours collaborative work, and living in contact and harmony with
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  • LA HUÍDA DE PEGGY SUE
    Peggy Sue's Escape
    PEGGY SUE
    Author:
    FEDERICO DELICADO
    Publisher: NORDICA LIBROS S.L.
    What does a cow on a motorbike do? Flee, flee like a soul bearing the devil of a slaughterhouse, to the place where cows have rights and can live freely: India. The road will not be easy and Peggy Sue, and the little friend she makes on her frantic flight, will work ceaselessly on their show Music, and will hitchhike along many roads.
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  • La increíblemente alucinante historia de Marcial, el niño normal
    The Incredibly Amazing Story of Marcial, a Normal Boy
    Author:
    José Fragoso
    Publisher: Narval editores
    Do you think you are normal? Think again. This is the story of an incredible, exceptional, fantastically normal boy. Do you want to meet him?
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  • La Inmortal
    The Immortal
    Cubierta La Inmortal
    Author:
    Ricard Ruiz Garzón
    Publisher: EDEBÉ - EDICIONES DON BOSCO
    Judit is a twelve-year-old girl with a gift: her talent for drawing. She lives with her mother and grandfather in Geneva. Her father, a famous painter, abandoned them and moved to Hungary when she was little. Judit is preparing to take part in a drawing competition when she is suddenly introduced to the game of chess, at which she proves unexpectedly good.
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  • LA ISLA DE PAIDONESIA
    The Island of Paidonesia
    LA ISLA DE PAIDONESIA
    Author:
    ORIOL CANOSA
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    Nine-year-old Nicolás Roblealto is travelling on a boat with his parents. He's really bored. And instead of enjoying themselves, his parents spend the whole time arguing. One day Nicolás decides to carry out his threat: he takes a lifeboat and goes to a desert island.
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  • La librería de Michelle
    Michelle's Bookstore
    Author:
    Verónica Fernández
    Publisher: Espasa
    Summer 1977. Jaime Olalla, a shy teenager who loves literature and cinema, returns home after spending a year with the Jesuits in Burgos. He plans to move to Madrid the following September to begin his studies in medicine.
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  • La luna en tus manos ( The Moon in Your Hands)
    The Moon in Your Hands
    Author:
    Rita Morrigan
    Publisher: Libros de Seda S.L.
    A forbidden love affair, a passionate adventure set between 19th century England and Cuba. María Lezcano's tranquil life comes to an end at the age of nineteen when she realises that she is in love with her adoptive brother, Eric. Such a thing is scandalous in England in 1870… When the young man realises that he is in love with her too, he decides to leave the family home.
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  • La manzana helada
    The Frozen Apple
    Author:
    José Luis Muñoz
    Publisher: Bohodón Ediciones SL
    Every book is a journey, that's what José Luis Muñoz always says when he talks about the ones he's written, many of which have taken shape during his journeys over five continents.
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  • La memòria de l'arbre
    The memory of the Tree
    La memoria del árbol
    Author:
    Tina Vallès
    Agent: Asterisc Agents
    From now on there will be five of them in the house: five toothbrushes in the bathroom, five plates on the table. And the flat smells different. Jan is trying to work out why her parents didn't smile when they delivered the news: their grandparents Joan and Caterina are coming to live with them, in their flat in Barcelona.
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  • La novia ahorcada en el país del viento
    The Hanged Bride in the Land of Wind
    La novia ahorcada en el país del viento
    Author:
    Rafael Jiménez
    Publisher: Futurbox Project S.L.
    A story of love and death in the border town of Portbou, 1990: a young woman is found hanged from a tree. She is wearing a white dress, like a bride, but no one knows who she is. The investigation finds that she had committed suicide, although the police are unable to identify the victim. Twenty-five years later, Inspector Garibaldi takes the case up again.
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