New Spanish Titles - A

  • A corazón abierto
    With an Open Heart
    Author:
    Elvira Lindo
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    Inspired by an episode that took place in Madrid in 1939, the narrator of this story recounts the passionate and turbulent relationship of her parents, and how her father's overbearing personality and her mother's weak heart set the tone for the whole family.
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  • A la sombra del Arcoíris
    In the Shadow of the Rainbow
    A la sombra del Arcoíris
    Author:
    Elena Castillo Castro
    Publisher: Ediciones Urano, SAU
    Bay's gone blank. She doesn't remember her house built on the red earth of Western Australia, nor that her garden is on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she fought to save the oceans and that humpback whales were her family. She doesn't recognize the faces that look at her now. Not even Scott's, even though they say she used to be mad about him.
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  • A mí no me iba a pasar
    It Wasn't Going to Happen to Me
    Portada_A mi no me iba a pasar
    Author:
    Laura Freixas
    Agent: Donegal Magnalia S.L. (Antonia Kerrigan Agencia Literaria)
    One of Spain's foremost feminist thinkers reflects on her own life from the point of view of gender.
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  • A voltes la mare té trons al cap
    Sometimes Mum has Thunder in her Head
    Sometimes Mom has Thunder in her Head
    Author:
    Beatriz Taboada
    Publisher: EDICIONS BROMERA EMPRESA EDITORIAL, SLU
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    Sometime Mum has thunder in her head: she talks loudly and through clenched teeth. Sometimes she has clouds in her head: she forgets to make lunch and takes us to birthday parties late. And at other times she has a rainbow in her head: she sings at night and kisses me a lot. Could I also have thunder, clouds and rainbows in my head?
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  • ABECEOFICIOS
    ABECEOFJOBS
    ABECEOFICIOS
    Author:
    PILAR LOZANO CARBAYO
    Publisher: C/ JUAN IGNACIO LUCA DE TENA, 15
    This spectacular ABC of jobs begins with A for architect and runs to Z for zapatero (shoemaker in Spanish) passing through C for Chef, D for Doctor and E for engineer (or I for Ingeniera in Spanish!). Each job is explained in a fun poem and accompanied by an illustration that shows off that job with tenderness, rigour and humour: "So happy, happy, that's what I wanna do!
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  • Animales
    Animals
    Author:
    Javier Urra
    Written by a specialist in child psychology, this book is aimed at boys and girls aged from 4 to 8 years old. Ani is an eco-friend with a mission: to make sure humans care for and respect animals and plants. Do you think he will succeed? Do you want to help him? Surely together you can make it happen! Humans are animals with the capacity to laugh, cry, imagine, feel and develop nostalgia.
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  • Anna Kadabra. El club de la luna llena
    Anna Kadabra. The Full Moon Club
    Author:
    Pedro Mañas y David Sierra Listón
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    What if witches were the goodies? Meet Anna Kadabra and her magical Full Moon Club! Anna is furious because she has to leave her home, school and city. She's moving with her parents to Moonville, an old town in the middle of a forest. To make things worse, the place is full of legends and secrets. Who, for example, is the mysterious cat that follows her everywhere? Could it be a witch's cat?
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  • Arracades d'avellaner
    Hazelnuts
    Arracades d'avellaner
    Author:
    Montse Homs
    Publisher: Editorial Barcanova, S.A.
    'Arracades d'avellaner' (Hazelnuts), is a novel based in reality with a touch of the fantastical. It's main protagonists are a seven year old girl, Lisa, and her pet, a tame fox called Ketti who is two years old. The fox narrates the story and as in fairy tales, appears very anthropomorphised.
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  • AS FAUCES FEROCES
    The Fierce Jaws
    Author:
    EMMA PEDREIRA
    Publisher: BAIA EDICIONS A CORUÑA SL
    A combination of fiction and historical reality, The Fierce Jaws links a reflection on the mother-daughter relationship with an episode from history - the trial of Italian nun Benedetta Carlini during the Counter-reformation.
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  • ASESINATO EN PORTOBELO
    Murder in Portobelo
    Asesinato en Portobelo del escritor Panameño Osvaldo Reyes
    Author:
    Osvaldo Reyes
    Agent: Mary de Sojo Branding & Marketing
    In July 1668, the city of Portobelo, the port from which of all American treasures left for Spain, was captured by the privateer Henry Morgan. What none of his men expected was to find in an abandoned hostel the tortured corpse of a Spaniard and, hidden under the floor, documents pointing to the existence of priceless treasure hidden in the bowels of Panama City.
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