New Spanish Titles - L

  • La Memoria eres tú
    You are Memory
    La memoria eres tú
    Author:
    Albert Bertran Bas
    Agent: Pontas Copyright Agency, S.L.
    Homero is fifteen, the only child of a wealthy Barcelona family who has been left alone as a result of the Spanish Civil War. His life is transformed into a fight for survival, full of loneliness but also opportunities for self-discovery.
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  • La niña del clima
    Climate Girl
    http://www.literaturainfantilyjuveniloxford.es/catalogo/la-nina-del-clima/
    Author:
    Vicente Muñoz Puelles
    Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S. A.
    This story begins when the cities began to grow at the cost of forests and jungles, and when pollution began to fill the skies and the oceans. This is the story of Greta, a little girl who decided not to go to school so she could fight climate change. It is also about the animals of the Amazon and all those across the world that got together to defend their land, their water and their traditions.
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  • La noche enamorada: de San Juan de la Cruz
    The Night In Love: by Saint John of the Cross
    La noche enamorada
    Author:
    Pedro Miguel Lamet
    Publisher: Grupo de Comunicación Loyola, S.L.U.
    Short and skinny, nobody would have imagined that such an insignificant appearance concealed possibly the best poet in the history of Spanish literature and a most accomplished person in mystical union, Saint John of the Cross.
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  • La piedra verde
    The green stone
    Portada de Las aventuras de Txano y Óscar - 1 - La piedra verde
    Author:
    Julio Santos García
    Publisher: Xarpa Books
    A collection of adventure books aimed at children aged 7+. Over 120 pages of fun, adventure and mystery with full-colour illustrations. “Hello! My name is Txano and my twin brother is called Óscar. Have you ever seen a falling meteor? Well, we have. When we were on a day trip in early summer, a huge fireball crossed the sky right in front of our eyes and crashed into the forest!
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  • La puerta
    The Doorway
    Portada_Lapuerta
    Author:
    Manel Loureiro
    Agent: Donegal Magnalia S.L. (Antonia Kerrigan Agencia Literaria)
    Manel Loureiro surprises us with a thriller set in Galicia, a mysterious land of legends. The body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of the mythical Puerta de Alén (the Alén Doorway), and, disconcertingly for the investigating officers, she has apparently been killed in an ancient ritual.
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  • La Reina de las Lentejas
    The queen of lentils
    Portada La Reina de las Lentejas
    Author:
    Víctor García
    Publisher: Gato Sueco Editorial SCM
    The Queen of Lentils doesn’t like lentils. And she has a big plate of them right under her nose. And her dad is telling her to eat them all. On top of that, her little brother is throwing everything on the floor and won’t stop crying. It’s so annoying! Luckily the Matryoshkas will be arriving at the palace soon. They come from far and wide with gifts for the Queen. And surely they'll be hungry.
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  • La reina del exilio
    The Exile Queen
    Author:
    Herminia Luque
    Publisher: EDITORA Y DISTRIBUIDORA HISPANO AMERICANA, S.A. (EDHASA)
    With the abolition of the Salic law and the arrival to the throne of Isabel II, the tumultuous 19th Century begins in Spain, full of fratricidal wars, conspiracies, and mysteries. It is 1882, and Isabel II is living out her exile in the Palace of Castille, Paris, far from the centre of power.
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  • La ternera
    The calf
    La ternera
    Author:
    Aurora Freijo Corbeira
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    The story of the abuse of a young girl is told with extraordinary literary force in this uncomfortable and necessary book. A single gesture was enough to turn her into a helpless calf. She was small, too small to know that she had been put in a place that was not right for her. The abyss filled her sea-like eyes and her gaze was full of shock. Her house became a nothing place.
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  • LA TRISTEZA DEL ZELOTA
    The Zealot's Sorrow
    Author:
    MARTÍ COLOM MARTÍ
    Publisher: SAN PABLO COMUNICACIÓN SSP
    Paul of Tarsus once appealed to Philemon on the behalf Onesimus, an escaped slave. We know this from what is the shortest of Saint Paul's epistles. However, we have no idea whether Philemon took any notice and welcomed the escaped slave into his home, or if instead, he ignored Paul's pleas and punished Onesimus as the law dictated.
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  • LA VERSION DE ERIC
    Eric's version
    Author:
    Nando López
    Someone died today, and I’m responsible. But nothing ever happens just like that. Lots of other things happened first. Like the first time I found myself in front of a mirror. The summer I chose my real name. The year at secondary school when I decided I’d had enough of everything and everyone. The casting session where I got chosen. The success of my TV series. All my followers.
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