New Spanish Titles - R

  • Rana de Tres Ojos
    Three-eyed Frog
    Rana de tres ojos
    Author:
    Olga de Dios
    Publisher: Apila Ediciones
    Three-eyed Frog is growing up in a contaminated place, the water where he lives is very dirty. But why? He will have to jump very high to understand what's happening and discover the reasons for the damage to his habitat.
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  • RATAS
    RATS
    RATAS
    Author:
    JULIO CÉSAR PÉREZ
    Publisher: CASA CATEDRAL
    The rats offer their services to Julio César Pérez, better known as Indian Yellow, to portray reality in the most simple yet brilliant manner. Ratas (Rats) is a diary which compiles in a precise and objective way, events which do not cease to unfold. Comments on the first graphic book from :Rata_: "His vignettes oscillate between the bluest poetry and the nihilistic absurd...
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  • RAYOS
    RAYS
    Rayos de Miqui Otero
    Author:
    Miqui Otero
    Agent: MB agencia literaria S.L.
    Fidel Centella is twentysomething and lives in Barcelona.
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  • REFUGIADA
    Seeking Refuge
    REFUGIADA
    Author:
    Tessa Julià
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    Why have they got me out of bed in such a hurry? It's still nighttime. We leave, carrying very few things. This isn't an outing. Every face looks frightened and tired. Dad holds my hand very tightly. It hurts. I want to cry, but I don't. Where are we going? Why are we running away? Those are the questions asked by the young girl who is the protagonist of this fictitional, very contemporary story.
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  • REZANDO VAMOS
    Pray As We Go
    Author:
    José María RODRÍGUEZ OLAIZOLA
    Publisher: Grupo de Comunicación Loyola, S.L.U.
    It's not always easy for young children to understand the Gospels. The language, the scenes, the characters all presuppose knowledge of the adult world and of the context in which Jesus lived. In its young children's version, the Rezandovoy team has for years offered a weekly adaptation of the Sunday Gospel reading.
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  • Rita y los Ladrones de Tumbas
    Rita and the Tomb Raiders
    Author:
    Mikel Valverde
    Agent: UTE KÖRNER LITERARY AGENT S.L.U.
    Rita goes to Egypt to meet up with her Uncle Daniel, who is working on some excavations, but due to a terrible misunderstanding, Rita fails to find the person her uncle has sent to meet her and joins a band of robbers who are looking for the same treasure as her Uncle Daniel. A series of amusing coincidences will leave Rita passing herself off as a young archaeologist.
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  • Roque Six
    Roque 6
    Roque Six novela de la Generación del 27
    Author:
    José López Rubio
    Publisher: Editorial Barrett
    Read report: Roque Six
    Originally published in 1927, this humorous novel tells the adventures of Roque Fernandez, a dull civil servant who dies and instead of arriving in heaven, finds himself reincarnated as Jean Rochestier (Roque Two), who speaks French and has a wife and two children with whom he feels an imposter.
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  • Rosa de ceniza
    Ashen Rose
    Author:
    Pilar Rahola
    Publisher: Columna Edicions
    Albert Corner i Espiga left the Cuban war behind him some time ago, but he promised himself he would never again be that conscript burdened with poverty and misfortune, but a new man, a survivor. And using that instinct he managed to build a fortune, become part of the Catalan haute bourgeoisie and start a well-off family. These are tense times and the sparks begin to fly.
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