New Spanish Titles US

  • El hijo de Mamá Dana
    The son of Mama Dana
    Author:
    Jon López de Viñsapre
    Publisher: Lapislàtzuli Editorial
    The Son of Mama Dana is set in the depths of the Colombian coffee region, in a small village nestled in the mountains near the home of the Emberá peoples. The unusual Dutchman, Hyeronimus Paling, appears four times in the narrative and gradually reveals the scene, the characters in the drama, the situation of violence and impunity, and the silence that hangs over it all.
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  • El hispano
    The Hispanic
    Author:
    José Ángel Mañas
    Agent: Alt autores editorial
    It is the year 134 BC. Under the command of Rhetogenes, Numantia [in modern-day north-central Spain] has been resisting the power of invincible Rome for over twenty years, and the surrounding moorlands are so soaked in Italian blood that the Romans refuse to enlist in the legions.
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  • El invitado amargo
    The Bitter Guest
    El invitado amargo
    Author:
    Vicente Molina Foix
    Agent: Alt autores editorial
    The book unfolds as a memoir, a true story told with the tools and techniques of fiction, but also as a narrative essay on the illusions and resentments of love, a double self-portrait with landscape --the landscape of the ever-changing Spain of the '80s-- and figures, a rich gallery of real characters, some of them extremely well-known, which are treated as fictional characters or witnesses of a
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  • El lugar de la espera
    The waiting place
    Author:
    Sònia Hernández
    Publisher: Acantilado (Quaderns Crema S.A)
    “Democracy and the Constitution, which were born almost at the same time as we were, told us that everyone had the right to be whatever they wanted to be. All of society agreed and came together to preserve our hopes and dreams. We were going to be whatever we wanted to be.
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  • EL MISTERIO DE LA SONRISA DE LUCAS
    The Mystery of Lucas's Smile
    Author:
    CARMEN GIL
    Publisher: TRIQUETA VERDE, SL
    In a distant city, there is a mystery greater than a field of daisies or a cloudless sky. It's the mystery of Lucas's smile, which appears on his face day and night, in summer and winter, 365 days a year. Well, 366 on leap years. Scientists from all over the world come to study the phenomenon without success. Not even Lucas can explain it. He's simply happy.
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  • El niño que
    The Boy Who
    Author:
    Publisher: Nuevo Nueve Editores
    THE BOY WHO is a graphic novel that tells about a particular time and its customs (a summer in the Seventies), and pays special attention to the way wit and imagination can be more powerful that traditional, self-repeating fantasy. It shows the wanderings of Luis, a six-year-old boy.
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  • El niño que no quiso llorar
    The Boy Who Didn't Want to Cry
    Author:
    José Antonio Jiménez-Barbero
    Publisher: Grupo Dokusou (Asun Martín Sánchez)
    Here again, staring at the mirror, here again with same idea of taking his own life. In his clenched fist, Mum's sleeping pills, the only hope of escaping the hell his school mates make for him; his only reason to live the love he has for his little sister Teresa. Years of bullying at school have reduced Santiago to a shadow of himself.
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  • El Príncipe Feliz y otros cuentos
    The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    Author:
    Oscar Wilde
    Publisher: Editorial Juventud S.A.
    This beautifully illustrated anthology brings together three of Oscar Wilde's best-known stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, and The Selfish Giant. The stories contain some of the themes that most preoccupied the author - selfishness, inequality and suffering - and consider how to counter them with love, compassion and generosity.
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  • El rai dels innocents (castellano: La balsa de los inocentes)
    The raft of the innocent
    Author:
    Quim Español
    Publisher: EDICIONS DE 1984 S. L.
    David, the innocent young protagonist of this novel, lives on the outskirts of a city.
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  • EL RECUERDO DEL OLVIDO
    The Memory of Forgetfulness
    Author:
    KAREN PERALTA
    Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL DE LIBROS SL
    After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.
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