New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010 - U

  • Un día de perros en el Circo de Pulgas
    A Lousy Day in the Flea Circus
    Author:
    Carles Arbat
    Mario Catelli
    Publisher: Ediciones B
    In the Kingdom of Murnania, dogs are prohibited. But when the King and Queen of Lavonia arrive for a visit with their refined little poodle, they need a male dog to receive her. But there’s only one enormous, flea-bitten Saint Bernard left in the kingdom! He’s got so many fleas that there’s a whole circus in his coat, the only Flea Circus in the world!
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  • Un loro en mi granja
    Author:
    Pep Bruno
    Publisher: Editorial Luis Vives
    An unusual character lives on a farm; it’s a pirate’s parrot that sings and looks after the animals…
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  • Un lugar llamado Fracaso
    A Place called Failure
    Author:
    Rubén Eduardo Sancho Martín
    Publisher: E-diciones KOLAB
    ‘Un lugar llamado Fracaso’ is an internal brainstorming exercise in the form of 23 short stories about life, literature, dreams and failure. Because life is a continuing failure to find any kind of success, a failure in which the characters in the stories that make up this collection survive while waiting for a better future, which sometimes comes and sometimes does not.
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  • Una aventura olímpica
    Author:
    Nacho Fernández
    Txani Rodríguez
    Publisher: Editorial Saure
    Manuel and his classmates have been selected to take part in the “Green Olympics”, organised in aid of sustainability and respect for the environment. This great sporting event will take them from Australia to the Basque Country, home of the games, where they will have new adventures and meet up with old friends again.
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  • Una dama en juego
    Lady at stake
    Author:
    Carla Montero Manglano
    Publisher: CÍRCULO DE LECTORES, S.A.U.
    1913. The great European powers are taking sides in what seems an inevitable war. A young Spanish woman, Isabel de Alsasua, is the new arrival in the countyshire of Brunstriech - here, at the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she starts a new life under the tutelage of her aunt. It is a life more turbulent than she could have ever imagined.
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