New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010

  • Mortadelo y Filemón: Mundial, 2010
    Mortadelo and Filemon: World Cup, 2010
    Author:
    Francisco Ibañez
    Publisher: Ediciones B
    The manager calls in Mortadelo and Filemon to bolster the Spanish squad, boosting the morale of the Reds by their presence in the 2010 Football World Cup. The Spanish squad has possibly never before had such a great chance of winning the final. Let’s hope Mortadelo and Filemon contribute to their success
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  • Nada puede el sol
    The sun can do nothing
    Author:
    Antonio López-Peláez Manoja
    Publisher: A.C.E.R. Agencia Literaria
    A Spanish diplomat travels to Liberia with the aim of finding a compatriot who has disappeared. When Charles Taylor’s militiamen take Monrovia, many citizens take refuge in the embassy. After an armed group attacks the building, nothing more is known about the people who hid there.
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  • Nadal: Pasión y Coraje
    Nadal: Passion and Courage
    Author:
    Helena López-Casares
    Publisher: LID Editorial Empresarial
    Rafa Nadal is one of the most admired and loved sportsmen on the international scene, representing many positive values such as modesty, sacrifice, self-improvement, discipline, effort and motivation. The concept of leadership is not confined to the business world, nor is it a hat that can be worn or discarded at will.
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  • Newton y el superordenador Torrijo
    Author:
    Vaillant, Denise
    Victor Araque
    Publisher: Editorial Saure
    Vicente Bucay, prestigious scientist, finally meets his famous ancestor Isaac Newton. After years of work, he and his team have managed to bring him back to life as a clone in a secret laboratory. After several tests, it is time to go home, but Vicente Bucay Delgado Avalos Newton doesn´t want to leave Isaac to sleep in a cold laboratory, as if he was just another experiment.
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  • Nietos: Instrucciones de Uso
    Grandchildren: A User’s Guide
    Author:
    María Jesús Comellas
    Publisher: Larousse Editorial, S.L.
    This book responds in an approachable way to questions such as: - What should be the function of grandparents? What is expected of them? - And what do grandparents expect of their grandchildren? - What do grandchildren get out of their relationship with their grandparents? - And how do children view their parents now that they are also grandparents?
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  • Observatorios culturales
    Cultural Observatories
    Author:
    Cristina Ortega
    Publisher: Editorial Ariel
    The Cultural Observatory is a recent phenomenon which has arisen as a response to the challenges posed by the information and knowledge-based society.
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  • Oda a Una Estrella
    Ode to a Star
    Author:
    Pablo Neruda
    Publisher: Albur Producciones Editoriales
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    The night was black And I slipped away Down the road With the stolen star in my pocket’ At the top of a skyscraper, in the vastness of the night, someone takes hold of a star; the moment they put it in their pocket, their odyssey begins. An extraordinary poem by Pablo Neruda, brilliantly reflected in Elena Odriozola’a images.
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  • Ojos que no ven
    Eyes That Don’t See
    Author:
    José Ángel González Sainz
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    When the old local printer’s in which Felipe Díaz Carrión had spent half his life went bankrupt, he was left without a job and with no chance of finding another. It was the era of migration to the industrial towns of the north of Spain. His son was nine years old, and not a day passed when his wife, Asun, did not ask him to leave. So they closed up the house and went north.
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  • On són els Arbres?
    Where are the Trees?
    Where are the Trees?
    Author:
    Josep Chapa
    Matilde Portalés
    Publisher: Edicions del Bullent
    What could have happened that night? Martina looked out of the window and... didn’t see a single tree in the street. Or in the square. Or in the park. Or by the river. The city had lost its greenery!
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  • Oscura monótona sangre
    Dark monotonous blood
    Author:
    SERGIO OLGUÍN
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    Julio, a model neighbour and businessman, likes to walk through the lower-class neighbourhood that reminds him of his humble origins and above all, of his success climbing the social ladder. One day while having lunch, he overhears a conversation about the red-light district in one of the neighbourhoods on his daily route to work.
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