New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2011

  • El noi de Sarajevo
    the boy from Sarajevo
    El noi de Sarajevo
    Author:
    Jordi Cussà
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Dusko's twelfth birthday is the last one he spends at home, because then the Balkan war comes into his life. A child of Sarajevo and a mixture of all the ethnicities of the region, Dusko celebrates his 13th, 14th and 15th birthdays amid a background of struggle, hatred, revenge and lies - between neighbours. After those years, nothing can go back to how it was before.
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  • El petó d'Antonieta ('El beso de Antonieta')
    Antonieta's Kiss
    El petó d'Antonieta ('El beso de Antonieta')
    Author:
    Gemma Julve
    Òscar Julve
    Publisher: ANIMALLIBRES EDITORIAL S.L.
    Antoñita the ladybird is yellow in colour, but she wants to be red like the other ladybirds in the garden where she lives. She tries various ways to change her colour. Antoñita the ladybird is the protagonist of this collection for readers of 5 years and upwards.
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  • EL SEÑOR FORTUNY
    Mr Fortuny
    EL SEÑOR FORTUNY
    Author:
    Bet Cantallops
    Jordi Suyner
    Publisher: Edicions Hipòtesi
    El Señor Fortuny is an illustrated book which immerses itself in the work of an artist in order to show us his creative process. Mariano Fortuny Madrazo was born into a family with many links to the art world, and growing up in this environment awoke his artistic restlessness and enabled him to travel widely.
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  • El señor H
    Mr H
    El señor H
    Author:
    Daniel Nesquens
    Luciano Lozano
    Publisher: Editorial Bambú
    Read report: El Señor H
    “Aimed at 7, 8 & 9-year-olds, El Señor H is great fun, with some old-fashioned public service type information also cleverly, undidactically injected along the way. The illustrations are colourful, expressive, many of them full bleed on the page”. (Tom Bunstead)
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  • El somni de Farringdon Road
    The dream of Farringdon Road
    El somni de Farringdon Road
    Author:
    Antoni Vives Tomas
    Publisher: RBA Libros, S.A.
    We are in the politically inflamed Barcelona of the months previous to the outbreak of the Civil War. Pau Capdevila is a young lawyer who occasionally helps anarchist workers to ease their encounters with the law. He believes in nothing and neither is he particularly aware that his actions might have consequences beyond his immediate surroundings.
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  • El taller de los libros prohibidos
    the workshop of forbidden books
    El taller de los libros prohibidos
    Author:
    Eduardo Roca
    Publisher: Ediciones Martínez Roca
    Cologne, the dawn of the 15th century. Winds of change and reform shake a Europe still ruled by deceit and old beliefs. The diffusion of knowledge is in the hands of a few. Nevertheless, a group of wise, erudite men who meet in secret are united by a common ambition: spreading culture among the people. How? Through books.
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  • El valor de lcliente
    The Value of the Client in a Market Between Businesses (B2B)
    El valor de lcliente
    Author:
    Antonio Sánchez Arrieta
    Publisher: Vértice
    Nowadays, especially in sectors entering liberalised markets such as energy or telecommunications, strong competition means that clients flow from one business to another. In these circumstances businesses need to have their clients correctly classified, protecting the "key" ones who bring value and letting others go, who are not strategically worth it.
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  • Elaboración y exposición de comidas en el bar-cafetería
    THE MAKING AND SHOWING OF MEALS IN THE BAR-CAFETERIA
    Author:
    Almudena Villegas Becerril
    Publisher: IDEASPROPIAS EDITORIAL S.L.
    Ideaspropias Editorial presents Elaboración y exposición de comidas en el bar-cafetería [THE MAKING AND SHOWING OF MEALS IN THE BAR-CAFETERIA], an evaluative work on how to prepare food in the bar-cafeteria that includes some simple recipes used in catering establishments.
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  • Els dimonis de Pandora ('Los demonios de Pandora')
    Pandora's Demons
    Els dimonis de Pandora ('Los demonios de Pandora')
    Author:
    Silvestre Vilaplana
    Publisher: Edicions Bromera, empresa editorial, S.L.U.
    When night falls you should start to feel afraid, because then shadows will become more than just shadows, and demons may pursue you through the darkness. In different parts of the world, strange suicides are taking place, which seem to be related to the theft of an archeological artefact bearing inscriptions which no one has ever been able to translate.
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  • En algún lugar de China
    Somewhere in China
    En algún lugar de China
    Author:
    Ana Folgueira Tamargo
    Emilio Amade
    Publisher: Syllabus Ediciones
    A wonderful fairy tale in which the boys and girls at an orphanage in China find their parents, thanks to the intervention of some magic birds which live in their garden.
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