New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012 - L

  • La sacerdotisa de la luna
    The Priestess of the Moon
    La sacerdotisa de la luna
    Author:
    Emma Ros
    Publisher: International Editors'Co.
    Agent: International Editors'Co, S. L.
    Hernán Cortés has destroyed Tenochtitlán in Mexico but he has not been able to eradicate the people’s beliefs. And Ameyali, the ancient priestess of Xochiquetzal, does not accept defeat, even when her gods seem to have been conquered by the invader and power struggles between the Spanish separate her from her son.
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  • La tomba de Mary Jay
    The Tomb of Mary Jay
    Author:
    Alan Monroe Finch
    Publisher: Edicions Bromera, empresa editorial, S.L.U.
    Maretonhampstead has the longest name of any village in England but it was soon to be known for a more extraordinary event: the legend concealed by the tomb of Mary Jay. One night, 11 year old John Wilcox and his cousins decide to camp beside the grave to discover its secret. The night will be longer than John could have imagined and will have serious and terrible consequences.
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  • La torre prohibida
    The forbidden tower
    Author:
    Ángel Gutiérrez y David Zurdo
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    After being involved in an accident resulting in complete memory loss, Jack Winger is admitted to a convalescent clinic. There he learns that he was a crime reporter, that no one has visited him in hospital, and that all the interns suffer from amnesia. What nobody tells him is that all the patients suffer from recurring nightmares: terrible dreams that are repeated every night.
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  • La vida buena
    The good life
    Author:
    Javier Sádaba
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    Este libro explora los diferentes modos de vida que aportarían una accesible felicidad, un sensato bienestar.
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  • La volta dels 25
    The 25s Tour
    La volta dels 25 / La vuelta de los 25, Marc Serena (La Magrana)
    A Chinese ecocolgist, a Peruvian shaman, a Maori from New Zealand, a future Russian cosmonaut…What do they have in common? What worries them? How do they live? How do they face the future? These are the questions that the journalist Marc Serena has put as he travels around the world, living with 25 young people of his age, 25, from 25 countries.
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  • Las historias de terror del libro rojo de David
    The horror stories from David’s red book
    los sin miedo
    Author:
    José María Plaza
    David is a member of the Fearless Ones, the gang of friends who appear in the mystery and adventure series of novels written by José María Plaza. He is always telling horror stories to his friends (not always at the best moment), which he gets from an old manuscript he found in his grandfather’s house.
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  • LAS PSICOSIS ATÍPICAS O TRANSITORIAS. DE LA EPISTEMOLOGÍA AL TRATAMIENTO
    Atypical or Transitory Psychoses. From Epistemology to Treatment
    Author:
    Luis Jesús Fernández Rodríguez
    Germán Berrios
    Blanca Yániz Igal
    There are kinds of psychosis associated with a more benign clinical pattern than the major psychoses and these have been named atypical psychoses.
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  • Las siete esferas
    The Seven Spheres
    Author:
    Joseba Lozano
    Publisher: ALBERDANIA, SL
    In the outskirts of Prague a woman’s body appears: her throat has been slit and her eyes gouged out. Over the following weeks, one by one, more women’s bodies keep appearing with different limbs amputated each time.
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  • Lengua de gato
    Cat’s Tongue
    Author:
    José A. Ramírez Lozano
    As in the ancient legends of the Orient, the author invites us to discover a singular universe made up of secrets and shadows by a cat who wants to achieve wisdom, a sultan who wants to rule the kingdom of silence and a dumb carpet weaver who expresses herself in words of silk. This all takes place in Istambul, a magical city of labyrinths.
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  • LITERATURA Y CINE
    Literature and Cinema
    Author:
    Francisco Gutiérrez Carbajo
    Publisher: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA
    There has always been a very fertile relationship between literature and cinema. The first great directors, such as Griffith and Eisenstein claimed that they worked like storytellers of realist fiction and, in turn, great literary authors have recognized cinematic techniques in their work.
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