New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010 - E

  • El huerto escolar ecológico
    Author:
    Montse Escutia Acedo
    Publisher: Editorial Graó
    Have you ever seen a snail dreaming of a lettuce? Have you ever felt a tomato’s heartbeat? Have you ever swum in cabbage leaves? Have you ever explored earthworm’s tunnels? Have you ever walked along a bean plant? Positive answers to these questions are probably only found in fairy tales. Bedtime stories we never tire of telling our children or tales told at school.
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  • El huerto urbano
    The Urban Garden
    Author:
    Josep Maria Vallés
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    This book gives basic steps on how to grow vegetables on balconies and terraces. The book is meant for those beginners who have started on this passionate journey towards growing home grown produce. It also describes in detail the vegetables that best adapt to be grown in containers.
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  • El ladrón de morfina
    The Morphine Thief
    Author:
    Mario Cuenca Sandoval
    Publisher: 451 Editores
    Korea, the middle of the war. One night in 1951, Flaco (Skinny) Bentley, a recruit in the United States 187 Air Transport Squadron, parachutes onto the battlefield, eight thousand miles from home. During the war, he experiences death and horror, but also comes across a Colombian angel, an officer-artist who draws tanks with his typewriter, morphine traffickers and sex.
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  • El muñeco de nieve
    The snowman
    Author:
    Romy Bartsch
    Publisher: Editorial ECIR
    The story takes place during a typical Northern European Christmas Eve. Paul, the main character, has moved with his parents to a new city, and his first task is finding himself some new friends. Thanks to his ingenious idea of creating a funny faced snowman, Paul manages to achieve his goal.
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  • El sueño de la pequeña Efwa
    Author:
    Angels Consuegra
    Publisher: ING Edicions
     This is a story based on the life of a real African girl called Efwa, taken into an orphanage in Ghana. Efwa can’t speak or walk due to cerebral palsy, but despite that, she’s always happy and smiling. Our little ones will get to know Efwa and we’ll find out about her life, her environment and how the smallest things make her happy.
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  • El Templo de la Luna
    The Temple of the Moon
    Author:
    Fernando J. López del Oso
    Publisher: Minotauro
    What if the ancient gods had come to earth from other worlds, and were planning to come back to impose their law?
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  • El veneno del eunuco
    The Venom of the eunuch
    Author:
    Juan Kresdez
    Publisher: Ediciones Noufront SL
    In the city of Arcila, a mysterious letter held by the rebel Guennum is intercepted. Its content, seemingly innocent, detail the state of health of the Caliph and insinuate the existence of a spy in the court of al-Hakan II. The eunuch Faiq al-Nizami informs the prime minister about the findings and they both decide to open an investigation.
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  • El viaje de Kalilu
    Kalilu´s travel
    Author:
    Kalilu Jammeh
    Publisher: Plataforma Editorial S.L.
    Kalilu left Gambia with the goal of coming to Europe so he could work; help his family and even study. He then ignored that most part of Africans never get their destination, neither come back home. What happens in the meantime? This thrilling witness explains a true odyssey full with tramps, slow progresses and fast obstacles that leave almost no resources to these travellers.
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  • Elogio de la educación lenta
    A tribute to slow education
    Author:
    Joan Domènech Francesch
    Read report: Elogio de la educación lenta
    Slow movements offer an alternative to the fast pace of modern life: eating, travelling, personal relationships… Everything happens at such a breakneck speed that it’s impossible to get a real taste of things and we get swallowed up by a neurotic and depersonalised society.
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  • Emi y Max. Los pozos contaminados
    Emi and Max. Poisoned Wells
    Author:
    Gemma Lienas
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    Climate change is causing the sea levels to rise and flooding inhabited land. Serena, Emi and Max travel to the Sunderbans National Park, in Bangladesh, to investigate the phenomenon. From the fury of the monsoons to the controversial genetically modified crops, live the most up-to-date and full of action adventures of Emi and Max.
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