New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011

  • Sombras de unicornio
    UnicornShadows
    Author:
    Raquel Martínez
    Publisher: Algaida Editores
     Claudia - a journalist, born in Ovieda but brought up in Argetina from an early age - returns to Spain to start a new life. She settles in Madrid and begins to work in the Unicorn bar, where she meets Edgar, a an upper class Mexican man who is also escaping from a tumultuous past.
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  • Sospecha
    Suspicion
    Author:
    José Ángel Mañas
    Publisher: EDICIONES DESTINO, S.A
    The sales assistantant of a pharmacy in one of the Madrid districts is raped and murdered. Inspectors Pacheco and Duarte, on the trail of a psychopath recently released from prison who is hanging around the area, receive a tip-off that he might have been threatening her and had visited her the week before the murder.
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  • Sota la pell
    Under the Skin
    Under the Skin
    Author:
    Llorenç Capdevila
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Under the Skin is a psychologically introspective, noir novel based on a real-life story: in 2005 the body of an unknown prostitute was found on the Eje Transversal train line; she has a strange erotic tattoo. Coincidentally, or otherwise, the tattoo is the same as that of a man killed in Darnius a couple of years before.
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  • Taller de recursos y juguetes
    Workshop on Educational Resources and Games for Young Children
    Author:
    María Paz Lebrero
    Publisher: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA
    This book is part of a multimeedia packet including printed matter and audiovisual material on an interactive CD of the same title.
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  • Tania's Teddy
    Tania's Teddy
    Author:
    Anna Clariana
    Teresa Gregori
    Publisher: Algar Editorial S.L.
    Tania has a teddy bear. She loves it very much. Will she give it to her sister?
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  • Te regalo un cuento
    I'll give you a story
    Author:
    Cecilia Varela
    Jorge Gonzalvo Díaz.
    Publisher: Lóguez
    This little story, which is not even a story, is about a very special gift, a tiny little book like the one we are reading, which will go everywhere with us and make us feel like there's always someone with us. It is a book with loads of gifts and nice touches. With this book you'll be able to enjoy the small things in life that are so important.
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  • They Came for Him
    They Came for Him
    Author:
    Berta Vias Mahou
    Publisher: Acantilado/ QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    Jacques, the alter ego of Albert Camus, recreates the last years of his life.
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  • Title Interculturalidad, mediación y trabajo colaborativo
    Interculturalism, Mediation and Collaborative Work
    Author:
    Andrés Escarabajal
    Publisher: NARCEA S.A. de EDICIONES
    Intercultural education is the graat challenge of 21st-century society. This book is designed in a way that the theory and pracice of intercultural education are closely linked, so allowing reader to not only reflect upon the subject, but also, more importantly, to act.
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  • Todo lo que se llevó el diablo
    Everything The devil Took Away
    Everything The devil Took Away
    Author:
    Javier Pérez Andújar
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    Paco Castañón, an expert in the subject, becomes interested in a batch of old comics being sold on the Internet. They lead him to Brussels, where he follows the trail of the author and discovers the existence of audio tapes which go with the comics. The artist was an exiled teacher who took part in the Second Spanish Republic's Pedagogic Missions.
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  • Tres ataudes blancos
    Three White Coffins
    Three White Coffins
    Author:
    Antonio Ungar
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Read report: TRES ATAUDES BLANCOS (Three White Coffins)
    Three White Coffins is a thriller in which a solitary, unsociable guy is forced to take on the dentity of an opposition party leader and go through a variety of risky situations in an attempt to overthrow the totalitarian regme of a Latin American country called Miranda. This bizarre thriller plot is, however, a sort of empty structure, a skeleton in which the novel grows widly and unpredictably, gushing from the mouth of the hero. The outrageous, unhinged, hilarious narrator uses all his words to question, ridicule and destroy reality (and to reconstruct it like new from scratch).
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