New Spanish Titles - Year 2016

  • Pasolini o La noche de las luciérnagas
    Pasolini or The Night of the Fireflies
    Pasolini o La noche de las luciérnagas
    Author:
    José Mª García López
    Publisher: Nocturna Ediciones SL
    On the night of the 1-2 November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on the beach at Ostia. The public opinion of half of Europe was excited and the event lead to the conviction of a young man, although the forensic evidence suggested that there was more than one culprit.
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  • PERFECTO
    Perfect
    Author:
    Yolanda Hidalgo Sánchez
    Publisher: EDITORIAL M1C SLS
    The value of "Perfect" is in the invisible. In a couple of little things you cannot see. Your attitude to life and your inner beauty. The main aim of "Perfect" is to reinforce the reader's self-esteem. A loved and wanted child is a happy child. We can all look at ourselves in this mirror and discover what's inside us.
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  • Pulsaciones
    Heartbits (Pulsaciones refers to both heartbeats and the number of characters typed so this might be a more apt title than a literal translation)
    pulsacions
    Author:
    Francesc Miralles
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
    Elia has just woken up from a coma and is feeling a bit disorientated. The last thing she remembers is a concert and a sentence: "I can't give you the song back, but I can show you how fishes dance". Now that her parents have bought her a smartphone, Elia can finally use Heartbits (an app similar to WhatsApp) and we readers get to witness all her conversations.
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  • Puta no soy
    I Am Not A Whore
    Author:
    Charo Izquierdo
    Publisher: LID Editorial Empresarial
    This novel tells the bleak story of women who are kept in captivity by the human trafficking mafia for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The story of the main character is based on one of the individuals featured in the documentary "Chicas Nuevas 24 horas" ("New Girls 24 Hours") by cinematographer and director Mabel Lozano. Deceived. Raped. Abused.
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  • rara avis, petita guia d'aus per acolorir
    Rara Avis: A short guide to colouring-in birds
    Author:
    Miriam Sugranyes
    Publisher: mtm editores, s.l.
    A short guide to colouring-in with the twenty best known and most common species of birds. Each page has a brief description of bird's features and habits, illustrated by Miriam Sugranyes' unique and delicate pen. A wink at scientific encyclopaedias with artisan and rustic elements: cover printed on Kraft paper, spine bound with blue thread, and FSC certified paper.
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  • serie YELLOW VAN
    The Yellow Van series
    serie YELLOW VAN
    Author:
    Roser Calafell
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    In the Yellow Van series a family and their magic van will travel through time to the most amazing and remote places in the world. They have endless adventures that will allow very young children to have fun along with Max, Mia and their special magic van.
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  • Sin salida
    No Escape
    Author:
    Salud Hernández Mora
    Publisher: LID Editorial Empresarial
    The book tells the story of Isabel, a Colombian woman who lost her husband and brother and witnessed the violent kidnapping of her son at the hands of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). She and her family have been the victims of an infamous persecution in the south-west of Colombia by the FARC.
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  • Solitario empeño
    Solitary Undertaking
    Solitario empeño
    Author:
    Cristian Crusat
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    "When he arrived in Brussels he started to hear about the idea of the end of the European dream through certain media channels." The protagonists of these stories find themselves in a situation disturbingly familiar to us: the Europe of the Twenty-first century, between the tourist developments that engulf the Mediterranean coasts, the insidious loneliness of hotel rooms and the routine of the su
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  • Sueños de piedra
    Dreams of Stone
    Sueños de piedra
    Author:
    Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual
    Publisher: Nocturna Ediciones SL
    There was once a kingdom far, far away where a prince rewarded a wizard for helping rescue a young lady in distress. Enchanting. It's a shame that none of this is true. In reality, the prince dreams of glory and revenge, the wizard that his spells aren't always disasters, and the young lady in distress of getting away from a past that torments her... and from the memory of the man she has killed.
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  • Tac, tac, tac, plof
    Tap, Tap, Tap, Plop
    Tac, tac, tac, plof NARVAL
    Author:
    Pepe Monteserín / Minia Regos
    Publisher: Narval editores
    Have you ever noticed the tapping of oysters? That tap tap they make when they propel their pearl, over and over, against their shells? Well, for Eva, those tap, taps, like the knocking of a woodpecker, or the cri, cri of crickets, meant the night was functioning… But one day… tap, tap, tap, PLOP.
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