New Spanish Titles - L

  • La visita
    The Visit
    Author:
    Margarita del Mazo
    Publisher: Ediciones Jaguar
    A visitor appears every night in the bedroom of the family’s youngest member and makes him tremble, but is it from fear or excitement? Enthralling to the last page, del Mazo’s books and their illustrations by Natalia Colombo take on the fear that young children have of the unknown, helping them to deal with situations they cannot control and to face up to their fears.
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  • LEÓN KAMIKAZE
    LEON KAMIKAZE
    Author:
    Álvaro García Hernández
    Publisher: FUNDACION SANTA MARIA
    My name is León, León Kamikaze. I’ve never had a family; not even friends. I fell in love once... I've had three lives. In the first, the world rejected me. In the second, everyone hated me. In the third, I still don’t know who I am. My name is León, León Kamikaze, and this is the path that brought me HERE.
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  • LETRAS AL CARBON
    Letters in Coal
    Author:
    Irene Vasco
    Publisher: Editorial Juventud S.A.
    In the village of Palenque, almost nobody knows how to read, but the shopkeeper Señor Velandia is one of the few who does. When Gina starts to receive letters, she thinks they must be love letters, and her little sister decides to learn how to read them.
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  • Li deien Lola
    Li deien Lola
    Author:
    Pilar Romera Aguilà
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    Ribera del Ebre, April of 1930. Dolors, Lola, is found dead on the shore of the Ebre river. Boada, her last lover and Ramsès, the village doctor, will investigate the case and reconstruct her life, starting with her tough childhood by the river and her exile to a modernizing Barcelona at the end of the 19th century.
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  • Lluvia de agosto
    August Rain
    Biografía novelada del anarquista español Buenaventura Durruti
    Author:
    Álvarez, Francisco
    Publisher: HOJA DE LATA EDITORIAL S.L
    On 20th November 1936 a man died and a myth was born. Buenaventura Durruti, the mechanic, anarchist gunman, and member of the Barcelona anti-fascist militia. Half a century later the French journalist Libertad Casal decides to uncover the mystery of his death.
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  • Lo que nos queda de la muerte
    What We Still Have of Death
    Lo que nos queda de la muerte
    Author:
    Jordi Ledesma
    Agent: Sophie Savary
    In the early 1990s, the death of a young boy changes the lives and routines of a group of villagers on the Mediterranean coast who in the last forty years have already lived through huge transformation. The unexpected tragedy reveals suspicions that grow into speculations, but the answers are far from simple in a village where everybody knows everybody else.
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  • Lo que olvidamos
    What We Forget
    Lo que olvidamos
    Author:
    Paloma Díaz-Mas
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    With an attentive and subtle gaze and an unaffected emotiveness, Paloma Díaz-Mas explores the meeting of two stories, two pasts (that of the family and the collective past, the political and the personal), which remains embodied in objects, accounts and memories.
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  • Los días del Toyota
    The Toyota Days
    Author:
    Sara Sánchez Buendía
    Publisher: EDEBÉ - EDICIONES DON BOSCO
    When his grandma locks herself in the family Toyota, demanding to be taken to an old people's home, everything in Abel's life is turned upside down. He's overwhelmed by a flood of doubts and misses his grandma's advice.
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  • Los Pissimboni
    The Pissimbonis
    Author:
    Sònia Hernández
    Publisher: QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town. The family comprised many brothers and sisters and nobody even knew if the paterfamilias and his wife, Ignacio and Martina Pissimboni, were still alive.
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  • LOS PROTECTORES
    Author:
    ROBERTO SANTIAGO
    Publisher: FUNDACION SANTA MARIA
    Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks. And there’s also the Apaches, a band of teenagers who are terrorizing the neighbourhood. They all want something from Vicente, but he doesn’t quite know what. And he’s getting sick of it.
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