New Spanish Titles - L

  • La carta
    The Letter
    La carta
    Author:
    Roser Rimbau y Rocío Araya
    Publisher: Takatuka SL
    A piece of paper blown away by a sandstorm ends up in the hands of Moussa. As soon as he finds it, the little boy thinks of his father, who lives abroad, and decides to send him a picture. Moussa decides it should be a picture of his village so that 'baaba' won't get so homesick.
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  • LA CASA DE FIERAS
    The House of Beasts
    Author:
    VENDI VERNIĆ
    Publisher: SM
    The House of Beasts is a children's story by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1939), the best Croatian children's story writer. It tells how two brothers and three sisters decide one day to make a house of beasts with their toys. They want to make them into exotic animals, but things don't quite turn out how they expected.
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  • La casa de la frontera
    The House on the Frontier
    Author:
    Rafael Vallbona Sallent
    Publisher: Pagès editors, S.L.
    The house on the frontier is a bar, a rooming house and a general store next to the French customs post at Puigcerdà. It has belonged to the Grau family since they acquired it at the end of the 19th Century.
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  • La casa de los dragones
    The House of the Dragons
    Author:
    Pablo C. Reyna
    Agent: Tormenta
    What would you do if your favourite trilogy didn't have a third part? This is what happens to poor Marcos, who is an avid fan of the 'Carreras de dragones' ('Dragon Races') saga. But the loyal readers and the dragon jockeys will never give up. So Marcos goes in search of the books' author... and discovers that adventures can happen anywhere.
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  • La crueldad de abril
    The Cruelty of April
    Author:
    Diego Ameixeiras
    Publisher: EDICIONES AKAL SA
    An absurd, senseless crime, of tertiary importance (or at most secondary, depending on the quota of 'good conscience' for the day), at least that is the most the news that a pair of vagrants have died in a fire in a small city could hope to be. A story about the sordid nature of the human soul.
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  • La cúpula de hielo
    The Ice Dome
    La cúpula de hielo cover
    Author:
    Patricia García Ferrer
    Agent: ST&A
    This thrilling fantasy novel for teens is the literary debut of Patricia García, the well known booktuber "Little red read". Shut away in her castle, the young Eleaine hides the secret of her extraordinary power, a power that must be contained or else it might destroy the whole kingdom.
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  • La Forastera
    The Stranger
    Author:
    Olga Merino
    Agent: AGENCIA LITERARIA CARMEN BALCELLS
    Read report: La forastera
    After a life of extravagance, Angie has retired to a secluded village in the south. The locals call her the madwoman with the dogs, and her existence plays out in the old family home, where there are only ghosts and the memory of a love affair with an English artist in the forgotten London of Margaret Thatcher.
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  • La increíble, pero cierta, historia del Gato Luna
    The Incredible but True Story of the Cat Moon
    Author:
    María Neila Martín y Gonzalo Muiño
    Publisher: Lata de Sal SL
    The Incredible Story of the Cat Moon is the beautiful story, based on a Spanish fable and folk song, which tells of the love between the Sun and the Moon, between Lorenzo and Catalina. A love that is sustained in the calendar thanks to a cat with only one paw who makes a deal with The Moon through a lizard. A story in verse, which glows in the dark - because its cover is fluorescent.
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  • La joven maestra y la gran serpiente
    The Young Teacher and The Great Serpent
    Author:
    Irene Vasco
    Publisher: Editorial Juventud S.A.
    The young teacher was on her way to a school in the Amazon jungle and she arrived laden with books. What her student's liked best was for her to read them stories. Then they would take the books home and their mothers and grandmothers, although they couldn't read, would look at them with curiosity.
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  • LA LUNA DE LOS DESEOS
    The Wishing Moon
    Author:
    Gema SIRVENT y Miguel CERRO
    Publisher: GRUPO DE COMUNICACIÓN LOYOLA
    Álvaro's house is the highest in the city. He studies the moon from his balcony every night and wonders what it is that causes it to wane... A lovely story about wishes, the importance of caring and, most of all, friendship.
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