New Spanish Titles

  • 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
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    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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  • LA MADRE DE FRANKENSTEIN
    THE MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN
    LA MADRE DE FRANKENSTEIN, Almudena Grandes
    Author:
    Almudena Grandes
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    In 1954, after going into exile in 1939 and being taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family for 15 years, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos. There, Germán meets Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, intelligent woman who murdered her own parents, and a young assistant, María.
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  • LA MALA ENTRAÑA
    The Malice Within
    Author:
    Elena Alonso Frayle
    Publisher: baile del sol srl
    An anxious mother gives in to wretched temptation on a nocturnal flight; a young girl reveals the terrible mystery behind an innocent circle of light on the ceiling; a psychiatrist discovers the symptoms of a remarkable phobia concealing the collective fear of an entire generation. A group of teenagers turn vindictive to escape the tedium of their existence.
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  • La Maleta
    The Suitcase
    Author:
    Núria Parera
    Agent: UTE KÖRNER LITERARY AGENT, S.L.U.
    Who doesn't have the right to fill a suitcase with the dream of a better life? A suitcase that passes from hand to hand, a silent witness to the different lives that take place throughout the 20th century. The textile colonies, the workers' revolution, the world wars, exile, make love not war, the fall of Francoism. And the constant migrations that - willingly or otherwise - do not stop.
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  • LA MITAD DE LA NOCHE
    The Middle of the Night
    LA MITAD DE LA NOCHE, Mayra Montero
    Author:
    Mayra Montero
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    In August 1926 the wealthy Laparra family are enjoying a day on the beach in Biarritz. Magdalena Laparra takes her two children and walks into the sea with the intention of drowning herself. Her seven-year-old daughter, Elsa, realises something is wrong and manages to escape, but her little brother is drowned.
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