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      • Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2017

        Delitos de poca envergadura

        by Simón Ergas

        Delitos de poca envergadura reúne relatos breves ilustrados que retratan lo agobiante de la existencia bajo las normas de convivencia social. Los cuentos abordan el absurdo, lo insólito o el sinsentido al que nos sometemos para mantener el orden público. Este libro ganó el PREMIO A LA EDICIÓN 2017 en la categoría Ficción.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2018

        Manija

        by J.P. Zooey

        La vida de Teo se cuenta a través de las ventanas de chat abiertas en su computador. Las historias de sus amigos virtuales, su madre que siempre lo quiere ver conectado o la intermitente presencia de su coach emocional, develan sus dificultades para relacionarse y las sórdidas experiencias que tiene con su novia de Tinder. El absurdo de las relaciones digitales, el tráfico de información personal y la dependencia de un apoyo virtual para vivir construyen una novela hilarante donde el riesgo existe, no en el mundo real, sino mientras estamos conectados.

      • Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)
        2009

        Mystery at Los Piñones

        by Beatriz García-Huidobro

        Diego is invited by his cousin's family to spend the holidays in Los Piñones, a small village where they have a house for recreation and that only gets a little bit livelier with the arrival of summer. But all the calm of the place will be disturbed by the mysterious disappearance of the queen of the fair on the very day of her coronation.

      • May 2019

        Cuando tomábamos café

        by Sánchez, José Carlos

        The heart of Madrid becomes a stage that beats at every step of the protagonists of this story. A novel that perfectly stages the society of the last years of the Franco regime and the conquest for freedom of a generation of brave women who fought to make themselves heard. Matesa, the most convulsive case of corruption under Franco, shakes the political and social landscape in increasingly difficult times. Unaware of this reality, Adela, a young woman from high society, only has eyes for Carlos, a young musician she has known since childhood and who only cares about two things: living without ties and her best friend Constanza. When we drank coffee it is a novel that reflects the social idealism and cultural movement that begins to boil in the streets of Madrid in the hope of changing things. A song to freedom, to how to survive amidst so much uncertainty, but above all, to the efforts of those women and men who inspire us today to fight for our identity, not to give up and to be free to the last consequences.   El corazón de Madrid se convierte en un escenario que late a cada paso de los protagonistas de esta historia. Una novela que escenifica a la perfección la sociedad de los últimos años del régimen de Franco y la conquista por la libertad de una generación de mujeres valientes que lucharon por hacerse oír. Matesa, el caso de corrupción más convulso del franquismo, sacude el panorama político y social en unos tiempos cada vez más difíciles. Ajena a esta realidad, Adela, una joven de alta sociedad, solo tiene ojos para Carlos, un joven músico que conoce desde la infancia y al que solo le importan dos cosas: vivir sin ataduras y su mejor amiga Constanza. Cuando tomábamos café es una novela que refleja el idealismo social y movimiento cultural que empieza a bullir en las calles de Madrid con la esperanza de cambiar las cosas. Un canto a la libertad, a cómo sobrevivir entre tanta incertidumbre, pero, sobre todo, al empeño de esas mujeres y hombres que nos inspiran hoy en día a luchar por nuestra identidad, a no rendirnos y a ser libres hasta las últimas consecuencias.

      • July 2020

        MARITA’S BEARD

        by Alicia Escribano, Patri de Blas

        Esta es la historia de la barba más famosa que jamás haya existido, la barba de Marita.  Una misteriosa desaparición y la determinación de una niña por recuperar su activo más preciado la llevarán a descubrir las soluciones y los consejos más absurdos que puedas imaginar. ¿Serán efectivos? ¿Podrá Marita volver a lucir su brillante barba?

      • Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)
        December 2018

        Bajo el paraguas azul

        by Martínez, Elena

        Youth novel about bullying and cyber-bullying in social networks, based on a real fact, with more than 10.000 readers in two years, only in Spain, and international awards for best inspirational novel: Latinos Books award (Los Angeles). A youthful novel that is a reference in Spain.

      • Fiction
        June 2019

        El guardián de Omu

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        Juan suffers a spectacular camouflaged traffic accident, since his real objective was suicide. Then he discovers that it was not Juan, but an experienced special agent of the Solar Police of this galaxy, with jurisdiction over the entire solar system and a life completely opposite to what he had. Recover the memory and assume his situation, sharing mission and adventures with Yura, his eternal partner and co-worker.Argos recovers and learns to live "out of the box" again, facing alien species of clear negative polarity in his new mission. The very existence of planet Earth is in your hands.Without a doubt, it is a current and action novel. For minds of the New Earth, awake beings, with intuition, and capable of recreating in their imaginations scenarios, concepts, and fictitious events that could be very close to becoming real potentials in the immediate future.Take back the pleasure of fiction ... Or not.

      • March 2019

        Gato Angora en la lavadora

        Relatos contemporáneos

        by Manuel Giron

        «La codicia de los que manejan el mercado mundial es demasiado grande y poderosa. La especulación y el lavado de dinero no pueden ser detenidos. La corrupción es la columna vertebral del sistema financiero mundial. Y el artista es un simple bufón que aparece y desaparece por arte de mafia ».   «Manuel Girón ha ido escribiendo durante sus viajes historias llenas de humor e ironía que giran en torno al absurdo; sus cuentos reflejan dilemas vitales, historias de todos los días que el escritor saca de contexto con un sentido del humor. El autor se permite mezclar realidad y ficción, expresar sus opiniones sobre el mundo que le rodea con total naturalidad, de manera singular y muy personal, estableciendo un juego en el que participa el autor, sus personajes y el lector, este último obligado por la fuerza y ​​la tensión de la narración que le va envolviendo a la vuelta de cada página, en ocasiones se añade al juego el equívoco provocando la hilaridad y la sorpresa.   Manuel Giron coquetea con la ficción, nos asombra con sus ideas, planteamientos y fabulaciones, manteniendo la vez los pies fuertementedos en la realidad. Sus relatos constituyen una magnifica y grata sorpresa, una recopilación de ideas con un indudable trasfondo poético. »      Begoña Peris Presidenta del Club del Libro en español de las Naciones Unidas, Ginebra.   "Al día siguiente me levanté con un fuerte dolor de cabeza y sin recordarme a qué hora había regresado al hotel. Lo primero que hice fue tomar una larga ducha, y luego, cuando me rasuraba, escuché en el noticiero que todas las palomas del parque Russell Square en el barrio londinense de Blooms amanecido muertas sin explicación alguna. El Inspector de la policía, John Sherrinford, informó a los medios que se desconocía la causa de la muerte masiva de palomas en el parque. Según los análisis de rigor no se había descubierto ningún indicio de envenenamiento, y se había descartado que una inesperada lluvia de granizo, muy frecuentes en la época de verano, las hubiese aniquilado.  El locutor mencionó la versión de un mendigo que aseguraba haber visto un día antes en el restaurante del parque a un sujeto extraño, palabras textuales del testigo, observando las palomas y posiblemente las mató con una mala mirada. Versión que el inspector Sherrinford rebatió por considerarla más propia del realismo mágico que de la realidad londinense en la que hasta la fecha nadie había muerto por una mala mirada. El mendigo, que resultó ser un profesor de literatura inglesa en paro desde hacía un par de años, había insistido en señalar a un personaje de gafas oscuras con sudadero de capucha como el principal sospechoso de la masacre, porque en el sudadero llevaba anotada una palabra que podía ser clave durante la investigación: Vendetta ". Libro disponible en papel y formato digital

      • Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)
        November 2019

        El llamado de las brujas

        by Alvaro Vanegas

        Maria Fernanda strongly believes she is a normal teenager. However, on a school trip, she realizes there are a lot of things her family has hidden from her. She would never imagine that she descends from an ancient lineage of witches and also that she has powers, Now, she must fight against Lucrecia, a powerful and evil witch who wants to take revenge by destroying her family and taking control over her.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2018

        2001 Punto Cero

        by Carlos A. Colla

        Welcome to a luminous journey, at times hilarious, that crosses the misery and dissects the hypocrisy of an abandoned society that struggles to emerge from the abyss. In a Buenos Aires besieged by violence and poverty in the worst economic and ethical crisis in contemporary Argentina, the lives of a select few are shipwrecked in a country that is crumbling. Prostitutes, unemployed workers and cartoneros merge in a ravaged city, pierced by anarchic holes of poverty, evictions and unemployment. Thanks to an unknown fate, the protagonist, disenchanted and responsible for his family, advances between the absurdity of the crisis, in a forward flight, without rest or contemplation, to try to recover a destiny torn from the roots. What could be the destination of such a particular transit?

      • Asfixia

        by Alex Mírez

        Planet Earth. Population: 1 We cannot understand how it happened. On September 1, 2019, it happened. We were all fine and from one moment to the next people began to suffocate. Little by little, the world fell into an astonishing silence. I survived that mysterious and catastrophic incident thanks to my father. When I woke up, I was faced with the horrifying panorama of millions of corpses. They were all dead. Soon after, I discovered that there were actually seven survivors left, and I joined them. Some dedicated themselves to investigating what had happened, the reason for the extinction of the human race; but they died in a strange way in a short time. Those of us left behind struggled to survive, but even so, the others also passed away after a few months. Now only I inhabit the world, I am the only one left on the planet ... Or at least, I believed.

      • Children's & YA

        The Iron Garden

        by Gema Bonnín Sánchez

        For centuries, humans and the fey have lived in harmonyuntil the curse of one fairy changed everything.Nonetheless, the years have cooled the rivalry betweenboth factions and there are even those who are willing tofight for peace between them.It seems that the key lies in Elvia, a young girl who is halffairy and half human, who turns to the human court toresolve the conflict. Nonetheless, there the evil prince,forced to turn into a beast with the arrival of every fullmoon, has a very different opinion.Perhaps a reconciliation isn’t possible. Or if one is, whatwill be the price?

      • Christian theology

        Salvation

        A Sketch of Soteriology

        by Emilio J. Justo

        When human beings seriously reflect on their existence and the world around them, they are faced with pressing questions that require an answer. What is the meaning of my life? Why does the world exist? Is happiness possible? Why there is suffering? Why do I have to die? Is it possible to overcome guilt and redeem sin? Will someone bring justice someday?  All these questions and many others ultimately point to salvation, whose goal is to overcome the evil we suffer and to achieve the fullness we long for. From a Christian perspective, salvation can also be understood as the personal participation in God’s communion.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        April 2019

        Cuentos @

        by Juan Ángel Juristo, Álvaro Hernando Freile, Juan Senís, Ana Belén Albero Díaz, Belén GalindoLizaldre, J. Antonio Tamez Elizondo, Christopher J. Castañeda

        @ Stories groups six stories that show some uses of the “at” sign to delve into the heterogeneity of a symbol (@) that has become an indispensable element in our society. Some of the inhabitants of this cosmos without borders are: a writer and biographer who discovers the value of the weight of an arroba and the astonishing truth of an unsuspected past; a group of friends and colleagues who hide behind the anonymous @s of a chat in which anyone can be what they are not, or pretend to be; a university professor who needs the magic of @s to take off on a transformative journey; a young man who hides behind the @ of an email that does not know the time factor; an anonymous citizen weighing the common generic of a species or descriptive @ for a coming civilization; and a faculty committee that evaluates the incomprehension of a @ against the oppressive engine of strongly felt roots. The characters and voices in these stories reflect on the power of an @ beyond its internautic function to cross the barriers of the apparently absurd and crack the solidity of everything that seems chimerical.

      • Children's & YA

        The Adventures of Thor #1

        The Quest of the Hammer

        by Erik Todensson, Valentí Ponsa

        Thor and Loki have made Odin mad again, who bans them from auditioning to become Gods. But instead of sitting back and doing nothing about it, they embark on an adventure across different worlds to prove their power? all while unexpectedly becoming protagonists of several myths. After getting hold of a chariot and a few goats, they travel to the country of giants to get their hammer back. Luckily, they?ll have Freya by their side, another aspiring Goddess who?ll refuse to take the cutesy role the myths have reserved for her.

      • March 2019

        Amal and the most important journey of her life

        by Carolina Montenegro and Renato Moriconi (translated by Lyn Miller-Lachmann

        “How would it be for a child to cross oceans and borders all alone? “ This is what this surprising book called “AMAL – and The Most Important Journey of Her Life” leads young readers to imagine. For some children, it’s an unthinkable possibility. For hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied refugee children, a harsh reality. The book, published in two formats – app-book and printed edition - has support from UNCHR, the UN Refugee Agency. Written by foreign correspondent Carolina Montenegro and with visual narrative by Renato Moriconi, “Amal” is a tribute to refugee children.

      • June 2020

        Caja continua de voces

        by Pablo Martín Ruiz

        Essays, travel journals, reflections, epigrams, visual poetry, lists, notes, paradoxes, compilations, critiques, stories, outlines, translations, palindromes, these are all the bricks with which, in the manner of a certain Chinese encyclopedia, a sort of epistemology of restriction and of the unusual is built. A necklace where no two pearls are alike: the bet, of course, is centered on the thread that ties them together. It gives the impression that the author, owner of a playful, penetrative gaze, is concerned with the poetic dimension of the pure forms of language and that absolutely nothing is alien to him.The result is an absolutely singual, stimulating, and highly entertaining book, which makes us gratefully abandon the place of our comfortable ideas. Luis Sagasti

      • Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)
        November 2019

        Sebastián y los metamorfos

        by Alvaro Vanegas

        Sebastian was an ordinary young man until an accident left him orphaned and near death. From that moment on, a new family, supernatural powers, and immortality

      • Science fiction
        December 2018

        Psique El despertar Sombrío

        by Iván R. Sánchez

        ohn, a man immersed in the addiction of alcohol, is constantly tormented by his inner demons; repentance, loneliness and grief are translated into hallucinations, nightmares and terrors that he silences with liquor. One day, after ending up in jail because of a terrible night of abstinence, he discovers that something in him has changed and that now he must face a long road of redemption. He will discover that he is not alone and that the monsters that inhabited the darkness of his thoughts can come out, whisper to him, pursue him ... The real and the unreal are confused within a spiral of tragic events that lurk in every place where he seeks refuge.

      • Children's & YA

        NJAMBA NENE AND THE FLYING BUS

        by Ngügï wa Thiong’o / Illustrations: Antonia Lara

        Ngügi wa Thiong’o (Kenya 1938) is one of today’s leading African writers and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. The story originally aimed to reconnect African children with their language, knowledge and history, in a continent marked by colonialist rule that largely erased their culture. In this sense, its main theme of rescuing the traditional knowledge of dominated cultures, especially their connection with nature, makes this book contain a universal message that goes beyond time and frontiers. In these times of deep social changes this story acquires maximum relevance for the world of children and youth. Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus, originally written in gikuyu and translated into English in 1986, has been specially translated and illustrated for this edition of Planeta Sostenible.

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