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?Por qué yo?
by Noga Marron
?Por qué yo? por Noga Marron La versión original en hebreo de ?Por qué yo? ha sido publicada hasta ahora en seis reimpresiones y ha probado ser un medio de ayuda efectivo a lectores jóvenes, para mejorar la imagen que tienen de sí mismos, haciendo hincapié en que nadie es perfecto y que “nadie está contento con su suerte”. Muchos educadores lo utilizan en talleres y a través de lecturas guiadas, para ayudar a sus alumnos a hacer frente a problemas personales. El libro contiene veinte escenarios, cada uno de los cuales se concentra en otro niño. En dichos escenarios, a pesar de sus ventajas personales, el niño está preocupado por un determinado problema personal y envidia al niño de la escena siguiente. En el último escenario vemos a un niño que aspira a ser como el del primero… Este libro, con su texto rimado y sus alegres ilustraciones, logra enfrentarse animadamente con este serio tema. Noga Marron, nacida en Jerusalén, ha publicado desde 1987 un total de 32 libros, mayormente para alumnos de la escuela primaria y para adolescentes. Ha ejercido durante muchos años como maestra, como directora de escuela y como miembro del directorio de la Asociación de Maestros de Israel. Marron tiene una licenciatura en literatura y educación de la Universidad Bar-Ilán.
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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)October 2021El año de la rata
by Jorge Alderete
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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FictionOctober 2019Los otros son más felices
by Laura Freixas
Áurea starts her journey on a summer day in 1971, in Chamartin train station, with a feeling that her soon to begin stay in Catalonia will change her life. She just doesn’t know how. At only fourteen this will be the first time she’s away from her parents and from everything she knows: Madrid, the city where she was born and her mother’s hometown in La Mancha, where her family spends their summer holidays. Years later, in a conversation with someone who was witness to it all, Áurea rememorates that summer with all its protagonists. With this reedition of los otros son mas felices (2011) Laura Freixas consolidates her upward trajectory in the current Spanish literary scene. Áurea inicia su viaje un día de verano de 1971, en la estación de Chamartín, e intuye que su estancia en Cataluña, a punto de comenzar, le va a cambiar la vida, pero aún no sabe cómo.A sus catorce años, será la primera vez que se aleje de sus padres, y de los que hasta entonces han sido los escenarios de su vida: Madrid, la ciudad en la que ha nacido, y el pueblo de su madre en La Mancha, donde su familia pasa los veranos.Años después, en conversación con quien fue testigo de los hechos, Áurea rememora aquel verano con todos sus protagonistas.Con esta reedición de Los otros son más felices (2011), se confirma la trayectoria de Laura Freixas, que a lo largo de los años ha ido ganando público y reconocimiento como escritora.
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FictionOctober 2021Borges in Stockholm
A fiction that dismantles the bad habits of postmodernity.
by Sonia Dalton
Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is the ambition of any self-respecting writer. Especially when he risks the glory of being the first to receive it in his country. After appearing in the favorites lists for several years, it seems that César Aira's time has come to enjoy that moment and that condition. This fiction narrates the vicissitudes of the writer's journey from Buenos Aires to Stockholm, his dreamy stay in the Nordic city and his return to an Argentina where he is not expected. In the end, the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature seems to have been awarded to the Eldense writer, with a Galician pedigree, Cesárea Areas. Through an extensive play on words, this parody tries to dismantle the remnants of postmodernity still in force in the literary and academic worlds. The key is humor, which, in order to be so, cannot fail to be corrosive. Also tenderness, because beneath the greatest ambitions the most insignificant motivations are usually to be found. It will please whoever manages to laugh, without guilt (or with it), at the most deeply rooted vices on the altars of culture and at the most recalcitrant social stereotypes. In short, whoever wants to take a walk through the nonsense, lift the cobblestones of postmodernity and peek at whatever may be underneath. A new normal?
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Children's & YAFebruary 2017Hoy es miércoles
Children whose future has been stolen have only their imagination
by Patricio Nouveau
An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded. From their native cities, accompanied by the strange adult, they each undertake a journey that will lead them to Sas, a child soldier who, tries to escape during the Sierra Leone civil war to find his family, return to his former life and set out on a new future. The journey brings together three points on the planet, three languages and three cultures whose only relationship is a book whose photographs have disappeared since Sas was kidnapped from his school. The three boys are eleven years old. They are searching for each other, they need to find each other.
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Crime & mysteryJuly 2018Donde lloran los demonios
by Martí Martínez, Pedro
Inspector Cesar Giralt enjoys a period of happiness previously denied to him since the brutal murder of his sister by the criminal known as the locker seven years before. However, when life shows him its nicer side, the shadow of his worst fears comes back to Barcelona together with the coldest winter that the city has experienced for several years. The body of another dead girl reaches the same beach where, years before, had appeared, in the same circumstances, one of the locker's victims. El inspector César Giralt disfruta de una felicidad que le había sido negada desde el cruel asesinato de su hermana a manos del encerrador siete años atrás. Pero cuando la vida por fin le muestra su lado más amable, la sombra de sus peores miedos regresa a Barcelona de la mano del invierno más frío de los últimos años. El cadáver de una chica llega a la misma playa en la que apareció, en idénticas circunstancias, una de las víctimas del Encerrador. ¿Es posible que se trate de un imitador? ¿O acaso el asesino de Eva ha vuelto de entre los muertos? Ayudado por su equipo, el inspector Giralt emprenderá una última travesía por los recovecos de su pasado para descubrir qué tipo de persona es en realidad antes de afrontar un último baile con el mismísimo diablo.
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2023THE BAKER
by Patrcia Talaya
THE STORY PRESENTS US TO A PASTRY MAKER WHO HE WORKS AND STRIVES TO MAKE HIS BEST CAKE, BUT HE GETS DISTRACTED LOOKING AT OTHERS' WORK. IN THEIR EYES, EVERYONE HAS, BY LUCK OR BY DISGRACE, THE BEST INGREDIENTS OR TOOLS. HE'S SO WORRIED ABOUT WHAT DO OTHERS DO NOT REALIZE WHAT THEY DO? IT HAS AROUND IT. THE PASTRY MAKER TALKS ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND VALUATION OF WHAT EACH OF US ARE. IT IMPORTANT IS NOT THE INGREDIENTS, BUT WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THEM.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2020You are Not Your Selfie
9 digital secrets that everybody knows but nobody explains
by Liliana Arroyo
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Children's & YAAnimal Emotionary
For boys and girls in times of crisis
by Paloma González and Juan Francisco Bascuñán
What do two laughing chimps, an embarrassed puppy, an envious cat and two monkeys that hug each other with gratitude, have in common? They all show us emotions, those that are present throughout our lives, but that we don’t always know how to recognize. This book seeks to introduce children to this mysterious world, with photographs of animals that usually arouse their interest, accompanied by short texts that can help them recognize the emotions they feel and understand in what kind of situations this happens. Recognizing their own emotions will help them to know themselves better and also those around them. At the end of the book, the emotions addressed in it are briefly explained, so that adults can better accompany children in the discovery of their emotions, in “normal” times, but especially in times of crisis.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true storiesJune 2016Amor A Cuatro Estaciones
El Diario De Una Ilusión
by Nacarid Portal
In this book, the author leads us through a mirror of emotions, which shows us a path full of ups and downs, where the only option you have is to face the ghosts of the past and move on with life, that life which is filled with both pain and love. Four Seasons of Love is an inward journey that goes beyond the very limits we set ourselves. It is about getting to know your true self again. and be able to find the ability to love your scars. It is about accepting death as a part of life, and that love is not something that has to stay with us to be eternal.
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Abecemotions
by Susanna Isern
A curious album, starring animals, with which children will learn simultaneously the alphabet and all the emotions they can experience. Through the different animals, children will learn not only to write them but also to identify, understand and deal with them in a positive way.
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The Croquette Thief
by Pedro Riera / Bea Tormo
For a croquette thief it’s never enough! “I’ll never forget the day we found out there was a croquette thief among us. The thing with croquette thiefs is that they’re not as easy to spot as, say, vampires or mummies. And by the time you find who they are, it’s too late. Your croquettes are doomed! For a croquette thief it’s never enough to just steal your croquettes. They’ll even eat them right in front of you, much to your dismay!”
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)June 2019TELL
by Martín Lombardo
Once upon a time… the Tell universe, a universe that is presented to us in multiple intertwined dimensions, and in which the characters intersect in paths of thought and action. In a transition between written language and visual language, the novel reconstructs the relationship between life and art, so that the action breaks down into reality and warns us that we live in it. On the one hand, we are introduced to a 60 years-old filmmaker who revisits his life. Despite not having the last name Tell, he wonders if he is a descendant of the mythical Swiss hero, William Tell. On the other hand, there is a young man trying to piece together an endless puzzle in which, in exchange for a fee, he finds himself aroused by his own desires. And also, there is a mysterious feminine presence around which all stories are forged, as the origin and end of the real and the mythical. Read, see, and dare to ask yourself: Am I a Tell?
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2022La niña que quería ser tortuga
by Pedro Riera
Silvia and Fabio are classmates. For her, Fabio is a superficial posh boy who thinks he can solve everything with his snake charmer's smile. He sees Silvia as a haughty girl who considers herself superior to her classmates. There is little chance of them becoming friends. And yet, when the social studies teacher pairs them up to do an assignment, they discover they have more in common than they thought. Then war breaks out in Yemen. Fabio's friend, Amina, the girl who once wanted to be a turtle, suddenly finds herself under the bombs, in an extreme situation. Fabio and Silvia will try to help her. But is it possible to help someone who is trapped in a war six thousand kilometres away?
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Health & Personal DevelopmentTrabajo en equipo y liderazgo
¡Atrévete… ya! El cielo es el límite
by Mariel Mambretti
This volume has the virtue of focusing on one of the resources that large companies appeal to most today: teamwork. The current complexity of businesses means that they must be approached with a plurality of points of view, which is achieved through a conjunction of different opinions and qualities. You will be able to know the secrets of how to join a good work group and how to make your work perform and look without entering sterile competitions. But at the same time, every human group requires a leader and this aptitude, that of leadership, is another of the most valued today. Here you will learn about the means by which those who created their own business, or lead large corporations, got to get what they needed and expected from others. Skills and attitudes such as persuasion, respect, the wise distribution of rewards and punishments, and the ability to instill enthusiasm will awaken the leader in you. Leadership is learned, earned, deserved. Know how and take action.
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AdventureApril 2020Yumi and her Band
by J. Olloqui
Yumi is ten years old. She wants to be a drummer in a rock band to be rich and famous. Now I play drums in a band with my friends. We're not famous yet, and I don't understand why, because we're so cool. Apart from my band, I have Alimaña, who's my best friend, although he's pretty dumb. Besides, my parents spend their lives scolding me, my older sister has a disease called adolescence, and my little brother is a criminal mind locked up in the body of a two-year-old. A children's book similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This book won the November 2021 Spanish National Pop Eye Award in the category of children's and young adult literature.This title is one of the 9 children's titles selected by the panel of German experts for the "Buchtipps unserer Experten" section as being the most suitable for translation and marketing in German-speaking countries on the www.newspanishbooks.de portal in 2021. New Spanish Books ist ein Projekt des spanischen Außenhandelsinstituts ICEX in Kooperation mit dem spanischen Verlegerverband FGEE. Es soll Verlagen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum den Zugang zu neuen Büchern aus Spanien erleichtern und ihnen eine Entscheidungshilfe bei der Auswahl übersetzungswerter Titel geben. New Spanish Books is a project of the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute ICEX in cooperation with the Spanish publishers' association FGEE. It is intended to make it easier for publishers from the German-speaking world to gain access to new books from Spain and to help them decide which titles are worth translating. A second volume entitled "Yumi and her Band. Vermin Superstar" has also been published (ISBN: 978-84-121692-7-0).
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Historical fictionSeptember 2019Nigrinus. The condemnation of memory
by Xavier N. Cervera
The greatest Roman of his time, Marco Cornelio Nigrino Curiacio Materno, suffers the damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of memory) for posing a threat to Trajan aspirations, the other candidate to Caesar’s chair. Nigrino carved the most brilliant military career of his time, became the most awarded general, was named consul and ruled the Aquitaine, Moesia, and Syria provinces. However, the emperor Nerva is forced to choose Trajan as his successor. The chance of a civil war disappears with a quick movement that leads to the cessation of Nigrino, his forced exile and the prohibition of mentioning his name. Nigrino and his family, from Edeta, fought to keep their memory alive no matter how regardless of the difficulties imposed by those who saw their disgrace as a chance to inherit their influences and great fortune. Historical novel thoroughly set in the 1st century, retrieving the character of one of the most important personalities of our history, forgotten during nearly twenty centuries. The Edetan Marco Cornelio Nigrino, condemned to memory due to his rivalry with Trajan to gain Caesar’s chair.
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FictionApril 2021Hosts
by Julio Botella
A book delves into the psychology of victims of child abuse and bullying, in their childhood and in the development of their personality in the future. A host (un huésped) is also a plant or animal in whose body a parasite is housed. Julio Botella brings this idea to the plane of family psychology. In a family, what is not spoken about, not understood, born from some dark circumstance, creates a broken personality that unconsciously ends up staying in a new member. That is the invisible family heritage that these stories show. Huéspedes (Hosts) is a book of stories that subtly intersect. The characters go through them coiled in their personality, unaware that they are hosts and transmitters. The narrator is a conscious voice of this heritage and his writing becomes a kind of exorcism. He takes the reader deep into the characters through very powerful scenes where they face their fears. A father who transfers his frustration to an insecure daughter. Another father with fear of death who takes out his anger in the relationship with the family dog. A child who suffers harassment because he is not recognized by parents who expect something else from him, his own redemption. A grandmother who abducts a granddaughter with her childhood story to feel like an artist again. And all of them tacitly related. Huéspedes returns to Spanish literature a realism that seeks to unmask social errors that are repeated over time.
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Children's & YAAramat's Plot
by Victoria Álvarez
In a country devoured by desert, where technology obeys thelaws of magic and the genie’s wishes are more than just a legend,a sultaness marries at nightfall each evening and beheads hernew husband at daybreak each morning. Nobody in all Aramatseems willing to stand up against her; nobody that is, except herown daughter.Aged just 16, Princess Raisha sees her mother is destined toa dreadful fate. Desperate to try and save her, she flees thepalace with the sultaness’ latest husband, hoping her motherwill come to her senses. But it doesn’t take long for Raisha torealise that things don’t always turn out the way you think: theman she helped to escape isn’t who she thought. The desertconceals more secrets than you could ever imagine and beyondits borders, where the mist unfurls across a kingdom of rustingmachinery and the clouds envelop a floating archipelago, thecogs of an imminent war have already begun to turn.
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Unico grande amore
A trip through Italy thanks to football
by Toni Padilla
This trip through Italy is not intended to arrive as soon as possible. The guide is Toni Padilla, who, accompanied by a ball, and based on themes such as death, music, cheese or stickers, is impregnated with the country's double soul. Here are the majestic Italy and the Italy massacred by prejudices, lying on this journey from north to south and from east to west. The raw material of the stories, which are only on the author's radar, are the walks through the homeland of Benito Mussolini, Rafaella Carrà or Francesco Totti. Its pages are a map where memories are celebrated and goals are savored. Written with detailed prose and a leisurely gaze, they seem from another era, now that we don't have time for everything. But calcium is in no rush to get off this train.
