New Spanish Titles - L

  • Las lentejas de la guerra
    The Lentils of War
    Author:
    Fernando da Casa
    This book pays homage to an entire generation who lived through a time of upheaval and suffering, not just in Spain but across the planet. It tells stories of simple people who longed, like all of us, for a better world, all with very different solutions seen through different perspectives that ended up as a collective disaster from which the generations to come have had to learn.
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  • Leo&Lía
    Leo & Lía
    Author:
    Susana López
    Publisher: Excellence Editorial
    Leo is a young lion who feels a bit strange because he's about to get a new sister. His friends are no help, they just say that once his little sister is born Leo won't be the most important anymore. He'll have to let her pull his whiskers and pounce on his tail, and let her win all the races, because babies are always crying and the grown-ups feel sorry for them.
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  • Leotolda
    Leotolda
    Leotolda
    Author:
    Olga de Dios
    Publisher: Apila Ediciones
    Leotolda's friends come to see her at home, but they can't find her anywhere. They search for her in places full of magic and adventure but, however hard they try, they can't find her. You can help them. This is a picture book that develops little people's imagination. The illustrations are lively and original and, with only three pigments create a universe of colours.
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  • Leru leru
    Nyah-nyah
    Author:
    Susana Aliano Casales
    Publisher: ¡Más Pimienta!
    He's called Pedro and he is a boy although he seems like a girl. In contrast, his sister Valeria, seems like a boy. They are the weirdest kids in school. Themes include: physical bullying in school, gender, family, transformation, acceptance and empathy.
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  • Lo que esconde el mar
    What the Sea Hides
    Lo que esconde el mar
    Author:
    Lucía Mallén (pseudónimo)
    Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL DE LIBROS SL
    Nadia is heading to Ibiza to oversee the work at Sa Marea, the house she and her husband Marcos have bought. Her marriage is not at its best. Their inability to have children, which at first didn't affect their relationship, now seems to be all they can think about. The house renovations could be the chance for them to find some much-needed peace.
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  • Loba Negra
    Black Wolf
    Author:
    Juan Gómez-Jurado
    Agent: Donegal Magnalia S.L. (Antonia Kerrigan Agencia Literaria)
    STAY ALIVE Antonia Scott is not afraid of anything. Only herself. NEVER WAS But there is someone more dangerous than her. Someone who could defeat her. SO DIFFICULT The Black Wolf is getting closer and closer. And Antonia, for the first time, is scared.
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  • Los caminos de Rut
    Rut's Roads
    Author:
    Lluís-Anton Baulenas Setó
    Publisher: Pagès editors, S.L.
    The young Rutona tries to reconstruct the life of her mother Rut with whom she shared a life that was both free and intense. Rut drove a tow-truck on the Catalan highways through the seventies, eighties, nineties and noughties. It was man's work done by an extraordinary woman, lover of freedom and of her own feelings.
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  • Los casos del inspector Covarrubia
    The Cases of Inspector Covarrubia
    Los casos del inspector Covarrubia
    Author:
    Álvaro Valderas
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    These tales, so real that some details have been eliminated for coming too close to the truth, belong to the genre known as micturition literature, and are so starkly realist they can be slipped into its subgenre – laxative text. In fact they revel in it, squirming in such delight that the publishers initially wanted to print on paper more suited to its delicate function, but the ink ran.
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  • Los cielos de curumo
    The Skies of Curumo
    Los cielos de curumo
    Author:
    Juan Carlos Chirinos
    Publisher: Editorial
    The Skies of Curumo is a story constructed like a house of cards. The lives of five friends, the urban landscape of Caracas, incessant rain, the urgency of scavenging animals, evil that corrodes, and the signs of the decline of a country that could not see what was coming, all collide together. Chirinos is a ruthless storyteller.
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  • LOS ESCRIBIDORES DE CARTAS
    The Letter Writers
    Author:
    Beatriz Osés
    Publisher: SM
    The river, or the serpent, crosses the small village of Noaberri. Federico, the postman, is about to lose his job, but his granddaughter Iria has a plan to save it. But Don Isidoro, the mayor, hates the river, and he also hates Frederico. While the letters are dying, everybody has a secret… Can you guess what it is?
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