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January 2017Der nächtliche Besucher
Kriminalroman
by Redondo, Dolores / Übersetzt von Strobel, Matthias
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FictionJanuary 2020All This Exists
by Íñigo Redondo
The revelation debut of 2020. This is a novel about the unexpected places where one can find refuge. This is the story of a man and a girl whose paths cross when life turns its back on them. Alexei is forty years old and the headmaster of a school in a Ukrainian city. His wife has just left him, and his days follow the same unchanging pattern: at night he drinks until he passes out, and during the day he fights to hide his pain and misery at the school. From the window of his office he observes the students at playtime and starts to pay attention to a girl who is always alone. He soon learns that her father beats her, and she asks him for help and together they decide to stage their disappearance: Irina will spend the two years until she comes of age at Alexei’s house. They spend the time playing long games of chess and listening to the radio which becomes the girl’s only link with an outside world that is witnessing the collapse of Communism. Those four walls that contain all the cold and all the chaos of a lost man will be the witness of this unexpected thaw while Alexei and Irina face the multiple facets of their relationship: the girl’s fear that her mother is suffering, the awkwardness he feels before an adolescent girl who will soon be a woman, the paternal instinct that has emerged unexpectedly, the incipient rebelliousness of a sweet and clever young girl or Alexei’s affectionate attempts to give the girl space for intimacy and self-discovery. Life goes on outside the confines of Irina’s world, outside that impossible bubble, and nobody can guess what is hidden behind that cold window of that grey block of flats on that frozen street of a town that the world could barely place on a map. Nobody is aware either that the existence of the two is contained within a limbo that distances the misfortune of their arrival in that space that separates a question from its answer. When a nuclear accident that will go down in history forces them to evacuate the city, they will have to finally face up to the question that has pursued them for almost two years: Do they want to return to the real world? This is the story of a meltdown, a mutual fascination, about the unthinkable places where we find refuge; it is about two hurt animals who invent a world where it is possible to believe that everything will be better some day.
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FictionMay 2019Gaoh
En tierras de Urantia
by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio
Are you ready to read the story of the second coming of Christ in full s. XXI? Do you want to know first-hand who he was, what he did and with whom? Do you know that this time she was a woman and that her mothers were lesbians?Get ready to explode your neurons with this groundbreaking, entertaining, and surprising novel, set in real settings in Spain (Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona) and Europe.Action, adventure, travel, sex, technology, chases, magical scenarios, extraterrestrial beings ...You have before you a new modern and daring thriller that will make you reflect on reality.
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Children's & YAThe Guest and Other Sinister Stories
by Dávila, Amparo
Through a selection of thrilling and exciting illustrated stories, Mexican author, Amparo Dávila, and Argentinian illustrator, Santiago Caruso, create a fascinating reading spectrum for young audiences. This set combines classic tales of the author: “Petrified trees” and “Concrete music”, alongside with fantastic stories as “The guest”, the story of an ordinary woman hunted by an unknown creature; “High kitchen”, a short story where miniature beings confront their inevitable fate, among others.
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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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Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's/YA)2018Agustina's Way
by Cecilia Curbelo
Agustina has a strong character and a great weakness: her sister Renata, whom she has noticed is weird. Even though Agus secretly listens to conversations, she still doesn’t know what’s happening. What she does know is that she loves her dog Hakuna (who she shares with her best friend Maxi), that her father is sad, that her grandfather needs more care and that her sister’s boyfriend Lalo is fed up. When the truth comes into the light she’ll want to solve things in her own way. In Agustina’s way!
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 2004Hungry Generations
A Novel
by Daniel C. Melnick
At the center of “Hungry Generations” is the great European piano virtuoso Alexander Petrov, one of the émigré geniuses who lived in the incredible community of gifted Europeans in Los Angeles during the Second World War. Fleeing from Nazi Germany, the legendary classical pianist – like Schoenberg, Stravinsky, the Werfels, and the Manns – settled in L.A. and attempted to raise a family there on the edge of the Pacific. In September of 1972, Jack Weinstein – a young composer and a distant relation of Petrov – is newly arrived in L.A., living near Venice beach and seeking a job in the movie studios. Jack develops a friendship with the émigré virtuoso, who is nearing seventy and struggling to maintain his psychic and physical health in the midst of intense conflicts with his wife and his adult children. The renowned pianist tells the young man stories of his life from the thirties to the present, and soon Jack is absorbed into the family life of the Petrovs. Jack becomes a catalyst for confrontations among the Petrovs, as he intrudes on the family’s delicate balances. He falls in love with the pianist’s daughter, Sarah, who becomes Jack’s troubled muse, and in one climax, the father erupts in jealousy and desperation, assaulting his daughter’s lover. The son Joseph Petrov is a gifted, cynical, intense pianist himself, who also befriends Jack; resentments – new and old – build between son and father, and these too erupt in destruction and self-destructiveness. Also, Joseph is gay, and after a surreal New Year’s Eve party at the Polo Lounge, he makes a pass at drunk, dismayed Jack. Then there is Petrov’s wife, Helen, and her confession to Jack is one of the final assaults on the young composer. The remarkable expatriates living in Los Angeles during World War II figure both in Petrov’s stories and in Jack’s inner struggle to resurrect himself in the face of his experience of the Petrovs, of music, of sex, of the movie studios, of L.A. itself. During the year 1972-73, Jack composes a piano sonata infused with his love of Petrov’s famed recording of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata as well as the music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg – those composers even begin to enter Jack’s dreams, simultaneously blessing and critiquing him as he works in his Venice apartment. Hungry Generations paints a vivid portrait of the conflicts and struggles which erupt in L.A.’s singular expatriate community. At the center of the novel is finally the confrontation between émigré parents who survived the Holocaust at the peculiar remove of Los Angeles and their grown children. Each “hungry generations” reveals its yearning for meaning, love, and transcendence.
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)December 2021The Queen's Lender
by Jean Findlay
George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI, moves with the Court from Edinburgh to London to take over the English throne. It is 1603. Life is a Babel of languages and glittering new wealth. James gives Shakespeare his first secure position. To calm the perfidious religious tensions in the country, he commissions his translation of the Bible. He creates the Union Jack, called after himself. George becomes wealthier than the king as he sets a fashion for hat jewels and mingles with Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones and the mysterious ambassador Luca Von Modrich. However, both king and courtier bow before the phenomenal power invested in their wives.
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FictionJuly 2020Men who talks with stars
by João Torcato Justa
In this novel by John Torcato Justa, a narrator witnesses the history of their ancestry through the protagonist, mother and best friend uncle, recreating a line of magical time crossing the border of Alto Alentejo and reaches the neighboring plain Extremadura, in Spain. Anthony, known in the small Alentejo village by Lobo, is an adventurous young bohemian, fearless and womanizer. The day that your heart is taken away by the unmistakable beauty of the Spanish Soledad, wife of one of the most powerful men in Spain, marks the beginning of a journey defined by Destiny, the Stars and the courage of men and women who make miracles. As background, a rural Alentejo marked by the customs of a Portugal, in the times of Salazar, and the neighboring Spanish province of Extremadura, in a terrible process of healing wounds of the Civil War. John, a participant narrator, invites us to the family memories that turned his family and region, revealing the amazing dramatic density of his characters and an unconventional plot affective links and metaphysical touch with reality.
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)March 2019El conjuro escarlata
by Julio Santos
Series of illustrated children’s books 7 y.o. or older.Over 120 pages of entertainment, adventures, and mystery with color illustrations. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar.¿Alguna vez has visto actuar a un mago?Pues en Twin City íbamos a poder ver a los mejores porque se celebraba el festival internacional de magia y mentalismo. Lo que no podíamos ni imaginar era que entre ellos estuvieran los herederos del mago Merlín y mucho menos que íbamos a tener que ayudarles a recuperar un poderoso amuleto con el poder de destruir el mundo.¿Te atreves con una ración de magia?
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)March 2018El dragón de jade
by Julio Santos
Series of illustrated children’s books 7 y.o. or older.Over 120 pages of entertainment, adventures, and mystery with color illustrations. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar.¿Sabes dónde comienza esta historia?Pues en un lejano monasterio chino. Allí, la escultura de un precioso dragón de Jade y su leyenda llevaban siglos olvidadas en el fondo de un almacén.Cuando un terremoto sacudió la zona y los equipos de rescate llegaron al monasterio, encontraron al dragón milagrosamente intacto.El destino le acabó trayendo hasta Twin City y, sin comerlo ni beberlo, nos encontramos en medio de un misterio que llevaba 800 años esperando.¿Te apuntas a la aventura?
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)October 2018El secreto de los dogon
by Julio Santos
Series of illustrated children’s books 7 y.o. or older.Over 120 pages of entertainment, adventures, and mystery with color illustrations. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar.¿Te suena de algo el País Dogón?Pues la aventura que te vamos a contar nos ocurrió allí cuando una carambola del destino nos llevó a pasar las vacaciones en África y nos permitió conocer una leyenda milenaria que se convirtió en realidad ante nosotros.¡Por cierto! Si todavía crees que los extraterrestres no existen, acompáñanos y quizá los veas con tus propios ojos.¿Te atreves con nuestra aventura africana?
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Adventure stories (Children's/YA)October 2019Los vecinos subterráneos
by Julio Santos
Series of illustrated children’s books 7 y.o. or older.Over 120 pages of entertainment, adventures, and mystery with color illustrations. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar.¿Te acuerdas del meteorito de nuestra primera aventura?Pues el profesor Antonov montó un laboratorio junto al cráter donde lo encontramos y descubrió que habían empezado a ocurrir cosas muy extrañas.Pero lo más alucinante es que nos invitó a pasar unos días allí y acabamos descubriendo la verdadera naturaleza de la piedra verde y del increíble misterio que traía con ella.¿Quieres descubrirlo tú también?
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Children's & YAOctober 2020La tumba del emperador tigre
by Julio Santos
Series of illustrated children’s books 7 y.o. or older.Over 120 pages of entertainment, adventures, and mystery with color illustrations. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar. ¿Te suenan los famosos guerreros de Xian? Pues en esta aventura nos invitaron a China para visitarlos y alucinamos con ellos. Pero lo mejor fue descubrir que solo eran el aperitivo porque resultó que este ejercito milenario escondía un misterio mucho más flipante y que nadie se había atrevido a desvelar hasta entonces. Además, tenía mucho que ver con nosotros. No te digo más. ¿Nos acompañas a la China imperial?
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Children's & YAJune 2021La doble águila
by Julio Santos
Series of illustrated children’s books 7 y.o. or older.Over 120 pages of entertainment, adventures, and mystery with color illustrations. ¡Hola! Mi nombre es Txano y mi hermano mellizo se llama Óscar. El fin de las vacaciones se acercaba rápidamente mientras pasábamos unos días en el pueblo de nuestros abuelos. Ya sabes…, mucho tiempo con los amigos y mucha tranquilidad. O eso parecía. Una noche, mientras jugábamos al escondite, descubrimos un viejo diario olvidado en un corral en ruinas. Al abrirlo encontramos un nombre, una frase y un misterio. Tardamos tres días en resolverlo, pero acabamos saliendo en el periódico. ¿Te atreves a vivirlos con nosotros?
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May 2018Cultural industries and creative economy in latin america: Economic and social development in the region
by Andrea Carolina Redondo Méndez, Javier Hernández Acosta, Leydi Higidio Henao, Keith Nurse, Alicia Shepherd, José Daniel Flores, Jonathan Cárdenas, René Isaías Castro Vergara, Marta Lucía Tostes Vieira, Liliana Marquez Orozco, Jorge Ricardo Vásquez, Verónica Anahí Herrera, Karely Estefanía Rodríguez
This book aims to be a starting point to highlight the role of the academy in regards to cultural and creative industries through an effort of a group of scholars from the region who have been connected to the creative ecosystem. Essays and investigations present a sample of the research agenda needed by the sector. The book includes an overview from the role of creative and cultural industries in the economic and social development to entrepreneurs´ experiences and challenges of achieving sustainable business models. The chapters published in this work are excellent starting points for the most important conversations we will face in the coming years. The first part aims to bring the reader closer to a general context of both the description of the current situation and the opnening to opportunities offered by the formalization, support, and development of cultural activities. In the second part, it is recognized that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are culture producers and, therefore, have been identifying opportunities and finding, in the creative economy, a sustainable main activity of their economies.
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Menús para impresionar
by Elena Segura
Book with amazing recipes to surprise your guests accompanied by gastronomic curiosities
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LUCERO
by MARCO PASCHETTA
Lucero is a lovely criature who has never left the forest until a flood and his curious friend Spicchio convince him to undertake an adventure in search of the sea. This way they will know the world and people with good and bad intentions that will guide him and finally transform him.
