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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.

    • 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?

    • 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.

    • Fiction

      What Would the Pope Say?

      by Jaime Larrain

      Pope Francis is at a crossroads. The Catholic Church, still reeling from the cases of child abuse and the corruption scandals of the Vatican Bank, has an opportunity for redemption or for a final nail in the coffin, after the Pope’s closes advisor, Cardinal Bullbridge, is kidnapped. While the Pope ponders the destiny of the Church, Aum, the leader of the Chrysallis Team that in 2016 kidnapped business moghul Brian Feller, has set for himself the tremendous challenge of gathering the most important religious leaders of the world so they can witness The Experiment, a mysterious process that could breathe new life into the Catholic Faith. The Experiment was born in the island of Ithaca in 2010, thanks to the work of Aum and Father Thomas, the guardian of the Vatican´s secret files. The motivations of Aum and Thomas are not merely academic, there’s a much larger political agenda at play. Being 86 years of age, and with a very sick son, Aum rolls the dice and brings together the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, historian Yuval Harari, philosopher Michael Onfray, and many others. But Cardinal Bullbridge wants to put an end to his, which he sees as a threat to the Papacy. And Commissioner Scorza, Vatican Chief of Security, is trying to solve the riddle while also dealing with some scandals of his own making. What Would the Pope Say? Is not just a history of the Vatican, it is the history of an ancient dream that can now become reality, a dream we all carry inside: a spirituality that goes beyond religions, and that is one and universal.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Fiction

      Virus

      by Alvaro Vanegas

      Ivan, a banker and frustrated musician, suddenly finds himself in the middle of a horde of angry zombies. Now his only goal is to meet his wife, but communicating with her is impossible and getting where she is is very difficult when thousands of people want to kill him and turn him into their breakfast. Virus is an urban history that deals bluntly with human nature and whose vertiginous rhythm doesn't allow the reader to take their eyes off its pages.

    • 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.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

      Mister Lubbock’s Miscellanea of Essential Facts and Useless Trivia

      by Paulo Ferreira

      Did you know that the oxygen you breathe today has already passed through the lungs of Napoleon and Genghis Khan? Or that the water you just drank was acquainted with Jesus Christ’s kidneys? Or that astrology is still based on the location of celestial bodies, even though the universe is expanding? Penicillin was discovered by chance, and so was viagra. And post its only exist because of an attempt to not waste glue that turned out to be a failure (and because God is good). Newton thought that inventing calculus was important, but not as much as studying the distinguished science that was alchemy. This might just be why our brain tries so hard to fill in the blanks in our memory with false imagens and facts. Speaking of fake news, can we stop arguing over whether Columbus was Portuguese or Spanish, because the first people to arrive in America were the vikings.

    • Historia de las feminazis en América

      by Sidharta Ochoa

      A catalog of misdeeds, absurd situations or violent, using sites and contexts perfectly locatable in reality, with characters from fiction in regards to feminism. In this book the resource of facing what is called objective with fiction, to show that its boundaries are much blurrier than we like to suppose.Edgar Krauss

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2020

      A SHIFT IN CAPITALISM

      NEW SOCIAL ARCHITECTURES

      by Ladislau Dowbor

      In this book, Ladislau Dowbor analyzes a set of changes in capitalism that suggests we are in transition to another system of production, leaving behind the so-called industrial era and developing something new, which the author calls the Age of Knowledge. However, new does not necessarily mean better: we may be living in a more connected and collaborative society, but old problems – such as environmental, social and economic ones – that are getting worse every day, in addition to individualized control over populations, through algorithms and artificial intelligence, weigh on the future of humanity. It is up to us to foresee the directions that this brave – or horrid – new world will take.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      August 2020

      Dissident identity

      themes for a new Brazilian history

      by Edgard Leite

      In ‘Dissident identity: themes for a new Brazilian History’, Edgard Leite continues the work done in 'Predators', which addresses the Brazilian history from the other side, rescuing facts, contradictions and ideas that, over the years and because of a historiography often biased, remained forgotten. A thorough job and an arduous task which the author is not exempt, but faces; as well as facing certain tradition in historical studies. With a concise writing, the author develops his argument from the idea that, since the Copernican revolution, mankind turned to quantity over quality. It is precisely this world that will emerge from Brazil, since the arrival of Europeans will just at a time when the effects of the Copernican turning shall introduce into Europe. Another important point for understanding the history of Brazil will be the secularization of the state, which is strengthened by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution is, above all, its most acute event. Understanding the relationship between state and religion and, especially, the understanding of the concept of mind, will be central to a discussion of the values that shape - or fail to shape - a society. The book ends with the 1964 event, and the reader will wait that the author addresses in forthcoming books, the continuation of Brazilian history. Always with his provocative and powerful bias.

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