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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?

      • 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.

      • 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.

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