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Pastrengo is a Milan-based literary agency founded on September 2016 by Francesco Sparacino and Michele Turazzi. Pastrengo represents Italian authors of fiction (commercial and literary, young adult) and non fiction.
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)2008Bestiario azteca (Aztec bestiary)
by Ianna Andréadis, Élisabeth Foch
Eagle, grasshopper, jaguar, butterfly, dog, monkey, feathered serpent, all these animals, real or mythological, tiny or majestic, carry a message. Forty works drawn with pen or brush have a dialogue with the texts of Elisabeth Foch, By taking us to a journey through the museums of Anthropology, the Templo Mayor in Mexico and the collections of the musée du quai Branly in Paris, this book takes us into the world of an ancient Mexico.
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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)August 2018Animal
Poemas breves salvajes
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero
"Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.
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Tiempo de otoño
by Concha Pasamar
A timeless album that explores the beauty of apparently insignificant moments and subtly encourages us to live them from a perspective attentive to the present—a brief itinerary through the sensations that the arrival of autumn causes in the protagonist. A book of discovery, an ode to change and beauty.
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Children's & YAUMA AND THE WATER OF THE SEA
Story based in an ancient Aymara ritual
by Colomba Elton
Uma is an Aymara girl who lives in the high Andean zone and dreams of seeing the sea. This becomes a reality thanks to the imperative need of her community: to obtain sea water for a ritual that allows the rains to return to her village. This story allows us to understand how some people from South America, whose ancestors occupied the territory long before the current borders were established, live. It shows how some communities have a close relationship with their geography and the cycles of nature, and thank through offerings to the Pachamama or Mother Earth. This helps us to remember that we all depend on nature, but we have moved away from it. The story also speaks to us of austerity, of a simple life, in the midst of an era of extreme consumerism; a simple life, but, precisely because of this, valuable and full of meaning.
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2022El hilo (Crónica de los días en los que se paró el mundo)
by Eva Santana López
After a week of lockdown due to the pandemic, a teenager trapped alone in her flat in Barcelona glances at the empty street and spies through the window on her neighbour across the street, Samuel. He soon notices her and, although at first he labels her as a snoop, they end up becoming friends. Together they try to discover who is the mysterious stranger dressed in yellow who wanders around the neighbourhood, raising the alarm bells of the two youngsters: Could he be the criminal the media call “the Eixample killer”?
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Feminism & feminist theoryNovember 2020Of Love and Other Lemons
by Katrina Stuart Santiago
Of Love and Other Lemons is a collection that plays with the form of the personal essay, turning it on its head, insisting on the we versus the i, the distant versus the familiar, even as it can only be about the persona/l. As such it is honest but impersonal, particularly of one but speaking of (if not for) the other, creative nonfiction premised on what remains fictional for women on this side of the third world. Here are, and ultimately, essays about being raised a girl in Manila, feminist in the academe, woman struggling with/in the silences and noise of nation everyday.
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Children's & YAAugust 2021Lo que no se comprende
by Inés Arredondo
A selection of short stories by Inés Arredondo, in which the feminine, the sensuality, the eroticism, the unspeakable desire, death, the sordid, and otherness are recurrent themes, and they are part of what can´t be understood, of the intangible that are present in the daily life of its characters. This edition exquisitely illustrated by the young Mexican woman John Marceline contains stories like “Summer”, “Shadows between shadows”, “Mariana”, “The Shunammite”, “Opus 123”, among others.
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IllustrationOctober 2022Intervals
The silence of images
by Guridi
In this new book, Guridi off ers us his creative vision of the picture book. He delves into the relationship between images and text, between space (physical and mental) and characters, and especially the intervals—the interstitial spaces that give rise to deep meaning of works of this kind, inviting the active participation of readers. His practical advice sets us on the path to our own truth and shows us how to capture it through the empty spaces of images.
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2022Encélado
by Amaya García Arregui y Alberto Mínguez
When the space shuttle Sila V takes off for the far reaches of the Solar System, it does so with the wrong crew: twelve children. The boys and girls, selected by WASA (the future NASA) to promote the Lunae 2 mission, come from twelve different countries and have very different social backgrounds. Faced with the impossibility of turning around, and during the two years of the trip, they will have to live in a framework of isolation and multiple difficulties, such as the demands of a hard training, the low gravity or the unknowns regarding their unexpected take-off.
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30 Days with María
by Esteban Torres Lana
A young woman at the brink of death is admitted into a hospital in La Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Soon, her doctors realize this woman, María Sa, has been chemically poisoned. Through handwritten journals, we realize that María, who is the son of Palestinian father, is implicating Prime Minister Netanyahu in the attempt to assassinate her. But we also discover through the journals that María is a free, polyamorous, independent spirit, enamored with the Palestinian cause and always looking for justice. The journals come to an abrupt end, 30 days after María has been admitted into the hospital.
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Business, Economics & LawWell Spent
How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
by Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, Geneviève Verdier
The book covers critical issues such as infrastructure investment and Sustainable Development Goals, controlling corruption, managing fiscal risks, integrating planning and budgeting, and identifying best practices in project appraisal and selection. It also covers emerging areas in infrastructure governance, such as maintaining and managing public infrastructure assets and building resilience against climate change.
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FictionThe Light in Isabel's Eyes
by Edmée Pardo
Four characters cross paths in a hospital: a woman about to give birth; a family facing the inexplicable death of one of their own; a man who falls ill; and a teenager persecuted among hundreds of women in an oppressive town. Their life is intertwined with secondary characters with whom they mix as they walk towards their separate destinies. In a violent city in the middle of the desert, death, birth, love, pain, and revenge are joined by the shadow of God or maybe by the shadow casted by his absence. Weaved in a net of actions that develops at full speed through a clean and poetic prose, this is a story that hurts and heals at the same time. This novel speaks of God and Spirit, of inner strength and emptiness, of solitude and communion, also of hope.
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Children's & YA2019Animal Love
A Crazy Flirt
by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas
We hug, kiss and cuddle when we are in love. We want to always be close to that special person and even surprise them with gifts. All these actions also take part in the animal kingdom, but not only that! Animals also present a range of endless strange behaviors that will leave you speechless: chases, choreographies and tricks are only some of the things animals do to flirt their mating partners in order to stay together. A book with a sense of humour, but with a scientific and theoretical basis, full of unusual and amusing facts that aim to arouse your curiosity through simple texts, but incorporating the terms used in this specific field, what will broaden the reader's lexicon.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 20182001 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?
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Literary Fiction
Foam
by Carlos Labbé
Foam is a long novel with a multitude of voices, which is also economical and metaphysical, about immigrants from different levels and origins in New York. It traverses from the years of presidents Obama and Trump until Black Lives Matter, the pandemic and the current attempts for reconstruction. Its reflexivity, eroticism, humor and hard action, framed in the musical structure of a Latin American “cantata”, bonds a profound memorial of the voices of missing people and survivors from the crisis of the last, hyper politicized, decade. This novel follows the stories of six characters that converge in a free concert during a crucial day in the Summer of 2021 Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The story bounces back and forth, rythmicall, from a Chinese systems analyst, to a Latina academic, to an activist reggaetonero, to a South American writer, to an indigineous chef, to an African American beach cleaner: the plethora of the American melting pot.
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Libelo de Sangre
by Sandra Aza
Madrid, winter of 1620. The happiness of the marriage formed by Sebastián Castro, a renowned clerk of the Villa, and Margarita Carvajal staggers when both become the main suspects of a blood libel: lawsuits that blame the Jews for sacrificing Christian children to collect their blood and whose jurisdiction belongs to the Holy Inquisition. With the bonfire hanging over them, their son Alonso, a thirteen-year-old boy, begins a desperate search for a way to save them, a purpose that tears her out of her warm existence and shows her the ice of life. In spite of everything, three headlights turn on light in the shadows of her misfortune: friendship, hope and a dream. Friendship is provided by Juan and Antonio, two rogue vagabonds. Hope beats in a bag full of money that seems to be pulling the strings of destiny. And the dream awaits him in college, where he plans to study law, become a lawyer, and exercise a law capable of preventing innocent people like his parents from suffering the rigors of injustice. Blood Libel is a fascinating story of love and friendship set in Madrid during the Golden Age, a vibrant but bleak time in which, while faith in God lit hearts, crimes against it lit bonfires.
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Science & MathematicsDel gusano cósmico al cerebro del pulpo
Ensayos sobre ciencia
by Juan Carlos Fontecilla Camps
Este libro describe una historia que comenzó hace unos 200 mil años, con la aparición de la especie humana probablemente en el cuerno de África. El mundo era un lugar lleno de incógnitas a las que, con el paso de los milenios, hemos procurado responder en el largo camino que lleva del mito a la ciencia. Nuestra curiosidad e inteligencia nos ha permitido descifrar, en gran medida, los misterios del universo, de la vida y de nosotros mismos. Hemos aprendido que, tras la aparente constancia y lógica del mundo en que vivimos, se esconden leyes físicas que rigen lo enormemente pequeño y lo inconmensurablemente grande. Sabemos también que la vida necesitó condiciones muy especiales para surgir y que su evolución no ha ocurrido de manera lineal ni estable; nuestra propia evolución es el fruto de múltiples cruzamientos entre diferentes grupos humanos hace cientos de miles de años. Solo somos la rama sobreviviente de un árbol muy frondoso. Los quince ensayos aquí contenidos abarcan temas que nos han fascinado desde hace mucho tiempo, como son el origen de la vida en la Tierra, la evolución biológica, la situación de nuestro planeta en el espacio, la microbiota, la inteligencia animal, la naturaleza de los virus, y también la teoría de la relatividad y los agujeros (hoyos) negros. Si bien son escritos con un estilo científico, estos ensayos están destinados a todo tipo de lector cuyo interés sea profundizar su comprensión de la realidad y de las curiosidades del mundo en que vivimos. Si no lo sabía ya, el lector verá que no ha sido fácil alcanzar la comprensión de la realidad de la que disponemos hoy. Históricamente, las instituciones humanas tienen tendencia a dar explicaciones de lo que no entienden aún y a preservarlas; mientras que la ciencia, por definición, es iconoclasta e innovadora.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fiction2019Fiesta!
Learn How People Celebrate in America
by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas
This book wants to celebrate the cultural richness that comes from the native people and from different migration processes that vitalize our whole continent. Along with an attractive design, based on illustrations and images, the objective is to encourage children to have a positive attitude towards reading a text of greater difficulty, and thus contribute to a comprehensive education, developing reading skills and the cultural heritage of little readers. At the same time you will discover shared experiences that unite us as one great nation—like slavery or the cycles of Mother Earth—which are remembered and celebrated in ways you would never have imagined. Find out and celebrate the most interesting and beautiful festivals in America, a continent full of colors!
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Fantasy
The Divine Language
by Gabriela Fonseca
The Roman Emperor Constantine believed that newborns knew the language of heaven but forgot it as soon as they learned to talk. To preserve the language, he built a palace where he held dozens of babies, fresh out of their mother wombs, and nurses who where in charge of feeding them and keeping them clean, but without touching them or speaking to them. As a result, all the babies withered and died without even crying. Despite this cruel outcome, a secret society was created with the purpose of finding and preserving the divine language the Emperor so desperately sought. Fast forward to 1960s Mexico City where Griselda is born in a family with a devout Catholic mother and an atheistic father. She was born eleven years after the death of Aaron, their first born, a boy who despite his young age, was completely devoted to God. Upon turning eight, Griselda suffers an accident that leaves her clinically death for ten minutes. Her mother, convinced that it was Aaron who resurrected her, becomes obsessed with getting the Church to canonize him, and ends up leaving Griselda to be raised by her father. Years later, and already a college student, Griselda adopts a boy left orphaned by the 1985 earthquake. His name is Moses. Griselda raises Moses as her career as a college professor takes off and she is hired by an international institution that gives her a house, a great salary, and puts Moses in the Luden Trask Mansion, where an important anthropological and historic study is taking place. Griselda finds a passionate relationship, while Moses, already twelve, suddenly and mysteriously disappears. Griselda will soon find out that the Luden Trask institution is just a cover for a powerful and secret society that is still trying to accomplish Constantine’s mission, and that they have abducted Moses. Now, Griselda faces a terrible dilemma where she may have to pay the highest of prices to save her son.
