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September 1975The Best of H. C. Artmann
by H. C. Artmann, Klaus Reichert
Von allen deutschen Autoren, die nach 1945 zu schreiben begannen, ist Artmann ohne jeden Zweifel der vielseitigste, originellste und erfinderischste. So wie Artmann in fast allen Gattungen gearbeitet hat, auch den angeblich antiquierten, und ohne sich um die Tagesparolen der mal reine Dichtung betreibenden, mal engagierten, mal die Literatur totsagenden Kollegen zu kümmern, so hat er seine Quellen, seine Herkunft überall: in der Artusepik, in barocker Schäferpoesie, in den Wörterbüchern und Grammatiken von gut zwei Dutzend Sprachen, in Irland und im England des Sherlock Holmes, bei Villon und dem Wiener Vorstadtdialekt, Lorca, Gomez de la Serna, den Surrealisten und Dadaisten, in den Detektivheftchen der 20er Jahre und den Comic strips von damals bis heute. Unsere Auswahl versucht, nicht nur einen repräsentativen Querschnitt durch das Werk Artmanns zu geben, sondern gleichzeitig Verstreutes, an entlegensten Orten Publiziertes zu sammeln.
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October 1998Che Guevara
Biographie
by Jorge G. Castañeda, Christiane Barckhausen-Canale, Sven Dörper, Ursula Gräfe, Udo Rennert
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, genannt „Che"", war bereits vor seinem Tod am 8. Oktober 1967 zur Legende geworden, zum Mythos, der Lebensgefühl und Ideologie einer ganzen Generation weltweit maßgeblich geprägt hat. Sein Porträt, auf Postern und T-Shirts gedruckt, war überall zu finden, ob in Versammlungsräumen von Studenten, auf den Straßen oder in den Zimmern der Jugendlichen. Die Biographie von Jorge G. Castañeda beschreibt umfassend und detailliert Che Guevaras Leben, von den bürgerlichen Anfängen in Argentinien bis zum Tod des Guerrillero in Bolivien. Castañedas Buch ist zugleich eine kenntnisreiche Darstellung der Zeitgeschichte Kubas und Lateinamerikas von Beginn der Aufstände in der Sierra Escambray bis zum bolivianischen Abenteuer. Castañeda untersucht die internationalen, weltpolitischen Verflechtungen der kubanischen Revolution und zeigt, wie die diplomatischen und militärischen Aktionen ihrer Protagonisten unser Jahrhundert veränderten. Das größte Symbol der Rebellion der sechziger Jahre steht noch heute, am Ende des Jahrtausends, auch in den Augen der nachfolgenden Jugend für Erneuerung, für die Möglichkeit eines „neuen Menschen“. Als einer der besten Kenner der Zeitgeschichte hat Jorge G. Castañeda zahlreiche unbekannte Quellen auswerten können, private und öffentliche Dokumente aus Lateinamerika und den USA, insbesondere die lange Zeit geheimgehaltenen Dokumente der CIA und des FBI, er hat aktuelle Berichte verarbeitet, eine Vielzahl von persönlichen Interviews mit noch lebenden Freunden und Mitkämpfern geführt. Drei Jahre hat Castañeda sich den Recherchen und der Niederschrift des Buches gewidmet, ist mehrmals nach Kuba gereist, nach Argentinien, Frankreich, Bolivien, nach Moskau, in die USA.
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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)October 2021El año de la rata
by Jorge Alderete
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe past does not exist
Essay on history
by Justo Serna
What is history? At some point in time, it was thought that it was a useless discipline, as if itwere only ornamental knowledge. Investigating about the recent or remote past is not a hobby, it is a practical activity that helps the individual and the community. But history can’t just tell people what they want to hear. The past is inert, fatal, something that cannot be reproduced.The past does not exist but vestiges remain, remnants of actions, traces of the past that areremembered with a current meaning, not always coinciding with what they had. In this book, Justo Serna makes a defense of the historian’s profession as a teacher and of history as a discipline, since the acquisition of a historical culture helps to know the kind of individuals we are or aspire to be.
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Christian theologySalvation
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.
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March 2019Las lentejas de la guerra
by da Casa de Cantos, Fernando
This book pays tribute to a whole generation of people condemned to live through one of the most difficult and turbulent historical periods, not only in Spain but also in the rest of the world. War Lentils tells human stories of run-of-the-mill individuals who, as everybody, dreamt of a better world, conceived from very different points of view. Alternative solutions were proposed, but none of them was definitely legitimate, ending invariably in a collective failure from which the coming generations should learn. Este libro supone un homenaje a toda una generación que le tocó vivir unos años convulsos, difíciles, no solo en España sino en todo el planeta.Relata historias de gentes sencillas que ansiaban –como todos– un mundo mejor, visto desde prismas diferentes, con soluciones muy distintas que desembocaron en un fracaso colectivo del que las generaciones siguientes deberíamos aprender. Los personajes de esta novela son secundarios; podrían haber sido estos como podrían haber sido otros, escogidos entre cientos o miles de testimonios familiares que aún perviven en la memoria más secreta y callada de nuestros mayores. La verdadera protagonista es la Historia: esa, con mayúsculas, que debe ayudarnos a ser mejores personas.
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Crime & mysteryJuly 2018Donde lloran los demonios
by Martí Martínez, Pedro
Inspector Cesar Giralt enjoys a period of happiness previously denied to him since the brutal murder of his sister by the criminal known as the locker seven years before. However, when life shows him its nicer side, the shadow of his worst fears comes back to Barcelona together with the coldest winter that the city has experienced for several years. The body of another dead girl reaches the same beach where, years before, had appeared, in the same circumstances, one of the locker's victims. El inspector César Giralt disfruta de una felicidad que le había sido negada desde el cruel asesinato de su hermana a manos del encerrador siete años atrás. Pero cuando la vida por fin le muestra su lado más amable, la sombra de sus peores miedos regresa a Barcelona de la mano del invierno más frío de los últimos años. El cadáver de una chica llega a la misma playa en la que apareció, en idénticas circunstancias, una de las víctimas del Encerrador. ¿Es posible que se trate de un imitador? ¿O acaso el asesino de Eva ha vuelto de entre los muertos? Ayudado por su equipo, el inspector Giralt emprenderá una última travesía por los recovecos de su pasado para descubrir qué tipo de persona es en realidad antes de afrontar un último baile con el mismísimo diablo.
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Personal & social issuesDecember 2019Serendipias
by Martínez, Elena
A novel for young people, for families, for everyone, about bullying, abuse, racism and those who feel different at school. Motivational youth novel.
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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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May 2019Cuando tomábamos café
by Sánchez, José Carlos
The heart of Madrid becomes a stage that beats at every step of the protagonists of this story. A novel that perfectly stages the society of the last years of the Franco regime and the conquest for freedom of a generation of brave women who fought to make themselves heard. Matesa, the most convulsive case of corruption under Franco, shakes the political and social landscape in increasingly difficult times. Unaware of this reality, Adela, a young woman from high society, only has eyes for Carlos, a young musician she has known since childhood and who only cares about two things: living without ties and her best friend Constanza. When we drank coffee it is a novel that reflects the social idealism and cultural movement that begins to boil in the streets of Madrid in the hope of changing things. A song to freedom, to how to survive amidst so much uncertainty, but above all, to the efforts of those women and men who inspire us today to fight for our identity, not to give up and to be free to the last consequences. El corazón de Madrid se convierte en un escenario que late a cada paso de los protagonistas de esta historia. Una novela que escenifica a la perfección la sociedad de los últimos años del régimen de Franco y la conquista por la libertad de una generación de mujeres valientes que lucharon por hacerse oír. Matesa, el caso de corrupción más convulso del franquismo, sacude el panorama político y social en unos tiempos cada vez más difíciles. Ajena a esta realidad, Adela, una joven de alta sociedad, solo tiene ojos para Carlos, un joven músico que conoce desde la infancia y al que solo le importan dos cosas: vivir sin ataduras y su mejor amiga Constanza. Cuando tomábamos café es una novela que refleja el idealismo social y movimiento cultural que empieza a bullir en las calles de Madrid con la esperanza de cambiar las cosas. Un canto a la libertad, a cómo sobrevivir entre tanta incertidumbre, pero, sobre todo, al empeño de esas mujeres y hombres que nos inspiran hoy en día a luchar por nuestra identidad, a no rendirnos y a ser libres hasta las últimas consecuencias.
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History of Western philosophyJuly 2020La visión del hombre en el pensamiento de Aristóteles
by Ramírez Daza y García, Rómulo; Del Toro Comte, Cristina
Aristóteles ha legado a la posteridad y a la cultura universal una gran herencia intelectual, dando solución de continuidad a su pasado y proyectándose luminosamente a su futuro que es justo nuestro presente. Sus ideas han sido acápite de muchas ciencias y sus enseñanzas han trascendido todas las fronteras desde Macedonia al resto del mundo, influenciando a intelectuales de toda cepa en distintos tiempos e intensidades diversas: filósofos, científicos, humanistas, teólogos y artistas; todo lo cual lo coloca como un “clásico” en el sentido fuerte del término. Releerlo es acercarse y descubrir sus magnas aportaciones que hoy en día damos por sentadas sin saber muchas veces que fueron suyas, y que se presentaron como novedosas y originales para su tiempo. Su visión del hombre se presenta unificada en este breve y conciso estudio, que permitirá adentrar al lector en una de las líneas más importantes del pensamiento del autor y en los fundamentos históricos y presentes de nuestra mentalidad occidental.
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September 2016Mursiyya
El talismán del yemení
by Reyes Puerta, Sergio
In the year 825 A.C., Abderraman II, the Emir of Cordoba, ordered the construction of Madina Mursiyya, the actual city of Murcia. Not many years before, a little boy called Omar, witness to one of the turning points that would spark off a bloody civil war in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, finds and secretly hides a pendant that will later disclose its power and significance. Always in the company of the aforementioned talisman, which belonged to the Yemeni man murdered next to the river Sangonera, Omar will be forced to act as a spy amid the fratricidal conflict if he wants to save his father from the unfair fate that abides him, shake off the yoke of his stepbrothers and recover his beloved from the grip of the emir and his favourite eunuch. For those purposes, he will have to get involved in the foundation of the city and at the same time confront, with the help of those who should have been his natural enemies, a number of intriguing characters who should have been his allies all through an extraordinary plot full of magic, innocence and adventures. En el 825 d.C. el emir de Córdoba, Abderramán II, ordenó la fundación de la ciudad de Mursiyya, la actual Murcia. Pocos años antes el pequeño Omar, testigo de uno de los decisivos sucesos que incitarían una cruenta guerra civil en el sureste de la península ibérica, encuentra y esconde un colgante que más tarde revelaría su poder e importancia. Acompañado de dicho talismán, propiedad del Yemení asesinado junto al río Sangonera, Omar deberá actuar como espía en el fraticida conflicto si quiere salvar a su padre de su injusto destino, liberarse del yugo de sus hermanastros y recuperar a su amada de las garras del emir y de su eunuco predilecto. Para ello deberá colaborar en la fundación de la ciudad sin dejar de enfrentarse, con la ayuda de los que deberían haber sido sus enemigos naturales, a intrigantes personajes de su propia facción en una insólita historia llena de magia, inocencia y aventuras. La sorprendente novela en la que la vida de nuestro entrañable protagonista Omar se entreteje con la de cerca de un centenar de personajes reales de los siglos IX y anteriores, y con la Historia de Murcia, su huerta y el resto de la antigua cora de Tudmir (Región de Murcia, Alicante, y parte de Almería y Albacete), y la del resto de al Andalus.
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FictionJune 2019El guardián de Omu
by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio
Juan suffers a spectacular camouflaged traffic accident, since his real objective was suicide. Then he discovers that it was not Juan, but an experienced special agent of the Solar Police of this galaxy, with jurisdiction over the entire solar system and a life completely opposite to what he had. Recover the memory and assume his situation, sharing mission and adventures with Yura, his eternal partner and co-worker.Argos recovers and learns to live "out of the box" again, facing alien species of clear negative polarity in his new mission. The very existence of planet Earth is in your hands.Without a doubt, it is a current and action novel. For minds of the New Earth, awake beings, with intuition, and capable of recreating in their imaginations scenarios, concepts, and fictitious events that could be very close to becoming real potentials in the immediate future.Take back the pleasure of fiction ... Or not.
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Children's & YAPanthera Leo
by Molina, Alicia
Julia is going through a bad time: her mom and her dad are going to go away for three months to finish their diplomas outside of the country and they have left her aunt Sofía in charge of her, meaning, apart from changing house, she will also have to change school. There Julia will meet every kind of specimens: a protective elephant miss, and an understanding giraffe, some obedient zebras, and a dangerous tigress with whom she will fight against more than once. Julia will have to overcome many obstacles alone, and still, in the middle of it, she will have to find time to visit his very peculiar friend: Panther leo.
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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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Literary FictionMay 2021Outside of time
by Silvia Bardelás
"Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors. The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.
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Children's & YAApril 2019La ley de expansión de Hubble
El Universo
by Selvi, Santi / Morocho, Luis
The union of a doctor in Astronomy and Maths and a comic book artist, brings the whole family closer to the secrets of the Universe, an informative comic book.
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Children's & YASiwar, the Guardian Jaguar
by Falcón Maldonado, Cristina
A stray dog goes to the park to play and share stories with other dogs, which have different lives than its own. Sometimes these are tempting, but he prefers his freedom. One day, a particular being comes out from its shadow: Siwar, a guardian jaguar that soon will become a dear friend for the dog. After long conversations under the light of luminous bones, Siwar will give the protagonist a mission: become the new partner of Sisa, a girl who recently lost a very special friend…
