December 2007
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THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF STONES
by VICTORIA PÉREZ ESCRIVÁ / ESTER GARCÍA
Everything has a good side and a bad side. Life doesn’t always let us see both. Sometimes from bad things we get good things. But it also happens the other way around, from good things we get bad things. Life can be as cryptic as a stone. Sometimes tripping over one can save your life. That is the Secret Language of Stones.
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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.
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POPPY
by SUSANA PEIX / CAROLINA LUZÓN
This new-born elephant is particular, small and orange colored. Her mom called her Poppy. The other moms were worried because she was different, and pushed Poppy away. Her mom backed her, and together began their new way.
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LEO & LISA
BEYOND THE ONE & ONLY CITY
by MIGUEL ÁNGEL SÁEZ
The world has changed. There’s just one city left standing: The One & Only City. Leo is an inventor who uses recycled materials. Lisa is the test pilot. They believe that beyond the walls of The One & Only City there is life, but classmates bully them, the teacher ridicules them and the city’s tycoon pursues them. However, Leo and Lisa are willing to do anything to prove them wrong.
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THE MIND-EATERS
by DAVID BLANCO LASERNA / CELSIUS PICTOR
Zombies are real, in nature they are everywhere, only they live on a different scale. There are fungi, plants and parasitic worms specialized in taking over the bodies and minds of different insects through very refined methods. In this twenty cases of possession you will know of cicadas devoured by mushrooms, crickets to drowned by worms, ants impaled by mushrooms, worms that invade snails’ eyes to draw attention of birds to be eaten by them…
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CLOSE YOUR EYES
by VICTORIA PÉREZ ESCRIVÁ / CLAUDIA RANUCCI
Two brothers describe reality in a different way. One of them uses eyesight. The other one uses the rest of the senses. Thus, their world is richer.
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THE JOURNEY TO JOY
by ELENA FERRÁNDIZ
A book about how to heal, how to believe, how to learn from failure, how to stand up again… About dreams, smiles, thankfulness…
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Historical fictionA Lantern at Noonday
by Roger Butters
Ancient Rome, during the troubled joint reign of the Emperor Caracalla and his hated brother Geta. The authorities are puzzled by a series of prostitute murders in the notorious Subura district. Quintus Celer, a chariot-racing trainer whose own racing career was cut short by injury, is instructed to investigate by the young aristocrat Gaius Numerianus, anxious to clear his name after being unjustly suspected of the murder of his wife, one of the victims. Other leading characters, most of whom appeared in the prequel The Noblest Roman, are Gaius’s feisty sister Lucilia and her latest husband, the enigmatic Titus Sinopean, the Emperor’s trusty advisor and greatest friend Marcus Granua, and Granua’s cousin, the notorious tavern brawler and tribade Flavia Rufina. Quintus’s enquiries lead him not only deep into the seedy Roman underworld, but the even more lethal environment of imperial power politics, before the surprising truth is revealed. An epic historical novel, set in Rome 211-212 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Sequel to The Noblest Roman, by Roger Butters, published by Janus Publishing Company Limited, London 2009. Approximately 121,000 words.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2015American Authors Unplugged
Interviews about Books
by Martha Cinader
Representative of modern American Literature, the conversations with authors in this book are evenly divided between men and women who bring to life the experiences of natives, immigrants, slaves and rebels. As a whole, they address the enduring themes of freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Following is a list of the authors interviewed. For further information about the interviews please refer to the supporting document. Rudolfo Anaya - Zia Summer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Sister of My Heart Russel Banks - Cloudsplitter Nora Okja Keller - Comfort Woman Dr. Leonard Shlain - The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Barbara Chase-Riboud - The President's Daughter A.A. Carr - Eye Killers Lan Cao - Monkey Bridge Hal Sirowitz - My Therapist Said Kate Horsley - Crazy Woman Dennis McFarland - A Face at the Window
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September 2013The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
First new unabridged translation since 1876 of one of Verne's best-known novels.
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War & combat fictionMay 2014Hook Up
A Novel of Fort Bragg
by William P. Singley
It was an Army between wars. Korea was a fresh memory for some soldiers and Vietnam was only an insignificant blip on the military radar. It was an Army in which reluctant draftees mixed with aimless volunteers looking for adventure and ways to test or confirm their manhood. In those days and in that Army, “hook-up” was a jump command for paratroopers rather than a romantic liaison. Hook Up: A Novel of Fort Bragg takes us inside that Army and introduces fascinating characters who are struggling to become paratroopers and survive in a starch-stiff U.S. Army airborne regiment based at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Side-by-side in that demanding trek are officers like Lieutenant Sy Margolin, a potential nebbish who instead becomes a strong leader, and enlisted men like Privates Willie Patterson and Scott Breslin, who challenge authority every step of the way to winning their paratrooper wings. In Hook Up we get a close-up, very personal, and fascinating look at an Army that no longer exists—an Army populated with soldiers who have either learned hard life lessons or are about to learn them in a crucible where failure can land you in the stockade or in the morgue. From the rigors of barracks life to the raucous off-post adventures to the thrilling jump sequences, Hook Up is a fast-paced, thrilling story of military excellence pursued and human innocence lost.
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Famous Last Words
by Mónica Beltrán Brozón
Published for the first time in 2000, this collection includes fourteen short stories of one of the most renowned Children’s and YA Mexican books author. These tales provide a sarcastic and critic point of view, through which the protagonists confront the big system, sometimes coherent and other chaotic, that conforms life and death. This new edition represents the publisher’s interest to retrieve a collection that due to its author’s style and spirit, remains fresh and attractive for young readers.
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EducationIdentity, Learning and Support in Virtual Environments
by Tettegah, S.
Virtual worlds and other virtual environments offer an adaptable context for applied and situated learning experiences. In this book, educators, instructional designers, librarians, administrators and scholars reflect on how to leverage constructivist, authentic, collaborative and complex interactive educational experiences through the use of these multisensory environments. Explore the intersection of presence, personal and group identity, culture, immersive learning experiences, multiuser virtual environments(MUVEs) and massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) with eleven multidisciplinary researchers. The examples range from K-12 to university educational experiences and highlight critical information from a variety of MUVEs, such as Second Life, Active Worlds, There, and several MMORPGs, including Ultima Online, Everquest and the World of Warcraft.
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The Traveller's Tales
by Brad Florescu
A witty collection of tales from around the world, retold for nowadays children. The fabulous illustrations of Ștefan Georgescu add a magical touch to each and every tale. The second volume in the series Tales Around the World.
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Children's & YAMay 2020Us
by Michele Cocchi
Tommaso is 16 years old, and hasn’t left the house for 18 months – in fact, he barely leaves his room. He is what psychologists refer to as hikikomori: literally “pulling inward, being confined”. One day, he suddenly abandoned basketball, school, and all his hobbies, and now spends his time watching old NBA matches and playing video games. There is one game in particular which determines the structure of his days, and has become his only means of socialisation. The game is called Us: a multiplayer game where teams of three players carry out 100 challenges per year, one each day. The team that completes the challenge first, while staying united as a group, wins. Tommaso’s avatar, whose head is a skull, is called Logan. His other team members are Rin: a girl who resembles a Japanese manga character, and Hud: a character straight out of a shooter game. These three do not know each other – according to the rules of the game, they are not allowed to discuss their private lives – but they soon become friends. Every day, Us provides them with a “historical” mission. They will fight either for the victims or for the perpetrators – for example, as part of the Colombian FARC, with the German Nazis, or in support of Mandela in South Africa. Every day, they must work out how to reach the end of the mission while surrounded by the horrors of the twentieth century. Every day, they will have someone to save and someone to kill. They will soon discover that history can be brutal, and that it’s not always possible to be the hero.
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April 2019Migrazioni e modernità
Una lettura generativa
by Emanuele, Iula
This book starts with an upside down turn of perspective. If a sense must be searched and found in the phenomenon of human mobility, we cannot content ourselves with the knowledge of a possible future for migrants in their country of arrival. We could rather ask whether these people give a future and open up new understandings to the societies they come to. This turn is the cornerstone offered by a “generative thinking” to the debate on migration.
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Poetry by individual poetsMay 2011Shades
by Heather McHugh
An exquisite series of poems that explore living and dying.
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2017De synthèse / The Imago State
by Karoline Georges
A story of luminous lucidity, the kind that can free the consciousness and thrill the soul, De synthèse shines a light on the end of a filial relationship. It is told from the point of view of an image-obsessed woman reunited with her family just as her mother enters a terminal phase following a long period of suffering. It’s a story about the body, about disappearance, about reflections, about composition and decomposition. Winner of several literary awards. To learn more about this title, click here: https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/de-synthese/
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2020Dance Factor
by Aurora Marsotto
When the dance teacher announces that she’s entered her students in the Young Dance Competition, everyone is thrilled! Well…, almost everyone. Alice is twelve and, even though she’s done ballet for five years, she’s never gotten over her stage fright. Of course, what happened last year – when she turned right and everyone else turned left… right there… right in front of everyone… – only made things worse! So, just forget it! There’s no way Alice is going on stage! That is, unless Leonardo, who’s just joined the class, can change her mind…
