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January 2020Meine Freunde, das Glück und ich
by Elisenda Roca, Rocio Bonilla, Ursula Bachhausen
"Meine Freunde, das Glück und ich" von Elisenda Roca, illustriert von Rocio Bonilla, entführt junge Leser*innen in ein farbenfrohes und vielfältiges Viertel, in dem die Hauptfigur Violetta zusammen mit ihrem Hund Struppi und einer bunten Gemeinschaft aus Nachbarskindern und deren Familien lebt. Diese Gemeinschaft zeichnet sich durch einzigartige Diversität und Zusammenhalt aus, der besonders deutlich wird, als alle zusammenkommen, um ein großes Nachbarschaftsfest zu organisieren. Von der Gestaltung der Girlanden durch die Familie Wang aus dem Asia-Shop über musikalische Beiträge von Lando und seiner Familie bis hin zu den Konditor-Papas, die den Kuchen beisteuern – jedes Kind und jede Familie bringt sich mit ihren individuellen Talenten ein. Trotz eines unerwarteten Gewitters, das die Vorbereitungen zunächst zunichtemacht, lässt sich die Gemeinschaft nicht entmutigen und zeigt, dass gemeinsam jedes Hindernis überwunden werden kann. Dieses Buch ist ein lebendiges Beispiel für ein modernes Miteinander und vermittelt Kindern ab 3 Jahren auf spielerische Weise die Bedeutung von Vielfalt, Freundschaft und gegenseitiger Unterstützung. Förderung von Diversität und Toleranz: Zeigt Kindern auf natürliche Weise die Vielfalt von Lebensentwürfen und kulturellen Hintergründen. Stärkung des Gemeinschaftssinns: Unterstreicht die Bedeutung von Zusammenarbeit und gemeinschaftlichem Engagement. Wunderschöne Illustrationen: Rocio Bonillas farbenfrohe und detailreiche Bilder fangen die Aufmerksamkeit der jungen Leser und unterstützen die Botschaft der Geschichte. Einfache, kindgerechte Sprache: Kurze Sätze und eine klare Botschaft machen das Buch auch für jüngere Kinder zugänglich. Wertvolle Lebenslektionen: Vermittelt wichtige Werte wie Hilfsbereitschaft, Akzeptanz und die Freude am gemeinsamen Feiern. Positive Rezensionen: Beliebt bei Eltern und Kindern, bestätigt durch zahlreiche positive Rückmeldungen. Empfohlen von der Stiftung Lesen: Eine anerkannte Empfehlung, die Eltern bei der Auswahl qualitativ hochwertiger Lektüre für ihre Kinder unterstützt. Erfolgreiche Illustratorin: Über 30.000 verkaufte Bilderbücher von Rocio Bonilla sprechen für die hohe Qualität und Beliebtheit der Illustrationen.
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I Follow The Voices of Soft, Quiet Goddesses
by Hugo Roca Joglar
There is an idea by D.H. Lawrence: 'we are the secret dreams of our grandmothers.' But not the dreams they openly accepted and pursued, rather the secret dreams: those they denied, and merely thinking about them plunged them into fear and guilt. This Hugo Roca's definitive exploration of this concept: It begins with the death of his grandmother and ends with the imminent birth of his daughter, and in between, he narrates his struggle to establish a different flow, where through a process of re-educating himself (which leads to confront the most horrible demons of his lineage), he seeks to stop lying and to have no more secrets: to decipher his hidden dreams so as not to pass on the curse of embodying them to his daughter. A narrative that redefines parenthood and embarks on a profound quest for new forms of beauty.
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Temor y valor en seis días:
by Yehuda Reves
Temor y valor en seis días: El testimonio de un soldado isarelí en perspectiva por Yehuda Reves A través del visor de un bazuca, este libro ofrece una visión crítica de temor, valor y orgullo, muerte y amor, amistad y odio, realidad y sueños místicos, de la fe y de lo laico, así como del final y el comienzo. Se trata de una colección de manuscritos, relatos y pensamientos escritos de manera intermitente durante un período de más de cuarenta años en el diario de un combatiente, durante las batallas de la Guerra de los Seis Días y tras ellas. Aquí se pinta una amarga y cruel realidad: cómo soldados matan, son heridos y mueren en el campo de batalla. Aquí se describen hechos entremezclados con imaginación y sueños. Se trata de una descripción que ejemplifica la índole de la sociedad masculina en el ejército israelí, con su combinación de ingenio, tosquedad e inocencia. Este libro fue escrito en el frente de batalla en el norte de Samaria y en el norte de los Altos del Golán. El autor sirvió en el cuerpo de blindados, como comandante de una compañía formada por seis vehículos. Todos estos manuscritos estaban atascados como balas en el cañón de un arma desde el fin de la guerra antes de que estuvieran listos para su recopilación en un volumen que incluye ahora las vivencias y la perspectiva de otro período de más de cuarenta años. Yehuda Reves es un silvicultor que durante toda su vida ha observado a personas, árboles, arbustos, el suelo y rocas inanimadas con un asombro inalterado. Ha tenido a su cargo la recolección de semillas y la propagación y plantación de árboles por cuenta del Departamento de Silvicultura de Israel. Hoy día viaja y se ocupa de la reproducción de plantas silvestres del Mediterráneo. El autor sirvió durante 32 años como oficial subalterno de reserva en el ejército israelí y participó en cuatro guerras. Está casado y tiene dos hijas y nueve nietos.
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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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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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Andreaa Constantin
by Esteban Torres Lana
A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2020Casas
by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió
The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.
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July 2018Practical Feline Behaviour
Understanding Cat Behaviour and Improving Welfare
by Trudi Atkinson
Practical Feline Behaviour contains all the relevant information that a veterinary nurse or technician needs to understand and handle the behaviour and welfare of house cats, and to offer safe and practical advice to clients. There have been ground-breaking advances in our understanding of feline behaviour in recent years and, to protect the welfare of cats, it is increasingly important that anyone involved with their care, especially those in a professional capacity, keep up to date with these developments. This approachable and down-to-earth text describes the internal and external influences on feline behaviour; on communication, learning, social behaviour, the relationship between behaviour and disease, and the cat - human relationship. It also provides practical advice on how the welfare of cats in our care may be protected and how behaviour problems should be addressed and how to avoid them. In this book Trudi Atkinson draws on her extensive experience as a veterinary nurse and a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist to provide a rapid reference and an intensely practical feline behaviour resource for owners, breeders, veterinary professionals, shelter and cattery workers and anyone involved in the care of our feline companions. - Practical, down to earth guide detailing all aspects of feline behaviour - Rapid reference for instant access to information - Written by a well-known animal behaviourist who has extensive experience in treating feline behaviour problems and in advising clients to protect the welfare of their cats - Includes a foreword by John Bradshaw, School of Veterinary Science at University of Bristol, UK
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Picture books2019Matico
by Macarena Roca, Pamela Martínez
A picture book that tells the adventures of a girl and her herbalist grandmother in landscapes of exuberant nature in southern Chile. Together they will reveal secrets of the countryside and the power of nature and healing plants. The book teaches us about the trascendental of transferring traditions from generation to generation. This is one of the most important heritage that we can pass on to our children to preserve culture and identity. Matico returns to the memories from childhood. It portrays the life of individual cultists who represent a different lifestyle within the horizon of modernity.
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FictionLa noche de plata
by Elia Barceló
Who was responsible for the disappearance of a ten year old girl, thirty years ago? Police inspector Carola Rey Rojo, recently retired, will have to travel back in time and enter the heart of darkness in order to resolve this cold case. A Literary Crime Novel full of unexpected twists, as is the author's trademark.
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Food & DrinkMarch 2019Mother's Cooking
by Joan Roca
A book bringing together typical homemade cuisine with eighty simple recipes for everyone to make at home. Mother’s cooking, traditional cooking, brought up to date, but keeping its ties to the very deeply rooted need to recover and perpetuate the most authentic dishes loved by everyday people. Uncomplicated, non-technical recipes, but with Joan Roca’s special touch. The book contains three types of recipes: our mother’s dishes, the ones we’ve known our whole lives; adaptations for modern palates, with less fat or sugar; others that represent the evolution of traditional recipes with modernized flavors. The book is structured with the classic organization of recipes: starters, fish, meat, eggs, vegetables, sweets. And it will give a brief introduction to basic techniques, with clear, uncomplicated explanations. An homage to all our mothers’ cooking.
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PhilosophyJune 2017Ejercicios espirituales para materialistas
El diálogo (im)posible entre Pierre Hadot y Michel Foucault
by Luis Roca Jusmet
Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault, two of the most important representatives of contemporary Philosophy of the second half of the 20th century, are cult authors. But, although they share to belong to the same country and the same generation, they have diametrically opposite life and philosophical trajectories. It will be in the early eighties when Foucault, interested in the Alexandrian and Roman schools of the beginning of our era, will begin to treat Hadot's works on the subject. From this meeting, the book deepens into philosophy understood as the art of life and reflects on the most urgent ethical and political problems of the moment in which we live. * * * Pierre Hadot y Michel Foucault, dos de los más importantes representantes de la filosofía contemporánea de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, son autores de culto. Pero, aunque comparten la pertenencia a un mismo país y a una misma generación, tienen trayectorias vitales y filosóficas diametralmente opuestas. Será a principios de los años ochenta cuando Foucault, interesado por las escuelas alejandrinas y romanas de principios de nuestra era, comenzará a tratar los trabajos de Hadot sobre el tema. A partir de este encuentro, el libro profundiza sobre la filosofía entendida como arte de vida y reflexiona sobre los problemas éticos y políticos más urgentes del momento en el que vivimos.
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Children's & YAApril 2021Savages
by Antonio Ramos Revillas
Efraín’s life —complicated and with shortcomings— continues impassive, until one day his Mum is violently taken by the police. He and his brothers, Fredy and Marcos, will have to look for all the ways to release her from a cruel system that labels and discriminates them. To build a future for their family, they will have to be cautious of asking help from the wrong people, as any false step could entangle them with the cartels of his neighborhood.
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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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Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)2009Mystery 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.
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PoetryDecember 2021Atrito
by Reynaldo Jiménez
Se dice de la irradiación como la emisión de radiaciones luminosas, térmicas o magnéticas. Las palabras de alta actividad contienen elementos cuya irradiación se puede mantener durante siglos. Leer ATRITO en voz alta, direcciona a percibir la sonoridad potente. El mantra de una poética. Palabras no ordinarias, palabras de alienígena lenguaje, invenciones, reunión de sílabas para la ejecución gutural: nuevos sonidos. Partitura. Cántico. Abducción dicción. Algo conmociona por dentro con estas reverberaciones. Por alguna extraña razón, todo siempre coincide en una danza. Imagen: carátula: mantra sonoro. Radiaciones visuales donde lo Escheriano converge, rizoma. Radiaciones palabras emitidas desde cada página: El aire, el tacto, las acciones de las manos, la respiración: Anahata. No es necesario explicar la transmisión puesto que es, sucede. ATRITO potencia como cuando las grandes olas golpean contra las rocas. Una y otra vez. Así.
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Visitaciones
by Olga Gutiérrez
Se dice de la irradiación como la emisión de radiaciones luminosas, térmicas o magnéticas. Las palabras de alta actividad contienen elementos cuya irradiación se puede mantener durante siglos. Leer ATRITO en voz alta, direcciona a percibir la sonoridad potente. El mantra de una poética. Palabras no ordinarias, palabras de alienígena lenguaje, invenciones, reunión de sílabas para la ejecución gutural: nuevos sonidos. Partitura. Cántico. Abducción dicción. Algo conmociona por dentro con estas reverberaciones. Por alguna extraña razón, todo siempre coincide en una danza. Imagen: carátula: mantra sonoro. Radiaciones visuales donde lo Escheriano converge, rizoma. Radiaciones palabras emitidas desde cada página: El aire, el tacto, las acciones de las manos, la respiración: Anahata. No es necesario explicar la transmisión puesto que es, sucede. ATRITO potencia como cuando las grandes olas golpean contra las rocas. Una y otra vez. Así.
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Literature & Literary StudiesProfesor Sísifo
by Álex Saldías
Un profesor recién egresado inicia un patético y revelador camino al enfrentarse por primera vez a alumnos desinteresados y a un sistema sin interés por educarlos. Sus ilusiones como docente, la responsabilidad con los estudiantes, su creatividad artística, las posibilidades económicas o sociales son las piedras que empuja durante el año escolar. La fatalidad no está en el peso de esas rocas, sino en la montaña que hace imposible ascender. La inutilidad del esfuerzo humano dentro de un sistema educacional injusto trata de cobrar algún sentido en el caos de esta novela de prosa recursiva y ágil, pero atomizada en guías de aprendizaje, currículums de vida y autoevaluaciones pedagógicas que no tienen una verdadera razón de ser.
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Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)2009Mystery in the Camp
by Beatriz García-Huidobro
The follow up of the adventures of Diego and his friends. This time the mystery moves to a camp located in the Andes mountains. There, the stories of suspense are intertwined and will keep the readers' interest.
