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78 Pages·2017·13.03 MB·English

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index / fiction
9. Alves, Bárbara 19. Fernández, Empar 30. Pradas, Núria
Respira, Rebecca, respira Maldita verdad Sueños a medida
10. Amela, Víctor 20. García Carteron, Begoña 31. Ramos, Malenka
La filla del capità Groc La montaña maldita Quimera. Las edades bárbaras
Ariño ,Cari 21. Goitia, Fernando Rodríguez Lezaun, Susana
11. 32.
La rueda del olvido La sacudida Sin retorno
12. Barbal, Maria 22. Guhlam, Nadia & Diéguez, Javier 33. Santos, Care
En la piel del otro La primera estrella de la noche Media vida
Hernàndez, Gaspar
Bennasar, Sebastià 23.
13. La terapeuta 34. Santos, Care
El imperio de los leones
Diamant blau
Cantavella, Jordi 24. Maitena
14. Soler, Sílvia
35.
El brigadista Lo mejor de Maitena
Los viejos amigos
Miralles, Francesc
Castelló, Paz 25.
15.
Amor en minúscula 36. Tarragó Sílvia
Mi nombre escrito en la puerta de un
El tiempo de la luz
váter Miralles, Francesc
26.
37. R. Trigo, Xulio
Conde, Carmen Un rayo de esperanza
16.
El objetivo del crimen
La escritora
Miralles, Francesc & Santos, Care
27.
38. Valls, Coia
Doñate, Àngeles El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo
Etheria
17. El invierno que tomamos cartas en el
Moya, Elena
asunto 28. 39. Vídac, Rafel
La candidata
El hombre más rico del mundo
18. Esteve, Miquel
El fin de los secretos 29. Palomas, Alejandro
Un perro
index / non fiction
Bom&Bon
41. Pequeñas ideas antes de vivir en 46. Hernàndez, Gaspar 52. Riba, Albert
No soy de este mundo Tropa Sapiens
pareja
42. Domènech, Montse 47. Oaks, Lambert 53. Rovira, Álex
La vacuna contra el miedo Guía para la vida de Tyrion Lannister Los siete poderes
43. Estivill, Eduard 48. León, Pere 54. Sandoval, Eva
5 days for a perfect night sleep for La buena onda ¿Y tú qué crees?
your child
Vázquez, Nika
55.
44. Estivill, Eduard 49. Miralles, Francesc & García, Héctor
Aporta o aparta
Ser mamá: el antes y el después Ikigai
Folch, Montse 55. Vilaseca, Borja
45. 50. Percy, Allan
La dieta de los colores El principito se pone corbata
Platón para soñadores
Percy, Allan
51.
Serie Geniuses for daily life
index / young adult & children
58. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 65. García de Oro, Gabriel 72. Santos, Care
El libro de los rostros El club de los caníbales se zampa Drácula Sapere Aude - Eblu’s Trilogy
59. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 66. Lozano, David 73. Santos, Care
La puerta oscura
Excalibur - New Serie Britania William
60. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 67. Lozano, David 74. Santos, Care
La puerta del dragón Valkiria Laura Chef - El mejor bocadillo del mundo
61. Amor, Paula 68. Lozano, David 75. Sanz, Esther
Pedazos de ti El ladrón de minutos Yes, we dance
62. Carmona, Rocío 69. Lucas, Dorian 76. Sanz, Esther
La gramática del amor 99% feliz Si el amor es una isla
63. Evans, Justine 70. Miralles, Francesc & Ruescas, Javier 77. Seymour, Cliff
El octavo clan Latidos Los secretos del viejo Horace
Fernández-Vidal, Sonia & Bayés, 71. Palomas, Alejandro
64.
Pilarín Un hijo
El universo en tus manos
adult fiction
RESPIRA, REBECCA, RESPIRA
BÁRBARA ALVES Chick Lit
WHY THIS NOVEL?
Have you tried last winter’s clothes and you only like and
scarf? • This is Bárbara Alves’ first
Do you have a terrible salary, capable of making you novel, a new voice that
you don’t want to miss
laugh and cry at the same time?
out.
Do your children drive you crazy (and not because of
• Maybe Rebecca is like
how much you love them, precisely)?
you...
Is the WhatsApp group with your friends full of
affectionate labels like “bitch” or “son of a bitch”?
Is your husband an expert in eluding responsabilities?
Are there times you’d like to disappear from the world
Bárbara Alves is from Barcelona. She is with a giant Nutella jar?
304 pages.
39 years old and she has three kids, a If you have answered “yes” to three or more of these
husband, a dog, a cat and a long story. questions, then there is no doubt: this novelis for you.
You urgently need a good dose of laughing and reading.
She has liked to write since she was
young, and her mother can confirm it, Get hooked on to the phenomenon #RespiraRebecca.
with a box full of stories. She graduated
First
in Tourism and alternated studies with Rebecca, the protagonist of this novel, has three kids,
motherhood, as she had her first child a handsome husband with a tendency to slack off, an edition
when she was 23 years old. annoying and adorable mother, a shitty job and a group of 10.000
of friends that are totally crazy.
copies
She claims she’s addicted to any type of
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reading; books have marked her life and Rebecca thinks that problems are very rude. They have
Ediciones B (Spanish)
so she devours every story, the desire to the ugly habit of appearing all together, without a
write keeps on growing. warning.
Rebecca is imperfect, foul-mouthed, ingenious and
sincere. Maybe she is just like you…
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LA FILLA DEL CAPITÀ GROC
VÍCTOR AMELA Historical WHY THIS NOVEL?
Manuela Penarrocha is thirteen years old. Sitting on • Premi Ramon Llull 2016.
her low chair in her entrance hall, she sews sandals like The most famous and
no other. The girl with grey eyes and golden hair thinks prestigious prize in Cata-
of her father. He had taken ones like those to war, like lan language.
the rest of the Carlists, men of sandals, walking stick, • Three editions in two
blunderbuss and knife under their belts. She wants to months. More than
hug him, feel the warmth of his kiss on her forehead. 25.000 copies sold!
She misses his tough look, now filled with tenderness, • 8 weeks #1 in Catalan
fiction.
his loud laugh. She just wants him to get back to watch
• #1 on Sant Jordi’s day.
him fight for their ideals, to go back to his family and
• “Víctor Amela proves he
the town, the lost dignity, to life or to death.
420 pages.
Víctor Amela (1960) has worked as a knows how to use the
journalist half his life. Since 1984, he Tomàs Penarrocha Penarrocha, her father, is known in diferent lines of the plot,
has been writing chronicles, reviews and he keeps some surpri-
Forcall as the Blond, because the color of his hair.
and interviews for La Vanguardia. He ses for the reader that will
is a regular contributor to radio and keep everyone stuck to
TV shows, teaches journalism and the seat.” (...) “Significant-
mass communication, and has received ly, women play a strong
many prestigious awards. Amor contra Roma role as well.” Carles Barba,
He is the author of many non fiction Historical La Vanguardia.
Urgídar, a young Iberian
books such as Història cultural de
from Lesera, arrives in Rome Rights sold to:
l’audiovisual, La televisió-espectacle,
in the year 12 BC with the
Algunas cosas que he aprendido Planeta (Spanish and
intention of training as an
haciendo la contra, Estampas de la Catalan)
orator and poet. There he meets Ovid,
vida forcallana. His first novel was El Belfond (French)
whom he befriends, and witnesses the
cátaro imperfecto. Amor contra Roma
creation of his Ars Amatoria.
is his second work of fiction.
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LA RUEDA DEL OLVIDO
CARI ARIÑO Women’s Fiction
WHY THIS NOVEL?
La rueda del olvido is an emotional story in which the • Cari Ariño’s first novel
main characters, Alicia and Bautista, are looking for sold 22,000 books in 6
balance in their lives. The discovery of a portrait in an months. Two editions.
Isaac Asimov’s novel will leave a mark between them.
• Two parallel stories,
intriguing and full of
Throughout the pages, the reader will find two parallel
plotwiss.
stories connected through Alicia’s current time, a young
• For readers who fell in
woman who has just suffered a deep heartbreak, and
love with titles like Sue-
Bautista, an expat living in France after the Spanish Civil
ños a medida or Diamant
War who, against his will, remembers the past.
Blau.
As a connection between them, a missing anarchist, Biel,
296 pages.
Cari Ariño was born in 1958 in and a love in the horizon, Julien.
Maella, an Aragonese town in the
Catalan speaking area. Before she Oblivion and pain will be the freezing knife that will
went to college to study Comparative extinguish the love’s fire.
Literature, she taught herself reading
French modern classics such as Balzac And hope, a remote spark that struggles to light the
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and Flaubert. Currently she combines flame.
Ediciones B (Spanish and
her job as a public servant at the El latido del tiempo
Catalan)
Barcelona Town Hall with her always Women’s fiction / Historical Novel
El latido del tiempo is a family saga that walks us through
passionate and generous work as a
the 20th century, portraying its customs and manners.
writer. Her aim as an author is to make
This is an addictive story about the struggle of three
readers enjoy and endure in their own
heroines –grandmother, daughter and granddaughter– that
flesh the adventures of a lineage of try to survive the prejudices and turmoils of their times.
women that appears in her novels. Throughout its pages we will learn first hand about the
La rueda del olvido is her second changes brought by the 20th century –big or small–: from
the Second Spanish Republic to the beginnings of the
novel.
current millenium.
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