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FICTION Les llavors del silenci – Àlvar Caixal Dos taüts negres i dos de blancs – Pep Coll La bruixa de pedra – Miquel Fañanàs Casino Santa Isabel – Gemma Freixas La decisió de Manperel – Jordi de Manuel Contes inventats per nens i nenas amb dret a decidir – Empar Moliner Quan en dèiem xampany – Rafel Nadal Al vertigen – Núria Perpinyà Confidències d’una reina – Teresa Sagrera Motril 86 – Muriel Villanueva El caso Ruglons – Javier Zuloaga

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NON-FICTION La voz de los sabios – Elena García Quevedo La cuina de la meva mare – Joan Roca Ética erótica – Javier Sádaba La ceremonia caníbal – Christian Salmon Comer bien, cuestión de inteligencia – Pilar Senpau Atrévete a ser un líder – Félix Torán Cómo creamos Internet – Andreu Veà

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CHILDREN & YA Premonicions – Emili Bayo Minty la Fada – Gemma Lienas Nits de guàrdia II: Cirurgies perfectes, cors imperfectes – Paula Roc Arc. El naixement d’una heroïna – Lourdes Boïgues Ioga per a petits exploradors / Avions de paper / Construeix el teu pessebre La nostra Champions / Dies de competició

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n a small village in southwest England, elderly Emma Tavistock nostalgically recalls a tragic episode from the past. She endlessly re-reads the letters her aunt Madeleine ex-

changed with her fiancé, Frank, a young student of medicine

The Seeds of Silence Edicions 62 / 207 pages / October 2013 Premi BBVA Sant Joan

Àlvar Caixal

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Àlvar Caixal Mata (Barcelona, 1960) holds a degree in Prehistory and Ancient History from the Universitat de Barcelona and he works as an archeologist for the Local Architectural Heritage Service of the government of Barcelona province. He has directed numerous archeological excavations in Iberian villages, Roman villas and civil, military and religious buildings of different periods. He has published articles and monographic studies on architectural heritage, archeology and the restoration of monumental sites. Writing is his true calling, and he has actively contributed to several compilations, including linked to the Matarranya region and La Franja de Ponent, including the short story collection L’arbreda ebrenca (2010), the book of stories El tren de la Val de Zafán (2011) and the poetry anthology Poesia de frontera (2011). Les llavors del silenci, winner of the Premi Sant Joan 2013, is his first novel.

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and member of the International Brigades, who disappeared on the Aragón front in the spring of 1938. At the same time, in Barcelona, Alfred, an ordinary sixty-four-year-old man, lives pretty happily, but his father’s recent death has shaken him up, leading him back to his family home. During his visit, he comes across an old book of poems by Yeats and some documents that compel him to investigate the dark roots of the silence that has been stifling his family’s daily life for years. Narrated in two stories that unfold in parallel, in Great Britain and Catalonia, The Seeds of Silence moves between the years preceding the Spanish Civil War and the winter of 2002 in a journey through two families’ past and present, both indelibly marked by the war.

A reflection on identity, guilt and the intimately personal significance of all that which we leave behind.

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• A thrilling novel, with documentary photographs, about a crime that went unpunished. • A great novel based on research of a real case.

Pep Coll Pep Coll (Pessonada, Pallars Jussà, 1949) studied philosophy in Barcelona and lives in Lleida. He has published in all types of prose genres, from compilations of legends (Mun­ tanyes Maleïdes, 1993) and young adult novels (Què farem, què direm?, 1992); to scripts for the stage and television, newspaper columns and in-depth articles. His novels include L’abominable crim de l’Alsina Graells (1999), El salvatge dels Pirineus (2005) and Les senyoretes de Lourdes (2007 Sant Jordi Prize).

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Four Coffins, Two Black and Two White Proa / 432 pages / September 2013

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n 1943, in Carreu --a small town in the region of Pallars Jussà, made up of various, scattered farmhouses and populated by shepherds, farmers and woodcutters-- a family dies

violently: father, mother and two daughters. The Civil War has left homes empty and the area has become a stop for Jews fleeing the Nazis, for nomadic gypsies, deserters, smugglers, etc. The age-old tensions and envy among families are heighte­ ned by isolation and the hostile climate. The reader will hear the suspicions, investigations and wrong moves by the law, and then discover who committed this crime that the Francoist authorities chose to ignore. Still today people remember what happened; some witnesses in the case are still alive as are some relatives of the victims and the killers. Pep Coll’s vibrant prose and the documentary photographs bring the case to life.

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A reconstruction, in the vein of In Cold Blood, of the murder of a family in Pallars in 1943, a case which lives on in the region, despite silence from the authorities.

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Miquel Fañanàs

Stone Witch Columna / 224 pages / October 2012

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Miquel Fañanàs (Girona, 1948), a journalist and writer, has been a contributor to numerous media, published over twenty novels —two of which have been translated into Chinese— and has won literary prizes, most recently the City of Badalona award for young adult fiction. Dating from his stint as deputy mayor of Girona he maintains a strong link with his city, as shown in this story that springs from the most popular legend in Girona, taking readers to the heart of the 14th century where Inquisition repression and confrontations between Jews and Christians coexisted with the slow building of the new Gothic cathedral.

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ere Freixenet manages to gain access to the most protected archives in the cathedral of Girona, where he finds the story of Guisla Recasens, the legendary «witch of the

Cathedral», immortalized in one of its gargoyles. His findings allow him to show that the popular legend was based on a real figure and we learn her story, set in a Girona rife with confrontations between Christians and Jews and the persecution of the Inquisition.

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Gemma Freixas

• A novel of intrigue based on real events that describe the decolonization of the last Spanish colony. • Gemma Freixas is the daughter and granddaughter of Equatorial Guinean residents who managed the Casino. • Winner of the Roc Boronat Novella Prize.

Gemma Freixas (Barcelona, 1962) earned a degree in Philosophy and has combined audiovisual production work with journalism for the Sunday supplements of La Vanguar­ dia, El Periódico and Avui, as well as travel magazines including Geo, Rutas del Mundo and Todo Turismo. She is author of the books Tanaka, un recorrido por la actual Myanmar (2003) and Djoliba, la curva del Níger en Mali (2009). Her grandfather, born in Catalonia, moved to Equatorial Guinea in 1930, where he ran the Santa Isabel Casino.

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Santa Isabel Casino Proa / 150 pages / November 2013

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he day after the proclamation of Equatorial Guinea’s independence, someone finds a dead body near the black neighborhood of Santa Isabel on the island of Fernando

Pó. The cadaver is Pablo Montesinos, one of the most important men in the city’s Spanish community. It seems to be a natural death, but a functionary appointed to the Civil Guard who is responsible for taking care of the related red tape, begins to notice some irregularities... This is the starting point of Santa Isabel Casino, which recreates the last few months of Spanish presence in this land and the disaster that was the decolonization process. This is a story that involves irresponsible political decisions, economic interests in raw materials such as petroleum and peanuts, racial and sexual discrimination... but also rootlessness, exile, thwarted loves and a lost paradise.

A suspense novel about the decolonization of Equatorial Guinea. 8

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Jordi de Manuel

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Jordi de Manuel i Barrabín (Barcelona, 1962) is a professor of natural sciences and a writer. He combines literature with teaching and research. He is a member of the Catalan Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy and has published stories and novels for children and teenagers as well as for adults. With the story collection Disseccions (2001), he won the Odissea Reader’s Award, the only literary prize awarded by a jury made up entirely of readers.

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Manperel’s Decision Columna / 208 pages / September 2013

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ictor Nikolaievich Manperel is a mathematician who is going through one of the sweetest moments of his career after having resolved one of the Seven Millennium Prize

Problems and receiving the Fields Medal for it. He chooses to turn his back on the recognition and moves to a mysterious Artic island. There he will receive a series of letters and recordings from his father that will help him to discover why he is a special being with a mission: deciphering a highly important enigma that will aid in understanding the universe. Manperel’s decision could have repercussions for all of humanity.

A very well-written literary novel that combines popular science with fantasy and mystery and takes the reader on an incredible voyage into the heart of mathematics and its biggest enigmas. 9

Empar Moliner debuted with the book of stories L’ensenyador de pisos que odiava els mims, followed by her first novel, Feli, es­ théticienne, which won the 2000 Josep Pla Prize. Since then she has published T’estimo si he begut (2005 Lletra d’Or Award), Busco senyor per amistat i el que sorgeixi, Desitja guardar els canvis?, No hi ha terceres per­ sones and La col·laboradora. She is a regular contributor on radio, television and in the written press.

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Stories for Boys and Girls With The Right To Decide (What Story They Want To Hear) Columna / xxx pages / November 2013

n this book you will find the stories the author came up with for her daughter (now 6 years old), and you will also find small templates to invent your own. Reading Little Red Riding

Hood is fine at a certain age, because it’s a classic. But times have changed and it makes sense that the stories we make up now include traffic lights, televisions, urban gardens, cereals, etc. A highly visual book, printed in full color and accompanied by vintage photographs, mixed-media collages and drawings made by the author’s daughter. A perfect gift book, with tips and tricks for parents to learn how to invent their own tales, unfinished stories that allow the kids to let their imagination run wild, ministories that are just one single line long, poems that will have you rolling on the floor with laughter and much, much more...

For all the parents who are tired of Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs and want to tell their children original, different stories. 10

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Rafel Nadal (Girona, 1954) is a journalist who writes for La Vanguardia and regularly contributes to RAC1, TV3 and TV8. He was the director of El Periódico de Cata­ lunya from May 2006 to February 2010, during which time the newspaper won many awards, including the Catalan Government’s Journalism Award (2008), the prize for best newspaper in Europe from the European Newspaper Congress (2008), the award for best front page of the year from the Society for News Design (2007) and the award for best design in Spain and Portugal, from the SND (2007). Prior he worked at the main newspapers in the country and held various positions of responsibility in publishing houses and media groups. In 2011 he published the book Els mandarins. His previous novel, Quan èrem feliços, to which this is a prequel, won the 2012 Josep Pla Award.

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• The origins of the family depicted in Quan èrem feliços, this time focused on the creation of the family business that will become a way of life. • The beginnings of the champagne business, that glamorous world as seen in various difficult historical moments such as wars, the Great Depression, etc..

When We Called It Champagne Columna / 424 pages / October 2013

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Rafel Nadal

• The follow-up to best-selling Quan èrem feliços (more than 40,000 copies sold)

he author reconstructs the life of his great grandfather, Francisco Oller, who at the age of just sixteen decides to leave Cassà for France, in search of a better future.

And he finds it. The reader will discover the story of an upright man, a tenacious worker who ends up creating a great empire of vineyards and champagne in France, far from home. The story takes us to settings in Cassà de la Selva, Reims and La Fosca. In evocative prose, we follow their family story from the late 1800s to the present, including the World War I, the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Nadal’s intense and lovely prose first envelops you, then drags you in and finally overwhelms you.

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Núria Perpinyà

Núria Perpinyà (Lleida, 1961) is a professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lleida. She has published articles and essays of literary criticism, including studies devoted to the work of Gabriel Ferrater. To date, she has published the novels Un bon error (Empúries, 1998), Una casa per com­ pondre (Empúries, 2001), Mistana (Proa, 2005) and Els privilegiats (Empúries, 2007), and the play Els cal·lígrafs (Empúries, 2011).

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Into the Dizzying Heights Empúries /464 pages / September 2013

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woman with frozen hair bursts into the Quesler Refuge, in the heart of the Tammarian Mountains, about to faint. René, the custodian, runs to help her and manages to bring her to

very carefully. Once she is feeling better, her decision to stay in the Tammarians as a guide will provoke one avalanche after an-

other: the passions that surround her will bring the protagonists to the edge of madness and the dizziness of romantic attraction will rival the feeling of breathing thin air. Into the Dizzying Heights is the story of a great love, of an unusual triangle and of a lone, enigmatic climber, Irena Besikova. It is also the story of the confrontation between wild nature and urban civilization, and idealistic, extreme, incompatible callings. Written in intense and elegant prose, Into the Dizzying Heights is a romantic adventure novel, an homage to the high mountain where the characters, drawn by unstoppable impulses, mingle with real mountain climbers.

Intense and elegant, set in the fascinating world of high altitudes, Into the Dizzying Heights is a splendid, stunning and captivating novel. 12

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Teresa Sagrera

A Queen’s Secrets Columna / 361 pages / June 2013

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Teresa Sagrera was born in 1966 in Sant Pere de Vilamajor, where she has lived all her life. She studied Education at the University of Barcelona. She has taught primary school for more than twenty years, and for the last thirteen she has been teaching in her hometown at the Torre Roja School. In 2006 she became a member of the Sant Pere de Vilamajor Studies Center (CESPV), which is devoted to the preservation and documentation of the town’s history and traditions. She has published several articles in the Center’s journal, and in 2009 she published her first book entitled Vols que t’expliqui... Vilamajor?, a book of local history for a general audience, with illustrations by the author herself.

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eep in her heart, besides rage, pain, grief and loneliness, there was fear. A horrific fear that barely let her think; fear of becoming a woman: fear of being her-

self and not depending on anyone else; fear of growing up, in every sense... Would she really be able to do everything she felt she had to? She was afraid of being afraid.» Petronilla of Aragon, married at fourteen to Ramon Berenguer IV, a man hardened by battle and twenty years her senior, discovers love with a troubadour, Guillem de Vilarasa. In Vila Maior, she will discover the power of friendship with her lady in waiting, Loreto, but she is unable to keep her distance from the intrigues among noblemen typical of the period.

Petronilla of Aragon, a queen who must choose between love and her obligation to her country. 13

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Muriel Villanueva

Muriel Villanueva (València, 1976) is a writer, music teacher and writing instructor at the Ateneu’s Escola d’Escriptura. She has published four novels, and the most recent, La gatera (2011), was awarded the Just Casero Prize and the Critics’ Prize for Valencian Writers.

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Motril 1986 Proa / 288 pages / October 2013

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he year is 1986. Mar is a ten-year-old girl on vacation. She’s been spending a few days with her mother, Cèlia, and Paula, her mother’s partner for the past eight years.

Their vacation together is coming to a close because Cèlia has to go back to work, but Mar and Paula still have a few days off, and Mar wants to spend them with Paula in Motril, on the coast of Malaga, where she lives. Their car trip (narrated like a road movie) and the days they spend together, along with the curious characters they meet and reencounter (from a hitchhiker to Paula’s friends) are the framework for a coming-of-age story that gradually reveals itself to be an emotive autobiographical story, reminiscing about the past and showing what it was like for the ten-year-old Muriel Villanueva to have two mothers.

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Motril 86 is an emotional coming-of-age story with an eighties soundtrack.

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Javier Zuloaga

Subtle and with surprising narrative twists, The Ruglons Case offers an interesting analysis of identity and social classes.

Javier Zuloaga (Bilbao, 1952) has published three novels in El Aleph Editores: El hombre que pudo ser libre (2005), La isla de los re­ beldes (2009) and Librería Libertad (2011). El caso Ruglons is his fourth novel. He is currently director of Internal Communication for La Caixa Bank, in Barcelona.

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The Ruglons Case El Aleph / 304 pages / September 2013

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aruja Sanz is a young woman of humble origins, originally from Valgonzález, a small town near Segovia. At the end of the sixties she decides to leave her past

behind, with the ambition of starting anew in a different world, supposedly much better, and raising her social rank. So she leaves her hometown to study law in Madrid, and there she meets Jordi Ruglons, «The Catalan», a young man from a wellto-do family in Barcelona, the son of a notary, and he falls in love with her. She will seduce him and finally achieves to ma­ rry him, reaching her dreams of social and economic success.

A mystery novel where the author plays deftly with the bright and the dark in human souls.

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Elena García Quevedo

Writer, playwright, journalist and documentary scriptwriter, Elena García Quevedo (Nava de Roa, Burgos, 1970) is known for her travel articles and the books La voz de la Tierra and La mujer chamán. She is also a contributor to such important publications as El País, Geo and La Vanguardia.

• Interviews that give the keys to ancestral wisdom to help us face the challenges of today. • Back to the basics to survive the new paradigm. • In the style of Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet, which sold 11,500 copies. • Testimonies of elders who are well-known and respected in their respective communities.

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Wise Voices Luciérnaga / 200 pages / November 2013

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uch traditional wisdom reveals that nature and mankind are part of the same whole. Following the industrial revolution this wisdom started to be forgot-

ten. The global system imposed itself onto the local and laid waste to ancestral culture. In a world that is undergoing a sea change, where the crisis is seen above all in the value system, there are increasingly more people sear­ ching. These wise elders, born before technology, have the ancestral memory of respect for the earth and the wisdom that life offers us. They hold the keys to our ba­ lance and future survival.

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Joan Roca

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Joan Roca Fontané (1964) was professio­ nally trained in his parents’ restaurant Can Roca, and studied at the Escola d’Hosteleria i Turisme in Girona and in the restaurants El Bulli (Roses), El Racó de Can Faves (Sant Celoni), Georges Blanc (Vonnas, France) and La Galvia (Mexico City). Since 1986 he has headed his own restaurant, El Celler de Can Roca, alongside his brothers, Josep in the dining room and Jordi on desserts. El Celler de Can Roca has three stars in the Michelin Guide and was just named the Best Restaurant in the World by the prestigious British publication The Restaurant Magazine.

My Mother’s Cooking Columna / 253 pages / May 2005 Joan Roca La cuina de la meva mare

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y Mother’s Cooking is both a recipe book and a family portrait of a legacy passed from parents to children through hard work, determination and the adapting of tradition to El prestigiós cuiner Joan Roca, cap del celebrat restaurant modern times. El Celler de Can Roca, recull en aquest llibre que teniu a mans les receptes de la seva mare Montserrat, que ella In this cookbook, Joanles Roca compiles the most wonderful di­shes mateixa ha elaborat al llarg de la seva vida al restaurant Can Roca de Girona. Hi trobareu des dels calamars a la romana fins als canelons festa major,he passant pel his brothers made by his mother, Montserrat, fromdewhom and fricandó i la sarsuela de peix. Més de cent vint receptes que constitueixen un petit homenatge a la cuina Josep and Jordi learnedtradicional so much in the kitchen of Can Roca. catalana, el fonament de la cuina que ell fa al Celler de Can Roca. Now that his own restaurant has been distinguished with three Joan Roca Fontané (1964) és el cuiner d’El Celler de Can recognized Roca de Girona. S’ha as format professionalment Michelin stars and recently the Best Restaurant in al restaurant familiar dels seus pares, Can Roca, i acadèmicament a l’Escola d’Hostaleria i Turisme de the World, Joan wanted toDes return to his roots, toEl Celler the warmth of Girona. del 1986 dirigeix el seu restaurant, de Can Roca, juntament amb els seus germans, Josep a la sala i Jordi a les postres. Ha guanyat diversos premis, family and home cooking. entre els quals destaquen: el Diploma al Mèrit Turístic de la Generalitat de Catalunya, el Premi Nacional de The book is well structured: each recipe begins with the inGastronomia al millor cap de cuina per l’Acadèmia Espanyola de Gastronomia i el Premi al Millor Cuiner de la guia Lo Mejor de la Gastronomía. gredients, then details l’any theperpreparation process step by step and Té tres estrelles a la Guia Michelin. finally ends with comments from the chef and author. Here we find all sorts of recipes, matched with suggestions for the pantry, basic cooking tips and an homage to the foundations of the most traditional Catalan cuisine. These very simple recipes, which any home cook can make, will add a touch of the Roca family to your own kitchen. This is a highly recommend cookbook, particularly as a nudge to those who need to wake up their inner chef, those who think of the stove as a minefield and subsist on take-out, pasta and omelets.

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hard work, perseverance and a great devotion to others.

Ser feliz es habitar en un lugar distinto a aquel en el que impera la infelicidad. Un espacio donde somos fieles a nosotros mismos, al superar nuestras circunstancias y deseos. Este libro consta de tres partes. En la primera se plantea el sentido de la vida. Se concluye, que hay que dar sentido al sinsentido de la existencia. En la segunda, se concreta la idea de felicidad y la voluntad de no sufrir en cuatro ámbitos esenciales en la vida humana. En la tercera, se eligen dos casos, uno, el de los animales, y otro, el de la eutanasia, en los que rescatamos un mínimo de felicidad evitando el sufrimiento.

El amor es una de las cuestiones que más importa a las personas. Este libro muestra el por qué.

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No sufras más

Un manifi fiesto para alcanzar el bienestar en el complejo mundo del siglo XXI

No More Suffering Península / 240 pages / October 2012

No sufras más La felicidad en la vida cotidiana

JAVIER SÁDABA, (Vizcaya, 1940) es licenciado en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca y en Teología por la Universidad Gregoriana de Roma; y doctor en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha sido profesor en diferentes universidades como Tübingen (Alemania), Columbia (NY, Estados Unidos) y Oxford y Cambridge (Reino Unido). Actualmente ejerce como Catedrático de Ética y Filosofía de la Religión en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Entre sus obras destacan Saber vivir (1984), Diccionario de Ética (1997), La filosofía contada con sencillez (2002) o De Dios a la nada (2006). Su producción intelectual se ha centrado tanto en temas específicos de su actividad académica como en cuestiones accesibles al gran público. En sus trabajos ha abordado problemas relacionados con la vida cotidiana. Profesor invitado en numerosas universidades españolas y extranjeras, es muy conocido gracias a su presencia en los debates públicos y medios de comunicación. Preocupado, desde un punto de vista ético, por el bienestar y la felicidad, sus últimas reflexiones son La vida buena (2009) y El amor y sus formas (2010) ambos trabajos publicados en Península.

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Erotic Ethics. A Different Way of Ffeeling Península / 220 pages/ November 2013

his book contains two closely linked parts. The first updates what is commonly thought of as ethics, which

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Love and All Its Shapes Península / 200 pages / October 2010

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Javier Sádaba is a professor of Ethics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has written close to thirty books and numerous articles. His intellectual output has been focussed both on themes found in his academic work and those accessible to the general public. He has often approached subjects related to daily life and happiness. A guest professor at numerous Spanish and foreign universities, he is very well known thanks to his appearances in public debates and in the media. Concerned, from an ethical point of view, about wellbeing and happiness, his latest reflexions are La vida buena (2009), El amor y sus formas (2010) and No sufras más (2012), all the three published by Península.

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The Good Life Península / 288 pages / April 2009

usually gets reduced to the assertion and discussion of

positive and negative obligations. But, as this book points out, such ethics are faulty. They leave out the development of the good life and happiness, two things that normally end up in the hands of self-help books whose ability to help is debatable. This development is of the utmost importance. In it, ethics goes beyond a discussion of obligations, to give advice and reminders. The second part develops this forgotten aspect of

e­thics. We call it erotic because it focuses on our desires, keeping them always present, acknowledging that we are filled with possibilities. From there, it speaks of the essential sensitizing, the equally necessary imagination and fantasy, of sexual pleasure and a return to the thesis of the now almost forgotten Marcuse. It ends by speaking of a different way of feeling, all written in accessible language in tune with everyday life.

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Christian Salmon

Christian Salmon is a writer and member of the Center for Research into Arts and Language (CNRS). He was founder and director, from 1993 to 2003, of the International Parliament of Writers and creator of the magazine Autodafé. His books include Tumba de la ficción (2001), Devenir minoritaire. Pour une nouvelle politique de la littérature (2003) and Verbicide (2007). A contributor to various journals and magazines, since 2008 he has written for Le Monde. His works Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind (Península, 2008, 6th edition in Spain, published in English by Verso, 2010), Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon (Harper Design, 2012) and La estrategia de Sherezade (Península, 2011) have confirmed him as one of the most incisive analysts of contemporary society.

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«Political man presents himself increasingly less as an authority figure, someone to obey, and more as something to consume; less like an agency that produces rules and regulations than as a product of mass subculture, an artifact in the image of some character in a television series...» Published in French by Fayard. Rights sold to: Italy (Fazi). Prix de L’Express 2013.

The Cannibal Ceremony On Political Performance Península / 144 pages / September 2013

he welfare state is faltering. Politicians, at the mercy of the markets and the rating agencies, lose legitimacy day by day, as do their parties. While they try to survive in the face of

media and citizen harassment, leaders seek out complicities they are unable to find. We, the outraged citizens, witness this cannibal spectacle where a single phrase or image can mean losing power or being forgotten: the politicians are devouring each other. In the midst of this crisis of image and representation, The Cannibal Ceremony links this self-destruction of the political class and the legitimacy of its measures to our everyday lives. Politicians, converted into a product of the media subculture, fight to keep their heads above water and recover their guiding roles, while over them hovers the threat of their complete disappearance. At least in the form we have known up until this point.

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• Readable, clear and direct book about the effects of each food in our body. • Key author in the relationship between psychology and nutrition.

Pilar Senpau Pilar Senpau (Lleida, 1955) has a degree in Medicine and Surgery and has specialized in diet. She combines her surgery with media work for TV3, BTV, COM Radio, Catalunya Radio, the newspaper La Vanguardia and the magazine Mente Sana. She has published Los frutos de la vida (2006), Aprender a adelga­ zar: perder kilos depende de los sentimientos (2007) and Razones de peso (2009). She has recently been awarded the Románico de Oro prize 2010 for her work in spreading the benefits of the Mediterranean diet.

Eating Well, The Intelligent Choice Salsa Books / 176 pages / October 2013

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iving, thinking and feeling are directly related to the nutrients our bodies ingest, and taking care of yourself means being able to give yourself the possibility of being happy.

We don’t have to get sick to start a sensible diet: we need to give ourselves, each day, the nutritional building blocks to construct a good life. At each meal we can give our cells the opportunity to fight for their survival with dignity. In the repetition of daily habits, we usually find the calming strength of order. Eating well goes far beyond the purely nutritional, it helps to battle the confusion that poor nourishment of our body and mind always leads to. Each food group contains properties the body needs, and this book gives us the keys to living better through healthy eating. In this light, enjoyable read, the author clearly poses the questions many of us ask ourselves and are unable to answer.

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Félix Torán holds a PhD in Engineering. Since 2000 he works for the European Space Agency. He is also a speaker, writer and life coach who has dedicated more than thirteen years to the field of personal growth. He has pu­ blished six books, among them La respuesta del universo: creando su vida ideal mediante la ley de la atracción (Gaia Ediciones, 2010), El tiempo en tus manos (Luciérnaga), which has sold more than 4,000 copies. Torán’s podcast has more than 80,000 subscribers; he has 15,000 followers on Twitter and 38,000 on Facebook. Since January 2013, he has been a benefactor to the AXE Apollo Space Academy (AASA), which will take a Spaniard into space on the first space tourism expeditions in 2014.

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• The author is a well-known popular science writer and devotes much time and effort to giving presentations all over Spain, with more than 15,000 on Twitter and 38,000 on Facebook.

Dare To Be A Leader Luciérnaga / 232 pages / October 2013

iscover how you can become a leader by just putting your mind to it. You don’t need to have been born with innate leadership qualities. You don’t have to inherit power, com-

pete for a position, be voted in by a majority, and you don’t have to impose yourself. If you follow the right steps and a­llow yourself to discover your inner leader, you too can become someone who makes a real difference. This book will guide you through those steps and help you awaken the leader dormant inside you, create your project, begin to take action and acquire the qualities of a conscious leader who not only achieves success, but does so in a way that creates happiness for yourself and others.

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• 4,000 copies sold of his last title, Time on your Hands.

Andreu Veà, (1969) holds a PhD in tTelecommunications Engineering and a master’s in Electronic Engineering. Following his doctoral thesis on the technology, history and social structure of the Internet (which for 8 years was among the Top 25 most consulted, 250,000 copies), he was invited by Vint Cerf to continue his original work at Stanford University in California, where he heads their international research program (WiWiW.org). Currently he helps launch and implant Spanish technological companies in Silicon Valley and is an eminent expert, representing Spa­ nish as a juror in the World Summit Awards, the global prizes for mobile applications given by the UNESCO. He is the co-founder and president of the Internet Society (ISOC-ES) and is the only European member chosen to serve on the Internet Hall of Fame advisory board.

«Dr. Veà’s contribution on the creation and evolution of the Internet is and will be a reference worldwide for historians and experts for many years to come: understanding the history and the logic of the evolution of the infrastructure is fundamental to planning for the future.» Vint Cerf, Co-inventor of Internet protocol TCP/IP (1974). VP of Google Inc. «Dr. Veà achieves here a real feat. He has brought together, grippingly, the key players and the events that made Internet into this marvelous phenomenon. His ability to explain things to the lay person and his perceptiveness in tackling and conveying complex problems is astonishing.» Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of e-mail (1971) How We Created The Internet Península / 576 pages / October 2013

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For the first and last time: the history of the Internet, told directly by those who created it!

he history of the Internet shows us the enormous potential inherent in interconnecting human intelligence openly. Over the course of almost two decades, Andreu Veà has

delved into the origins and evolution of the Internet as seen

by its creators. Although Internet’s origins are usually associa­ ted with a small group of pioneers, its evolution in an open environment has led to a wide number of people contribu­ ting to its current state. This book is an essential work through which future generations will have the opportunity to hear the voice of the creators of what has been the great revolution of the XX and XXI centuries: the Internet. Do you want to know everything about the Internet? Do not let a journalist tell you, listen directly to all its creators. 23

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• A mystery novel filled with tension and family secrets that hooks the reader from the first to the last page. • For ages 12 and up.

Emili Bayo

Premonitions Estrella Polar / 144 pages / October 2013

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Emili Bayo Juan (Lleida, 1961), studied language and literature. After spending a year in Barcelona writing his thesis, he received a research scholarship in the then recently founded University of Lleida and earned his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on Spanish poetry during Franco’s dictatorship. Since then he has taught secondary school. He was also the co-director for two years of the literary pages of the newspaper Segre and has published articles of opinion, literary criticism and sport commentary in newspapers and magazines. He writes novels and short stories.

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n the day Jan turns 16 he receives a very special gift, a wooden box with three stones and a note that reads: “If genetics are fair, you’ll know what to do with these stones”.

There is no return sender and all he knows is that someone must have had this package prepared for the last twelve years, since that’s how long it’s been since his father died. But what does it mean? Jan has been having prophetic dreams for some time now. He hadn’t given them much thought but strange, inexplicable things are happening more frequently lately, things that have to do with his father’s past and mysterious death. And in order to solve the mystery he will have to somehow decipher the secret of the three stones.

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Gemma Lienas

Fairy Minty: I Win Estrella Polar/ 32 pages / September 2013

Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951) is one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Catalan literature. In addition to her frequent media contributions, she has written some fifty books, a number of which are for young readers including Cul de sac, Així és la vida, Carlota (which received Honorable Mention from the IBBY in 1990), El diari lila de la Carlota (UNESCO Tolerance Award), El diari vermell de la Carlota, Bitllet d’anada i tornada (1998 Odissea Prize) and two series, one starring Emi and Max and El Club dels maleïts. She has other books for younger children, such as the mystery series La Tribu de Camelot and the Minty La Fada series devoted to emotional education; and yet o­thers for adults, such as Una nit, un somni, Atrapada al mirall and El final del joc (Winner of the 2003 Ramon Llull Prize).

They Say Fairy Minty: Whatever tember 2013 Sep / es Estrella Polar/ 32 pag

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Minty to the rescue!

Magical, fun stories in which Minty the fairy uses her powers to help kids acquire the tools for controlling and channeling their own emotions in a way that supports their adaptation to everyday situations.

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airy Minty is a tiny fairy who gives off a fresh minty scent. Only little boys and girls can see her. She is always loo­ king out for them and comes to the rescue when they are in situations of emotional conflict. But Minty doesn’t use her magic to make the problems disappear. What she does is help the children to overcome them, using

her powers to help children learn to reason and develop their own abilities. In the face of everyday situations that the child reader can identify with, such as low self-esteem, lack of motivation, difficulty expressing feelings, lack of control over emotions... Minty helps the child to think and control their emotions so they can resolve the situation on their own. Once the obstacles have been overcome, Minty says goodbye and reminds us what we’ve learned in activities at the end for children and their parents.

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Night Shift I: The Most Intense Stories Happen In Hospitals Fanbooks / 270 pages / January 2013

Nits de Guàrdia Paula Roc

MAGDA: Right now she does not know whether she fancies Roi or Jan.

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JAN: He fancies Magda from the first day.

IRATI: She normally knows how to keep cool with guys, but the problem is that she fancies Roi too much.

Night Shift II Perfect Surgeries, Imperfect Hearts Fanbooks / 238 pages / June 2013

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ROI: Clearly, he and Magda are like oil and water, but perhaps this is precisely what he finds attractive in her.

hristmas didn’t go as well as Magda had hoped, so she returns to Barcelona, taking a deep breath. There she expects to meet up with Jan and Mai, and find everyone

will be where they should be and everything will be like it was before. But a huge surprise leaves her gasping for breath: Robert, her ex, has also requested a transfer to the hospital; he refuses to let her get away so easily. To top it all off, Magda wasn’t expecting to meet up with Roi on the first day of operating. Even though she’s glad to see him again, she feels some internal conflict, since she’s no longer so attracted to him. And Jan has disappeared from her life and she misses him. It won’t be easy for anyone to put aside

the emotional tensions and show that they are truly pro­ fessional doctors.

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Lourdes Boïgues

Lourdes Boïgues i Chorro was born in Simat de la Valldigna (La Safor) in 1968, and she is a Valencian writer, primarily of works for children and young adults. She holds a law degree from the University of València. She has won numerous prizes including the Carmesina Award for Children’s Literature (2006) for La taverna del Bandoler, the Enric Valor Prize for Children’s Literature (2007) for El secret de Caterina Creme, the Vicent Silvestre Award (2009) and the Benvingut Oliver Prize (2009). Her many books include La mascota que no existia (Edicions Bromera, 2009), Estel estel·lar (Edicions del Bullent, 2005), La taverna del bandoler (Edicions del Bullent, 2006), El desenllaç (Periféric Edicions, 2010), Una iguana al monestir (Brosquil Ediciones, 2007), and El secret de Caterina Cremec (Edicions del Bullent, 2008).

An adventure novel that will hook readers from the very first page with its cinematic descriptions and the adventures of the very appealing main characters: Arcàdia, a princess who becomes a heroine to fight for her people; and Tars, an attractive forest dweller with green eyes who will guard her with his life from the very first moment.

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Arc. The Birth of a Heroine Estrella Polar / 176 pages / June 2013

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rincess Arcàdia is about to turn 15 years old and inherit the throne of Rocària. But first, her father, King Roc the Terrible, asks the hidden forces of the oracle to determine,

by means of a ritual, whether the princess is worthy of being queen. Behind this ritual hides Roc’s suspicion that his daughter plans to betray him, just as he had betrayed his father, King Arisbald. Àrcadia finds out her father’s plans and, disguised as a man, flees into the mountains and hides among the forest dwellers, those inhabitants of Rocària who eke out a meager subsistence in the woods while planning their rebellion against the king. Tars, an attractive young man who lives in the forest, ends up discovering Arcàdia’s secret and they, along with the forest dwellers, leap into action and rise up against the king to allow Arcàdia to ascend to the throne.

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An action-packed adventure novel in the most classic style, set in the Middle Ages amid secret passageways of royal palaces and the woods where a popular rebellion is being hatched.

Yoga for Little Explorers

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opala is a restless kid who enjoys exploring the world around him.

Yoga for Little Explorers Estrella Polar / 32 pages / Sep tember 2013

One day he finds some mysterious footprints...and wonders who could have made them. To figure it out he enlists the help of some

friendly animals who do yoga! This book is dedicated to little explorers and their families. Yoga has been shown to strengthen body awareness, increase concentration and help manage emotions. What’s more, it fosters a strong, flexible, healthy body. • Improves posture and motor abilities • Supports coordination and balance • With cards you can cut out to play with! • Ages 3 and up

The Big Book of Paper Airplanes

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book for building and flying paper airplanes. 96 pages that include some 20 models of different planes with instructions for making them and flying them.

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It includes texture suggestions and many pages so children can create the designs they choose.

Build your own nativity scene

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Build your Own Nativity Sce ne Estrella Polar / 24 pages / Nov ember 2013

hristmas is here! Surely you’ve thought about making your own nativity scene. This book shows you how!

-N  ew and unique format for this product. - Includes the caganer —Catalonia’s own earthy addition to the crèche— and the manger with stickers and 12 die-cut figures.

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Youth Tournament of Champions

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Youth Tournament of Champions Estrella Polar / xxx pages/ November 2013

hristmas break is over and the Barcelona Football Club Under-12 players start up their classes and training again. There are news and big changes for the young players.

The coach announces that they will participate in the International Youth Football Tournament in Arona, Tenerife. As they are training for the big tournament, a new player arrives: Ízan, a boy with exceptional talent but who leads a very different life than the others. The trip to Tenerife will change their lives forever, as they must face a very dangerous challenge…

• The series that’s 100% Barça • An official FC Barcelona product • With wonderful illustrations inside • A series that promotes the values of participation, hard work, self-improvement and fun over winning • For all football fans • For boys and girls 10 years and older

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Championship in London

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British school has organized a championship between three ri­ ding schools, including The Oaks. Rita couldn’t be more thrilled: not only does she get to compete but she will also see her

mother and brother who are living in London! Over the course of several days, all the students will take part in jumping, dressage, racing and vaulting contests, and some will end up taking part in romantic situations, a little too often... It won’t be easy to win, especially if not everyone is playing fair.

• Finally, a series that takes you into the wonderful world of horses! • Remember to take the test at the end of the book! • With an insert of color illustrations • Collectable cards featuring different horse breeds • A series that promotes a love for animals, the value of effort, friendship and fun • Comes with a special gift: a riding scarf! 30

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