La hora exacta
Translated title: The Exact Time
Author: Meade De Lacueva, Roberto
Genre: Short Stories / Historical
Year: 2024 | Pages: 186 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89463
We are presented with a rare and remarkable collection of stories, heterogeneous and irreverent, brimming with a sharp and biting humor, yet at the same time endearing and moving. A mosaic of tales in which the author leads us astray through historical contexts
Tierra de lágrimas
Translated title: Land of Tears
Author: Grissom, Kathleen
Genre: Romance / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 472 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89431
A powerful story of survival, love, and courage set in the American South
In 1791 Virginia, Lavinia, an Irish immigrant, is orphaned and sold into slavery on a tobacco plantation despite her white skin. Under the guidance of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia learns the ways of the kitchen and becomes part of a close-knit family of slaves.
As Lavinia rises within the household, caring for the master's addicted wife and forming a bond with his son, she struggles between two worlds. But when forced to choose between loyalty and freedom, she must risk everything to protect those she loves.
A gripping novel of resilience and heart that will captivate fans of The Help
Vienen cuando hace frío
Translated title: They Come When It's Cold
Author: Sisí, Carlos
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89454
In the midst of a U.S. economic collapse, Joe Harper, an ordinary man from Baltimore, loses everything. Desperate, he turns to the legacy of his grandfather, Cerón Harper, a legendary gold prospector known for his daring feats. With little left to his name, Joe heads to the isolated town of Sulphur Creek, hoping to start fresh.
He finds a rundown cabin and sets to work transforming it into a refuge. As he rebuilds, he sheds the weight of his old life. But Sulphur Creek hides dark secrets. The town is deserted in winter, and the few remaining locals warn him: Don't stay here. They come when it's cold.
Skeptical but brave, Joe ignores the warnings - until strange howls and moving shadows force him to confront a terrifying truth. In this tale of survival and mystery, Joe must face both the ghosts of the past and the horrors lurking in the present
La casa de los espíritus
Translated title: The House of the Spirits
Author: Allende, Isabel
Genre: Fantasy / Social Novel
Year: 2022 | Pages: 560 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 90494
Isabel Allende's first novel, The House of the Spirits, tells the saga of a powerful Latin American landowning family.
The despotic patriarch Esteban Trueba has built a private empire with an iron fist, but it begins to crumble with the passage of time and an explosive social environment. Ultimately, the patriarch's personal decline will drag the Trueba family into a painful disintegration. Trapped in dramatic family relationships, the characters in this powerful novel embody the social and spiritual tensions of an era spanning much of the 20th century.
With impeccable narrative skill and great historical insight, Isabel Allende has created a vivid picture in which the everyday coexists with the marvelous, love with revolution, and personal ideals with harsh political reality
Que niña tan lista
Translated title: Clever Little Thing
Author: Echlin, Helena
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89456
Translated
In this chilling psychological thriller, Charlotte's daughter Stella undergoes a disturbing transformation after the sudden death of their babysitter, Blanka. Once disruptive, Stella now mirrors Blanka's personality, from her accent to her cravings for Armenian meat stew. As Charlotte, pregnant and exhausted, becomes convinced that Blanka's spirit possesses Stella, her obsession grows, and her husband dismisses her fears as delusions. A tense, supernatural tale about motherhood, obsession, and the blurred lines of reality, Clever Little Thing will haunt readers long after the final page
Escribir la tierra
Translated title: Writing the Earth
Author: Morales, Javier
Genre: Short Stories / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 104 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89465
These stories stem from a view of the rural world devoid of any romanticism or idealization, unlike what I perceive in many of those who have decided to leave the city today to take refuge in villages, an idyllic paradise that owes more to the imagination of literature than to reality. It's not so much about returning to the countryside to replicate the urban way of life as it is about 're-wilding' the rural world
Cuentos al amor de la lumbre
Translated title: Tales by the Fireside
Author: Almodóvar, Antonio Rodríguez
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 672 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89462
The success of folk tale collections from other cultural spheres - such as those compiled by the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, Afanasyev, and Calvino - has often overshadowed, by default, the wonderful wealth of stories belonging to our own country's tradition.
Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar has dedicated a large part of his career to the study, recovery, and dissemination of Spanish folktales in his work 'Cuentos al amor de la lumbre' (Tales by the Fireside)
La tierra bajo tus pies
Translated title: The Earth Under Your Feet
Author: López Barrio, Cristina
Genre: Romance / Historical
Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89424
Madrid, 1935. Cati is a young woman whose life revolves around parties and gatherings in cafés, until tragedy strikes. While searching for her place in the world, an encounter with a childhood friend and with Manuel Bartolomé Cossío will shape her destiny.
With the Pedagogical Missions, which brought culture to places where it seemed impossible to reach, she travels to a remote village and, staying in the humble home of the Salazar family, Cati begins a relationship with its members: Paciana, a widow hardened by revenge; her son, Fabián, nicknamed the Bat; and his brother, Jeremías, a cursed man, for whom she will feel an unexpected love.
Her stay opens her eyes to another way of life, governed by the whims of the land and the seasons. But she will also become entangled in an old debt of blood and hatred
Esperando al diluvio
Translated title: Waiting for the Flood
Author: Redondo, Dolores
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 572 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 89444
A Serial Killer. A City on the Brink. A Detective's Last Chase.
In 1968-69, a brutal serial killer known as John Bible claimed three victims in Glasgow, evading capture. In the early 1980s, Scottish investigator Noah Scott Sherrington finally corners him, but a heart attack halts his arrest. Despite his declining health and opposition from his superiors, Noah follows a lead to Bilbao in 1983, just days before a devastating flood.
Dolores Redondo, acclaimed for her thrilling storytelling, weaves a gripping tale of danger, camaraderie, and love amidst a storm of political unrest and social change. This novel explores the fine line between cruelty and hope, capturing the essence of an unforgettable era
The Mistborn Saga #1 - Nacidos de la Bruma
Translated title: The Mistborn Saga #1 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Series: Book 1
Author: Sanderson, Brandon
Genre: Fantasy / Thriller
Year: 2024 | Pages: 672 | Origin: SPA | BA Seq Num: 87282
Translated
For a thousand years, ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when all hope was lost, the scarred, heartbroken half-Skaa Kelsier found in himself the powers of a Mistborn.
A brilliant thief and natural leader, Kelsier recruits the underworld's smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, who each share one of his many powers and relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream: not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.
But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers that she's never dreamed of
