Fiction

October

Los abrazos oscuros

(The Dark Embraces)

Julia Montejo

Lumen

ISBN 9788426403223

Montejo surprises us with a novel in which desire, intrigue, and suspense enter into the life of a happily married woman.

Cuchillo de agua

(The Water Knife)

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fantascy

ISBN 9788415831914

In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled. Detective, assassin, and spy Velasquez “cuts” water for the Water Authority. When a game-changing water source surfaces, he is sent hunting for answers.

Cuentos

(Stories)

Roald Dahl

Anagrama

ISBN 9788433959546

In four short but scary stories, Roald Dahl shows his taste for unexpected twists, disturbing atmospheres, black humor, and macabre touches. These stories explore the reader’s fears.

Un dios en ruinas

(A God in Ruins)

Kate Atkinson

Lumen

ISBN 9788426403025

The companion novel to Atkinson’s Life After Life, this is the dramatic story of the 20th century told through Teddy Todd—would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, and father—as he tries to adjust to life after World War II and navigate the perils of a rapidly changing world.

La espía

(The Spy)

Paulo Coelho

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525432814

Coelho brings to life one of history’s most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. This is the story of her life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and of her controversial arrest for espionage and subsequent execution, told in Mata Hari’s voice through her final letter.

El hermano

(The Brother)

Joakim Zander

Suma

ISBN 9788483657881

Yasmine vowed she would always protect her little brother from harm. After she hears that he is dead, killed by a U.S. drone in Syria, she must explore what happened to him to turn him into one of the CIA’s most wanted men.

El huérfano X

(Orphan X)

Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

Ediciones B

ISBN 9788466659239

Removed from an orphanage and trained as part of a top-secret program, Evan Smoak was sent to the worst places in the world. Then he used everything he’d learned to disappear and to help the desperate and deserving—but now someone from his past is on his tail.

Huracán

(Hurricane)

Sofía Segovia

Vintage Español

ISBN 9781101973851

Segovia is back with the harrowing and unforgettable story of an unscrupulous father who presides over a family ravaged by poverty and resentment.

Manuela

Ana B. Nieto & Estefanía Salyers

Plaza & Janés

ISBN 9788401017469

Destiny, tragedy, redemption, family, and love are the themes of Manuela, a prequel to the television series Acacias 38 that serves as a perfect introduction to Acacias 38’s world.

Mar abierta

(Open Sea)

María Gudín

Grijalbo

ISBN 9788425354342

This novel set in the 17th century ranges from the Old World to the New and tells a beautiful story of love, mystery, and adventure in an England devastated by the civil war and a Caribbean infested with corsairs and buccaneers.

Matterhorn

(Matterhorn)

Karl Marlantes

Editorial Océano de Mexico

ISBN 9786077356202

This is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant and his comrades who are dropped into the jungle in Vietnam and forced to fight their way out. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese and nature but the obstacles they discover between each other.

La niña alemana

(The German Girl)

Armando Lucas Correa

Atria Español

ISBN 9781501134449

A poignant novel about 12-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion.

Las noches de Flores

(The Nights of Flores)

César Aira

Literatura Random House

ISBN 9788439710462

In the streets of the Flores neighborhood in Buenos Aires, a series of characters in extreme situations try to survive the collapse of a country and its terrible consequences.

El Quijote de Wellesley

(Wellesley’s Quixote)

Javier Marías

Alfaguara

ISBN 9788420423951

The previously unpublished notes written by Javier Marías for a master class about Don Quixote given at Wellesley College, Mass., in 1984.

Recetas para amar y matar

(Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery)

Sally Andrew

Grijalbo

ISBN 9788425354045

A bright talent makes her debut with this first entry in a delicious crime series set in South Africa. When a woman is murdered, Tannie Maria, a recipe writer turned advice columnist, becomes dangerously entwined in the investigation.

El secreto de Black Rabbit Hall

(Black Rabbit Hall)

Eve Chase

Plaza & Janés

ISBN 9788401017223

Stunning and atmospheric, this debut novel is a thrilling spiral into the hearts of two women separated by decades but inescapably linked by the dark secrets of Black Rabbit Hall.

El siervo

(The Servant)

Xavier Maymó

Suma

ISBN 9788483657720

A masterful historical novel set in the Roman Empire. The destiny of three siblings and a servant is traced between Tarraco, Rome, and Jerusalem during the advent of Christianity.

La vida que nos lleva

(Torch)

Cheryl Strayed

Roca

ISBN 9788416498185

Strayed weaves a tale of a family’s grief after unexpected loss. “Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!” is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, but her ability to live by that advice is put to the test when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

November

El aprendiz

(The Striker)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott

Plaza & Janés

ISBN 9788401017636

A new adventure in the bestselling series. In 1902, a bright, inexperienced man, just out of his apprenticeship at a detective agency, must deliver an urgent message.

Así empieza lo malo

(Thus Bad Begins)

Javier Marías

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525433699

A story of a couple living in the shadow of an unhappy history, this is a novel about the tender punishments we exact on those we love.

Brújula

(Compass)

Mathias Enard

Literatura Random House

ISBN 9788439731818

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, this novel bridges Europe and the Islamic world. An insomniac musicologist becomes ill and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, including those related to his ongoing fascination with the Middle East.

La carne

(Flesh)

Rosa Montero

Alfaguara

ISBN 9788420426198

Montero returns with a story of love, sex, and heartbreak. Soledad, the curator of a peculiar catalogue of outcast writers, must come to terms with a turning point in her life: she has just turned 60, come out of a relationship, and met a dangerous new lover.

Las chicas

(The Girls)

Emma Cline

Anagrama

ISBN 9788433979582

A lonely teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park and is immediately enticed by their freedom. Evie doesn’t realize that she’s being drawn toward unthinkable violence.

Examen de mi padre

(My Father’s Examination)

Jorge Volpi

Alfaguara

ISBN 9786073146067

This book gathers reflections on the life and death of the author’s father. It is also an anatomy of the author himself and, above all, an examination of his homeland: an aching Mexico at the dying moments of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Fiebre al amanecer

(Fever at Dawn)

Péter Gárdos

Alfaguara

ISBN 9788420415444

Based on the true story of Gárdos’s parents and drawn from their letters, this is the tale of 25-year-old Miklós, who survived the Bergen-Belsen camp only to receive a second death sentence in the form of tuberculosis. Miklós is determined not only to overcome the diagnosis, but also to find a wife.

Los herederos de la tierra

(Those That Inherit the Earth)

Ildefonso Falcones

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525433309

From bestselling Spanish author Falcones comes a fascinating historical novel that returns us to 14th-century Barcelona, three years after the point his previous novel La catedral del mar left off.

My Dilemma Is You. Un nuevo amor. O dos...

(My Dilemma Is You: A New Love... or Two)

Cristina Chiperi

Suma

ISBN 9786073147811

Cristina is a 16-year-old from L.A. with a perfect life, until her parents decide to move to Miami. Almost overnight, she has to start over.

Una virgen imprudente

(A Reckless Virgin)

Ida Simons

Alfaguara

ISBN 9788420419435

The intimate, delicate, irony-filled portrait of Gittel, a 12-year-old Jewish girl who discovers life at the dawn of WWII. The Dutch pianist Ida Rosenheimer, who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, wrote this brilliant novel as Ida Simons.

December

Antes de la caída

(Before the Fall)

Noah Hawley

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525433323

From the creator of the TV show Fargo comes this thriller that explores the mystery of a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and its two survivors: a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul’s family.

Controlaré tus sueños

(Wolf Lake)

John Verdon

Roca

ISBN 9788416240432

Four people report having a nightmare involving a bloody dagger with a wolf’s head on the handle. All four are subsequently found dead, wrists slit by a wolf’s head dagger.

Copygirl

(Copygirl)

Michelle Sassa & Anna Mitchael

Urano

ISBN 9788492915859

You want to work in advertising. The glitz, the glamour, the cocktail-fueled brainstorming sessions and Xbox breaks. Sounds like a dream job, right? Wrong. As the coauthors’ debut novel shows, the reality can be a nightmare.

La Novena

(The Ninth)

Marcela Serrano

Alfaguara

ISBN 9781945540097

A touching account in which Serrano takes us through the lives of different generations of women who have suffered a betrayal but have also betrayed others.

Los olvidados

(The Forgotten)

David Baldacci

Ediciones B

ISBN 9788466658768

The U.S. Army relies on special agent John Puller to investigate the toughest crimes. On his newest case, the crime is personal: his aunt was found dead in Paradise, Florida.

La piel fría

(The Cold Flesh)

Albert Sánchez Piñol

Alfaguara

ISBN 9788420412139

A thrilling and claustrophobic novel from Ojo Crítico and Llibreter de narrativa award winner Piñol about fear and desire that reveals a truth: the only truly invincible monster is created by our own minds.

Tan poca vida

(A Little Life)

Hanya Yanagihara

Lumen

ISBN 9788426403278

This tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love follows four classmates from a small Massachusetts college in the decades after they move to New York to make their way. A dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

Traicionada

(Betrayal)

Danielle Steel

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525433361

A renowned film director learns that fame and fortune come at a price. Filled with intrigue, danger, and passion—a thrilling look at the dark side of Hollywood.

Nonfiction

October

Adictos al amor

(Exaholics)

Lisa Marie Bobby

Urano

ISBN 9788479539412

The author offers advice to anyone in pain over a broken relationship. A book that helps heal a broken heart and understand the emotional process of and path to recovery.

Aguas detox

(Detox Water)

Sonia Lucano

Grijalbo Ilustrados

ISBN 9788416449255

Water is fundamental, and drinking detox water is presented here as a way to hydrate and cleanse your system. Thirty recipes for detox waters that are designed to be refreshing, tasty, nutritious, and easy to prepare.

Arte antiestrés: calma y serenidad. Láminas para colorear

(Antistress Art: Peace and Serenity)

Varios Autores

Plaza & Janés

ISBN 9788401017445

An adult coloring book filled with elegant patterns and harmonious illustrations to foster peace and tranquility.

Comer cerezas con los ojos cerrados—El ladrón de cerebros

(Eating Cherries with Your Eyes Closed: The Brain Thief)

Pere Estupinyá

Debate

ISBN 9786073144933

Estupinyá, the brain thief referred to in the title, is on the prowl again in search of the most brilliant minds: to steal their knowledge, their experiments, and their visions of where the world is going in order to share them with us.

Cómo practicar la numerología

(How to Use Numerology for Career Success)

Margaret Arnold

Obelisco

ISBN 9788491111306

Arnold’s book asserts that numbers are representations of energy patterns or frequencies, and that numerology can help a person to understand the nature of these universal energy vibrations and take advantage of that knowledge to career and financial gain.

Dar y recibir

(Give and Take)

Adam H. Grant

Editorial Océano de México

ISBN 9786077354963

Today, success is dependent on how we interact with others. Using his own research, Adam Grant presents different interpersonal styles that he claims can have a surprising impact on success.

Depuración Smoothie Verde 10

(10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse)

J.J. Smith

Atria Español

ISBN 9781501120169

This New York Times bestseller provides a shopping list, recipes, and detailed instructions for a 10-day cleanse that the book claims will jump-start your weight loss, increase your energy level, clear your mind, and improve your overall health.

La felicidad después del orden

(Spark Joy)

Marie Kondo

Aguilar

ISBN 9781945540028

This illustrated guide from decluttering guru Marie Kondo presents Kondo’s acclaimed KonMari Method, with step-by-step folding illustrations plus drawings of perfectly organized drawers and closets.

El maestro sale de viaje

(The Teacher Goes on a Journey)

Carlos Brassel

Sélector USA

ISBN 9781681653266

In this book, a teacher goes out searching for the 12 disciples who will develop the 12 tools to help us all reach our full potentials.

El manual del paciente

(The Patient’s Playbook)

Leslie D. Michelson

Vintage Español

ISBN 9781101969809

The Patient’s Playbook seeks to change the way that you manage your health and that of your family. It provides instructions on such topics as finding the right doctor and coordinating the best medical care.

Nail Art

(Spanish Edition)

Souchka

Aguilar Ocio

ISBN 9788403514966

This book gathers the latest trends in nail art, with step-by-step instructions for learning how to do fashionable nail designs yourself.

El poder de tu belleza

(The Power of Your Beauty)

Lucy Lara

Editorial Océano de México

ISBN 9786077356899

This comprehensive guide invites readers to embark on a quest of physical and psychological well-being to build on interior beauty. It explains the importance of accepting ourselves as we are.

El secuestro de los Born

(The Born Kidnapping)

María O’Donnell

Debate

ISBN 9786073145138

This book tells the story of the spectacular kidnapping of the heirs to the Born empire, a key inflexion point in Argentina’s history. Over $200 million in today’s money was paid for the release of the Born brothers, the largest ever ransom.

Segundo compendio ilustrado y deleitoso de todo lo que siempre quiso saber de la lengua castellana

(The Second Delightful Illustrated Compendium of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Spanish Language)

Fundéu

Debate

ISBN 9788499926513

This second anthology of oddities, curiosities, and useful knowledge about the Spanish language, with new examples offered and new quandaries resolved, continues the Spanish nonprofit Fundéu’s excellent work that began with the first volume.

El show de Trump

(Trump and Me)

Mark Singer

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525433262

Writer Mark Singer revisits the 1996 profile of Donald Trump that he wrote for the New Yorker—the months he spent with Trump in his office towers, penthouse apartment, and private plane—and recounts how the profile’s publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant.

November

La cata de vinos

(Wine Tasting)

Lluís Manel Barba

Grijalbo

ISBN 9788415989509

Tasting a wine is about getting to know its dimensions: flavor, aroma, origin, etc. This book discusses wine, from basic tasting techniques to the secrets of serving and pairing wine with dishes.

La cocina para diabéticos

(Cooking for Diabetics)

Eduardo Casalins

Ediciones Lea

ISBN 9789877182552

This cookbook offers helpful tips for diabetics on how to modify food habits and completely eliminate certain components from the diet, while also providing savory recipes from scratch.

Un curso de milagros (fácil)

(A Course in Miracles Made Easy)

Alan Cohen

Urano

ISBN 9788479539443

This guide to the self-study spiritual thought system the Course, by author of popular inspirational books Cohen, promises to teach the way to love and forgiveness through practical, easy-to-understand lessons and real-life examples and applications.

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

Reservoir

ISBN 9786073142625

A graphic memoir from cult-favorite cartoonist Bechdel that chronicles the author’s childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. The narrative is marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and a love of great books.

La guía del líder

(The Leader’s Pocket Guide)

John Baldoni

Grupo Nelson

ISBN 9780718086756

This book seeks to provide readers with concise, on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct them on their professional journeys. It begins with the idea that before you can lead others, you must first learn to lead yourself.

Una hija diferente

(A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight)

Maria Toorpakai

Aguilar

ISBN 9786073144407

This book tells the story of Maria Toorpakai, who spent the first 16 years of her life disguised as a boy in order to pursue her love of sport in defiance of the Taliban. By passing as a boy to play sports, she became a lightning rod for freedom in her country’s battle over women’s rights.

Una inspiración para cada día

(Daily Inspiration)

Robin S. Sharma

Vintage Español

ISBN 9781101972168

Each page of this book contains a quotation from Canadian writer and leadership speaker Robin Sharma. It seeks to provide the reader with a daily prescription for uplift and practical wisdom for personal and professional success.

La invención de la naturaleza: El mundo nuevo de Alexander von Humboldt

(The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World)

Andrea Wulf

Taurus

ISBN 9788430618088

Author of Founding Gardeners Wulf details the now too infrequently celebrated life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist and polymath whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and created modern environmentalism.

Lactancia materna

(Breast-feeding)

Carlos González & Ser Padres

Aguilar Ocio

ISBN 9788403515840

In this guide, Dr. González responds to more than 100 questions about breast-feeding.

Mao: La historia desconocida

(Mao: The Unknown Story)

Jung Chang & Jon Halliday

Taurus

ISBN 9788430618125

A 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong by the wife-and-husband team of writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, who, based on a decade’s research, including interviews with hundreds of people, depict Mao as being responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.

Más agudo, más rápido y mejor: Los secretos para ser más productivo en la vida y en el trabajo

(Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business)

Charles Duhigg

Vintage Español

ISBN 9781101973868

Bestselling author Duhigg explores the science of productivity and why, in today’s world, managing how you think—rather than what you think about—can transform your life.

Mindset

(Mindset)

Carol Dweck

Sirio

ISBN 9788416579167

Dweck claims that your mindset matters just as much, if not more, than your abilities in determining whether or not you will find success, and explains how a focus on intelligence and ability can actually be counterproductive, both in terms of parenting and in terms of working toward professional achievement.

My First 100 Words—English

Wow! Total Books Kids

ISBN 9781681653402

This book teaches the 100 most common words in English through beautiful full-color illustrations. It also offers the reader the opportunity to listen to the 100 words by visiting the publisher’s website or downloading an app.

My First 100 Words—Spanish

Wow! Total Books Kids

ISBN 9781681652320

This book teaches the 100 most common words in Spanish through beautiful full-color illustrations. It also offers the reader the opportunity to listen to the 100 words by visiting the publisher’s website or downloading an app.

Paternidad consciente

(Parenting with Presence)

Susan Stiffelman

Sirio

ISBN 9788416233984

This book presents a unique method designed to help parents establish a truly loving and compassionate connection with their children.

Por tus hijos te conocerán

(For Your Children to Know)

Raquel Guerrero

Editorial Páx México

ISBN 9786079472009

A guide to maintaining healthy relationships with our children, this book offers advice to aid parents in the crucial task of equipping themselves with the emotional intelligence needed for parenting.

El secreto de las zonas azules

(The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer)

Dan Buettner

Vintage Español

ISBN 9781101973899

This book from longevity expert and National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner describes easy-to-adopt lifestyle habits that it claims can contribute to a long and fulfilling life.

Una soltera entre casadas

(Single Among the Married)

Casandra Gally

Editorial Páx México

ISBN 9786079346980

With a contemporary voice, Gally addresses any woman who has ever felt herself conspicuously single among couples. She gives advice with a sense of humor and backs the advice up with psychology.

Superando el duelo después de un suicidio

(Overcoming Grief After a Suicide)

Jessica Wolf

Editorial Páx México

ISBN 9786079472016

This book presents several individuals’ first-person accounts of their struggles with suicidal thoughts and invites readers to join in the process of healing.

Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad

(ADHD)

Miguel Ángel Pineda

Editorial Páx México

ISBN 9786079346959

In this book for parents and teachers, the author offers numerous alternatives to ADHD medication in areas including nutrition, spirituality, and family dynamics.

Últimos testigos

(Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets)

Svetlana Alexiévich

Debate

ISBN 9788499926612

A chronicle of the demise of communism and its effects. Everyday Russians recount the past 30 years—what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it’s like today.

December

Alimentación sana para vivir mejor

(The Detox Kitchen Bible)

Lily Simpson & Rob Hobson

Grijalbo Ilustrados

ISBN 9788416449439

The Detox Kitchen philosophy aims to bombard the reader’s body with a sea of nutrients and delicious flavors.

Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos: Un libro de 20 postales para colorear

(Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A Book of 20 Postcards to Color)

HarperCollins Español

ISBN 9780718091866

Showcasing artwork from the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film, this collection of coloring postcards allows readers to color their way through the film’s adventure.

Audaz, productivo y feliz

The Mastery Manual: A Life-Changing Guide for Personal and Professional Greatness

Robin S. Sharma

Vintage Español

ISBN 9781101973882

From the bestselling author of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari comes this guide that is designed to change your life. The book provides practical proposals to foster change in everyday habits that will allow you to reach your maximum potential.

Ayurveda

(Ayurveda)

Thérèse Bernard

Redbook Ediciones

ISBN 9788499173757

This book is an introduction to ayurveda science. It encourages greater awareness of the body and an understanding of the origins of disease.

La combinación de los alimentos

(Food Combining)

Vicki Peterson & Tim Spong

Redbook Ediciones

ISBN 9788499173795

This guide to food combining—the practice of eating certain foods in combination and removing other combinations from the diet—explains the importance of a correct balance of food in controlling weight and boosting the immune system.

Diálogo de conversos

(A Dialogue Between Two Converts)

Roberto Ampuero & Mauricio Rojas

Debate

ISBN 9786073148221

A respect for freedom and human integrity fills these pages, in which the authors share their political evolution from Marxism in the ’60s to the liberal ideas that they profess today.

El libro del vinagre de manzana

(The Book of Apple Cider Vinegar)

Margot Helmiss

Redbook Ediciones

ISBN 9788499173856

This guide reveals the many applications of apple cider vinegar, including a series of recipes that draw their flavor from this age-old product.

La medicina de ayahuasca: El mundo chamánico de la sanación con plantas sagradas de la Amazonía

(Ayahuasca Medicine: The Shamanic World of Amazonian Sacred Plant Healing)

Alan Shoemaker

Inner Traditions en Español

ISBN 9781620555439

After decades of apprenticeship, Alan Shoemaker offers an insider’s account of the journey to become an ayahuasquero, a shaman who heals with the visionary vine ayahuasca.

Transforma las heridas de tu infancia

(Heal the Wounds of Your Youth)

Anamar Orihuela

Aguilar

ISBN 9786073147187

This book seeks to teach you how to achieve a happy and fulfilled life by helping you to ease the pain of your inner child and heal the wounds life can make.

Zumos para una vida sana

(Juicing for Health)

Caroline Wheater

Redbook Ediciones

ISBN 9788499173825

This book offers ways to incorporate fruit and vegetable juices, rich in essential nutrients, into a daily routine to detoxify and balance the body.

Children's/YA

October

Contar de 7 en 7

(Counting by 7s)

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Editorial Océano de México

ISBN 9786077356653

Willow, a 12-year-old genius, finds her world tragically changed when her parents die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The book follows her as she works to push through her grief and as she finds a fascinatingly diverse surrogate family.

Dos hermanos

(The Orange Grove: A Novel)

Larry Tremblay

Nube de Tinta

ISBN 9786073145763

Twin brothers live peacefully on their family’s orange grove somewhere in the Arab Middle East. When a bomb kills their grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives. A depiction of war and its aftermath.

La increíble historia de... mi tía terrible

(Awful Auntie)

David Walliams

Montena

ISBN 9788490434178

Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta will stop at nothing to take it from her.

Mis trucos para sobrevivir a la clase de natación

(My Tricks to Survive Swimming Class)

Gideon Samson

Takatuka

ISBN 9788416003624

Gid is afraid of the water and has invented 70 tricks to skip swimming class. But if these don’t work, he has other survival strategies. IBBY Honour List 2012.

Notas suicidas de chicas hermosas

(Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls)

Lynn Weingarten

Editorial Océano de México

ISBN 9786077357964

June barely has time to comprehend and mourn the death of her best friend, Delia, before her ex-boyfriend convinces her that it wasn’t suicide as everyone else thinks, but murder.

Los osos amigos

(Best Friend Bears)

Hildegard Müller

Takatuka

ISBN 9788416003686

Three bears are great friends until one finds a scooter that he doesn’t want to share. But one day it breaks. A story about friendship, selfishness, and working together.

¡Qué ordenado!

(Tidy!)

Emily Gravett

Obelisco

ISBN 9788416648337

Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates quickly and ends with the complete destruction of the forest. Pete must learn the error of his ways and to appreciate the natural untidiness of the forest in order to save it.

Los tres animales

(The Three Animals)

Pep Molist & Kim Amate

Takatuka

ISBN 9788416003709

A writer of animal stories for children goes to live in the forest and discovers animals aren’t as she imagined. A reflection about the world we share with the animals.

November

Cosas que escribiste sobre el fuego

(Things You Wrote About the Fire)

Clara Cortés

Plataforma Neo

ISBN 9788416820184

Ignasi and María meet and become friends, sharing for the first time their deepest secrets. However, they soon realize that they cannot help tearing each other’s lives apart.

Dorothy debe morir

(Dorothy Must Die)

Danielle Paige

Roca

ISBN 9788416498291

The first book of a dark series that reinvents the Oz saga. Dorothy found a way to return to Oz and seize power, and the power went to her head. Now, no one is safe.

La estación de las tormentas de arena

(Season of the Sandstorms)

Mary Pope Osborne

Lectorum

ISBN 9781632456441

Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way they live.

Extraños

(The Outliers)

Kimberly McCreight

Vintage Español

ISBN 9780525433316

From bestselling author McCreight comes a fast-paced teen series where one girl learns that in a world of intrigue, betrayal, and deeply buried secrets, it is vital to trust your instincts.

La noche de los nuevos magos

(Night of the New Magicians)

Mary Pope Osborne

Lectorum

ISBN 9781632456458

Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission back in time, to the Paris of over 100 years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin.

Serafina y la capa negra

(Serafina and the Black Cloak)

Robert Beatty

Alfaguara Infantil

ISBN 9788420484266

This is the story of a brave and unusual girl who lives secretly in the basement of the grand Biltmore Estate amidst the splendor of the Gilded Age. Serafina and her friend Braeden Vanderbilt must work together to solve a dark and dangerous mystery.

Tormenta de nieve en luna azul

(Blizzard of the Blue Moon)

Mary Pope Osborne

Lectorum

ISBN 9781632456465

Jack and Annie travel to N.Y.C. during the Great Depression. The city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, they must save a mysterious unicorn.

December

La chica del abrigo azul

(Girl in the Blue Coat)

Monica Hesse

Nube de Tinta

ISBN 9788415594970

In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke is tasked with finding a Jewish girl someone was hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air.

Me encanta la Navidad

(I Love Christmas)

Anna Walker

Thule Ediciones

ISBN 9788415357698

With simple rhyming text and attractive illustrations, this book is meant for young readers. It tells the story of a curious little zebra and his dog.

Me llamo Bud, no Buddy

(My Name is Bud, Not Buddy)

Christopher Paul Curtis

Lectorum

ISBN 9781632456397

Bud doesn’t want to return to the orphanage; therefore, he decides to go in search of the band leader whom he believes to be the father he has never known.

Rubén Darío

(Rubén Darío)

Georgina Lázaro

Lectorum

ISBN 9781632456410

Georgina Lázaro presents the life of Rubén Darío, father of Modernism, in this new addition to the award-winning series Cuando los grandes eran pequeños.

Las tres mellizas vamos a la nieve

(The Triplets Play in the Snow)

Roser Capdevila

Lectio Ediciones

ISBN 9788416012602

In this book, Ana tells how she has fun with her sisters, Teresa and Elena, during the Christmas holidays by sledding, making a snowman, and creating three little snow angels.

Los Watson van a Birmingham—1963

(The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963)

Christopher Paul Curtis

Lectorum

ISBN 9781632456403

In 1963, the Watsons, an African-American family, head south from Flint, Mich., to Birmingham, Ala., toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history.