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All you knead is love

Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.

Ellen outside the lines

2022
"Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--Provided by publisher.

All you knead is love

Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.

Firing point

"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small caf?. At first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then shejust seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the caf? is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too late. As she dies in his arms, she utters one word, "Sammler." When the police show up they are initially suspicious of Jack until they are called off by a member of the Spanish Intelligence Service. This mysterious sequence of events sends the young Campus operative on an unrelenting search tofind out the reason behind Renee's death. Along the way, he discovers that his old friend had secrets of her own--and some of them may have gotten her killed"--Provided by publisher.

La peque?a coral de la se?orita Collignon

French and music teacher Ms. Collignon, who teaches in a respectable school, finds her life changed when she is transferred to a school with students of diverse nationalities and cultures.
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Oto?o azul

High school students Nacho and Paula form a close friendship over their mutual interests and find their relationship changing when a loved one faces cancer.
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The prisoner of heaven

a novel
When a mysterious stranger visits Daniel Sempere's bookshop and threatens to divulge a secret it sets in motion events that put Daniel and his friend Fermin on a dangerous adventure as they search for the truth.

The labyrinth of the spirits

a novel
"In this . . . final volume of Ruiz Zaf?n's cycle of novels set in the universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, beautiful and enigmatic Alicia Gris, with the help of the Sempere family, uncovers one of the most shocking conspiracies in all Spanish history. Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain's secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on"--Jacket flap.

Gaud?

visionary architect
An exploration of the work of twentieth-century Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaud? that focuses on his structures in Barcelona, discussing his working and building methods, including photographs, and providing social and cultural background on the city.
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Priceless

a Lucas Benes spy mystery novel
2016
"Lucas Benes faces his greatest challenge yet when he finds a secret message from his mother hidden inside a sunken cargo container. In a near-death scuba diving experience, Lucas and the New Resistance kids learn that Good Company CEO Siba G?nerro--along with her newest and most beautiful Curukians--is planning a massive art heist. Lucas and friends scour the Spanish countryside looking for clues. But to unravel the mysteries of both the robbery and the cryptic message, Lucas must first discover the only thing is worth more than priceless"--Back cover.
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