Foreign Rights Catalog
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Léase en caso de fracaso
Read moreTitle Léase en caso de fracaso Author Pepe Villatoro, Carlos Zimbrón, Leticia Gasca y Luis López de Nava (FUCKUP NIGHTS) Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Conecta ISBN 9786073821476 Edition number N/A Publication year 2022 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Synopsis Ten years ago some friends shared their fuck-ups and a few beers in Mexico City and discovered how powerful it can be to learn from it. Today Fuckup Nights has become a movement that investigates, make questions and redefines failure and has given more than 15,000 of his stories to more than 1,200,000 people in 185 cities and 62 countries, hand in hand with hundreds of companies that seek to build more innovative organizational cultures. After a decade of analyzing hundreds of stories, the four founders of Fuckup Nights and the Failure Institute share with us what they have learned about failure: its origins in our culture, how capitalism and its cult of individual success foster the taboo, what factors and behaviors that trigger it, what are its signs, how it impacts our emotions, how to communicate it to your team, which consolations rituals you can add to your routine, what anti-failure tools to use and how to use them, and what conclusions this community of rebels has reached. The book is enriched with stories of iconic failure that have gone through Fuckup Nights internationally. It also includes revealing anecdotes from within the movement that tell of their own defeats, but also of its evolution. Join the movement, laugh at your failures and share them with the world! #ShareTheFailure foreign rights contact Quetzalli de la Concha Oswaldo Muñoz
Cecilia Palacios.
E-mail quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com cecilia.palacios@penguinrandomhouse.com -
La moneda de la muerte
Read moreTitle La moneda de la muerte Author Enrique Escalona Publisher SM México Imprint Gran Angular ISBN 9786072444379 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis After the strange disappearance of his father, young Damián Diosdado is forced to take charge of his family's detective agency. One night he receives an unexpected visit from a rich heiress who asks him to recover a valuable coin that belonged to her grandfather, a retired general. It is a silver peso that Pancho Villa had minted during the Revolution with the inscription "Muera Huerta". The investigation will lead Damián to immerse himself in a Mexico City full of dangers and secrets. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Las mascotas secretas
Read moreTitle Las mascotas secretas Author Verónica Murguía Publisher SM México Imprint El Barco de Vapor Serie azul ISBN 9786072424630 Edition number 2 Publication year 2016 Pages 64 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Mina and Pedro, neighbors and best friends, are united by their love for animals. Pets are forbidden in their building, but they find a way to solve it. But when Pepita intervenes, everything threatens to fall apart. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Las celdas rosas
Read moreTitle Las celdas rosas Author Sylvia Arvizu Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256679 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Reportage, journalism or collected columns Synopsis There are two easy ways to deal with the life of women in prison in our country and the reasons that put them there: one is to ignore it and the other is to turn it into a valley of tears. The merit of Sylvia Arvizu has been to find a third option. The most ethical and aesthetic possible. That of reinstating their human character. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Puerto libre. Historias de migrantes
Read moreTitle Puerto libre. Historias de migrantes Author Ana Romero Publisher SM México Imprint El Barco de Vapor Serie roja ISBN 9786072405714 Edition number 3 Publication year 2022 Pages 122 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis I was almost eight years old when my dad left for Freeport, a town in Texas. Here my Yaya, Mi Hermana, my mom and I stayed. Although we were sad and missed each other, we didn't have such a bad time: my dad worked like crazy, my mom and my Yaya had fake fights and Mi Hermana would jump in the pool in the buff. There are as many migrant stories as there are branches on a tree. This is mine. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
No nos extrañará el sistema
Read moreTitle No nos extrañará el sistema Author Antonio Malpica Publisher SM México Imprint Gran Angular ISBN 9786072407961 Edition number 1 Publication year 2014 Pages 102 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Lorenzo writes what he lives, what he sees in a city watched over by helicopters and inhabited by people who don't exist if they don't have ID cards. The system tries to control everything, from traffic lights to the crazy idea that trees ever existed. In an overflowing city where traffic jams last for days, Lorenzo finds Maria. He also finds mistrust, loneliness, death. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Dentro del bosque de Hokkaido
Read moreTitle Dentro del bosque de Hokkaido Author Éric Pessan Publisher SM México Imprint Novelas juveniles ISBN 9786072432611 Edition number 2 Publication year 2018 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Nightmares, screams upon awakening, high fever that does not stop: Julie begins to get worse inexplicably, without the doctors being able to diagnose her illness. Her anguished parents and brother are at a loss to help her. All the time she dreams that she is in a distant forest... but it is not her, but a boy who wanders terrified and lost along lonely paths among tall trees. Julie fears she is possessed or has begun to go mad. Although deep down, the suspicion of what is really happening to her torments her just as much, for she knows she must do something to save herself and, at the same time, find out who the boy is who inhabits her disturbing visions. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Encuentro con la Gran Ciudad
Read moreTitle Encuentro con la Gran Ciudad Author Teresa Domínguez Pacheco Publisher SM México Imprint El Barco de Vapor Serie naranja ISBN 9786072422469 Edition number 2 Publication year 2016 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Ixtlahuamilli looks forward to his seventh birthday so he can go hunting and help in the field. One day he witnesses a battle in which a warrior chief is wounded. After saving his life, the boy leaves his village to make the long journey to the Big City, where great adventures await him. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Perro moscovita
Read moreTitle Perro moscovita Author Alexandra Campos Hanon Publisher SM México Imprint Gran Angular ISBN 9786072442269 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Aleksis Ivanovich returns with nostalgia to Moscow, to visit the dog ranch where he participated in the training of dogs that would contribute to the largest space exploration project of the 20th century. The great powers were experimenting with apes and dogs, to later lead the space conquest with human beings. At one point, Alexis faced the ethical dilemma of using animals for the sake of scientific progress, and she could never forget those canine heroes who never returned from their journey into space. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Manual para corregir adultos malcriados
Read moreTitle Manual para corregir adultos malcriados Author Francisco Hinojosa Publisher SM México Imprint El Barco de Vapor Serie naranja ISBN 9786072437791 Edition number 1 Publication year 2016 Pages 124 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Dr. Hinojosa returns more prepared than ever: with the sharpest tools, the most ingenious remedies and the most drastic cures. Kids, in this book you'll find how to straighten out fraudulent dads, lazy moms and other adults who have strayed from the path. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com -
Lobos
Read moreTitle Lobos Author Xavier M. Sotelo Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073125918 Edition number N/A Publication year 2022 Pages 288 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance Synopsis Diego is ready to take the next step in his relationship with Paola. He will propose to her, while they are camping in a beautiful forest in the company of his best friends. What starts out as the perfect evening will soon turn into a nightmare. Unbeknownst to them, the youngsters have wandered into a town where most of the inhabitants are not what they appear to be, the light of the full moon will bring out their true personalities. The town, El Real, Jalisco, is infested with werewolves and that night there will be a full moon. Only the strongest will be able to survive this night of terror, in which the most deadly attack will come from where they least expect it. Several of Diego's friends die that night, including his sister and, apparently, his girlfriend Paola. His best friend Raul is bitten and will eventually become a werewolf and will become a bloodthirsty predator. Diego and a few others managed to survive and vow to kill Raul. What Diego doesn't know is that Paola also survived, and now lives with Real's police chief, who sees in her the daughter he lost. foreign rights contact Quetzalli de la Concha Oswaldo Muñoz
Cecilia Palacios.
E-mail quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com cecilia.palacios@penguinrandomhouse.com -
Por pura curiosidad
Read moreTitle Por pura curiosidad Author Alejandro Mendoza; Guillermo Sienra Publisher SM México Imprint Informativos ISBN 9786072443952 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 120 Format Printed THEMA Children’s, Teenage Synopsis Alejandro Mendoza, a very curious humanist, and Guillermo Sienra, a passionate mathematician, engage in a fascinating and pleasant conversation on different scientific topics that helps to debunk, among other myths, the idea that science is only accessible to a select few. Among many other issues, they discuss the language of mathematics and the usefulness of this science in everyday life, the most powerful computers, space exploration, curiosity, creativity, fractals, infinities, cryptography and the contributions of great figures in mathematics. foreign rights contact Estela Ruiz Torres E-mail estela.ruiz.torres@grupo-sm.com
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