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Games of tennis at noon, displays of popularity on the Barça terraces, drinking vermouth in Turó Park and afternoon shopping trips at Illa Diagonal: this is the calm existence that businessman Amadeu Conill had to sacrifice in 2007 in order to save his company and his life itself.
"In case you're interested: I'm 7 years old, my name is Blanca and, most important of all, I'm no more or less than... the head of the witches! I have a lot to tell you, but for that, you will have to keep reading...
It's only a few days before the three moons come into conjunction and the mad god Tubilok opens the gates of the hellish Prates, which will cause the annihilation of Tramórea. Kratos and Derguín try to stop it, riding separately towards the mysterious Tártara.
Ingrid Vaughan finds herself obliged to move her son Michael, who is in an irreversible coma after an accident, to a mysterious institution where terminal patients are looked afteruntil their final hour. At the same time, Thomas Kehl is following the trail of his grandfather who disappeared during the First World War.
'No woman can be blamed if two men are in love with her.' Thus begins this magnificent novel of intense contrasts and unforgettable characters: Amelia, beautiful, rebellious, insatiable. Martín, idealistic, free-thinking, vanquished. And Alberto, the terrifying second-lieutenant Repellejo, a monster in love, a spirit endowed with a strange sensitivity.
The protagonist and narrator, Leo Carver, is a perceptive figure who takes a tragic approach to life through an excess of alcohol, sex, and parties, even though he knows his struggle against the void is condemned to failure.
Day dawns one Saturday in April in a small village in the south of Spain. A cry attracts the attention of all the house's inhabitants, announcing the death of an old woman. Over the next few hours the doors of the house are opened wide for the wake: conversations and gossip, relatives and neighbours, tears and reunions, flowers, prayers and people, lots of people.
David Rubín revisits the story of Heracles from birth onwards, examing each of the twelve tasks that he carried out from a new and ambitious perspective. In the first of two proposed parts, the author from Ourense combines epic and reflection to present a carefully staged comic-saga with spectacular narrative and abundant use of colour.
'Pol is 29 and has Down's Syndrome. He's like a little child but in a big clumsy body. Mum complains all the time and says that everyone says Down's syndrome kids are so sweet and gentle, but her son is the exception, and then she sighs. And it's not just that he's not sweet, he's also cheeky and stubborn and he throws tantrums. And he's a real pain.
This 19th tome of the historical naval novel series, 'A Spanish Sailor Saga', tackles the thorny and scandalous matter of the Russian squadron acquired by Fernando VII for Tsar Alexander I, a national embarrassment on such a great scale it is difficult to believe.