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The Amadis of Gaul begins with the story of the furtive love between King Perión of Gaul and Princesa Elisena of Britain which results in the birth of a child who is abandoned in a boat.
In the late 1960s, an eight year old boy goes to live with his uncle and aunt in San Sebastian. There he sees how the days go by in the family and the neighbourhood.
Keka, daughter and granddaughter of sailors, skips school one day to go down to the port to say hello to her father, captain of the tug boat Antares and, while she’s there, see Abdú, the boy she fancies. When she arrives, the boat is deserted. She goes on board and lies down on a bunk to wait for them but she falls asleep.
This book explains everything you need to know about verbs in Spanish. You will learn how to conjugate the regular ones, find out what kinds of irregular ones there are and how to identify them. You will also be able to create new verbs. A book that explains all the secrets of the structure of the verb. (http://www.onoma.es/conjugador/elverboespaniol.html)
Souto Menaya, "Boots", is a footballer who has known glory and is now suffering hell. After a historic goal at the end of the Royal Cup of 1944, his career has been cut short by an injury that has left him lame. Having worked as a builder before he became a professional player, he now needs a sedentary job and ends up accepting one stuffing photos into envelopes.
Archivo Gomá. Documentos de la Guerra Civil brings together the correspondence and documents conserved in the archive of Cardinal Isidro Gomá y Tomás (la Riba 1869 – Toledo 1940).
What lies behind the mysterious hitchhiker, who disappears at the first stop? Xarloca doesn’t like it, and less when, the next day, she sees the boy on the cover of a fashion magazine. Be careful what you’re getting mixed up in, Xarloca!
A hero appears in Galician lands to seek revenge for Viking incursions on the peninsula. The first novel which reveals this episode to us through a story filled with adventures as well as rigorous historical documentation. At the height of the Reconquest, the Norsemen invaded Galicia to avail themselves of the treasures of Santiago de Compostela, the jewel of Christianity.
Ryo doesn’t understand why the war has taken his father far away from Nagasaki. Nor does he understand why everything has changed: the storytellers’ bells don’t ring any more to announce their arrival, food is becoming more scarce and his friend Reyko doesn’t seem the same.