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'In my city there were seven men who wore bowler hats. They always went about together. They were serious, stuffy, wore only black and twirled their moustaches. Until one day the wind swept one of the hats far, far away and showed them something new.' Seven Men in Bowler Hats is a story to make us think, laugh and reflect.
Through the proverbs and stories in this illustrated book, children will be able to discover 80 qualities and virtues that are useful in life when put into practice.
This novel is the revelation of the year and has been a success on social media, charming its readership. The story is based on real events narrated by guide dog Cross about friendship, love and overcoming problems. Cross is a happy and mischievous dog, and Mario is his blind young companion who is trying to make his way in life. Together they form an inseparable team.
The Fifth Stone is a story of friendship, evolution and personal growth that relates very directly to the interests of readers between the ages of 10 and 12 years old. Readers will find in its pages some of the elements that make a YA novel particularly attractive: • a mystery that involves the reader who accompanies the protagonists in their discoveries throughout the book.
"I had always thought of pain as something impersonal and neutral. I could never have imagined it could take on so many forms, and especially not that you could be one of them. But you slipped through my dreams like sand between my fingers, disappearing a little more every moment. I had a little less of you.
Miranda is an eight-year-old girl whose favourite pastime is to read books like this one, which tells the story of Amelia Earhart, a brave American who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, and was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. As a girl she wanted to be the first to try everything, and she spent her whole life seeking out challenges to take on.
Abi is an intelligent, insightful, imaginative young woman who dreams about marrying Mario. She thinks she’s achieved total happiness, but her plans crumble when a seductive charmer enters her life. Will she be able to resist him or will she let herself be carried away by passion?
At the beginning of the seventies in the north of Mexico, a group of students known as Los Enfermos (The Sick) began a revolutionary movement with the aim of bringing about a new national order. The poet Juan Pablo Orígenes was part of the group. Forty years later, the Ministry for Culture employs Salomón to write the poet's biography to be published as a tribute alongside his complete works.
... And a moment arrived when humanity had the opportunity to choose its own destiny and the schism took place. Technology and the leadership of the big corporations versus co-operation and harmony with nature, two irreconcilable visions of the world that could only reach one agreement, not to have any further contact whatsoever.
At some point in the second half of the twentieth century, Alfred Montsalvatjes, a young man with a deep cut to his hand, arrives at hospital in New York. He's a foreigner, he wants to be a writer and, in the eyes of Jean Rosenbloom, the nurse who tends to him, he is a fairytale prince.