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One man, three stories. Harry fell in love with Swell. Before that he had been in love with María. Then Harry fell in love with Sabrina. Harry is just one man who lost his wife, his job and his home in a single day. Harry started to sleep in his car. Harry ended in in a psychiatric hospital. Harry hit rock bottom, but he survived.
'Marcelina en la cocina' ('Marcelina in the Kitchen') is a rhyming book which your little ones will love. Marcelina has lots of talents, but cooking isn't one of them. Marcelina the giraffe, who has no idea how to cook, wants to make a special dinner for her niece to enjoy. You can imagine the mess she'll make of it!
Martina is feeling a bit low: her parents pay more attention to her little brother, who is teething. One day, annoyed because her brother has torn a soft toy, she decides to go to the world of monsters to play with her friend Anitram; her brother Marc secretly follows her. But Marc begins to play with Cram, Anitram's little brother, and the two get lost.
At the height of summer, 1950, five adolescent girls at a convent boarding school play, for the last time, a game of 'Truth or Dare', which they call the 'clothes game', Two of them, the Viño twins, are about to start a new life, full of uncertainty, far away.
After several years' absence, the protagonist of this novel decides to abandon his peaceful life in Barcelona and return to the city of his birth. It's a return to the ghosts of his past - his paunchy ex-schoolmates and his parents' expectations - which threatens to jeopardise the peace of Mediocristan, the moral territory in which he has been living comfortably.
If anything defines Kenzie Sullivan it is her obsession for making lists that help to organise her life: a weekly meal plan, books to be read, clothes she'll wear, etc.
A man is found hanged in a pinewood on the outskirts of Madrid, his eyes torn out by the roots. In one of his pockets is a mysterious scrap of paper with thee names and the address of a woman: Sara Azcárraga, who lives a few miles from the scene of the crime. Fragile, solitary, a secret vodka drinker, Sara eschews all human contact and works from home.
In a small neighbourhood in the middle of the city live five women who buy flowers. At the start none of them is buying for herself: one buys flowers for her secret lover, another for her office, the third in order to paint them, another for her clients, the last . . . for a dead person. I am the fifth woman and this is my story.
In the midst of the euphoria at the arrival of the new millennium, a Caribbean musicologist receives an invitation from a well-known fashion designer to collaborate on a strange exhibition. They are united by their great interest in the shapes of the animal world.