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Bea is in a bad mood. She doesn't like rain and it's raining cats and dogs. And her little brother Guille wants to play with her. The brother and sister don't get on well together. But something strange happens: Mum tells Guille off and he tells Bea he is sorry. Why is it so hard to say "I forgive you?"
In a remote taberna there are some who say that the poet Manuel Antonio lost his head over a woman dressed in moon-white who had been rescued by a sea captain called Joseph Conrad. The Diario Compostelano of September 9, 1945 diid not run the story about how the owner of the brewery Cervezas Cruceiro tried his first foaming tankard at the age of nine during the Expostion Universelle in Paris.
Rut has to run away. From whom? Why? She knows that she doesn't have a choice but she doesn't know the reason. Even the people who want to help her like Professor Argimon and Marc the anchovy are surrounded by secrets... What do the people after Rut want from her? Where will she go? Why?
Chusco was a very old stray dog who lived in a dark alley. So dark he could barely see who walked along it. One winter night Chusco was shivering with cold and his stomach was rumbling with hunger: he didn't have the strength to go looking for food.
How to wrap a present in ten steps. Not, nine, or eight, or seven. Not even a small step for mankind. Ten steps. Follow them to the letter. If you want practice, you could wrap the juicer, the television, the cat, a cockroach, a cup of coffee, a left-footed shoe or even this book. A crazy and ridiculous adventure that focuses on counting from one to ten.
Érika has learned everything she knows on the streets. She has just turned twenty, but people always say she seems older. Perhaps its her gaze, which seems older than her years. She lives with Samuel, her older borther, who seems younger than her. He always owes her money and he's always getting into trouble.
The most important things in Lara's life are her friends and music and she is planning to start a DJ double act with her best friend Martina. But suddenly one morning everything changes. She meets Diego, a Colombian boy who lives in Barcelona and Martina tells her that she won't be able to start a DJ act with her so Laura will have to DJ by herself.
'On the 11th of March 2004 Madrid suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history. Ten minutes after the bombs went off, my mobile rang. I was working as a journalist back then.
Irene is in the later stages of her life and remembers something that happened when she was a very little girl that changed her life forever. In just a few days a secret would be born that she would keep secret from that point onwards, a time divided between the seaside at Granada and her definitive move to Madrid.
In a place in the universe called Crystal Earth there was a race who talked to the stars. The old people would teach the children from a young age to communicate with the stars, not using words, but with their minds. Crisol was nervous, because that night he was going to celebrate his birthday, and after that he would choose his star. A story about self confidence and self respect.