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After Franco's victory, the young republican doctor Guillermo García is able to continue living in Madrid, thanks to a false identity organised for him by his best friend, a diplomat whose life Guillermo saved in 1937 and who in 1946 comes home on a secret and dangerous mission: to infiltrate the secret organisation led by Clara Stauffer in Madrid facilitating the escape of criminals from the Thir
A compilation of questions and answers in the child collection, Superquestioners has sold over 100,000 copies in Spain. Those who know what they are talking about say that you shouldn't go to sleep without asking yourself at least one question in the quest to learn a little more.
The newest addition to the successful child collection, Superquestions, which has sold 100,000 copies in Spain. We all tremble when a superquestioner looks us in the eyes and opens its mouth to ask… Is there such a thing as infinite drawings? Can you measure happiness? What comes out when you cut a sausage? Why do we count in tens? What can we do with 4 quarters?
During the excavation of the tomb of an Egyptian priest, two Spanish Egyptologists discover some strange inscriptions which turn out to be a fragment of Critias, Plato's dialogue which narrates the history of Atlantis.
After the exciting adventure of 'The Crystal Navigator', this time daring Lucy Nightingale leads us into the world of Leonardo Da Vinci when one of his greatest works, the Mona Lisa, suffers a strange phenomenon that threatens to make a total mess of the famous painting.
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.