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It's not always easy for young children to understand the Gospels. The language, the scenes, the characters all presuppose knowledge of the adult world and of the context in which Jesus lived. In its young children's version, the Rezandovoy team has for years offered a weekly adaptation of the Sunday Gospel reading.
Rita goes to Egypt to meet up with her Uncle Daniel, who is working on some excavations, but due to a terrible misunderstanding, Rita fails to find the person her uncle has sent to meet her and joins a band of robbers who are looking for the same treasure as her Uncle Daniel. A series of amusing coincidences will leave Rita passing herself off as a young archaeologist.
Originally published in 1927, this humorous novel tells the adventures of Roque Fernandez, a dull civil servant who dies and instead of arriving in heaven, finds himself reincarnated as Jean Rochestier (Roque Two), who speaks French and has a wife and two children with whom he feels an imposter.
Albert Corner i Espiga left the Cuban war behind him some time ago, but he promised himself he would never again be that conscript burdened with poverty and misfortune, but a new man, a survivor. And using that instinct he managed to build a fortune, become part of the Catalan haute bourgeoisie and start a well-off family. These are tense times and the sparks begin to fly.
One foggy morning in 1980, Julio Vilches disembarked on the Galician island of Sálvora, located in the mouth of the Arousa River, ready to start his stint as the lighthouse keeper.
Samuel is hardly afraid of anything: not dogs, or heights, or strangers or storms… He's not even afraid of snakes! There's only one thing that scares him a little bit… Would you like to know what it is? A story for all those children who, like Samuel, face up to their fears… And they often manage to overcome them!
The beautiful old cemetery at the heart of the city of Malmö is a meeting point for spirits. Nils is one of them and he's delighted about it because he can spend all his time doing what he enjoys most: hooking up. The lingering dead have a lot going for them, and when it suits them they can go into ghost mode so nobody notices them. Or not. Siri, a very special girl, has found out about them.
The story of the love between an old manipulator and a beautiful visionary artist. An unclassifiable ballad, at certain times a parody of the noir genre, at others a family saga that nobody knows how to tell.
Lucas's mother and father are superheroes. They can do anything for him: brush his hair, dress him, even do his homework. But at night time they are so tired they don't want to play with Lucas. One day Lucas decides that from now on he will do things for himself, it will be a touch challenge, but he'll do it and be a real superhero.