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If a woman had ever been destined to shine, it was Beatriz Calanda, whose eccentric, outrageous life iunfolds during the last sixty years of Spanish history. Darling of society magazines, with a life etched with glamour, scandals and scoops, the grande dame of the Madrid jet set, everyone knows who Beatriz Calanda is and who her four husbands were.
"Grandpa has changed a lot. His memory is like a change in the sea, a wave, a boat that doesn't know where it's going." Can there be anything worse than a grandpa who forgets his granddaughter? Although she's very little, Mariana knows some kind words that can transform the pain of confusion into a hug or a smile.
The main character of this story, the author's alter ego,is a nineteen-year-old scholar who is employed on a local newspaper. He's a very practical kid who enjoys his work until the day he sleeps with the newspaper's sexologist, Daniela Costa, an expert in her field, a tall, slim, attractive and elegant woman, but cold as ice.
In the time of your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents, when "the good old days" hadn't even been invented, Trog wanted to make the Journey. But in the Invisibles tribe only boys made the Journey. And Trog was a girl. So Trog decided to do what the boys did: she went out one night, crossed the high plains in search of prey.
After receiving a mysterious message, Niko takes a new route to school and discovers a house he's never seen before. By solving a puzzle he is able to enter what turns out to be a strange place where universes are born. There's a cat that appears and disappears, and it has teleporters.
While Maruja the witch is updating her book of recipes for cooking tender young children, Hansel and Gretel happen to drop by her house and end up locked in a cage. Luckily for them, Tom and Tere, a couple of builders specialising in repairing chocolate houses are passing by.
Princess Tamiel, the only descendent of the King of Latos, has never fitted in. She doesn't meet up to her father's expectations. She can't resign herself to the unclear future of a dependent queen consort. She can't bear, even if she wanted to, other people being in charge of her destiny, people - men - she can neither love nor respect.
A novel featuring two parallel stories: that of Pope Celestine V in the thirteenth century and the shared history of eight men and a boy in the mountains of the Dominican Republic in the twentieth century. Both stories deal with the true nature of success and failure. Friendship, ambition, ingenuity and the sacrifices that have to be made to achieve freedom.
Children and adults alike, we all have goals we dream of achieving. But what happens when they remain out of reach? It can be frustrating, right? Using her hilarious 'magic' recipes, Gala, the heroine of this story, shows us that nobody is born knowing everything and that being wrong doesn't mean failure, but a chance to learn.