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'My Family is Special' introduces us to diverse types of family. Stunning illustrations draw us into a story starring a lot of animals and a one-hundred-year-old granny who invites her family to her birthday party. Discover all the different kinds of family that exist. You can also play at spotting recurring features in the illustrations. Will you manage to find them all?
This story is about a little girl in a wheelchair and a cat who was rescued from the street. Each has their own reasons to be scared to leave the house. But by not going out, they feel like they are cut off from the rest of the world, watching life go by through their window.
It's 1945. In post-war Spain people are ready to leave the bad times behind and there is an air of optimism and progress. But not for Isabel. When she refuses to say who the father of her unborn baby is, she must accept her brother Jaime's decision for an arranged marriage.
Between the pages of this book you will find the story of Miko, an adaptation of a Japanese legend that explains the origins of the Maneki-neko, the friendly lucky cat so beloved of the Japanese.
'Minino and the Moon' is part of the new 'Minino' collection from creative dueo Martí & Salomó. This collection of board books with very simple moving parts is designed so that little ones can lift the flaps on each page themselves. In this way they will discover, one page at a time, the magic hidden in little moments of daily life. Join Minino and his friends on a voyage to the moon.
The brain is considered to be the most complex machine in existence. It's the control centre for all our activities. But is it really a perfect machine? Before you answer, open this book and discover how, sometimes, our own brains can play tricks on us!
"They come here thinking they're writers and leave as personalities", thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne a young peruvian novelist. After a spiral into Californian drugs and erotic adventures, Mona lands up in a little Swedish town along with a few of her colleagues who have all been nominated for the prestigious Basske Wortz literary prize.
"Women who read" could just as well have been entitled women who sang, women who painted, women who played piano or women who danced. All of them, the women who came before us, had anxieties, dreamed of being something more than that which destiny had marked them for.
The demon Docar needs to take on a physical form to leave his mountain and rule over the lands of Nartanis, and he is prepared to use any tool at his disposal, from fear and hate, to love, courage and hope. But there is opposition from the three races that inhabit Nartanis: the wolves, intelligent, capable and observant, fearful warriors and skilled trackers.
Cora needs to reinvent herself in order to get out of the hole she has sunk into after the sudden breakup from the love of her life. Sex becomes the initiation rite into a new identity, an unknown world where she can experiment, and find herself and forgiveness. Valentina arrives in Spain on the run from a dark secret and a traumatic past, and she needs to find herself a new place in the world.