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Based in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of Cadaqués, Simon Schneider works for a highly successful author who goes by the name Gran Bros and lives hidden away in New York. Simon is a Hokusai, that is to say a distributor of quotes for other writers, among whom, although he has no idea of it, is the great Thomas Pynchon.
"I'm going to tell you the things that only a big brother will tell you; that your father will never say". A millennial text that echoes Sex and the City, Girls or Fleabag, Ethics for Julia steers well clear of approved protocols and bases itself purely on the disarming sincerity of what it wants to say.
Ernesto has decided to go on a teen dating programme on TV with the hope of finding himself a girlfriend. Which is why he is so surprised when, without knowing how it happened, they pair him up with a guy called Félix.
'There are as many kinds of families as there are ways of loving. A family doesn't need to be explained, just lived.'. This picture book contains fourteen cartoons of different families, each set in a bed. The illustrations are accompanied by rhyming texts with which the authors normalise different kinds of family and present families as a place of love and care.
ON THE FRONTIER, THE ONLY LAW IS IRON They called him Fierro. He lived in a secluded and lonely place on the border, that cursed place where Moors and Christians sowed death at will. His only comfort was the beehives, which he loved so much. His memories of the battle of Alarcos haunted and tormented him, because there he lost her, lost his future son, and almost died.
The novel you hold in your hands is one of the ones that is remembered, as much for the rebellion we feel when faced with humiliation and decrepitude as for the transparency of the language in which it is written. Francesca, a teenager with a special gift for music, unleashes her genius when adversity strikes both her own fragile person and the beautiful and cultured world she grew up in.
If you sometimes think that your LITTLE WORLD is upside down and back to front then take a trip with Nimu and his gang. With them you'll discover something MASSIVE, like a meteorite; BRIGHT, like a star; POWERFULL, like the full moon and GIGANTIC, like the universe. Resilience is something we all have that helps us to positively adapt to difficult situations.
Mario died unexpectedly. And on the night of his mourning, alone, his wife Carmen talks to him for five hours, while Mario remains unresponsive, silent. But death doesn't stop him listening to his wife's monologue. From where he is, incorporeal but fully aware of events, now he returns, and in dreams, replies.
Harry is a totally normal kid, well, I tell a lie, he only has one eye. Harry is a cyclops. His family is pretty normal. His father works as a monster in films, well, to tell the truth he doesn't anymore because they all use special effects so now he's unemployed. He does the housework while Harry's mom brings home the bacon. The thing Harry hates most in the world is getting up early for school.
Hawa tells a story that plays out between Spain and Mali, within an atmosphere of tension, danger, love and hate and the most current elements of today's society: Podemos' electoral disaster, the frustrations of an old communist who leaves Spain because he can't bear to live under the rightwing government, the attempts of Islamic terrorism to carry out an international attack, and the work of the