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After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.
A folder has been found with two hundred typed pages signed by the writer Teseo Yedra. Three decades after the author sent it to her agent, and with no record of it ever being received, experts on her writing have no doubts that this was the highly anticipated new novel of the author, who has just won a great literary award.
Señora Filomena goes out for a walk, in her Sunday best and a new hat that everyone admires. But the wind begins to blow and Filomena's hat flies off, much to her dismay. So begins the journey of this elegant and volatile hat, which on its way meets a family of mice that makes their home in its crown: kitchen and the living room downstairs; upstairs, a bed, with a springy mattress.
The route of Clementia's life was laid out before she was born, she was destined for an existence of happiness, good fortune and privilege. Born into the heart of a noble family in Madrid, she was always a happy child. However, her eyes were opened when she once overheard her grandmother, nicknamed the Spiteful, speaking through gritted teeth: "No tears today means tears tomorrow".
Discover the revolutionary scientific feats that Galileo achieves as he looks through his telescope into the skies. Where does the Earth end? What are stars made of? There's only one thing Galileo likes more than asking questions: and that is finding the answers. How can he bring the sky closer?
From Franco's prisons to Nazi extermination camps, Mercedes Núñez Targa, a twentieth-century woman of conviction, (Barcelona 1911-Vigo 1986), tells her incredible odyssey. The story is told in the first person with sincerity and talent, mixing autobiography with sociological analysis, and her testimony is made especially interesting by the female perspective of the narrative.
Mr Pägueiras can't scratch his back because he has an umbrella instead of hands! But he's in luck because the woman on the first floor, Mrs Solmmina, has more than a thousand hands. Then again, how does she manage to cut all those nails? Well just ask the Rosseti sisters, on the second floor, who have scissors instead of legs.
This book deals with emotions and will take you to the House of Emotions. You will journey to different emotional planets and you will discover the landscapes and the people that hide inside each one. Together with Zulma, Joana and Aniol, you will enjoy many adventures on the planets of Calm, Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Trust.
Many surprises await the reader of this novel, including the delicate art of the goldsmith and Ignacio Abad’s precise way of developing and unfolding the plot.