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GLOBITOS are creatures with a special charm: gentle, warm and loving. But their naive approach to life gets them in trouble sometimes. It is the kind, friendly PAPLINIAS, who love the GLOBITOS, who intervene when the strict, fussy TREMENDOS come along to put things back in order. One afternoon GLOBITO goes to his friends' house to have chocolate with churros.
Ramon Besora has travelled a long way to arrive at this tender, luminous poetry collection, the result of his long love affair with words and the poetic games that they can play.
In the faraway kingdom of Asgard live the most powerful gods of Nordic mythology. One in particular was famous for his great feats, ferociousness and exceptional strength - Thor, the great god of thunder. With his magic hammer Thor protected gods and humans from the threat of the terrible giants, who lived on the frozen peaks of Jötunheim.
Maybe it’s because it’s a sharp, dirty parody set in a provincial town in England, or maybe it’s because of its lewd, irrelevant and sometimes outright provocative language; whatever it is, The Kindness of a murderer immediately brings to mind the magnificent film comedies of Guy Ritchie and Danny Boyle.
Paris, 1623. Secret letters. Lost jewels. A secret code. A Queen and a court painter. Camogli, Italy, 2010. Ann Carrington, a history teacher from the US, is on holiday. She has arranged a meeting with a Professor Scopetta to show him some of Maria de Medici's unpublished letters and reveal a secret, but things get complicated when she discovers the professor has been murdered.
A gusty wind, a cat and a rabbit. A King who becomes a Gink. A snail that says hello. A whale who travels in a foam chariot. Birds who escape from their cage. A little girl who speaks with the wind. A father who returns happy from his travels with a story for his daughter: the words the wind blew away.
The notes of “Adiós Nonino”; the tears of Máxima de Holanda during her tryst with Prince William; the photo that she discovers, among the guests, the face of a dangerous activist daughter of a German banker. So begins this frenetic marathon, inspired by xenophobic and ultra-nationalist movements in Europe today.
The main character of this delightful book is Maria, a little girl who loves writing her name, testing new flavours, and playing, but not washing her hands. One day, her mom and dad decide to give her a nudge so that she can understand how important hand washing can be to health and wellbeing. Mom and Dad will have to find a way to help her learn how to do it. How?
On the shores of the Aegean Sea, in the long-forgotten times of King Minos, stands Crete in all its glory. The people living there are at the edges of a land that is growing more violent. Until now. When Stern, the youngest son of Sear returns to the palace in Knossos, after a long absence, he discovers the peace he remembers has been converted to distrust.
The novel tells the story of Fuerte, a young man living in the countryside happy with his simple existence, until one day he meets a stranger who changes his fate forever. The two embark on a committed and devoted love affair, but when faced with the dark thoughts instilled in him by a superstitious and melancholy mother, Fuerte loses his lover's trust and will have to fight to win it back.