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The young protagonist of this story has been watching her neighbours for a long time. Their behaviour provides the answers she needs to understand what love really means. We learn from a very young age that love, a fundamental experience for human beings, is one of the compasses by which we guide ourselves through life.
"People think that a full life is when many things happen to you, but I believe that living a full life is when you know what you're missing", 1993. Mai, a young girl with a two-year-old daughter, arrives at a seaside town and turns it upside-down.
Hugo and Olivia have been asking their parents for a dog for years and, after much begging, crying and promises, they're getting one! But their happiness is short lived. Troya, the big-eyed puppy who has the family entranced, disappears without a trace and everything suggests the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood. Who, though? Laughter is guaranteed at number 24, Calle de la Pera.
Bites and Nibbles is the latest title from Mar Benegas in the Marsupiflap collection, illustrated by Susie Hammer. What has happened to this book? Who has been at its pages? Whose are these teeth marks? A book for young and older children to play at guessing which animals have been biting its pages.
An English nanny, drowned. A great house and a labyrinth that hides more than it would seem. A new challenge for Inspector Requesens. On 19th July, 1909, Elsie Thornton, nanny to the Devalls family, appears floating, dead in the great washing copper the day following the reception which was celebrated in the Orchard Labyrinth park, on the family estate.
Musik recreates a fascinating picture of life in classical Greece, with intelligence, wit, suspense and a wonderful female hero, Mora, a water priestess forced by the chances of life into slavery. Through her, we discover the last years of the great tragic poet Euripides and the dark events that surrounded his death.