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Young Cara Piqueres lives with her family in a big city and leads an apparently normal life. However, when night falls and her father returns home, preceded always by The Shadow, the nightmare begins. Sitting on the edge of her bed at night, her sister, Nato, tells her bedtime stories and it is only thanks to these that she can avoid some of the pain and anger that fill her home daily.
Growth always implies some form of violence. For life in a village on the left bank of the River Nervión in the eighties and nineties, where it's all about heroin, unemployment, and where every week the streets whistle with the sounds of rubber bullets and teargas and the walls are covered in execution orders, violence is not just a personal problem.
Laura is a kid who owns a red biplane and in it, she travels the world, reaching Australia where she meets koalas and kangaroos before getting back home. This is a story with two main themes, friendship and protecting the environment.
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.