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This collection of stories, pictures and photographs has been designed to highlight the Jacobean Routes. With fun and lucidity, this collection explains all the different Jacobean Routes.
Entrenched behind the so-called Atlantic Wall, the Nazi troops await the imminent Allied invasion. In England, the greatest armada the world has ever seen is being prepared, for a confrontation between men and machines. It is the beginning of summer, 1944, and a Spanish teacher, exiled after having fought for the Republican cause, warns of a new and terrifying German weapon.
In the words of E. M. Foster, the difference between story and plot in novels can be summed up in a single word: pain. It is the pain that creates the plot. You might say that “Ramona” fits this definition as it tells the story of the passage from childhood to adolescence through all that journey’s pain.
This novella is built around a spiral with three different registers. It starts with a realist discourse, the blunt realism of mistreated women. It continues in a tone that is closer to noir, deliberately dark with flashes of humour.
A thirst for money, danger and adventure. Wit, audacity and a love of games. Meet history’s most cunning thieves in this entertaining look at the great robberies of the past two centuries.
Kat, Emma, Kibibi and Lilith are four girls who at first sight don't have much in common. But they are all royal witches and they must compete in the 118th Crown League. Each of them comes from a different country and hides a secret. But they are not the only ones. Their coven also includes Shin, the water master, who makes Kibbi's heart leap whenever she sees him.
This biographical account of the Galician-Argentine painter and mover Luis Seoane, tells the first part of his life until his exile with the Civil War, created in the style of a comic strip.
Subjugated lives. Lives without justice. Can they be mended? Xoxé Avellanada has no choice. Elena Mérquez's life is conditional. The day she returns as an inspector, Elena Márquez is a powerless witness to the suicide of an old man in need of her help. That same morning, Xoxé Avellanada, a retired policeman from Lugo, turns to her with a voice recording and a threat to his life.
Gianni Rodari, Tomi Ungerer, Astrid Lindgren, Juan Farias, Christine Nöstlinger, Roald Dahl and Gloria Fuertes are the characters in seven tales, a magical number for many essential figures in the history of children's literature. This narrative homage is created from the that the characters themselves have nurtured in their work: fantasy and creativity.