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The 21st century. Your world. In lands watched over by Anboto, the sacred mountain of the Basques, one reckless god steals a march on the others. This is Gaueko, the Lord of the Night. The others are still sleeping. Silence! Do not wake the departed. Pray they do not open their eyes. Before the time of your legends, there were demonic beasts on stony hills and shadow beings throughout the night.
Isaac is spending the summer studying on his own in the city. His life changes when he meets Yam-Mey in a Chinese restaurant. After trying for several nights, he manages to break her silence, only to find out about an unknown and cruel world in which the mafia exerts its power. There is a big secret hiding in the basement of the restaurant, a tragedy that could get them killed.
"I don't know if you've been told, but Roberto has passed away," begins the message from Rocío, an old school acquaintance; Helena's heart skips a beat. It was like the day when she discovered that she'd fallen in love with her literature teacher. Now she'd have to confront his death and her memories of him.
Does capitalism have a future? If so, what is it? After the current economic recession, will there be others, perhaps worse? What possibility is there for a different economic order taking its place? How likely is it to collapse? If, instead of this occurring, it evolves without collapse into something different to what is has been up to now, what will the new face of the world look like?
Paris is a feast, and the lights of the Belle Époque illuminate the nightlife of Montmartre and Pigalle, neighbourhoods of loose morals and the free circulation of absinthe and opium. But it is in an aristocratic boulevard, far from the backstreets and dens, that the body of Monsieur Bonancieux appears with its throat cut.
The Cat Who Didn't Want To Be A Cat, Esmerelda's Secret, A Hero Named Miraralcruzar (Lookbeforecrossing), The Secret Of The Stolen Treats, The Thursday Market...
During the violent Battle of the Ebro, Paul Brians, a young member of the International Brigades and son of a Catalan father and an American mother, is the first to cross the river in the Republican offensive and the last to swim back over it as his side withdraws after their defeat.
A short study aimed at music students to help understanding of the language of gesture between the conductor and musicians. This simple, clear and concise work is illustrated with graphic diagrams.
The protagonist and narrator, Leo Carver, is a perceptive figure who takes a tragic approach to life through an excess of alcohol, sex, and parties, even though he knows his struggle against the void is condemned to failure.
Benito Pérez Galdós was a man who had many lovers, but always refused commitment and marriage. He shut himself away and wrote like a galley slave to create characters through which he left traces of his own biography.