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El que apaga la luz, title taken from one of Somerset Maugham’s sentences, is a book full of incurable patients, obsessions that culminate in the worst of nightmares (insomnia) and whose only relief is suicide. Characters tormented by evil deeds of which they cannot repent, who try to find answers to justify their deeds but find only angst and uncertainty.
“El raïm inquiet” (La uva inquieta/the restless grape) tells the story of an lively, impatient bunch of grapes that really, really wants to become wine. On this intense journey, during which our bunch of grapes will experience several transformations, readers will learn about the process of making the must and the wine as they follow the protagonist's adventures.
Let’s sing, listen, dance or read, raps the chicken Carolina. A lively story featuring Carolina, the independent artist who is the biggest noise anywhere.
Antonio Gramsci wrote many letters to his wife from prison. In one of these, he tells her a story so she can read it to his sons: the story of a mouse who drinks a little boy's breakfast milk. When the little boy wakes up and cries with hunger, the mouse asks the goat for milk, but the goat can't give him any without grazing first. But the meadow has no grass, nor the spring any water...
What do you need to do to discover a world full of possibilities? Sometimes all you have to do is… imagine, dress up, dream, open a wonderful book, or… just take the paw of a little globe-trotting mouse!
Pérez the tooth mouse loved his job. Every night he left his home to collect all the teeth from under the pillows of the little girls and boys, until one day Giménez suddenly appeared and said he was the new tooth mouse! What a mess! Who will be the new tooth mouse? Pérez or Giménez?
After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.
Finding a husband in three weeks in order to make a dream come true might seem difficult… Madrid 1640. The actress Elisa Villanueva has the chance to fulfil one of her dreams: to appear on stage at the opening of El Coliseo, the theatre Felipe IV has had built in the Buen Retiro palace. But her single status is a obstacle, and she has only three weeks to find a husband.