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Do winged unicorns exist? Do they write with their own feathers? This story begins in a junk shop and with a special book in which readers can find "The book of nonsense", "Machines and How to make Extraordinary Journeys" or "The Fantastical Guide to Worlds of Drawings", according to their fancy.
A group of young people decide to construct a "dark room": an enclosed space into which light never enters. In the beginning they use it to experiment with new ways of relating to each other, to have anonymous, free sex, and for a mixture of play and transgression.
In tumultuous 19th century Spain, one man, Rosendo Roca, refuses to accept his fate and considers a risky proposal that will end up affecting his whole life. As he struggles to succeed, he will have to contend with the aristocracy and the proletariat, with tradition, war, and disease, and with all the contradictions characteristic of a period in constant turmoil.
Mar and Álex are brothers. And, to their disgust, there is only 364 days between them, which means they have to share more things than they want: school, class, friends, and a birthmark on their left forearms, that they have a pile of stories about. If you came across them, they wouldn't seem anything special at all, but their secret is that they never turn their backs on a good mystery.
A nun disappears, leaving an enigmatic message and an assistant to Pope Francis contracts two Intelligence agents to move heaven and earth until they find her. Meanwhile, a political operative fired by the Casa Rosada (the home and executive office of the Argentine President) is hired by the governor of a region in Patagonia to improve his image and avoid electoral disaster.
Army captain William Fordyce, future Duke of Wessex, has spent the last year in hell: he enlisted in order to find his brother, Alex, and his squadron was ambushed and massacred; but his real nightmare began days later, when he woke up in chains in Chablis prison.
The tranquillity of the small French village of Beaufort is shattered by an event that seems at first to lack a reasonable explanation. The farmer Henri Morillon has found one of his cows dead, in strange circumstances: it has been bled to death.
When she was little more than a child going to look for water at the oasis, Maria (or Meryem) could never have imagined how much her life would change. Out there in the Sahara, she was happy. Until the caravans stopped arriving and her father Yunan - better known as the Tuareg - was forced to emigrate to find work.
Madrid in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Daniel Bagao is the millionaire proprietor of a successful magazine of Esotericism and the Occult which is sold all over the world. He is its editor too, but keeps a secret from his readers: he believe in absolutely nothing that he publishes, in fact he is a cynic who despises believers.
Practical ideas to help children grow up happy. Books that teach them to develop the necessary habits to resolve their emotional conflicts efficiently, overcome challenges and learn to think positively. In this story, Rita shows us tricks to deal with both physical and emotional pain.