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A story of love and death in the border town of Portbou, 1990: a young woman is found hanged from a tree. She is wearing a white dress, like a bride, but no one knows who she is. The investigation finds that she had committed suicide, although the police are unable to identify the victim. Twenty-five years later, Inspector Garibaldi takes the case up again.
In 'La nueva taxidermia', Mercedes Cebrián returns to the field of narrative with a book composed of two novelas. In 'Qué inmortal he sido' (How immortal have I been), an exercise of memory and an attempt to capture history lead the heroine to undertake a project to reconstruct spaces from the past.
"When you lose your dreams, you become a slave to your nightmares. That's why the world needs people... who aren't afraid to dream." Rebeca's parents have disappeared in mysterious circumstances and she has to go and live with her grandfather, Professor Balvatin, a man she hasn't seen since she was very little.
In the first third of the 20th century in Spain, women were condemned to a life of not subverting patriarchal dogma and their liberty was reduced to the marble model of 'exquisite femininity'.
Few people were as influential in Hitler's life as the mysterious Erik Hanussen, considered, for many years, the most outstanding clairvoyant in Berlin and a personal counselor to the dictator. Two ambitious personalities who mutually used each other to achieve what they most longed for. But, everything has a price... Hanussen helped Hitler in his stunning rise to power.
A topsy turvy world, a story without a text so that every reader can imagine his or her own adventure. The aim is to enable very young readers to tell stories. Adventures that change with each narrator. Oral expression, imagination, role swapping…
Dare to be different like the little black sheep! Every night, when the moon rises and it's time for the children to go to bed, Mr. Dream brings the sheep together to help the children to sleep, because everyone knows that the best way to fall asleep is... counting sheep!
We are Maite, Santi, Pepe, Valle and Sol, well, Sol is Valle's dog, but still one of the gang. We live in the village of Verdeluz and in school we're part of the Nature Class, where we look after the environment. One day we found a dead white tailed kite and decided to investigate what had happened. What we discovered lead us to form the Kite Tail Gang.