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Hernán Cortés has destroyed Tenochtitlán in Mexico but he has not been able to eradicate the people’s beliefs. And Ameyali, the ancient priestess of Xochiquetzal, does not accept defeat, even when her gods seem to have been conquered by the invader and power struggles between the Spanish separate her from her son.
Barcelona's most characteristic monument is not a straightforward thing to fathom. In spite of this, Gaudí designed it not as an unsolvable enigma, but as an open book, literally and metaphorically open on all sides. Gaudí wanted "his" work to been seen everywhere, and that much he certainly made happen.
The novel is set in a community of country houses scattered about the Maestrat in the 1940s and 50s. It it a wooded area frequented by resistance fighters of the Maquis, who, aided by the emotional and material complicity of Teresa, and the reticence of her mother, who's husband was a victim of the civil war.
Nearly twenty years on, the students of Liceo de la Guardia de Blyd are busy using their magic to protect a society that has been living in peace for years. But when the shadow of Dominio returns to threaten the country, a group of students will have to confront secrets from the past . . . without revealing their own.
Squirrels live in the woods, whales in the sea, chimpanzees in the jungle, giraffes on the savannah. Do you know which other animals live where? In this collection you will discover the animals in their familiar, natural habitats. For children from the age of two upwards.
This story teaches us the value of ourselves and others. We sometimes live our lives obsessed by what others have, when what is true and important is inside each person, valuable, individual, unique and infinite.
A tormented ninja. A hidden conspiracy. A dangerous mission. An immortal work. It is 1689 and the poet Matsuo Bashō undertakes a pilgrimage to the province of Sendai in order to finish writing what will be his most celebrated work 'Paths of Oku'.
Love and Death in New York On a cold night in a Brooklyn suburb in 1968, the young John Di Mateo is murdered in cold blood by the police during a raid. His sister Laura –unjustly accused of being an accomplice and jailed for a year in New York Women’s Penitentiary– swears that she will have her revenge on all those implicated in the murder.
Two neighbours whose paths cross thanks to a domestic incident begin a strange game: recycling time. They decide to tell each other about their own and other people’s memories, scouring the past to rescue the little stories forgotten in its folds. The rules of the game allow for invention, dreams and journeys.
This picture book tells a Portuguese legend about two giants, the sea and the mountain, who fall in love with a mermaid and challenge each other for her love. The adaptation of the story and the illustrations are by Catarina Sobral, a Portuguese illustrator who won the 2014 International Bologna Children's Book Fair - SM Foundation's International Illustration Prize.