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The House of Beasts is a children's story by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1939), the best Croatian children's story writer. It tells how two brothers and three sisters decide one day to make a house of beasts with their toys. They want to make them into exotic animals, but things don't quite turn out how they expected.
One winter night a man arrives at the Sallent in Santa Pau. Soon this newcomer is engaged as a tutor to Mar, a thirteen-year-old girl. Her family is the axis around which all lives in the valley of Ser revolve. "This girl will be lost," says her grandfather, a man who has the gift of water divining and of giving orders without opening his mouth.
The house on the frontier is a bar, a rooming house and a general store next to the French customs post at Puigcerdà. It has belonged to the Grau family since they acquired it at the end of the 19th Century.
What would you do if your favourite trilogy didn't have a third part? This is what happens to poor Marcos, who is an avid fan of the 'Carreras de dragones' ('Dragon Races') saga. But the loyal readers and the dragon jockeys will never give up. So Marcos goes in search of the books' author... and discovers that adventures can happen anywhere.
One calm boring September morning, a series of events begins that will end in a completely unexpected climax. A journey of discovery hidden in the branches of a great tree.
'La casa del silenci ' is a novel about women, classical music and a violin. The story takes place during a concert in Berlin: when it's about to start, the air is tense, and the presence of an old woman in the audience is making a few members of the orchestra nervous. Who is she? What is their relationship to her?
The House is not a history book or a tract on architecture. And neither is it an anthropological essay or a manual on interior design.It is a collection of stories that date from the dawn of human existence.
'La cátedra de la calavera' tells the story of the first steps in the life of the University of Salamanca, an institution created in the 12th century, but which started to enjoy international renown when Isabel La Católica decided to turn it into the Spanish Sorbonne.
This is the first in a new series of five novels entitled The Devil’s Horde. In this volume Remo, who has fallen into disgrace after suffering the treachery of his greatest enemy, will find himself embroiled in his king Vestigia’s power struggles. As an outlawed mercenary, he will sign up for an extraordinary quest to bring down Moga, a powerful necromancer who opposes the king.
“And They Lived Happily Ever After”.
This is the conventional ending that we’re all familiar with.
But... were they really happy? Was the prince really as perfect as he seemed in the story? And the princess, how will she like her new life?