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Maria Roderich (The Old Lady), Maria Magí (The Mrs) and Maria Costa are three women who, throughout almost a century, have run La Principal, the most important house in the village of Pous, in the heart of the grape-producing region of La Abadia. Those three, grandmother, daughter, have made the vines flourish due to a series of transformations that have kept the business going.
The brutal murder of two partners of a financial advice company in Barcelona unleashes a huge police operation that implicates Germán Rojo, a powerful figure who believes himself to be untouchable, conferred with the gift of immunity and far above other mortals, mere repulsive cockroaches to be crunched underfoot whenever he pleases. But he has a weak point.
This is a ghost story. A novel that begins with a return and ends with a howl. The narrator of Les possesions travels from Barcelona to Palma to try to halt the paranoid conspiracy spiral of her father who, in his retirement, has gone from being a placid high school teacher to launching a legal battle against an alleged urban crime.
A book of games with the letters of the alphabet, to make learning fun. It invites us to enter a world of fantasy and imagination where the most suprising and unexpected things turn into letters of the alphabet. It contains 27 games of perception, imagination, language and observation.
"Charcoal Letters" (Irene Vasco and Juan Palomino): Almost no-onemin the town of Palenque knows how to read. Señor Valendia, the owner of the shop, is one of the few people who do. When Gina starts to receive letters, which she supposes are love letters, her little sister decides to learn in order to be able to read these mysterious letters...
In the village of Palenque, almost nobody knows how to read, but the shopkeeper Señor Velandia is one of the few who does. When Gina starts to receive letters, she thinks they must be love letters, and her little sister decides to learn how to read them.
The novel tells the story of Fuerte, a young man living in the countryside happy with his simple existence, until one day he meets a stranger who changes his fate forever. The two embark on a committed and devoted love affair, but when faced with the dark thoughts instilled in him by a superstitious and melancholy mother, Fuerte loses his lover's trust and will have to fight to win it back.
Gil Baleares was once an officer of Mexico City Police, but now he’s just a rather unsuccessful Private Investigator, haunted by the memories of his ex-wife and out of money. His main goal is to get enough cash to buy a new car, a wonderful Japanese Nissan Tsuru, and get rid of his old-fashioned model.
There are as many stories as there are words and voices inside people. There are as many poems as there are sounds and colours in nature. So what happens when a poem gets inside a story? Suddenly, a legend appears.
As is well-known, in the Middle Ages the Way of St James provided the perfecct conditions for the greatest, most continual concentration of people from different countries, and for rich cultural exchange.