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Rita always went around hunched over and dragging her feet. It wasn't that her shoes hurt or that her winter coat was too heavy. No, what was Rita was carrying around and weighed so heavily on her was an enormous pile of fears, manias and shame! There's so little you can do with so much on top of you!
Some retired artistes cross Europe in a bus, fleeing from the Nazi police. Berlin, 1945. An Allied bombing raid destroys the Artists House where great figures of the world of performance live in retirement.
It's 1945. In post-war Spain people are ready to leave the bad times behind and there is an air of optimism and progress. But not for Isabel. When she refuses to say who the father of her unborn baby is, she must accept her brother Jaime's decision for an arranged marriage.
Iris is walking a tightrope. She either accepts her boss' proposal or she'll be out on the street. None other than to set up a seduction workshop. To her surprise, five women who feel stuck in their love lives turn up to the Star-Bien, the centre where she imparts her classes.
This book tells the story of Migue, who wants to be a footballer when he grows up. But one summer he breaks his leg and can't play. His sister Susi gives him the manual 'How To Make A Book Quickly' and so our hero learns to write stories and make books. 'Migue Makes A Book' is a story with a manual inside it.
This book aims to offer the reader - whether specialist or the uninitiated - the most exhaustive possible collection of the letters written by Miguel de Unamuno during his exile from February 1924 to his triumphant return to Spain six years later.
A 50 poem anthology which includes a detailed poetical and biographical study. The author of this book exposes the key characteristics of Hernandez’s poems. The volume also contains photographs and documents sourced from his family’s archives; some of these never published before.
Between the pages of this book you will find the story of Miko, an adaptation of a Japanese legend that explains the origins of the Maneki-neko, the friendly lucky cat so beloved of the Japanese.
The country where M lives is not like yours. M lives in a kingdom of metal criss-crossed by a thousand million pipes, in a metal house whose garden has a shiny grey lawn. In this country, in this house, on this lawn, a meteorite is about to fall. If you ever see one falling on you, do what M does: first, get out of the way, next, don't let anyone take it away.
Milena's beauty was also her downfall. A sex slave since adolescence, she attempts to escape on the death of her protector, a communications magnate who suffers a heart attack while making love to her. During her anguished flight she comes across the Azules, a trio of the just formed by the journalist Tomás Arizmendi, the politician Amelia Navarro and high-security specialist Jaime Lemus.