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The brutal murder of a woman and her son, the wife and son of a famous basketball player who used to play for NBA, shakes the everyday life of a quiet Catalan town. No one could have imagined such a thing could happen in their town. Sergeant Joan Pons and his men will find themselves faced with a highly detailed plot that took years to plan in search of bitter revenge.
“Barba’s short novel is an intense examination of inner life and one’s conscious and subconscious response to situations, looks, gestures and words.” (Rosalind Harvey)
An English nanny, drowned. A great house and a labyrinth that hides more than it would seem. A new challenge for Inspector Requesens. On 19th July, 1909, Elsie Thornton, nanny to the Devalls family, appears floating, dead in the great washing copper the day following the reception which was celebrated in the Orchard Labyrinth park, on the family estate.
In a small neighbourhood in the middle of the city live five women who buy flowers. At the start none of them is buying for herself: one buys flowers for her secret lover, another for her office, the third in order to paint them, another for her clients, the last . . . for a dead person. I am the fifth woman and this is my story.
"Women who read" could just as well have been entitled women who sang, women who painted, women who played piano or women who danced. All of them, the women who came before us, had anxieties, dreamed of being something more than that which destiny had marked them for.
Those with a romantic vision of innovation and creativity may be surprised or even indignant that a technological tool which only allows you to exchange messages of 140 characters should have turned into one of the most powerful means of communication in history.
In the midst of the euphoria at the arrival of the new millennium, a Caribbean musicologist receives an invitation from a well-known fashion designer to collaborate on a strange exhibition. They are united by their great interest in the shapes of the animal world.
My name is Ed Shean, I'm twelve years old and I'm a detective. Yes, a real live detective, the kind that solves cases, I know that that sounds strange in the year 2102. I landed in the profession a bit by chance, or at least that's what I thought at the start...
Arcadia returns to Barcelona in 1949, accompanied by her aunt Inés, a viola and a suitcase full of memories. As the daughter of Republicans living in exile in France, she takes refuge in her passion for music to help her survive the oppressive atmosphere of the post-war years. One day she meets Javier, a promising law student, who soon becomes the centre of her life.
Musik recreates a fascinating picture of life in classical Greece, with intelligence, wit, suspense and a wonderful female hero, Mora, a water priestess forced by the chances of life into slavery. Through her, we discover the last years of the great tragic poet Euripides and the dark events that surrounded his death.