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Vicente Bucay, prestigious scientist, finally meets his famous ancestor Isaac Newton. After years of work, he and his team have managed to bring him back to life as a clone in a secret laboratory. After several tests, it is time to go home, but Vicente Bucay Delgado Avalos Newton doesn´t want to leave Isaac to sleep in a cold laboratory, as if he was just another experiment.
Nico is a very young spy who, thanks to a mysterious magical encyclopaedia, and accompanied by his friend Mega, is able to have exciting adventures in different eras such as the Golden Age (where they join Cervantes at the Battle of Lepanto!).
On the 24th of December 1951, Paul Dingle disappeared without a trace in the port of Tangier. Sixty-four years later, Flora Gascón suspects that he was the same man with whom she had an affair and fell in love in Madrid. What is the connection?
This book responds in an approachable way to questions such as:
- What should be the function of grandparents? What is expected of them?
- And what do grandparents expect of their grandchildren?
- What do grandchildren get out of their relationship with their grandparents?
- And how do children view their parents now that they are also grandparents?
HISTORICAL NOVEL The greatest Roman of his time, the Edetani Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus, suffered the damnatio memoriae (condemnation of memory), for being a threat to Trajan, the other candidate for Caesar's throne.
A simple, very common story. The children are bored and don't know what to do. Then suddenly, from their boredom they produce fantastic creatures with whom they spend unrepeatable moments. Don't we all agree that children are by nature creative? Recommended age: 4-6.
Fiction and reality overlap in this metaphor about power which tells the life story of a tyrant. The main character glorifies in his own unique personality and uses his differences as a form of elitism rather than something to bring people together.
Lázaro, an aspiring young writer, can’t find a story to tell. So his tutor gives him Jorge's; Jorge was a youth from Madrid who, like him, enlisted in the Blue Division on July 13th 1941, 70 years before. An eventful journey led him to the battle of Krasny Bor, on the Russian Front, and later, in 1945, to defend Berlin wearing the uniform of an SS officer.
"Everyone says that my grandmother is very, very old, but we both know that deep down inside there’s a child hiding." Is it possible to speak to our little ones about Alzheimer’s in a way that’s tender, sensitive and even fun? Alaine Agirre and Ainara Azpiazu bring us an emotional story about a grandmother and her grandson, about love and understanding beyond the codes established by adults.
Magda, a young woman aged 21, leaves her home town and decides to go and do her final year of medical school in Barcelona. Behind her she is leaving everything: a boyfriend, a family and her university degree. Her best friend Bel has committed suicide and Magda would rather start her training at a new hospital far away from there to stop herself from asking why she did nothing to prevent it.