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Only someone with the instint for instinct, skill and sense of humour of Empar Moliner could have written a story collection like "I’m Doing All This Because I’m So Scared", a literary jewel that will move and entertain the reader from beginning to end. These stories portray the maladies of our time in a unique, distinctive way.
There are lots of things that could make a child afraid. The protagonist of this story is afraid of getting lost, being alone in the woods, fantastical creatures... but there's one thing that really terrifies him: the dark! Being afraid makes you very scared, but this book won't make you scared. On the contrary, it will help us conquer our fear!
The inspiring story of a talented woman who hopes to make her mark in the world of men in the golden period of Disney Studios. At only sixteen, Sophie Simmons leaves her family to travel to Los Angeles during the great depression to follow her dream of working as an illustrator for Disney Studios. But she soon discovers that it is not a world for women.
No one works alone; everything is done in a team. This is the question: to produce quality, for the best price and fast. Because of this, a fundamental change has come about in the way we understand the organization of work; from the worker being the basic unit of work, we have moved to considering the group as the fundamental cell of the entire organization.
Have you ever dreamed of learning first-hand from one of the great traders? Alejandro de Luis gives a detailed explanation of how a trader acts and prepares himself psychologically in order to be able to survive in the world of finance.
Traffic is an original story of two boys; one from a middle-class family who suffers from heart problems, the other working-class and healthy, whose lives cross in tragic events that affect them and all those around them. With no pretension of social commentary, and even less of judgment, this novel presents two settings that are so close and yet so distant.
At the start of this novel the narrator confesses to his father that, twenty years earlier in the last years of Franco, he was asked to give a lift to some ETA activists. Thus begins a process of reconstruction of the things that have never been said between father and son, the reasons for their disagreements, hidden in their silences.
Don Cruz, the librarian, is a little distracted, but his friend, the little mouse Cleo – who claims to be the nephew of Mouse Holmes himself – is very good at finding things. This morning, which began very chaotically, one of Don Cruz’s shoes has disappeared. Is it a theft, a conspiracy, or something simpler?