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Inspired by La terre en rond, a mythical travel book about a round-the-world journey at the beginning of the sixties, undertaken by two Frenchmen in a Citroën 2CV, a young Galician called Jorge Sierra dreams of emulating their journey. After finding a companion ready to undertake the project, he prepares the 2CV he calls "Naranjito" for its orange bodywork.
LEARN ABOUT BOOKS AND READING. Marcos and Andrea love to travel. With books they can go a very long way! A Marcos and Andrea story, all about the importance of reading and the imagination.
Mikela, barely thirteen, leaves the farm where she has lived all her life, taken by her widowed mother to a rich house in a nearby town for two reasons – to lighten the load on the family and train her as a servant, a useful skill for her future. The Spanish Civil War is still an ominous presence. In this world, Mikela will learn the pointlessness of trying to shelter from all the winds.
Exchanged looks. The deep, plastic insight of two worlds both separate and united. Bulls and work at the Arzak lab.
The latest culinary ideas in a pure state, cookery without ambiguity. Recipes without corrections. The chasm, the illusion of flying.
The bull and its celebration. No second chances. Movement made art. Plasticity made flesh.
Harry is a totally normal kid, well, I tell a lie, he only has one eye. Harry is a cyclops. His family is pretty normal. His father works as a monster in films, well, to tell the truth he doesn't anymore because they all use special effects so now he's unemployed. He does the housework while Harry's mom brings home the bacon. The thing Harry hates most in the world is getting up early for school.
"It is a lovely story. From the description to the poetry. It's a universal story. From the image, to the ideal and the essence. It is a magical story. We have already visualised what we have to Be. It's a story about teaching. The road always awaits returns. It's a unique story.
What happens to the Dancing Queen when school's over? April had everything: the boy of her dreams, a scholarship for a prestigious university and a promising future in New York. But sometimes life delivers a low blow: two blinding headlights and a desperate man proved enough to put an end to her dream of a fairy story ending.
Pablo Ramos brings together all the ghosts from his past, which are also those of a society in which alcoholism and drug addiction form part of the fabric of daily life for its families and neighbourhoods. He brings them together and exposes them to show how it really is to live as an addict, the raw day-to-day behind the stigmatisation and complacency.
The Battle of Hastings (1066): One of the most important battles in British history as the victory of Duke William of Normandy had a great impact on the political development, society and culture of the country.
Hawa tells a story that plays out between Spain and Mali, within an atmosphere of tension, danger, love and hate and the most current elements of today's society: Podemos' electoral disaster, the frustrations of an old communist who leaves Spain because he can't bear to live under the rightwing government, the attempts of Islamic terrorism to carry out an international attack, and the work of the