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Antonio is eight years old and dreams of being a real-life cowboy and that John Wayne, his hero from the films is going to come to Santiago de Compostela to take him to the Wild West. One day, he finds a photo of Freckled Jim, a cowboy his own age, and decides to become him. However, this is not an easy mission, although fighting for your dreams always has big rewards.
Tom lives in an orphanage and loves animals. That's why, the day he gets to know Lana, a little girl who lives in a circus, he sees a chance to escape and fulfil his two dreams: to be near the most fascinating animals in the world and to search for his father, who he has never known. What Tom can't imagine is that he will one day end up sleeping with the lions.
In the time when animals, plants and water could still speak, Joan-Ratot and his wife, the little rat Torna-per-més lived in the Sierra de Castalla.
The place where they had chosen to live was enough to give the couple a strong reason to be happy.
It's not easy to get it right at first. Texts don't always come out perfectly. A zero is round and so is a meatball and a potato. Things aren't what they seem... or are they? A manual for writers. Does fiction imitate reality? Does reality beat fiction? Is the author conducting the orchestra or just watching? Does the reader just read of do we interact with him? Is a writer born or made?
Alex is a Latinist who travels to New York to attend a conference. There, he meets Jonàs, a skilled, creative photographer, and discovers his own closet sexuality. Alex is cultured, neurotic, pedantic and enormously sensitive; Jonàs is a beauty who moves all who know him. They fall in love and decide to live together. Soon, however, tragedy occurs.
In October 2010 Jorge Lorenzo became champion in motorcycling's 500cc category. He is the new and unrivalled king of MotoGP; having secured 383 points he also broke the record for most points won in a season. It has been 11 years since the last Spaniard, Álex Crivillé, achieved the same feat, which only adds to the magnitude of the Mallorcan rider's success.
Dora is a journalist on a local paper where her job is to fill the boring pages of the cultural news section. Each day she has to travel on the commuter train from the suburbs, where she lives, to Barcelona, where she works, and back again.
If you have ever dreamed of discovering that your father was a genuine pirate on the seas; that he might take you with him to fight sea monsters and giant robots; if you want to believe in mermaids and buried treasure and even in magic violins... or if you just believe that there's no reason why good literature, madcap action and humour can't co-exist, then 'Juan Plata.
Two years ago, David Bowman was on holiday on Ibiza when he met a unique character who told him an impressive story. Months later, back on Ibiza, Professor Bowman discovered a newspaper cutting that described the disappearance of that man, who was very well known on the island. An experienced sailor, he had left with the aim of sailing round the world, then disappeared without a trace.
This book is the posthumous work of the diplomat, writer and arabist, Rodolfo Gil Benumeya. The work is about the common ground shared by the polemic religions of Judaism and Islamism, which during centuries have lived together along the shores of the Mediterranean.