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Kambirí is a nine month old African baby rescued from a dinghy onf the island of Lampedusa, along with her dead mother and seventy immigrants. A doctor decides to take care of her and the whole village helps to raise her while attempts are made to find her father.
The starting point for this novel is a real person: one of the most powerful men in the world, who became the hottest topic of conversation on news reports, TV debates and among gossips around the world after he was arrested as he flew speedily back to his own country, accused of having raped a black migrant worker in the room of a luxurious New York hotel.
In summer 2011, Pol Bársac climbs off the balcony and escapes from the police; they want to arrest him for sabotage during the Indignants demonstrations. Due to a strange physical phenomenon, Pol is transported to another dimension, to a fantastic universe full of magnificent castellated cities, wondrous creatures and leafy forests, which seems oddly familiar.
A fantasy novel for children and young adults with a message about the environment, demonstrating how its deterioration is due not only to our lifestyle, but also to our indifference to nature. Koko considers herself “disorganised, forgetful and a bit of a scatterbrain”. She lives in the future, when the lands lie devastated and depleted from an environmental disaster caused by humans’ stupidity.
Anna, a graphic designer by chance, independent by necessity, introspective, constantly calculating, keeping the balance, putting the meter back to zero in order to keep going on. And Manel, Nel, Nelet, her companion, so close and so distant, so much need and so much buried rage.
A novel about the abnormality of daily life of a group of friends who try to live and love as if everything were normal. Lluís Calvo writes an unusual love story that seeks a singular epic genre and hides in the corners of each and any of us. But it is not just about that, it is also about surviving change, darkness, fashionable bars and obsessions. In the end, it is about surviving daily life.
A young English girl, a ship's captain, an Eskimo and an ice spirit meet one magical night. Fate takes them on a fascinating journey as they flee from an anthropologist obsessed with capturing mythical beings to turn them into museum pieces.
The skeleton Huesecitos wants to be a footballer like the people made of flesh and blood. Dismayed, his family tries to make him see that this is not possible for a skeleton. But even so, why not try ? This book is part of the collection entitled "El Baugul dels Monstres" (A Chest Full of Monsters), a series of ten titles designed to dispel fear through reading.
Some books are extremely dangerous. Under a veil of knowledge they conceal superstitions and heresies that go against the word of God. But one is especially perverse. It is a book kept in secret by a few men which becomes an obsession for the Inquisition and which, at the end of the 15th Century, generates the greatest persecution ever carried out against a book and its owners.