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In a carpet from India a journalist finds a message from the child who wove it. It's a plea for help, a desperate cry he cannot ignore. Though there are millions of children being expoited all over theworld, this message comes with a name, Iqbal, and from a specific place, the city of Madurai.
Celia is a thirteen-year-old girl who was cryogenically frozen because she was suffering from a terminal disease, and is now returned to the 22nd century to be adopted. In a future society where everyone has a robotic assistant Celia clashes with her adoptive mother’s way of thinking, acting and relating, and with her environment, so different to that of her biological family.
Wichi is a twelve-year-old Thai girl, intelligent, joyful and outgoing. Happy because her parents live together and love each other, things begin to go wrong the day her mother starts spending the little money they have on gambling. Her despairing father turns to alcohol and disappears from the family home, never to return.
This story begins when the cities began to grow at the cost of forests and jungles, and when pollution began to fill the skies and the oceans. This is the story of Greta, a little girl who decided not to go to school so she could fight climate change. It is also about the animals of the Amazon and all those across the world that got together to defend their land, their water and their traditions.
In the time of your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents, when "the good old days" hadn't even been invented, Trog wanted to make the Journey. But in the Invisibles tribe only boys made the Journey. And Trog was a girl. So Trog decided to do what the boys did: she went out one night, crossed the high plains in search of prey.
The focus of this book is preventing bites (from dogs to children). We know that any child-dog incident can have serious consequences for the human, resulting in a complete loss of confidence in the dog (which can lead to a change in family and/or greater consequences). This book equips small children with the basic rules for living with their pets.
La nit de les papallones is a novel that portrays the colourful Barcelona nightlife of the 1970s, and at its centre is Carla, a burlesque dancer who turns heads with her aesthetically dazzling and emancipated performances.
It's night, and a group of Viking pirates are sacking a village, planning on returning to their ship with a few slaves. As they land on the beach they hear some strange sounds. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of arrows rain down upon them. The few survivors are taken prisoner by a demented-looking horde.
Short and skinny, nobody would have imagined that such an insignificant appearance concealed possibly the best poet in the history of Spanish literature and a most accomplished person in mystical union, Saint John of the Cross.
1936. Against the backdrop of a fratricidal war, in a village surrounded by mountains, the awful murder of a little girl unleashes the underlying violence in this remote location. A rural schoolmaster tormented by the past, a cruel priest and a village numbed by fear are the main characters in La noche feroz, a metaphysical thriller.