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This year Valeria is going to have a very special holiday, or at least that's what her mum says, a real specialist in finding original, out-of-the-ordinary locations. She chooses a peculiar, lonely spot in the north of Norway, and there, the present mixes with the past in Valeria's dreams.
On the eve of San Juan in 1980, the inhabitants of Calabella, on the Costa Brava, are waiting for the mythical Ava Gardner, who is going to open the town's summer cinema. Everyone is on the lookout for the actress, except Justo, the youngest of the strange Brightman family.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Barcelona is in flames, suffering various types of social conflict on a daily basis. In this atmosphere of violence, Núria Solé, a working class girl employed in the textile industry, struggles to change her life and fulfil her dreams.
This is a story about music and the basis of music knowledge, something that is always hard for a beginner, told through the story of the book’s protagonist: a small saxophone. Through the events of the story we see how important it is to look for reference points and things in common when communicating with others in order to make this communication fluent and worthwhile.
What is the graphic novel? In the last few years, comics have grown up. A wealth of ambitious, innovative works is giving a cultural prestige comparable to art and literature to what has traditionally been considered a children's product. It might be said that we are actually witnessing the birth of a new art form.
A story of love and death in the border town of Portbou, 1990: a young woman is found hanged from a tree. She is wearing a white dress, like a bride, but no one knows who she is. The investigation finds that she had committed suicide, although the police are unable to identify the victim. Twenty-five years later, Inspector Garibaldi takes the case up again.
In 'La nueva taxidermia', Mercedes Cebrián returns to the field of narrative with a book composed of two novelas. In 'Qué inmortal he sido' (How immortal have I been), an exercise of memory and an attempt to capture history lead the heroine to undertake a project to reconstruct spaces from the past.
"When you lose your dreams, you become a slave to your nightmares. That's why the world needs people... who aren't afraid to dream." Rebeca's parents have disappeared in mysterious circumstances and she has to go and live with her grandfather, Professor Balvatin, a man she hasn't seen since she was very little.
In the first third of the 20th century in Spain, women were condemned to a life of not subverting patriarchal dogma and their liberty was reduced to the marble model of 'exquisite femininity'.
Few people were as influential in Hitler's life as the mysterious Erik Hanussen, considered, for many years, the most outstanding clairvoyant in Berlin and a personal counselor to the dictator. Two ambitious personalities who mutually used each other to achieve what they most longed for. But, everything has a price... Hanussen helped Hitler in his stunning rise to power.