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Guillermo has to stay at home alone for a while and a multitude of negative thoughts invades his head; he feels in danger, his heart thumps, he loses control and finally he faints. He suddenly finds himself in a mysterious world full of different paths, which Guillermo has to decide between: something that scares him a lot because until now he has always had someone there to do it for him.
What is that ball of mud rolling towards the palace garden? The king jumps when it appears in the sitting room, the cook screams in terror when it enters the kitchen and the court guard detains it to find out what it is.... Speed is of the essence, because tonight the king's birthday is being celebrated with a big party.
Vanesa is a modern princess but also a dreamer who lives in the clouds, in the kingdom of Babia alongside giraffes, witches and soap bubbles. When the time comes for her to marry her parents become a little anxious since her fairy godmother has posed a riddle that any suitor must answer to win the princess's hand. So, if she must wed, then at least he'll be imaginative.
This book, which is based on a Japanese legend and brilliantly illustrated by Philip Giordano, tells the story of the impossible love between Princess Shining Night and the Emperor of Japan, and explains how Mount Fuji arose from this love.
Once upon a time, in a town in China, lived Princess Little Mouse, who wanted to marry the most powerful person there was. So, without thinking twice, she picked up her rucksack, a sandwich and a dozen oranges and went to look for him. (An adaption of a traditional Chinese tale)
A terrible disease threatens the lives of an entire population. The townsfolk are from a diverse range of religions; Christian, Jewish and Muslim. The tale tells how despite their different beliefs the community is able to come together in order to overcome the deadly disease.
A unique and really beautiful book based on the universal legend of Saint George and the Dragon. In this title from the Happily Ever After collection, Sonia Alins' amazingly beautiful illustrations in black, red and silver breathe life into the legend of a princess and her people saved from the jaws of a terrible dragon by the knight St. George of Cappadocia.
In a Native American village, activity comes to a halt when Shep slices off the tip of his thumb with a blade. No one disputes that this happened by accident: neither the men nor the women who resignedly perform roles that no one questions; nor does young Shep. No one asks questions.
'He was not a trouble-loving gentleman, nor so very particular perhaps about some of the company he kept.' So Henry James descibes the Master of Bly, the negligent and largely absent character who, in the immortal novella 'The Turn of the Screw', unwittingly initiates the drama in which the two innocents -- Flora and Miles, the nephew and niece the master was charged with lookin
Intrigue, action, corruption, bad deals, lawyers on the margins of the law. Trails and evidence that gradually unravel to reveal a twisted plot which confounds with every chapter. The equal of the American greats of the genre, Spanish author Carmen Gurruchaga takes on the legal thriller to show that Spanish reality can be as, or more, enthralling than the life beyond its borders.