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Pereyra Iraola, the headmaster, has died under strange circumstances. Amparito Conejo, the secretary, who was hopelessly in love with the dead man and is sure that the crime was committed by someone in the school, swears she will find the killer.
Las Hijas de Antonio López (The Daughters of Antonio López) is a settling of scores with life, which never owes us anything however much it takes from us. "What's lost is lost.
David is a member of the Fearless Ones, the gang of friends who appear in the mystery and adventure series of novels written by José María Plaza. He is always telling horror stories to his friends (not always at the best moment), which he gets from an old manuscript he found in his grandfather’s house.
Gorzila, a Japanese monster, travels through Spain with the innocence of a Buddhist monk, the strength of an anarchist and a heart bigger than his two brains. In a narrative somewhere between fable and social chronicle, Orihuela uses his protagonist as an alter ego, joking and ironic.
This book pays homage to an entire generation who lived through a time of upheaval and suffering, not just in Spain but across the planet. It tells stories of simple people who longed, like all of us, for a better world, all with very different solutions seen through different perspectives that ended up as a collective disaster from which the generations to come have had to learn.
Mudy, an eight year old girl, is spending some time at her grandmother's house in the country. In the forest she meets Pedro, the woodcutter, who gives her a silver pine cone with magical powers. With this in her hand, Mudy heads for the river and watches as the water parts in two, leaving her facing a blue corridor into which she walks...
A book which combines the history of art with images, spectacular pop-ups and enjoyable activities to help readers discover the most celebrated works of Velázquez. One of the most enigmatic paintings in the history of art, Velázquez’ Las Meninas, is made accessible to the youngest children.
A pop-up book on the legend of Scheherazade, a woman who, through the charm and beauty of her words, managed to survive her marriage to the sultan, who used vengefully to kill his wives after the first night. A title to bring back all the magic of the Orient!
Between 1939 and 1945, during the Second World War, thousands of people crossed the Pyrenees to Spain, fleeing from Europe, then occupied by the Nazis, or to join the Allied Army in North Africa or England. The Pyrenees were again a point of escape.
A semi-autobiographical novel, stirred by the stigma of an amour fou for an older, alcoholic man, The Prodigy Girls is also a comedy in several acts, and a tale with hints of gothic horror. But above all, it is a contemporary story about identity that begins in an imperfect present and passes back through all the ages of a woman.