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The river, or the serpent, crosses the small village of Noaberri. Federico, the postman, is about to lose his job, but his granddaughter Iria has a plan to save it. But Don Isidoro, the mayor, hates the river, and he also hates Frederico. While the letters are dying, everybody has a secret… Can you guess what it is?
Over there, where some only see ordinary mountains, you must know that sleeping giants lie hidden…Would you like to wake them up and learn their magic arts?
After four years as Cuban correspondent for Television Española, nothing should surprise me anymore. However, this is not the case. Cuba, like Magritte’s pipe, is not an island but the image of an island.
Three people pass a night in San Juan, Murcia, which they are unlikely to ever forget. Jacinto, a Mexican bodyguard working for Don Jorge, has to settle scores with the murderer of one of the men he was minding, while his boss is giving a large party.
“The Great Composers and Children” is a series of books with CDs designed and produced by Montserrat Roig with the participation of different specialized authors. All the books include: a story, a biographical note, a CD with the music each composer wrote to be interpreted by children, and the recording of the dramatized story.
Nuria's teacher has given her a box of silkworms to look after. Little by little she learns what they are like, what they eat and how to look after them so that they grow and are healthy, as well as the process by which silk cocoons are made and how the worms become butterflies.
The China Seas, 1805. Travelling on a vessel about to be shipwrecked is Xavier Balmis, a visionary Spanish doctor obsessed with a mission that many consider madness: to take the vaccine for smallpox to China inside the bodies of orphaned children and so halt the advance of the most fatal disease known to man.
One of the recurring reasons couples give for splitting up is a lack of personal space. We all need a secret, emotional and creative garden where we can take refuge without running away, a sacred corner where we can find ourselves again, choose freely, and reinvent ourselves. A room of our own in which to desire without being judged, which is accessed through intimacy.
A series of individuals from various countries meet at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: some Spaniards - a journalist nicknamed "Carte Blanche", a strange freelance reporter, a speculator and his lover - and others from the powers involved in the conflict.
In a rural Galician village the local miller, a resentful widower, observes how the worst nightmares of Galician oral tradition are becoming reality around him. Dismembered animals are found, the harvest is spoiled, the legendary Santa Compaña figures are seen, and villagers are attacked by a werewolf.