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After the exciting adventure of 'The Crystal Navigator', this time daring Lucy Nightingale leads us into the world of Leonardo Da Vinci when one of his greatest works, the Mona Lisa, suffers a strange phenomenon that threatens to make a total mess of the famous painting.
The latest instalment of a larger work in progress, Memorias de Ficción by César Antonio Molina, is a journey through places and readings from Naples to Drina, visiting Saint Petersburg, Beijing, Prague, Buenos Aires, New York and Tangier along the way and guided by great names of Art and Literature.
Luna 174 is an original novel that slips between fantasy and science fiction, but is mainly a love story that crosses the barriers of death and space. Luna Hatton is 20 and lives in a lost town in Australia. Although her life looks the same as anybody else's, she has a gift that has followed her since childhood – she can see the souls of other human beings.
Luna Moon is a child reporter always looking for news for her magazine: The Luna Moon Diary. She finds a sensational exclusive; a new boy has started at school, a very mysterious boy. And Luna has reasons to think that he is from another planet.
Eneko and Aritz split their time between their studies, work and political militancy on the left of the Basque Nationalism. By chance, they meet Libia, a young hippy who sells jewelry in the street, and they enter a ménage à trois in which friendship, love and sex become confused..
In this book, art plays a significant role. Museum director Alexander Kahn is carrying out some research to find the original of the work 'City of towers', a drawing by Paul Klee from 1929. In his search the protagonist must penetrate the darkest spaces of the city, physical and mental tunnels of the human condition.
Who is writing the texts that the protagonist of this novel keeps finding in the most unexpected places? Firstly, within the pages of a bible, later in the walls of an abandoned lighthouse and in a doctor’s waiting room in Vienna. The hidden stories speak about him and his life: the man he could have been and the man he may end up becoming.
The chef Bermúdez wants to cook the most original dishes in the world. The ingredients? The most terrifying monsters. His kitchen assistants? His unpleasant rat Estiércol, a swotty boy and a girl gymnast. Do you dare to eat in the Monsters Kitchen? These books come with playing cards, quizes, jokes, recipes... and much more.
The unique quality of this work lies in the confidence which the author places in the capacity of parents to understand and decide how to act in every situation of conflict with their children. The author shows that parents are capable of understanding the negative mechanisms which emerge when living with children.