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Olga is a forty-eight year old biologist who often dreams about a stranger who gives her pleasure. Thirty-seven year old Mari Loli works as a supermarket cashier and daydreams that she is Esmeralda, who dances in public with a tender, loving man at her side.
What if it were possible to recognise every corrupt politician, police officer or business person by an indelible mark on the face? And what if a humble pawn were to cross the whole board, become a queen – or at least a princess – and put the enemy king in checkmate? And what if a humble young man were to rock the whole political, economic and social system of a country?
A collection of adventure books aimed at children aged 7+. Over 120 pages of fun, adventure and mystery with full-colour illustrations. “Hello! My name is Txano and my twin brother is called Óscar. When we told our best friends, Raúl and Sonia, that a strange green meteorite had given us telepathic powers, they were amazed.
Manuel, the hero of this novel, is a sensitive, Catholic, Republican small town boy… and he is a homosexual. Through his diaries the reader begins to understand his personal, emotional, existential and spiritual development.
This book deals extensively with the PL/SQL programming language (Procedural Language/SQL) that is used to access and work with Oracle databases from different environments.
Ten funny stories from Africa that illustrate the value of love for nature and for your neighbours, taking the reader on a journey through different African cultures. In the title story, an old lizard is caught by a raven and has to use all his cunning to save his own skin by taking advantage of his captor’s pride.
Osa the bear is alone and she makes the most of the last few warm days of autumn to eat fruit. She doesn't like the cold air of winter so she takes refuge in her den where she sleeps and sleeps. When spring arrives, Osa already has company.
Julio, a model neighbour and businessman, likes to walk through the lower-class neighbourhood that reminds him of his humble origins and above all, of his success climbing the social ladder. One day while having lunch, he overhears a conversation about the red-light district in one of the neighbourhoods on his daily route to work.
Pacho Murga, a spoilt, amoral rich kid who has come a long way down in the world, is serving time in the Salto de Negro prison. There he meets Dimitri Urroz, an ambiguous and explosive character with a mixed heritage from Russia and Navarre.
“Hotel Ellesmere is on the south side of Hyde Park, in East Kensington, one of London’s poshest districts and home to the creator of Peter Pan”. Lily, about to start at university on a grant, is amazed at the luxury of where she’ll be living.