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Bubble-Gum Boy starts the year at his new school and just like the rest of us, he is scared. What will his new schoolmates think of him? Will they reject him because he is a bubble-gum head? He looks at the people around him: Ernest, Onion, and Mandarin are amazing, they know how to do all sorts of things. What can he do? He's just bubble-gum.
Bubo lives contentedly in a peaceful reef until one day he receives an unexpected visit that will prompt him to undertake an exciting journey - one on which he will discover new places and, above all, come to know himself. This story shows us that things are not always what they seem and that, when we face up to our fears, adventure awaits us.
In a Europe in the midst of an unemployment crisis, a student aspiring to excellence returns to the English town that is home to her highly prestigious university. Surrounded by the shadow of failure and a mother who exercises control over her in the form of money transfers from Argentina, the protagonist watches as her chance of success disappears.
A crisis was originally the critical moment in the course of an illness, and a good crisis was one which brought the patient back to normal health. The economic crisis is just the most tangible symptom of a deeper crisis which is affecting numerous areas. This is a systemic crisis, rooted in our obsolete way of looking at the world.
What if the March sisters, the beloved protagonists of the classic Little Women, had been born into a totalitarian society? In the ideal city of Concordia, everyone is a good citizen. They go about their lives, and their days are placid and uneventful - as long as they obey the rules and the government that watches over them at all times.
A book of quiet games about night which helps you to gain a more in-depth knowledge of the world of dreams. This play-based project for before bed, all about night, the constellations, the moon, the stars and the creatures of the night, includes stickers, phosphorescent inks and a cut-out origami figure.
If you want your baby or child quickly to find his or her unique and individual way of sleeping, for the experience to be pleasant for both parents and children and to extend in a satisfactory manner into other, future learning experiences, you have in your hands what you are looking for.
In Berlin, in exile, that is where these characters find themsleves, like bubbles dancing in the air. A similar atmosphere surrounds all the stories, each in its particular setting.
Jordi Cussà errupted onto the Catalan literary scene with Wild Horses (2000). This cult novel surprised critics and readers alike with its true portrayal of life on the margins - addiction to hard drugs - a somewhat neglected theme among Catalan writers, and for its innovative language and style.
Georges Miet writes made-to-order mass-market stories for the French publishing house La Fortune, until one day his editor asks him for a 'serious' novel about the tragic events that shook the vibrant city of Biarritz fifteen years before, in 1925, during the summer season. The body of a local young woman was found tied to a mooring ring in the docks.