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The Quantic Secret and Awakening of our Energies
Jorge Blaschke's previous book, Beyond What You Know, uncovered the relation between alternative realities, quantum physics and spiritual perception.
The sales assistantant of a pharmacy in one of the Madrid districts is raped and murdered. Inspectors Pacheco and Duarte, on the trail of a psychopath recently released from prison who is hanging around the area, receive a tip-off that he might have been threatening her and had visited her the week before the murder.
Under the Skin is a psychologically introspective, noir novel based on a real-life story: in 2005 the body of an unknown prostitute was found on the Eje Transversal train line; she has a strange erotic tattoo. Coincidentally, or otherwise, the tattoo is the same as that of a man killed in Darnius a couple of years before.
Why does everyone run away as soon as they see me? A hilarious picture book reflecting on habits and customs by seeing what happens when animals and humans swap roles.
An original, amusing and tender novel that speaks to us about loneliness and of what it is to be a refugee. I'm called Omar and I'm a nut. My father was a gardener and my mother smelled like cinnamon. They were both eaten up by the sea just before they got to the beach. I saw them disappear whilst I floated away in that little nut shell along with a bunch of strangers.
SpiderCat is a very special cat. He has a superpower but he doesn’t know it. It’s the same for almost all of us: we’re special, different, unique...and we all have at least one superpower. What's yours?
Stalinism did not only consist of repression and imprisonments, it was also a very complicated system, which was economically and socially revolutionary. Stalin forged an economic system that transformed the lives of Soviet citizens and laid the foundations for the rise of the USSR as a superpower.
Diana is a mermaid daughter of the moon who, on coming of age, decides to go to the surface to live like humans do. At her university campus she meets Edlyn, Mako, Isla and Lucas, other beings like her. Under the waters of Diana's lagoon she had always been alone, but now she has great friends with whom she shares her day-to-day life.
Must humanity go back to nature so as no to be exterminated by it? This is a question that constantly hits contemporary conscience. The widespread belief that we are undergoing a global environmental crisis leads us to the necessity of thinking about the kind of society we want.
Dreams is a simple, sweet and delicate book about those first longings children have, at an early age: to sail blue seas, to run free in green mountains, to dance for no other reason than to follow the rhythm of life that pulsates in them.