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Comics and cookery? Why not? All our recipes are the result of comic strips and nothing better than a good script and drawing to tell some of them. Comics and recipes talk about our cuisine: Drink shots, glasses, salads, snacks, stuff...
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthausen… these are names that have become impressed in our collective memory. Men, women and children, dragged from their homes and crammed into stinking trains bound for those and other extermination camps at the whim of those who thought them ‘different’.
Bay's gone blank. She doesn't remember her house built on the red earth of Western Australia, nor that her garden is on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she fought to save the oceans and that humpback whales were her family. She doesn't recognize the faces that look at her now. Not even Scott's, even though they say she used to be mad about him.
Rocca's memoir is an autobiographical text, a travel book, a war chronicle and a summary of customs. This work, written in 1814, is characterised by its incisive tone, it's sense of curiosity and its respect for the Spanish.
"Among the tree stumps, a human form. His arms down by his sides, his head covered by a hoodie. The boy wanted to run, but he was seized by a terrible fear which took over his mind, filling it with images of his bloodied grandfather, and he was unable to move.
Ernesto Agular, an Argentinian journalist of around forty, is an obituary writer for a Barcelona newspaper. His boss asks him to write an article on the disappearance of the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana. To do this, he has to go to Naples, where the dead physicist disappeared during a ferry journey from Palermo to Naples.
'A solas' tells the story of two women who were childhood friends, and who meet again by chance after many years apart. Through the emails they start to send each other they manage to regain the closeness they once had, and end up becoming a real support for one another.
This novel is the revelation of the year and has been a success on social media, charming its readership. The story is based on real events narrated by guide dog Cross about friendship, love and overcoming problems. Cross is a happy and mischievous dog, and Mario is his blind young companion who is trying to make his way in life. Together they form an inseparable team.
Sometimes mum says things that her little one understands differently to her: for mum, it's not ok to have a messy room, nor stay too long in the water, nor go around barefoot! The central character however, sees these situations oh so differently: for him these are little adventures full of excitement.