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Two very special visitors arrive in Villatorcida and open a curious shop that will have people talking. Villatorcida is a mountain village with one specific characteristic: nothing is straight! One fine day two peculiar characters arrive: Tobías, a little boy, and Cornelius, who looks like a wizard.
The mythical city of Cíbola and the search for a new El Dorado led Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to the south of what is now the United States. For the first time, European eyes saw those lands: immense deserts, red canyons, great plains full of bison, dangerous indigenous tribes, among them the Apaches...
If you liked Men In Black or Life Is Beautiful, don't miss out on this novel in which a son has to trust his father under incredible circumstances. What would you do if your father told you he worked as an alien hunter? Would you believe him? This is what happens to our protagonist, Nico Desclot. But of course his father convinces him and he lets himself be deceived.
'Kiss or kill. Kiss glory or die in the attempt. To lose is to die, to win is to feel. The struggle is what distinguishes a victory, a winner. " A one off. A hero. An extraordinary person. Kilian Jornet is the current world champion of skyrunning, one of the toughest physical challenges on the planet. He has ascended and descended Kilimanjaro faster than anone else in the world.
This university text book is a study of the origin and development of national educational systems in the West in the 19th and 20th centuries. It shows how the liberal revolutions that gave rise to the modern age also brought about a transcendental transformation in the field of education, giving birth to organised education systems run by the nascent liberal states.
Cos peitos desenchufados is a new literary journey based on the poetic image, on its power and on the possibilities of words. Recycling, surgery and speech techniques make up a permeable and complex poetic ‘I’ that only finds its reason for being through the creation of a language of its own.
'On the 11th of March 2004 Madrid suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history. Ten minutes after the bombs went off, my mobile rang. I was working as a journalist back then.
Ignasi and María were destined to part from the beginning. When she arrives at a new school, everyone knows María's story: her mother is in a coma in hospital, after a brutal beating. But María won't let her dark past hold her back and soon she is at the centre of every circle. Her smiles and jokes make her shine in the group.
“I feel like a muse on leave: I am no longer a promising young thing, and I don’t have a recognised role. I have no aim in sight and I haven’t achieved anything. An idea for a painting which is yet to be defined.
The first chapter of Cosas que pasan is called ‘The Whirlwind’, and the story as a whole has something of a whirlwind to it from beginning to end: a succession of not exactly everyday events, often awful or disturbing or stunning, which spin around and around the reader, revealing to them, little by little, something that at first might seem insufficiently developed. Novel?