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Madrid, 2014. Sarah is anguished by the lack of news about the father of her three year-old daughter, Sham: he has disappeared in Damascus. As a way to calm herself, she decides to write the story of the year she met him in Syria, 2011, when everything started.
When fear comes is an emotional journey that aims to shine a light on the process we experience when we go through an emotion that is simultaneously mysterious and revealing. This picture book invites us to feel and express fear without shame.
Sandra's life has turned around completely in the last eighteen months. After escaping the deceitful clutches of a group of entirely un-innocent elderly people based in the peaceful town of Dianium, she moves to Madrid with her newborn son, Janín.
One rainy afternoon a girl discovers happens upon a box containing memories that her mother treasured years ago, starting a journey to a very different and not so distant past. A book about the passing of time, the changes that affect us, and the opportunities to come.
For a few weeks there have been rumours about strange events that have no explanation. Some pupils claim to have been attacked by an invisible force; others insist that they have seen objects moving on their own through the air, or that they have felt a strange presence stalking them in the corridors. What are we up against here, exactly?
My brother has done something extraordinary: with one leap he has got on top of the wardrobe, and has said that he is never coming down. My parents have invited round all sorts of people to see if anyone can get him down from it: the fire brigade, a professional bulldozer, a man on stilts, a rude woman...
Grandad is very ill and Granny is looking after him: she makes his food, she gives him his pills, she bathes him and keeps him company. Grandad has lots of fun with his granddaughter. They play pranks on Granny with a whistle, tell each other stories and laugh a lot but, one day, everything suddenly changes.
For many years... Julen and Ibai were inseparable. As friends they went to the same classes, played together in the garden, took walks along the beach on summer evenings. Now... Julen is just a teenager who wants to go unnoticed. Ibai has become a total stranger to him. However, everything changes because of a dream, a blood-red moon, a diary and a death.
The heart of Madrid becomes a place that beats with each step taken by the characters of this story. The novel perfectly exemplifies Spanish society in the last years of Franco's dictatorship and the struggle for freedom by a generation of brave women who fought to make themselves heard.
Young Lidia's world is torn apart by a brutal and apocalyptic plague. A circle of fire and smoke surounds the city she lives in; nobody seems to be safe. Lidia, together with her father and her brother Carlos, will begin a long journey to find her mother; a journey with no turning back, after which she'll never be the same again...