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The discovery of a corpse opens a police investigation that leads to an intriguing plot dealing with friendship, love and the role of art in the contemporary world, plus privilege, power and corruption. The questions soon begin to multiply, but they all lead one: Who is the enigmatic woman whose portrait hangs in the house of the murdered man?
Towards the end of the XV century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca, will investigate the murder of a theology professor. Thus begins a complex web in which the situation of the Jews and converts intertwine.
It takes great courage to go on when the map of life has been torn. It takes great courage to love again. A SURPRISING LOVE STORY THAT CAME OUT OF MADRID’S TERROR ATTACKS OF 11 MARCH 2004. A REALISTIC STORY WITH A HINT OF FANTASY. Ada and Gabiel have survived the attack. Their souls and bodies left the trains in a sorry state.
Rob has survived a tsunami and now lives in an attic, goes hunting for treasure in his boat made of polystyrene and is desperately in love with Lana. On one of his expeditions in search of new marine treasures, he finds a magical stone that allows him to turn into anyone he chooses.
Ángel, out of work and love, decides to go back to the neighbourhood he grew up in. His lost paradise is the abandoned plots of Vallcarca and El Carmel, where he used to play football, fight with rival gangs, and everyone used to let off home-made bombs. These were the years when Man first walked on the moon and the hippies arrived in Ibiza.
In 1864, Antoni Riubò enlists as a doctor on board the brig Verge de Montserrat, a commercial ship making the crossing between Barcelona and the Americas, by way of Africa. When he gets to Sierra Leona, the young doctor discovers that the ship is ruled by a slave trader who is taking advantage of the voyage to take hundreds of Africans to America and sell them into slavery on the plantations.
This is a revolutionary book, and one expected to make history. Firstly because of its plot, which shows with an enthralling storyline the danger involved for future generations of extracting oil from ten thousand metres under the sea.
TATI is the guardian of the sea. TATI lives a quiet life until the day she discovers that her friends, the fish, have disappeared due to the damage done to the sea by human beings. At that moment she decides to intervene in the lives of humans to put things back to how they were.
Stella must accept her destiny when, on the day of her sixteenth birthday, she discovers a secret which will shake the foundations of her peaceful life in a town on the Mediterranean coast. Growing up carries many responsibilities, something Stella will learn about with the help of her friends.
Creosbe’s World is actually an underwater world, riddled with naiads, sirens and elves, a place you can reach at full moon nights.
This fantastic universe is inevitably linked to ours through a magic door, hidden under Lake Enol, in Asturias.