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One day the moon got tired of looking at the Earth and went on a trip. She wanted to know what there was beyond the Earth. She wanted to find out about that red planet she could see in the distance, and discover what was at the edges of the galaxy. Go adventuring with the moon and find out about the planets in our solar system, their colours, shapes, sizes, behaviour and stars.
A Moscow police officer is transferred to Ukraine as punishment by the Supreme Soviet, and ends up in Pripyat, the closest place to the Chernobyl nuclear centre. Just two days after his arrival he witnesses what will be the greatest nuclear tragedy of the Soviet Union, hushed up by the authorities in an attempt to protect the politicians responsible for the disaster.
The focus of this book is preventing bites (from dogs to children). We know that any child-dog incident can have serious consequences for the human, resulting in a complete loss of confidence in the dog (which can lead to a change in family and/or greater consequences). This book equips small children with the basic rules for living with their pets.
This is a story about music and the basis of music knowledge, something that is always hard for a beginner, told through the story of the book’s protagonist: a small saxophone. Through the events of the story we see how important it is to look for reference points and things in common when communicating with others in order to make this communication fluent and worthwhile.
"When you lose your dreams, you become a slave to your nightmares. That's why the world needs people... who aren't afraid to dream." Rebeca's parents have disappeared in mysterious circumstances and she has to go and live with her grandfather, Professor Balvatin, a man she hasn't seen since she was very little.
Marta has kept a secret from her partner for ten years, but she finally tells him the strange and fascinating life of Daniel Faura Oygon, an old man whom she met in the residence where she works. When he died she found his diary, a letter and the score for a sonata dedicated to a mysterious woman called Sayá. The diary held Daniel’s life story right from his childhood.
In a cosmopolitain and prosperous Western city, a strange phenomenon occurs which seems initially to be nothing more than an irritant but which quickly comes to represent a more insidious threat, capable of overturning the most intimate convictions of the citizens.
The plot of The Empty Region takes us from the base camps of the holy warriors in Pakistan to the security corridors of the CIA and the FBI. The book is a fascinating puzzle full of historic characters including Osama bin Laden and George W Bush, as well as officials with inside knowledge of the tragic events of 9/11.
This story begins at a lake flooded by the sea, continues across a country in the grip of the war and spreads across a maze of trenches on the banks of a river that acts as the frontier with a bad dream. It's the story of a mystery; of the Scottish soldier Elgin Gairloch, recruited to fight in France, and how he returned home following the last battle of the Somme in the spring of 1918.
Marco Buitrago is a free-lance journalist who survives by writing scientific articles, until his feature on the international human genome project brings Marie Alida Karwecki into his life, and the old lady changes his whole existence.