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We all have a talent that makes us unique and special. Some people are good at maths, others at cooking. Some are adventurous and others prefer to read. Discover what makes you no better or worse but different from other people. What's your talent? A collection of stunningly illustrated talents which will make you reflect on your identity, your strengths and your gifts.
Believing that she is destined to live a life in which only disagreeable things happen, Berta sets out to find something to provide her with a different vision of reality. Her mother hides behind an appearance and decisions that she doesn't always recognise as her own.
On grey days Adri makes his way through the city with a big sack. There's something mysterious about him and he seems to be searching for something. Who is Adri? What is he searching for? Adri is a young man who, using a wide variety of tricks, tries to make everyone he meets on his travels smile. Each smile won becomes his greatest achievement.
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?
The Weight of a Soul introduces us to detective Milton Vértebra, a character prone to excessive behaviour, a loser who has always thought that winning was simply another form of defeat, perhaps the cruellest form.
Unlucky the pirate comes from a family of famous pirates like his grandpa, the much-feared Blackmouth, who used to eat raw squid. His grandpa left him a boat and an eyepatch, which he quickly stopped wearing because it always covered his good eye, and his father left him a parrot. Unlucky is a pirate for whom things always go wrong.
Antonio Gramsci wrote many letters to his wife from prison. In one of these, he tells her a story so she can read it to his sons: the story of a mouse who drinks a little boy's breakfast milk. When the little boy wakes up and cries with hunger, the mouse asks the goat for milk, but the goat can't give him any without grazing first. But the meadow has no grass, nor the spring any water...
Finding a husband in three weeks in order to make a dream come true might seem difficult… Madrid 1640. The actress Elisa Villanueva has the chance to fulfil one of her dreams: to appear on stage at the opening of El Coliseo, the theatre Felipe IV has had built in the Buen Retiro palace. But her single status is a obstacle, and she has only three weeks to find a husband.
London 1866. Yet again, José Rodríguez Losada is on the run from his past. Having left the family home as a boy, he is forced for political reasons to exile himself from the absolutist Spain of Fernando VII. Now he lives in London, a more advanced city, one which holds the promise of a hopeful future.
'Enola's Secret' is set in 1989 in Sandgate, a tiny English seaside town, and brings together a strange collection of elements including a chimney, a dove and a boy nicknamed Socks. While completing a task for his neighbour, Ralph, a.k.a. Socks, comes across a secret that has remained hidden for years.