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A book that pays tribute to Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees. Cosimo is a plucky squirrel who sets out on a journey of perilous adventures in search of a cure for the ancient oak tree where his family lives.
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.
As winter draws in, Casimiro, an old Cantabrian peasant, finds a fairy named Zamiha in the woods. She is trapped in a snare, unconscious, one of her chestnut-leaf wings broken. He decides to take her back to his cabin to look after her.
Written by a specialist in child psychology, this book is aimed at boys and girls aged from 2 to 6 years old. Dani wants to do and eat whatever she wants and she ignores adults. Have you ever behaved badly? Do you want to learn the most important rules for behaving well? A child has to learn how to accept frustration and defer rewards.
"Since 1880" is a graphic novel, a story without words that reveals the passage of time over the last 140 years. Set in a western city, on a down-town street, we observe the passing of the years from a constant vantage point, watching the changing outfits of the street's inhabitants, different family groups, types of transport and technological advances.
A novel set in Italy in the aftermath of World War II. A boy, Román Alberdi, sees the great cyclist Gino Bartali for the first time in the Tour of the Basque Country. As a child exiled by the Civil War, he will meet his idol again at the Tour de France. Later, he will go in search of him in the Tuscan town of Ponte a Ema.
A novel that delves into human nature… the unspeakable side of human nature. In the face of a series of increasingly more demented deaths, only a pair of teenagers, a desperate widow and her best friend are in a position to start arranging the pieces of the puzzle.
For centuries, vampires and werewolves have honoured a pact that protects humans from a world of danger and darkness. William is one of them, a fearsome and lethal vampire and the only one of his kind immune to the sun. This gift has turned him into a special being. Into the hope that his species needs. Into the key that the renegades seek to free themselves from their curse. A pact. A secret.
Although Virginia never had a good relationship with her father, she feels duty-bound to visit him every day at the clinic where he lies in a coma. She is a woman obsessed with illness, and symptoms reveal more to her than words.