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In July 2009 Leo Margets became famous after achieving glory in Las Vegas when she was crowned best female poker-player in the world. Leo is a living example of how poker has changed from being an almost underground game, associated with people of dubious reputation, to a mass phenomenon where legendary players compete for prizes worth millions, demonstrating their skill and strategy.
Two neighbours whose paths cross thanks to a domestic incident begin a strange game: recycling time. They decide to tell each other about their own and other people’s memories, scouring the past to rescue the little stories forgotten in its folds. The rules of the game allow for invention, dreams and journeys.
La tierra de los últimos is a novel of manners set in rural Andalusia in the mid twentieth century, with touches of etching, sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, but always a gentle charm, a poetry that touches the soul.
The early 20th century: a lawyer without a future, a frustrated anarchist, an ex prostitute, a clairvoyant, and an unemployed teacher. The owner of a guesthouse has the felicitous idea of setting up a circus company, and each of the guests tries to bring out the best of their talents to achieve a presentable performance.
Laila Winter is a sixteen-year-old girl with a small problem: she has green hair. This is the reason everyone rejects her and makes fun of her. At the start of the summer, on her birthday, he father gives her a very special present: a book with five gems on its cover that belonged to her mother and which conceals a mystery in its white pages.
Don Quixote of La Mancha is a novel written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Originally published as The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha at the beginning of 1605, it is one of the most outstanding works of Spanish and world literature, and one of the most translated. In 1615, a second part was published under the title of The Ingenious Caballero Don Quixote.
The three themes that make up the title of this book have for the last few years occupied the pages of newspapers and magazines, and been the focus of ethics debates not only by specialists, but also by a wider public interested in the consequences and problems that the advances in science imply for human beings.
Vindictive secretaries, Mcjobs, spam, impossible loves, domestic possessions, neighbourhood pimps, amateur boys in love with their female best friends, MSN murders, white trash girls, gigantic beetles, nymphomaniacs with webcams, crazy spiritualists, junk food, water aerobics… and above all girls, dozens of them, terrible or wonderful, real or imagined, but always surprising and necessar
A book which combines the history of art with images, spectacular pop-ups and enjoyable activities to help readers discover the most celebrated works of Velázquez. One of the most enigmatic paintings in the history of art, Velázquez’ Las Meninas, is made accessible to the youngest children.
A fish called Yorick and a kitten called Montaigne. A young philosophy student who corners her old professor in the corridors of the faculty. Two teenagers who discover in their respective physical and moral deformities a good reason to get together. A young left wing militant woman who writes letters to Mao.