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Comença un nou curs al Palau de la Perla! La princesa Hannah està contentíssima de tornar a trobar-se amb les seves amigues de la sala dels lliris! Però la misteriosa aparició d' un gatet negre posar

Catàleg de l'exposició organitzada per l'Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània i l'Agència EFE del 7 de juny al 29 d'agost de 2010 al Palau Robert de Barcelona, basada en l'arxiu fotogràfic de l'agència EFE i comissariada pel periodista Tomàs Alcoverro, guardonat el 2006 amb la Creu de Sant Jordi. L'exposició mostra imatges de la Mediterrània, que volen recordar els fets més rellevants que han marcat el transcurs d'aquesta regió durant el segle XX: des de la fi dels grans imperis fins a la configuració de nous estats; des de conflictes sagnants fins a la recerca de la pau; des del món tradicional i rural fins a la modernitat urbana. Una zona convertida en una de les fronteres més pronunciades del món, on s'observa una fractura entre el nivell de vida del nord i del sud, i que alhora és llocde trobada entre l'Orient i l'Occident.

Two sisters, two very different lives... Victoria - a chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes and ordinary looks - has spent her whole life being second best to her perfect younger sister Gracie, being told that she is a disappointment to her parents, and unable to win their approval. While waging a ceaseless war against her weight, enduring her father's belittling comments about her appearance and seeing her academic achievements go unacknowledged, she knows that she has to get as far away from home as possible. Home is Los Angeles, where beauty and appearance are all. She moves to New York City, where she finds a job she loves - as a high school teacher - amongst the sleek and slinky of Manhattan. Her lifeline to her family is through Gracie - they couldn't be more different, but they love each other unconditionally. Victoria finds her own life in New York, while her battle with her weight continues. And then a chance encounter starts an incredible chain of events. But can Victoria really leave behind all the hurt, neglect and loss that she has tried to forget and step into a new and fulfilling future? And whatever the scales tell her, she is determined to cherish who she is.

And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren''t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment. Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia''s husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a pause. This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia''s release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people''s home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her--her mother and her close friends,the Five Swans, and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband--and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own.

The perfect gift for Mother's Day - 60 brilliant all new cartoons from Andy Riley celebrating the special one. Affectionate, witty and endearing - just like Mum, and it's the gift that keeps on giving - just like Mum. Every day should be Mother's Day.

« ist ein Meisterwerk.» THE TIMES Um die Macht in Ratharryn zu erlangen, wendet sich Lengar, der Krieger, gegen den eigenen Vater und raubt dem Bruder die Frau. Doch Clanführer wird der Jüngste, Saban der Baumeister, bis Verrat ihn zum Sklaven macht. Blutige, langwährende Kriege überziehen das Volk von Ratharryn. Aber dann hat der Seher Camaban, der mittlere Bruder, eine Vision: Frieden ist nur möglich, wenn ein gewaltiger Steinkreis erbaut wird - eine neue Heimstatt für die Götter: Stonehenge. Eine große Saga um Bruderzwist, Machtgier und Liebe - und die faszinierende Geschichte eines der eindrücklichsten Bauwerke, die jemals von Menschenhand geschaffen wurden.

From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen the world through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi occupation. Isn't it time you discovered Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt? It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is to conceal his Jewish heritage. Soon Joseph also discovers that Father Pons has a secret of his own: he is risking his life not only for the boys in his care, but for the Jewish faith itself. Sensitive, funny and deeply humane, Noah's Child is a simple fable that reveals the complexities of faith, bravery and the human condition.

PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is about So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. A few years before the novel begins she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from her home village in the countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, she is separated from her husband as the doors close on a packed train. Her children and husband desperately follow every lead but fail to find So-nyo, last seen wandering into the hustle-and-bustle of Seoul station. The novel is told from four different viewpoints, following So-nyo's husband and two of her children as they lash out at each then grow closer again, each confronting their indifference to So-nyo's pain and loneliness. We also hear the ghostly voice of So-nyo, looking back at her childhood and unfulfilled ambitions, and yearning to be with her own mother - putting herself before her husband and children even if only in death.

En este diario, pleno de originalidad, hay implícita una teoría de la novela. Para lograr el objetivo de la ficción no es suficiente lo que el realismo llamaría credibilidad. Por debajo de la intrigante trama convencional tienen que mostrarse los sentimientos y las ideas del protagonista, Y eso es lo mejor que puede decirse de este diario, que es un relato verdadero, desgarrado, sin concesiones al tópico y al artificio.

La Trampa es un testimonio de uno de los períodos de la historia más oscuros y atroces. Y también es una obra notable por su estilo realista, desnudo, capaz de evocar lo que significó para toda una nacion perder brutalmente sus señas de identidad. Con algunos rasgos de humor a veces terrible y con un admirable dominio del detalle, La Trampa no es solo una novela de suspense, sino el retrato preciso de la Francia ocupada, desprovisto de toda retorica y, tal vez por ello, el mas desolado y verdadero.

Su argumento se sitúa en Sevilla en el siglo de la Ilustración con localización, personajes ambientales y hechos históricos sustentados en datos ciertos como fruto de una amplia documentación. Un tiempo dispar en el que se relajan las costumbres que ha de vigilar el Cardenal Niño de Guevara y en el que también se delata un difuso enemigo de la Semana Santa que, desde entonces, está en los templos o en las casas donde residen las hermandades con el enfrentamiento visceral entre grupúsculos y los manejos de los que se la toman como una afición para rellenar las horas muertas del ocio, en esas turbias maniobras que llevan a la elección de un hermano mayor (alcalde solía denominarse entonces) o a defenestrar al miembro de Junta que sea capaz de predicar en el desierto.

Paris one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest? Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds? Why Parisian men feel compelled to pee in the street? How to choose a hotel room where you might actually get a good night's sleep? Stephen Clarke goes behind the scenes to reveal everything Parisians know about their city but don't want to tell you. The Paris you never knew by the bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.

Bulky, well-composed sightseeing companion packed with colour photographs and illustrations, focusing primarily on museums and architecture. Covers practical travel information briefly in the back pages. Best for a pre-arranged trip, or as a memento.