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  • THE SUPER HOOPERS 2 - THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN KIDS
    CASAMAYOR, ALBERTO
    ¡Nunca el baloncesto había sido tan divertido! Conoce a los Super Hoopers, el equipo de básquet más insólito que puedas imaginar: aunque los Super Hoopers están muy lejos de ser el mejor equipo, su amistad y humor inunda sus novelas. The Super Hoopers es una colección en inglés sobre baloncesto con mucho humor, protagonizada por un grupo de chicos y chicas de nueve años que v...
  • HOMELAND
    ARAMBURU, FERNANDO
    'It's been a long time since I've read a book that was so persuasive and moving, so intelligently conceived.' - Mario Vargas Llosa Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain. With limited interest in politics, the terrorist threat posed by ETA seems to affect them little. When Bittori's husband starts receiv...
  • EL DIAMANT DEL RAJÀ / THE RAJAH'S DIAMOND
    STEVENSON, R. L.
    Harry Hartley és el secretari i confident d'una dama rica i massa malversadora; el reverend Simon Rolles abandona la paraula de Déu i acaba en mans d'un aventurer sense escrúpols; el jove banquer Francis Scrymgeour trenca amb la seva vida pròspera, i d'un dia per l'altre s’instal·la a Paris. El vincle que uneix a tota aquesta sèrie de personatges amb un destí inesperat és el di...
  • WE'RE GOING TO CAMP NOU
    SANS MESTRE, CRISTINA
    Grandad and his grandchildren are going to FC Barcelona's Stadium: the Camp Nou... But, what's going on? It's black and white. Let's help them to colour and write this book! Go Barça! ...
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
    ROWLING, J K
    Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Ha...
  • CORALINE
    GAIMAN NEIL
    There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Co...
  • DAMES EN ROIG. CONTES CLÀSICS DE VAMPIRS ESCRITS PER DONES / ADIES IN RED. CLASSIC VAMPIRE STORIES BY WOMEN WRITERS
    BRADDON, ELIZABETH / ASKEW, ALICE / WILKINS FREEMAN, MARY
    Una anciana dama d'aparença honorable amaga un secret inquietant; un investigador del paranormal s'enfronta a una maledicció familiar; una nouvinguda arriba a un poble de l'Amèrica profunda i destrueix a tots aquells que se senten atrets per ella. Tres històries protagonitzades per vampirs femenins, i per noies innocents i xicots despreocupats, víctimes propícies d'aquests ent...
  • LA TREVA I ALTRES CONTES BESTIALS
    SAKI
    En aquest recull format per una desena d?alguns dels millors contes de Saki, les criatures del regne animal tenen una presència més que destacada. Un gat descobreix el do de la parla i es dedica a xerrar i a posar en solfa la hipocresia de l'època; un polític en plena febre electoral ha de compartir dormitori amb un porquet negre i un gall de baralla; els idíl·lics ànecs d?un e...
  • SOMNIS D'HIVERN
    FITZGERALD, F. S.
    "Winter Dreams" descriu l'ascens social d'un jove i, sobretot, les desafeccions de l'amor, tema recurrent en l'obra de Fitzgerald. A Bernice Bobs her Hair, una jove ingènua intenta fer tot el possible per sentir-se socialment acceptada. "Bob haircut" o "a la garçonne", era el tall de cabell propi de les escandaloses vampiresses del cinema. El bo i millor del narrador nord-amer...
  • CANIBALISME ALS VAGONS I ALTRES RELATS BREUS
    TWAIN, MARK
    Amb una ironia mordaç i unes bones dosis de fantasia i humor negre, l?autor de l?immortal Tom Sawyer, es manifesta en aquest recull de contes com un gran humorista que es fot magistralment de l?art, de la fama, dels venedors, de l?amor, de la mort. Una mostra: un tren aïllat enmig d?un temporal de neu ocupat per gentlemen amb una voracitat ferotge; un artista famós, naturalment...
  • DAISY MILLER
    JAMES, HENRY
    En una ciutat balneària suïssa, la bella americana Daisy Miller apareix a la vida del discret, obscur i enamoradís Frederick Winterbourne com un esclat de vitalitat i frescor. Més endavant a Roma, la seva rebel·lia contra els convencionalismes provocarà l'escàndol i l'enfrontarà amb la rigidesa moral dels seus compatriotes. ...
  • HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describin...
  • LITTLE STORY OF BARCELONA
    PIQUER, EVA
    Conte infantil que il·lustra sobre la història de la ciutat de Barcelona i els seus barris i punts de referència més emblemàtics. ...
  • THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
    BARNES, JULIAN
    Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. ...
  • THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    SALINGER, J. D.
    The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his r...
  • THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
    CARLE, ERIC
    Eric Carle's classic and much loved picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.The classic edition of the bestselling story written for the very young. A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food, getting bigger and bigger, until eventually he turns into a beautiful caterpillar. One of the most popular picture books of all time, no nursery bookshelf is com...
  • A TASTE OF THE MOON
    GREJNIEC, MICHAEL
    The animals that live in the jungle show us how the things we share always taste much better. ...
  • NOCTURNES
    ISHIGURO, KAZUO
    In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the ?hush-hush floor? of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this qu...
  • THE BOY IN STRIPED PYJAMA
    BOYNE,JOHN
    Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange ...
  • WILT
    SHARPE, TOM
    Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcend...
  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    LEWIS CARROLL
    Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Haughton.Conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carrol...
  • ANIMAL FARM
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought...
  • LORD OF THE FLIES
    GOLDING, WILLIAM
    First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. This edition, which includes an introduction and notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes, meets the demand for its use in schools and its prescription by numerous examining boards. In compiling the notes they have borne in mind the needs of...
  • TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT
    Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden cor...
  • ON THE ROAD
    KEROUAC, JACK
    On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberan...
  • DUBLINERS
    JOYCE, JAMES
    In ´Dubliners´, completed when Joyce was only 25, the author produced a definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life. The author also wrote ´Ulysses´ and ´Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man´. ...
  • FIESTA: THE SUN ALSO RISES
    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
    Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change.When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new pa...
  • FAHRENHEIT 451
    BRADBURY, RAY
    The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Depa...
  • FRANKENSTEIN
    SHELLEY, MARY
    Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experim...
  • INTERMEZZO
    ROONEY, SALLY

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