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H si fa chiamare con una lettera muta, come mute sono le vittime della storia, la stessa lettera che nella tavola periodica indica l’idrogeno, l’elemento alla base della bomba atomica. La sua storia comincia proprio il 6 agosto del 1945, quando il lancio di Little Boy su Hiroshima la colpisce ancora bambina e la sfigura nel profondo, lì dove risiede la storia di un corpo e la promessa di una maternità. Da quel giorno, di cui H ha minuziosamente ricostruito dati, orari e numeri per colmare il vuoto dei pochi e assurdi ricordi, inizia il suo racconto: una lettera urgente e totale,...

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York. In one of many chance encounters on their trip, a woman gives her Bible to Don Quixote who avidly reads it for a week. This reading inspires the adventures of the pair as they explore recognizable parts of the city today. In these short stories, New York appears as a big state where anything can happen.

In Ocanos, carefully leveled text and vibrant, full-color photographs take beginning readers on a tour of the ocean. Readers learn about this important ecosystem and the variety of living things adapted to live there.

This fun book introduces readers to basic geography words. On each page, a child gives clues to the kind of landform they are sitting on. Then they ask the question, Where am I? Young readers learn about mountains, caves, deserts, and other things in our natural world. An activity at the ends asks readers to match photos with their landform names.

Las vidas del Dr. Bethune complementa otras muchas investigaciones previas llevadas a cabo tanto por los Stewart como, en el caso español, por Jesús Majada, comisario de la exposición La carretera Málaga-Almería, visitada por casi cinco mil personas en la Universidad de Salamanca en octubre de 2006. En palabras del profesor Rodríguez Celada, director de la colección editorial “Armas y Letras” y autor del prólogo, nadie podía permanecer indiferente ante “el genio extemporáneo, el líder indiscutible, el adalid temerario, el jefe autoritario, el paladín romántico, un ser...

The moon people, Kaluma, Aluma, and others use a cloud bridge to travel to the Earth, a messy but beautiful world of incredible variety that becomes their new home.