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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.

Addresses questions kids often wonder about, where there is usually no simple answer, offering different theories and opinions with examples and comparisons.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Desmond Tutu cuenta más de cincuenta de sus relatos bíblicos favoritos, destacando artísticamente el deseo de Dios de que todos los seres humanos se amen unos a otros y hallen la paz y el perdón en su corazón.

Publicada por primera vez hace treinta aǫs, El mv̤il, primera novela de Javier Cercas, es un absorbente thriller metaliterario que parece contener como en germen la obra entera de este novelista, hoy consagrado como uno de los grandes escritores europeos contemporǹeos. Los temas centrales de El mv̤il -la vocacin̤ literaria, la responsabilidad del escritor y los lm̕ites de su ťica, las relaciones sutiles e inextricables entre lo real y lo inventado- son temas a los que Cercas ha vuelto una y otra vez.