Un creuer fora de sèrie (Clàssica) (Catalan Edition)

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Her story and the characters that relates are also a metaphor of our time, political corruption and social despair in which we live, and how a fighting spirit can put them in check while restoring values of honesty and justice almost forgotten.

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For this reason, at the age of twenty-four he renounced the counsel of psychiatrists and the help of antidepressants. He undertook, then, a solitary journey that led him to travel for seven years through Latin America, Africa and Asia in search of transformative experiences and useful knowledge to give a new meaning to his existence. An expert in Transpersonal Psychology, Perennial Philosophy, and Enneagram, he teaches at several universities, where he gives talks about spiritual development.

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It promotes stoic philosophy and provides the necessary dose of wisdom to learn how to be happy. Clay Newman defends that values such as humility, selfacceptance, compassion, and confidence, among others, are inherent to the human condition. However, it is necessary to know and activate them to make them effective.

You will soon discover that the only thing that keeps you from being happy is yourself. She undertook her process of self-knowledge in her early youth, by learning such techniques as Enneagram and Neurolinguistic Programming PNL. This integral self-knowledge process is meant to coach professionally people who want to develop their potential to build a life style in accordance with with their true values and needs. And for all the parents and mothers — anonymous heroes — who face every day the titanic, exhausting and — sometimes — delirious challenge of trying to educate their adolescent children.

The purpose of this book is building a bridge between parents and young adults, with reflections and useful tools to help them bury the hatchet.

And the best way of starting is from the foundation. What do our adolescent children say about us? And, what are we going to do about it? He has contributed to several newspapers and publications, and has translated Katherine Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather and Jack London, among others. He has written the screenplay Ojos de invierno, based on his novel Tanta vida , whose rights were acquired by Filmax. In he was finalist to the Award Ciudad de Torrevieja for novels with his book El secreto de los Hoffman, which was adapted for the stage in In he published El tiempo que nos une and El cel que ens queda.

On that same year, he was finalist to the Primavera Award of Novel with El alma del mundo. His work has been translated into eight languages. In Palomas published a poetry collection, Entre el ruido y la vida, and in his novel Una madre.

Silvia Soler

F Una madre Rights sold to: At last, after several failed attempts, now that she is 65, Amalia has succeded to have her dream fulfilled: Una madre tells the story of a dinner, and of the seven attendants who are bound to share the beginning of a new life none of them are envisioning. With her sense of humor and determination, Amalia weaves around the table a net of invisible threads meant to unite and protect her three sons, her daughter in law and her brother. She mends the silences of ones, and channels the present and future of others.

She knows, as everyone senses, that this is going to be a long night: She knows this it the time to take action, and she is not willing to let anything get on her way. La Galera Spanish and Catalan pp. Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile. He has only one friend. So far, so good. But this calm facade hides the most fragile world, and a mystery to solve. The pieces are a father in crisis, an absent mother, an intrigued teacher, and a psychologist who tries to understand what the child hides.

A choral novel where there are mixed feelings, silences, gaps and an enthralling mystery. Her parents did not want her to work in the restaurant industry, so she started to study law. However, her passion for cooking led her to find her way into every kitchen she could until finally, together with her future husband, she opened the innovative restaurant Semproniana in Barcelona, as well as the restaurants Coses de Menjar, also in Barcelona, and Acontecimiento in Lisbon. Ada Parellada collaborates with many media and local Catalan television channels. Sal de Vainilla Vanilla Salt is her first novel Planeta, F Sal de vainilla Rights sold to: He is rough and eccentric.

Annette is a young Canadian, with no experience whatsoever in a kitchen. They are opposite characters, though sharing one thing: Alex and Anette are two broken hearts who will find, among the stoves, the perfect condiment for their own happiness. An acid, fresh and witty novel — as well as tender and enigmatic —, Sal de Vainilla hovers over a mystery, a restrained attraction, on top of that, an unconditional passion for cooking.

Currently he also moonlights as a consultant for self-help publishers, while travelling all over the world seeking new sources of inspiration for his books. He is the author of: Shakespeare para enamorados Rights sold to: In all his theatre plays, and his sonnets he dealt with love from a lucid perspective. Shakespeare is stll the cure to the most powerful muscle of our body. A fresh and inspiring book for those who feel that love is a vital matter.

Born in Madrid in , is a graduate in Economic and Managerial Sciences. At present he is a high executive in an investments company with interests in several sectors. This is a novel about love and the loss of innocence, with the warm colors of the Pacific coasts and the rhythm of jazz in the background. At the feet of the mountain, in the calm boulevards, a macabre incident shakes the foundations of the building where countess Violeta de Guevara dwells: There are many and very diverse suspects but, among them, someone stands out: After making several documentaries as a screenwriter and director for the most important TV stations in the country, he decided to write a series of black novels on the former bank robber Miguel Angel Soto -aka Dani el Rojo-.

Oliveras used for this work the information gathered for the three documentaries he made in on Antoni Gaudi. F Los profesionales Rights sold to: Four former soldiers trained in the French Foreign Legion decide to use their knowledge to be the most important criminal gang of Europe. But to achieve, they will probably have to sacrifice everything on the way. Los profesionales is a novel inspired in the real story of the most important gang of european bankrobbers. She inherited the passion for reading from her father, who kept his private library with him wherever life took him.

What started as an erotic web story eventually gave way to a book trilogy. VENGANZA is one of her first projects, and the result of a continued interaction with the passionate and faithful readers that have followed her writing from the start and asked for more. She published her stories online for seven years and contributed to several sites, where she has the remarkable sum of a million readers. The original version that nobody dared to publish! Dominic Romano is a prestigious lawyer, a powerful man, so sure of himself that he gets everything he wants.

In this new life, love, pain, sex and passion turn in a dizzying whirlwind that drives her into another sphere, where the boundaries between right and wrong diffuse. Dominic Romano is not alone: This is a hard, and controversial novel. It is a passionate book, loaded with feelings that verge on the forbidden. This novel will make you reevaluate what is really right. I define myself as a Sapiens with two attitudes: I entered then the world of labor, and discovered what entrepeneurship was. I engage in different kinds of managerial, civil and social projects, and spread the enterprising attitude by teaching, collaborating with several media and, now, embarking on the world of writing.

My life motto is: By the author of Mamut o Sapiens. We all have moments in our professional and personal life where something paralyzes us, sometimes metaphorically and sometimes literally. As it happens, the author suffered himself a partial temporary facial paralysis due to stress. This led him to reflect about the things he was doing and, especially, about the way he was doing them.

As soon as he was out of this predicament, the author changed the way he worked and produced; he prioritized some projects and abandoned others; he began to work more efficiently and intelligently. After his paralysis he found himself more active than ever, but without the stress that had led him to that situation in the first place.

An expert in entrepeneurship and a passionate of professional development, the author began to research the topic, and finally gathered here a series of tips and conclusions to help others work with grater efficacy. Once again, with Pa amb xocolata she proved she had a talent to blend historical suspense with a sense of humanness and proximity, by telling stories about anonymous heroes who embody universal values. And in she published her fourth novel, El blog de Lola Pons Columna , an amusing existential tragicomedy that has been renamed "the Catalan Bridget Jones.

Columna Catalan Roca Editorial Spanish pp. Six characters, whose lives are apparently unrelated, hover around it. They have more in common than it seems, though. Painters, carpenters, electricians, masons, locksmiths… they all leave La Pedrera at the last minute, never to return again. He walks along the halls, checks the details, looks through the windows, closes the doors Todo lo que existe Rights sold to: After his recovery he wants answers, but he has only one starting point: He also learns that youth is brief and slips by too quickly; only with distance we are capable of valuing its gifts.

Todo lo que existe is a story about dreams of youth, about false heroes, and about the importance of finding the meaning of our lives. She publishes the Monday backcover chronicles of newspaper El Punt.

She has published a story at the first edition of short stories compilation Tiempo de relatos, launched by Booket Planeta. F Coses que no podrem evitar Rights sold to: Driven by the adventurous spirit of the movie Into the Wild, and the added feeling of aimlessness natural to his age, the protagonist begins a tour that will take him to Russia, Mongolia, China, Tibet, and Nepal. It is to be a long journey that will take him away from the women in his life — his main anchors, with whom he will have to define new relationships over the distance.

She is the author of a vast oeuvre that includes novels, short stories and literature for both young readers and adults. She has received many literary awards. Among her enormous production several books can be mentioned: She reached an inflection point in her career with the ambitious novel Habitaciones cerradas Planeta, , a bestseller praised by critics and readers, and so far translated into seventeen languages.

Her last works are two equally outstanding novels, El aire que respiras Planeta, and Desig de xocolata Ramon Llull Prize , which prove that Care Santos excels herself with every new attempt. One that pleases you, too, if possible. In which color would you like it? What about the size? Just enough for three tiny cups. It will be my pleasure to serve you. F Desig de xocolata Rights sold to: Her first work was the compilation of short stories Arriben els ocells de nit, published in Since then, she has devoted her production to novel, offering a number of titles during the last twenty years: In she obtained the prestigious Prudenci Bertrana Prize with the book Petons de diumenge.

F Un any i mig Rights sold to: Columna Spanish and Catalan pp. Some days, she looks back and that is what she sees: Brief, annoying silences — like pebbles in the shoe —, and sideways looks — either fulminating or disdainful —; routine hugs, apathetic kisses, indifferent hellos, farewells without sorrow.

Julia and Andreu, though, want to be rid of this fate that persists in joining them. She worked since she was 16 doing a whole range of things before she found her way: He has designed and developed over 30 online video games, and has written a book about Flash and PHP. In their book they claim that — the way they see it — every person or profession may benefit from this playful discipline to seduce, motivate, or reinvent activities or processes. Video games and their perks in our daily life: She is a speech therapist and pedagogue.

She also works as editor in chief at the digital newspaper. She cowrote the play Insensible, which has been performed throughout Spain. She has published short stories in collective books, and two YA books: The main focus of her production, however, is historical fiction for an adult readership. She has published three highly praised novels: La princesa de Jade, El Mercader, and Las torres del cielo. In her latest work, La cuinera The cook , Coia Valls explores a period of upheaval in the history of Catalonia: F Amor Prohibit Rights sold to: The most personal novel by Coia Valls.

An unforgettable love story between a priest and the daughter of a rural nobleman, in 15th century Catalonia. During the first third of the 15th century, Catalonia is starting to recover from a period of famine and epidemics, although fear is still seizing its people. The ground is shaking more than ever before, and the valley of Camprodon is the epicenter of this hell. Amid the great bleakness that ravages the area, a love story blooms between a priest and the daughter of a rural nobleman. He gives classes, conferences and seminars at the most important business schools in Spain.

Between and he has published three essential books with Ediciones Obelisco: Maravillosa mente, Emocional mente and Ligera mente. Ligera mente was coauthored by Dra. Joaquim Valls is one of the most prestigious mathematics professors in Spain. He has written many successful books, all focused on exploring ways to improve our life, attract good luck and achieve extraordinary targets.

Now, with Genial mente — certainly his most solid, polemic, and revolutionary work — Quim Valls detaches himself from the myths and topics surrounding education and argues that everybody can learn mathematics, anyone can become talented and creative, and that there are no poor students but incompetent teachers. This book has been endorsed by one of the most recognized present Spanish intellectuals: It will help you discover the genius inside you, develop your skills and show them to the world.

Obelisco Spanish pp DRA. Leading a team of 20 doctors, she contirbuted this way to the professionalization of the Esthetic Medicine in Spain. In she founded the medical center Starbene, and started contributing regularly to several radio and television channels, where where she takes part in talk shows, promotes good practices in Esthetic Medicine and informs on the rights of patients. She also participates as a speaker in scientific meetings and congresses. NF Ligera mente Rights sold to: Excess weight and obesity have become the pandemic of the 21st century: Who has not had at some point a few pounds too many?

Surely you have wondered: Why do I tend to grow big again? Can the metabolism be blocked? Will I need to be on a diet for good? If you want to know the truth and you don't like to be told tall tales, this book is for you. It is easy and exciting to read, but at the same time rigorous and documented. This book will help you understand why you keep on having problems with your weight, and start learning how to solve them.

She works as an advisor and consultant on Human Resources management for businesses. A specialist in communication, change management, and human development, she consults as a coach in education, familiar relations, staff and team management. She has a thirty year experience as a lecturer and teacher. Since she has collaborated with numerous public and private institutions, especially in the sanitary field.

NF Coaching familiar Rights sold to: Educating and parenting are two functions that should go side by side. Educating is much more than teaching children to eat well, have healthy habits, or share with others. It also involves passing on dreams, values, hopes, and a deep, personal, honest way of understanding life. When, for some reason, our balance falters and we cannot meet the many demands coming our way from the world that surrounds us, coaching can be a very helpful tecnique. In this book, I introduce coaching as a tool to ease the huge responsibility of educating and being a parent.

I want to show how coaching can help parents perform their task and develop all their potential and self-confidence as educators. We should remember that we educate drawing from the person we are, and thus we face a constant challenge … If we want to keep a serious and convincing attitude in front of our children, we must keep a commitment with ourselves, so they can grow with the necessary balance and serenity, and develop all their physical, intellectual and emotional potential.

Evans, Justine El Octavo clan Fajardo, Carlos Blackout Olloquequi, Jordi Exo Moon River Por una sonrisa, un beso He works as a high school teacher in Toledo. The western democracies have fallen into a slow and irreversible spiral of degeneration, becoming authentic plutocracies.

Since early childhood, boys and girls are bombarded on the internet and social networks with advertising tailored to their tastes, psychology and weaknesses, making them the ideal consumer, so that all the vital decisions of these people will be conditioned by their aspirations as consumers. Education is no longer directed to the integration of people in the job market, but to the upbringing of ideal consumers. Sara and Dani, two young people who represent the large brands, try to recover their freedom and, in order to do that, they need to break the rules.

Little by little, nevertheless, having done all kinds of odd jobs, I have finally catched up with that old dream, with the only difference that I write novels instead of plays, and I only interpret any characters in the intimacy of family and friends.

YA La Lluna de gel Rights sold to: In Bucharest she found much more than an underpayed job; there she found modelling agencies that could make her dreams come true. Thus begins the story of a girl who, at sixteen, is harassed by a worldwide prostitution network. This is a history with fictional characters, scenes, settings and situations, but with a heart that beats vigorously. Avid reader of romantic novels, she distilled in this unforgettable title the essence of the best works in the genre through an inspiring adventure.

It became quickly a bestseller, and was translated into six languages. YA Robinson Girl Rights sold to: She walks through a desolate landscape for several hours, only to discover that she is in what looks like a deserted island. Greatly confused, she finally admits the obvious: Soon she will realize that she is not alone: Domen, a young man of delicate appearance and strange behavior, will welcome her into his lair and show her the haunting mysteries of the island. Her passion for storytelling has persisted up to now, when she is devoted full time to write the stories she imagines.

El octavo clan is her first novel. YA EL octavo clan Rights sold to: Nobody remembers how it happened, just that the waters rose and devoured everything. Only the highest buildings still stand out of the sea. Titanium steel and crystal that keep defying the ocean, and the dangerous creatures that live in it.

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In the shadow of these seven big clans, however, there is yet another one — one that everyone believed exterminated, but whose last members are refusing to succumb; a clan that, in its struggle for survival, comes across the opportunity to change everything, to bring back hope to a world where nobody dares hoping for anything anymore. That is the eighth clan.

Blackout is his first novel. YA Blackout Rights sold to: For those of us in the valley life means wandering around woods and deserted roads. We search in wrecked cars and ruined houses, looking for anything usefull for the community. Sometimes, we found living people. Often, we stumble upon the dead. We must not leave our valley, they say. The world outside is dangerous, they say. A place of violence, suffering, death. Had he left for good prince Medialuna and Koriat, the seven headed dragon? Had he forgotten them?

All the characters in the story, even the book marker, were beginning to fear the worst; only the prince was keeping his calm. But, how were they going to charm the reader to keep on reading if they were not magicians? They look like two very different things, but if you think about it, they are not so, because in both professions you need a good wrist. Later she got a degree in Fine Arts, specialized in engravings and did a number of postgraduate courses specialized in illustration for children. She began to move her wrist and illustrate endlessly.

Thus she has now a few published books, and works for several publicity and design agencies. She will never win a Wimbledon Championship but, thanks to Lila, a character created by Dr. You neither; yes you. Because now you have two new friends: Or, for that matter, an earthling kid and a space dog.

All three, Marciano, Cosmochucho, and you, are about to embark on incredible adventures, intrafants, megalalasingsongs and any word that occurs to you. And also games, tests, challenges … But enoooough already! He has researched for over seven years in the field of Biomedicine and published in international journals.

With his first novel, he unleashes his passion for divulging Biological Science in an attractive manner among all readers. Currently he combines his lecturing job with his performances with two rock bands. At present he is employed at the Autonomous University of Chile. Jordi Medianoche is the leader of the group Glory Hole, and collaborates on other successful musical projects such as Nikosia. Jordi Olloquequi and Jordi Medianoche are one and the same. YA Exo Rights sold to: EXO Ziggy is an extraterrestrial teenager who loves the music of the Earth, and wins the option to travel to our planet to find out more about it.

He falls in love quite soon with a young earthling biologist, but relationships with people from other planets are completely forbidden. Through his investigations, we will learn some of the most important concepts of biology… among the sound of laughter and sighs. She graduated in Catalan Philology in and began teaching Catalan Language and Literature in several schools, until she got a permanent position in the Mistral school in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, where she worked for over twenty years. In Sant Feliu she started a juvenile theater company, since theater is her great passion.

It was writing stage plays that she entered the world of literature. She won the Carlemany award for her novel Sota el mateix cel. La noia de la biblioteca was her first work addressed to adult readers. She has abandoned teaching to devote herself exclusively to writing. The fact is that the conundrums the young woman has inherited from her mother — who, just before dying, entrusted her to a dear sister who lives in Venice —are numerous.

Thus Nebbia takes us into this fascinating city of the 18th century, playful and carnivalesque, but at the same time with dark and threatening hidden corners. Moon grew up among books by Enid Blyton and adventure novels, dreaming of becoming some day one of their protagonists. Reaching adulthood, she decided to create worlds and characters with her own words so she would not have to let go of those summer evenings on treasure islands and tree houses.

River is a journalist and the author of many YA novels. He found out that he loved writing YA novels after a long trip to Asia. Especially Martina and Max. Finally they are dating! But her parents do not let her have her own life. April is in a tough spot: And Lauren is on the brink of success: Whatever happens, whoever they face, nothing can separate them Only two months have passed, but everything has changed. He is in a complicated long-distance relationship with Abril, who is having one of the hardest times in her life: Martina, on her side, is fighting a double war against her parents, who oppose that someone of her social status pursues a degree in Art and, moreover, have forbidden her to see Max.

Meanwhile, he is saving money secretly to leave his foster home and move in with her when he is eighteen. Lauren, the toughest — and luckiest — girl in the Clan, has got a supporting role as an actress in a TV series and now has to struggle with fame every time she steps into the street. He is a television, film and advertising. He is now settled as a creative and producer of contents for children and young adults. They are his main inspiration, and the passion for writing fills most of his waking hours and all his dreams.

In he published Luminantes, el enigma de Norah Ediciones B , his fourth novel. El enigma de Norah Rights sold to: Ediciones B Spanish pp. Today, the exchange of cookies for the selection is taking place. Lara 2 just received authorization to be a celebrant in the most expected festivity, the one that signals her admission into maturity.

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