Etiqueta: Overcoming
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How to Survive… Saga (Saga Cómo sobrevivir a…)
How to Survive Ancient Rome | How to Survive Prehistory | How to Survive the Middle Ages Could you survive in past era? This is the ultimate guide. Life in the past could be very complicated. Danger was always afoot. It was imperative to know what places to avoid in the Middle Ages, or how to make a tool in Prehistory to be able to eat lunch. Ancient Rome may seem like a lot of fun too: temples, armies and gladiators, chariot races, hilarious comedies… but it was also plagued by battles, conspiracies, and fires. The cities were very different from today, and dressing inappropriately or even drinking from the wrong cup could lead to death. Knowing how to survive these episodes of history is key. Luckily, there is this fun and educational survival manual, which will solve all your doubts and help you live in the Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, Prehistory… without dying in the process! RELEVANT DATA: Each installment of the saga How to Survive… focuses on a different historical period that, with a lot of humor, allows the reader to have fun while learning about history. This children's saga, reminiscent of the successful Érase una vez… or Horrible Histories series, contains all the necessary ingredients to become a great success and to be adapted into an animated series for a contemporary children's audience. The first and second installments will be published in spring 2022 and the third in autumn of the same year. It's author, nicknamed “The Nosy Historian”, is passionate about history. He has more than 77K followers on social networks, where he shares curiosities and little-known facts about universal history. In the saga How to Survive… he unravels history with a mixture of accuracy and entertainment that makes the reader feel like the protagonist. AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie. LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: Spanish, Catalan. Sample in English available. THEMES: History, Middle Age, Ancient Rome, Prehistoric, Gladiators, Hunting, Struggle, Danger, Discovery, Overcoming. GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Children’s.
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The Chasers Saga (Saga Los Rastreadores)
The Secret City | The Hidden Power Other invisible cities exist within the city of Madrid. The Mopa clan, a gang of seven-centimeter anthropomorphic creatures called chasers, has lived hidden for decades on the rooftop of a department store in downtown Madrid. They steal food from the supermarket, play in the aisles at midnight and have fun scaring customers.?However, they have to stay hidden, because if humans see them, they would be instantly turned into salt. Sasa is a young thirteen-year-old clan creature who has never been outdoors. She hopes to soon pass the Test that will allow her to become an explorer in order to fulfill her…
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Seven Kisses (Siete besos)
Are seven kisses enough to make someone fall in love with you? At the age of 14, Paula meets Alex in Mallorca and instantly falls madly in love with him. However, their relationship is impossible because, besides the fact that he is three years older than her, he is her cousin Marta's summer boyfriend.…
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The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo (El libro secreto de Frida Kahlo)
A story full of colors and flavors. Frida is Mexico itself. After "dying" for the first time in a terrible car accident, Frida Kahlo reaches an agreement with her godmother, Death. In exchange for Frida preparing an offering in the form of a banquet for her every year on the Day of the Dead, Death allows her to live. Frida wrote down the recipes for each banquet dedicated to Saint Death in a black notebook she called “The Book of Holy Herbs”. The day this notebook was to be shown to the public for the first time in an exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts, it disappeared. Haghenbeck imagines that this notebook was a gift from the other great Mexican female icon, Tina Modotti (Frida Kahlo's lover), after the accident. The author narrates in first person the life of Kahlo, a free, authentic and controversial woman who broke stereotypes with her beauty and celebrated her Mexican identity in all areas. It delves into her decisions, thoughts and secrets, with a constant presence of death through two characters, The Messenger, represented by the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, and her Godmother, Death, who warns Kahlo that she will die the day her rooster Cui-cui-ri stops crowing. In an intimate and personal way, it reconstructs the most important passages of Kahlo's life, including her childhood, full of suffering and illness, and the accident she had in her youth, which caused injuries from which she never recovered, and which impregnated so much of her art. It also deals with her revolutionary interest in politics and her friendships and adventures with several of the most influential personalities of the time, such as Leon Trotsky and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. It explores her complex relationship with Diego Rivera, her infidelities, her pregnancy and subsequent loss of the baby, her life in the United States, her divorce and her return. One day, Frida Kahlo orders her rooster Cui-cui-ri to be cooked. That same day, she dies. RELEVANT DATA: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo is a novel inspired by the life of the Mexican artist. F.G. Haghenbeck takes the disappearance of The Book of Holy Herbs as the starting point for a journey through the life and thoughts of the Mexican artist, with a touch of magical realism and seasoned with Mexican gastronomy. The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo was a finalist in the International Latino Book Awards and winner of the Gourmand Award in France, making him the first Latin American writer to receive this distinction.? …
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Piece by Piece (Pieza a pieza)
The story of a boy who built himself. “Diversity is in the very nature of being human. We are all different and we need to treat each other with respect. If a society is based on that, we can move mountains. Otherwise, we only move backwards. We need to move up the mountain, rather…
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My Right-Hand Brother (Mi hermano derecha)
Success does not come to those who have the best hand, but to those who know how to play well with the hand they have been dealt. Beto is a twelve-year-old boy with an incredible talent for playing baseball. He is considered the great national pitching prodigy in his age category. Toño, his…
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Only For You Saga (Saga Solo por ti)
Provoke Me | And Love Me | Eternally | Tempt Me The thorny path of love. Annia Moreno is a young woman in her twenties who works in an important real estate agency in Marbella, Spain. She is a strong, independent woman with a stable job who has finally been able to…
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Every Summer in the World (Todos los veranos del mundo)
The rekindling of a summer love. Freshly fired from a law firm in Barcelona where she had been working for many years, Helena sets off to Serralles, a village in the Pyrenees. She spent all her childhood summers there with her family, and now she is returning to celebrate her wedding. Helena, who…
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Wishbone
Too ugly, too chubby, too Latina?… too brave to be eclipsed. Pilar and Pili are two young women separated by an entire generation. Pili lives in 1970s Laredo, on the Mexican border in South Texas. She has a flammable personality and routinely flouts the cultural expectations of femininity in her machismo-oriented Mexican American community.…
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The Sylist (La estilista)
Pioneer, mentor, and one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry. The Stylist (La estilista) is a fiction in which everything that is recounted is true. The author has decided to change the names of the characters to protect the identity of the real people. "For me, fashion is a fascinating world…
