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Los cinco elementos es un concepto que surgió a partir de la antigua medicina china, hace más de dos mil años, cuando los eruditos del país asiático alcanzaron la conclusión de que el universo estaba compuesto por cinco fuerzas: agua, madera, fuego, tierra y metal. Entender estos elementos y cómo se relacionan entre sí nos ayuda a mantener el equilibrio físico, mental, espiritual y emocional. A partir de las propiedades de estas cinco potencias, Dahlin nos ayuda a conocernos mejor y a crear relaciones duraderas con los demás.

Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain’s secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the 29-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo, she remains to solve one last case: the mysterious disappearance of Spain’s Minister of Culture, Mauricio Valls.

Nella tumultuosa Barcellona degli anni Venti, il giovane David Martín cova un sogno, inconfessabile quanto universale: diventare uno scrittore. Quando la sorte inaspettatamente gli offre l'occasione di pubblicare un suo racconto, il successo comincia infine ad arridergli. È proprio da quel momento tuttavia che la sua vita inizierà a porgli interrogativi ai quali non ha immediata risposta, esponendolo come mai prima di allora a imprevedibili azzardi e travolgenti passioni, crimini efferati e sentimenti assoluti.

Barcellona, fine anni '50. Daniel Sempere non è più il ragazzino che abbiamo conosciuto tra i cunicoli del "Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati", alla scoperta del volume che gli avrebbe cambiato la vita. Il mistero della morte di sua madre Isabella ha aperto una voragine nella sua anima, un abisso dal quale la moglie Bea e il fedele amico Fermín stanno cercando di salvarlo.

Estamos asistiendo a un bombardeo constante de novedades educativas (coaching, mindfulness, gamificación…) y las consultas de psico-pedagogía están repletas de críos con infinidad de problemas. Los libros de parenting enfocados a una buena crianza no paran de ofertar métodos innovadores prometiendo la panacea y, a pesar de todo, sigue invadiéndonos una sensación de desconcierto a la hora de orientar su formación.

Nel dicembre del 1957 un lungo inverno di cenere e ombra avvolge Barcellona e i suoi vicoli oscuri. La città sta ancora cercando di uscire dalla miseria del dopoguerra, e solo per i bambini, e per coloro che hanno imparato a dimenticare, il Natale conserva intatta la sua atmosfera magica, carica di speranza. Daniel Sempere - il memorabile protagonista di "L'ombra del vento" è ormai un uomo sposato e dirige la libreria di famiglia assieme al padre e al fedele Fermín con cui ha stretto una solida amicizia.

Un architecte qui fuit Constantinople avec les plans d'une bibliothèque inexpugnable, un étrange cavalier qui arrive à convaincre un tout jeune écrivain (accessoirement nommé Miguel de Cervantes) d'écrire un roman inégalable... On retrouve dans ce recueil une atmosphère et des thématiques familières aux lecteurs de Zafón : des écrivains maudits, des bâtisseurs visionnaires, des identités usurpées.

Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, The Midnight Palace begins on a dark night when an English lieutenant fights to save newborn twins Ben and Sheere from an unthinkable threat. Despite monsoon-force rains and terrible danger lurking around every street corner, the young lieutenant manages to get them to safety, but not without losing his own life.... Years later, on the eve of Ben and Sheere's 16th birthday, the mysterious threat reenters their lives. This time, it may be impossible to escape....

La elegancia, en su etimología, está emparentada con la elección (eligĕre), de tal manera que una persona elegante, entre otras cosas, es aquella que sabe elegir. El pensamiento elegante moldea a un sujeto que no lucha por mostrarse distinto entre la multitud sino que se eleva hacia una vida distinguida.

Spanien in den dunklen Tagen des Franco-Regimes: Ein Auftrag der Politischen Polizei führt die eigenwillige Alicia Gris zurück in ihre Heimatstadt Barcelona. Unter größter Geheimhaltung soll sie das plötzliche Verschwinden des Ministers Mauricio Valls aufklären. In seinem Besitz befand sich ein geheimnisvolles Buch, das Alicia auf schmerzliche Weise an ihr eigenes Schicksal erinnert. Es führt sie in die Buchhandlung Sempere & Söhne.

"Vindens skygge" af Carlos Ruiz Zafon er din nye yndlingsroman: En fænomenal, velskrevet og smuk historie om kærlighed, mystik og ikke mindst om mennesket. Daniel vokser op i Barcelona, i efterdønningerne af Den Spanske Borgerkrig. Han er alene med sin far; En rar og følsom mand, som har viet sit liv til at være antikvarboghandler. En dag tager han Daniel med til De Glemte Bøgers Kirkegård, og her finder Daniel den bog, der skal ændre hans liv for bestandig.

The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons.

Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him.

Dan has forgotten something very important while setting the table for supper.

Learn about Joe and Dad's attempts to catch fish for dinner.

Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast, to a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife, that was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house, Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star....

Calcutta, May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, and his group of friends the night before they are due to leave St Patricks orphanage.

The novel Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote just before The Shadow of the Wind. 'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...' In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts...

Cette nuit j'ai rêvé que je retournais au Cimetière des Livres oubliés... Dans la Barcelone franquiste des années de plomb, la disparition d'un ministre déchaîne une cascade d'assassinats, de représailles et de mystères. Mais pour contrer la censure, la propagande et la terreur, la jeune Alicia Gris, tout droit sortie des entrailles de ce régime nauséabond, est habile à se jouer des miroirs et des masques. Son enquête l'amène à croiser la route du libraire Daniel Sempere.

Der junge David Martín fristet sein Leben als Autor von Schauergeschichten. Als ernsthafter Schriftsteller verkannt, von einer tödlichen Krankheit bedroht...

Dans la turbulente Barcelone des années 1920, David, un jeune écrivain hanté par un amour impossible, reçoit l'offre inespérée d'un mystérieux éditeur : écrire un livre comme il n'en a jamais existé, "une histoire pour laquelle les hommes seraient capables de vivre et de mourir, de tuer et d'être tués", en échange d'une fortune et, peut-être de beaucoup plus.