Les Miserables

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is a classic novel that follows Jean Valjean, a former prisoner, as he evades capture by the relentless police inspector Javert. After breaking parole, Valjean remakes his life but must continue to evade Javert. He later adopts a young girl named Cosette, though Javert's pursuit means peace will be long in coming.

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Les Miserables

• Author: Victor Hugo

• Author’s Biography : Poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo is considered the
most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one
of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-
Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables (1862).
• Summary Of The Book: After 19 years as a prisoner, Jean Valjean (Hugh
Jackman) is freed by Javert (Russell Crowe), the officer in charge of the prison
workforce. Valjean promptly breaks parole but later uses money from stolen silver
to reinvent himself as a mayor and factory owner. Javert vows to bring Valjean
back to prison. Eight years later, Valjean becomes the guardian of a child named
Cosette after her mother's (Anne Hathaway) death, but Javert's relentless pursuit
means that peace will be a long time coming.
Estampas de Chipre

• Author: Niki Marangou

• Author’s Biography : (1948 – 7 February 2013) was a Greek Cypriot author and
artist.

• Summary Of The Book:For more than thirty years, Niki Marangou embroidered
Greek literature with her delicate beauties, portraying fleeting moments as she
would have done with her brushes and watercolors, but with words. In her poetry,
she does not seek the preciousness of language, but the capture of the moment. She
catches “the words that she dictates in her flow of time in flight”. This issue
includes a splendid introduction to her work, as well as a poem – the one that
closes the volume – that is not part of her works in Greek and that was not printed
anywhere else.
Papa Mumin y el mar

• Author: Tove Jansson

• Author’s Biography : Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish
author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic
parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris.
Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943.

• Summary Of The Book: He feels that his family does not need him. So, one fine
day, Papa Moomin decides it's time to embark on a new adventure: they're going to
live on a distant island. WHO ARE THE MOOMINS? The Moomins are tiny
white trolls with snouts similar to those of hippos.
Vuelo estatico

• Author: Jaan Kross

• Author’s Biography : Jaan Kross was an Estonian writer. He was nominated
several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature during the early 1990s. He won the
1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
• Summary Of The Book:The novel narrates the life of Ullo Paerand, a young man
with a prodigious memory who is forced to survive by exercising professions as
disparate as those of a sports journalist, a suitcase maker or a member of the Prime
Minister's cabinet.
Marilyn al desnudo

• Author: Isabelle Wéry

• Author’s Biography : Isabelle Wéry is a Belgian actress and award-winning
writer. Wéry was born in Liège. She studied theatre in INSAS, where she was
graduated in 1991. René Hainaux was her teacher. She has performed in several
theatres from France, Belgium, Italy and the UK.

• Summary Of The Book: An exuberant and provocative novel, full of passion for
language and life. For little Marilyn Turkey, everything seems new, mysterious and
fascinating, and her desire appears before her like the forbidden fruit that she needs
to taste. Years later, Marilyn is twenty-five. In search of her Love, she lets herself
be carried away by a life full of emotions in which the limits between the real and
the imaginary are confused. Finally, we meet a Marilyn in quarantine.
Todo lo que somos juntos

• Author: Alice Kellen

• Author’s Biography : Alice Kellen was born in Valencia in 1989. She is an
author who is used to living among the characters, the scenes and the emotions that
she captures on paper. She is the author of the novels It keeps raining, The day it
stopped snowing in Alaska, among others.

• Summary Of The Book:When their paths cross again, Leah has to make
decisions that could change everything, because despite what happened, the
memories of her entire life are still there; intact, beautiful, unique. Sneaking into
every crack she hasn't yet closed. Because he is still the boy who has not yet
forgotten.
Tu siempre crees que viene una guagua

• Author: Miguel Ángel Fornerín.

• Author’s Biography :He has been visiting professor at the Michel de Montaigne
University, Bordeaux 3, at the University of Poitiers and Tours, France in 2003,
2007 and 2009. He received the National Essay Prize “Pedro Henríquez Ureña” of
the Dominican Republic, in 1995 , for his unpublished work The writing of Pedro
Mir.
• Summary Of The Book: With a seductive language, full of discoveries and a
refined narrative technique, Miguel Ángel Fornerín leads the reader through the
world of a group of children who suddenly knock on the doors of adolescence and
adulthood, without knowing what awaits them, in a time –between merengue and
bachata− marked by sex, political corruption, the foquista struggle and the
assassination of the State. Carlos, the poet, El Cojo, La Monja, Juliette and El
Diputado, among other actors, play in a fresco crossed by History that takes place
from 1968 to 1980.
En el tiempo de las mariposas

• Author: Julia Alvarez

• Author’s Biography : Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist,
and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost
Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Yo!.

• Summary Of The Book: In the Time of the Butterflies is a historical fiction novel
by Julia Alvarez, relating a fictionalized account of the Mirabal sisters during the
time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. The book is written in
the first and third person, by and about the Mirabal sisters.
The secret

• Author: Rhonda Byrne

• Author’s Biography : Rhonda Byrne is an Australian television writer and
producer. Her New Thought book The Secret is based on the law of attraction. She
wrote several sequels to the book, including The Power, The Magic and Hero, as
well as other books that relate to The Secret.

• Summary Of The Book: The Secret is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that
explains how the law of attraction, which states that positive energy attracts
positive things into your life, governs your thinking and actions, and how you can
use the power of positive thinking to achieve anything you can imagine.
Hamlet

• Author: William Shakespeare

• Author’s Biography : William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and
actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the
world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard
of Avon"

• Summary Of The Book: The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet
to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns
madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his
life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.
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• Author’s Biography :