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IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HEART REAL?

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 8 November 2018

Love is constantly present in our lives. I think of love in different ways. The first that comes to my mind is the love couple, but it is not necessarily the most important. When you are a mother, the love for your children is endless, as it is the love for your family, or the love for a friend, which sometimes is even more important because we choose our friends, so we shape this love the way we want, something that should also happen with our couple. However, love couple is also the most complicated but the one that inspires most of the films and books, to which I must confess that I am addicted to: I love reading a romantic novel a Sunday afternoon or watching the typical American film (yes, typical!) that tastes better with a bowl of popcorn.  Nevertheless, not all the love couples have a happy ending, as we can see in our friendship circles everyday because not everyone survives the eternal marriage: there are a lot of breakups and divorces, and we wonder why. In my opinion, I believe that we need to love ourselves first so we can love the others, and I think that many people in our society still need to learn this. For this reason, I enjoyed The temple of the heart by Lola Sorribes, her first novel after the success of De bien en mejor, also published by Urano.

This is a different novel, that surprises you, because even though it is a very inspirational novel, it is also a story that will help you to go through the pain caused by love and will guide you to find the real love. It includes 10 steps to rediscover love because, as Lola says, life surprises you and in the most unexpected moment, things fall apart. And then, when everything seems negative, you will come across extraordinary gifts and blessings.

When Patricia moves to Mexico with her husband, she cannot imagine that her wonderful life is about to collapse. Shortly after they arrive, her husband leaves her for another woman.Fury and heartbreak will kick off an everlasting adventure, both inner and exterior in the company of an unexpected guide. Along with chamanes, sacred mountains and intelligent life lessons, Patricia will start the journey toward the legendary Heart Temple, a journey that will guide her to the most sacred secret: the one hidden by her very soul.

Lola Sorribes, a writer that radiates light and positivity, writes this wonderful novel about healing, the inner search and the true love. An exciting and inspirational story with a powerful message for all the people who are willing to take the highway to their dreams, the path to the personal evolution, that are brave and are not afraid to look forward.

 

LIFE CAN BE WONDERFUL IF YOU WANT

Author: Sandra Bruna Wednesday 31 October 2018

Cold has arrived, the day is shorter, smells like winter and everything looks more depressing. However, I like to think in all the positive things that are coming: these two cold and grey seasons do not bring only sadness. There are many good things, like enjoying a fire by the fireplace, having a hot chocolate with friends or just staying in bed with a book, because you feel like staying home rather than going out. So nothing is black or white but everything has its shades. However, I must confess that the autumn makes me sad. But something has arrived, something that has made me smile and cry with emotion: it has been the novel by Gabri Ródenas, who I have the pleasure to represent, called The old lady who crossed the world in a bicycle, published by Urano together with Rocio Carmona, a great publisher and writer.

You cannot imagine how special is this book, with a charming character, Ms. Maru, a 90 years old lady who is devoted to an orphanage in Oaxaca. At the moment she finds out she has a nephew, Ms. Maru takes her bike, her only possession, and decides to go to Veracruz to find him. A journey about the power of dreams, a journey that proves the power of the little things, a very real and humane journey that leaves you breathless in every page, a journey that invites you to discover the little treasures in life and to see that it really doesn’t matter if it’s winter or summer, if the day is short or long: what really matters is how your heart lives. Someone once told me: be careful how you look at the world, because the world will end up becoming what you see it to be. This is an undeniable truth and we should all follow Ms. Maru’s steps. You will not be able to put the book down and you will love to see the world through her eyes. 

At Frankfurt, we sold the rights of the book to a wonderful German publishing house, Thiele Verlag, and we hope that more publishers will be bringing this incredible story to their readers, because with books like this, the reader is happy and we make a better world thanks to words. Congratulations to Gabri for this great book which we hope to make travel in more languages.

 

NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 25 October 2018

Lisboa is one of these cities that I fell in love with. The streets, the people, the modernity mixed with the traditionality. There is no doubt that I went there with willingness, because I had a lot of friends from the publishing business with whom I had been working for years. They treated me so kindly that the good company and the beauty of the city, which I enjoyed together with two of my authors and the portuguese publishers, made this trip a wonderful experience that makes me feel nostalgy, serenity and happiness at the same time when I think of it.

Hotel Metropole by Sebastià Bennasar reminded me of this trip and now, I am totally impressed by the history of Hotel Metropole, which became a refugee for nazi spies, allies and Jewish people, who hoped to go on board and escape from Europe from the city of Portugal, neutral during the Second World War. All this story is based in 1989 when a journalist missed his plane and is forced to spend the New Year’s Eve in the Hotel Metropole, where he will meet Miss Fürts, who the same night but in 1942, she sailed for the United States with a list of nazi spies of utmost importance for the allies.  A novel based in two different times connected by the Hotel Metropole in Lisboa, the protagonist of this book that will discover the role of the CIA and of the women spies in the renowned Cold War.

A short novel of 218 pages that you will read at one sitting and that tells a perspective of the war unknown for many, because Lisboa is the protagonist, as it is the emblematic hotel and the role of women: three elements that had minor roles so far but now they gain importance thanks to Sebastià Bennasar’s perfect prose who repeats in one of his favorite setting, the portuguese city.

 

Together we can make a better world

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 18 October 2018

Today, I know a lot of people with low self-esteem, and I don’t mean when they go through a particularly bad season, but it is already a natural state in their lives and the consequence is their unhappiness.

We only live once and to tiptoe around life without being entirely happy is something we should know how to redirect, but since we are little. For this reason, I recommend this book by Àlex Rovira and Francesc Miralles, Tales to love yourself more, published by Destino and Estrella Polar. Both authors are experts in the self-help books but here they wanted to emphasize the importance of growing key aspects since kids, and probably the most important one is the self-esteem. The book collects 35 stories that will teach the kids to grow this power, raising their imagination, humour, love and self-acceptance. A work addressed to kids from all ages that illustrates through different versions of traditional tales and from different cultures, the keys to embrace the self-esteem so they can grow with confidence and independence, being respectful with themselves and with others, and knowing how to love because they learnt to love themselves, since if you don’t love yourself first you can’t love the others.

The book includes 12 guidelines for the self-esteem in kids. As a parents, we all want the best for our children but not always what we think that can be good for them, it really is. However, the unconditional love never fails, which does not mean to tolerate everything but to love our children for what they are. Give them confidence because they will have to face their own challenges, and however we are always there, as we grow old, there are many situations that we have to face in our own, with determination and confidence.

A very necessary and humane book so all together we can make a better world for our children.

 

 

You can make magic everyday

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 4 October 2018

“Enjoy the little things” is what people tell you when they see you overwhelmed, stressed and with a lot going on in your head. And they are right. However, I believe most of us first need to identify which are these little moments, because they are probably the ones we put less attention to, and when we look back, we realize they are the ones that matter the most. A sunset in front of the sea, the silence, a tea to think about life, the reading time in the terrace. For this reason, Anna Sólyom’s book, Little book of daily magic, is a gift to everyone who reads. A different book, published by Ediciones Cúpula, with a very special essence. Anna Sólyom is licensed in philosophy and works as a therapist to help others to discover their balance and inner strength, but I can assure you she is unique, because of her smile, her big heart and because she wrote this book with love and goodwill to teach us that there do exist small things that are like magic, that can change everything, and this is only up to us. It is not another book, this is a tool that can really help people who are feeling lost in this society that everyday I see, as I am getting older, more confused towards life, more complex and with less values.

The team who brought this book to life we did it with passion and I think you can tell this in every page. From Anna, who I deeply recommend to meet, because it is a pleasure to have her in your life, to the publisher David Figueras, who always believes in what he does and does it well, and also Francesc Miralles, our author in the agency expert in this genre and writer of the international bestseller ‘Ikigai’, who invites you to read this book with a wonderful prologue and nine secrets. And I cannot forget the team in the agency, who every day believes more in books that the reader will enjoy and will teach him to be happier, because life without happiness is not life. So having this book in our night table for these moments in which we all need some air, is a big gift for anybody you love.



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