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La apasionante historia de Juana de Arintero, la primera guerrera y soldado de España.

«Si queréis saber quién es este valiente guerrero, quitad las armas y veréis a la Dama de Arintero»

1475, Arintero. Había pasado apenas un mes desde la muerte de Enrique IV cuando, un domingo de enero, los hombres fueron llamados a la guerra. El trono se disputaba entre su única hija y los que serían en los reyes católicos, Isabel y Fernando, y las tierras de Castilla se convirtieron en el campo de batalla que cambiaría para siempre el destino del reino.

Aquel domingo, cuando el conde de Arintero recibió la noticia, su salud ya no le permitía luchar. Sin embargo, una de sus hijas, la joven Juana, decidió representar a su familia en la batalla y embarcarse en una aventura épica, repleta de intrigas y pasión, en la que deberá luchar por la corona y por no ser descubierta.

En esta novela, basada en el romancero leonés, Teresa Sagrera cautivará al lector con un relato de guerra que pretende ser un canto a la paz. Esta es la historia de una luchadora y una guerrera que tuvo que esconderse bajo armaduras para salvar a su reino, honrar a su familia y convertirse en leyenda.

A fascinating historic novel that reveals the secrets of the triaca: a natural remedy capable of healing any illness.

During the XV century, the world is changing, but medicine is still stuck in the old theriac way stablished in the Classical Antiquity. However, there are both men and women searching new ways of healing the body and the soul, who test alchemistic formulas to achieve the philosopher stone or the elixir of the eternal life. Often, they are seen as demented or wizards, and Magí Surroca is one of them. On the other hand, Beatriu, a rebellious and unfriendly young woman, tries with great difficulties to get out of the stigmatization. Just the power of love and friendship, the absolute surrender to an ideal will allow them to achieve an authentic, full of liberties and fullness life.

Two destinies marked by the boldness of opposing to the stablished power and the values of an era. A fight filled with hope, poetic, vital and scientific at the same time in a thrilling novel that introduces the instant in which the huma being starts being the centre of all the things.

The exciting story of Juana of Arintero, the first warrior and soldier in Spain. «If you want to know who this courageous warrior, low your weapons and you will see the Dame of Arintero» 1475, Arintero. Just about a month had passed since the death of Henry IV when, a Sunday of January, men were called for war. The crown was left to be disputed between his daughter and the ones that ended up being the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Ferdinand, and the lands of Castilla became the battlefield that would change forever the destiny of the kingdom.

That Sunday, when the count of Arintero received the news, his health could not allow him fight. However, one of his daughters, the young Juana, decided to represent her family in the battle and get involved in an epic adventure, filled with intrigue and passion, in which she will have to fight for the crown and to not be discovered.

In this novel, based on a collection ballads from Castilla and León, Teresa Sagrera will captivate the read with the story of war that pretends to be a tribute to peace. This is the story of a fighter and warrior who had hide to under armours to save her kingdom, honor her family and become a legend.

Elena Moya goes across the Ebro delta with an unforgettable novel about determination and fight against the destiny.

Buda Island, Ebro Delta 1961, Asun is a girl of eleven years old full of aspirations and dreams who loves to learn in the school of teacher Isidre. Her parents, Mariano and Remedios, work in the rice fields of the Pons family, the owners of the island. Asun knows that the relationship between her mother and the masters, especially with Mr. Max, is tainted with silence. By chance she discovers that her mother used to own some of those lands. Everything changes with the unexpected death of Remedios. Her father decides that she must start serving in the Pons’ house, but the little girl is not ready to assume the destiny her condition has in store for her; she aspires for more and thanks to a lent bike, her wit and the strong determination she becomes one of the most successful businesswomen in the zone. However, she will have to face ghosts from the past to protect everything she has fight for.

After the success of her previous novels, Elena Moya comes back with a story of affection and dreams.

Historic novel set in the mid-fourteenth century in Catalunya at a time of plagues and epidèmics, of convulsives reigns, of wars to mantain the power in Italian territories and of witches.

Blanca was a healer, midwife that lived in Vila Major in the 14th century. A woman chased for being a witch and poisonous that seeks shelter in the Castle of Montsoriu, property of one of the most powerful line of the principality. There she meets Bernat II, viscount of Cabrera who became the first consultant of Pere III, the king of the Aragón crown. Often life proves that a very thin thread separates glory from defeat, and envy and the fight for the power can change people’s lives in the blink of an eye.