検索キーワード： 地理学・文化

This book takes the listener on a trip around the world as a young girl reminisces about all the things she's lost while traveling.

A search for treasure reveals the toxic consequences of modern life in this thrilling adventure set against the backdrop of the world’s largest e-waste dump. Theo lives and works in Agbogbloshie in Ghana, a vast dumping ground for the world’s broken electronics. He spends his days scouring...

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer shines a light on life under wartime occupation, in a beautifully told story inspired by the childhood of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn. As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied...

Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys. "The best children’s fiction book I’ve yet read about the Holocaust" – Tim Robertson, CEO Anne Frank Trust Summer...

This is the story of growing up between cultures, American and Cambodian. “A Dozen Delicious Donuts” touches on the universal theme of family and has a message of love and resilience that captures the journey of the immigrant experience. Chanda Ouk Wolf brings listeners an enriching tale that fosters a sense of self. “A Dozen Delicious Donuts” uses food to bring communities together and celebrates the sharing of traditions across generations.

Afraid her sister (and maybe even herself) could lose sight of their Vietnamese identity, twelve-year-old Bom writes a poetic memoir to help them both remember—a love letter in verse to sisterhood and the places we leave behind. Bom can't believe that her sister doesn't see herself as Vietnamese, only American. She says she doesn't remember Vietnam or their lives there, their family there, their house and friends. How could her sister forget the terrible journey through Saigon and the airplanes and . . . everything?

Conoce la fascinante carrera del surrealista Salvador Dalí, desde sus primeros años en España hasta su vida pública como artista de fama internacional, en este nuevo libro de la serie número uno en ventas del New York Times. Más famoso por su pintura surrealista La persistencia de la...

"Los últimos días de mi infancia fueron también los últimos días de la aldea. Yo pertenecía a aquella generación que vio, por casualidad, el final de una vida milenaria. [...] Yo, mi familia, mi generación, nacimos en un mundo de...

Hastiado de la aburrida vida universitaria, el excéntrico profesor y detective amateur Gervase Fen (La juguetería errante y Asesinato en la catedral) decide tomarse un descanso y trasladarse al remoto pueblo de Sanford Angelorum, en plena campiña inglesa, para presentarse...

Mitsuko tiene una librería de lance especializada en obras filosóficas. Allí pasa los días serenamente con su madre y Tarô, su hijo sordomudo. Cada viernes por la noche, sin embargo, se convierte en camarera en un bar de alterne de alta gama. Este trabajo le...

Von Lava bis Magma - Kokosnuss im Vulkanfieber Von ihrem Baumhaus aus beobachten Kokosnuss, Oskar und Matilda, dass der »Gugelhupf«, der Vulkan der Dracheninsel, verstärkt Asche und Gesteinsbrocken spuckt. Gut, dass die Vulkanologin Dotti vom Planeten Öxi gerade zu Besuch ist und den Freunden Fragen beantworten kann.

Esta es la historia de Fabio, de sus miedos y sus olvidos; de su desconfianza de los adultos, desconfianza que comparte y crece en el diálogo con "Malicia", su anciana vecina. Ni Fabio ni su padre quieren que la buseta que este conduce por toda la ciudad deje de ser provisional...

Every country may have different foods, but almost all of them have a dish with noodles. All around the world, kids share their favorite regional pasta dish. What is your favorite sauce and noodle recipe? Do you share the same favorite as other kids from your country?

A young boy takes a plane ride with his mother to visit the African country of Ghana, where his parents are from. This will be his first time seeing his grandparents. He learns about traditional Ghanaian clothing, foods, and the city market in Accra, Ghana's capital.

When on land, rivers, lakes, and oceans appear flat. With the aid of satellites, these bodies of water appear to have many designs! Explore the art of nature and how satellites detect the temperature of the many bodies of water around the globe.

Two brothers, Heung Bu and Nol Bu, lived as neighbors. One spring day when the brothers were out planting, Heung Bu finds a wounded swallow. He nurses it back to health and is rewarded with a single pumpkinseed. Heung Bu plants the seed and is rewarded for his kindness. Nol Bu, jealous of his brother’s good fortune, seeks out a wounded swallow of his own. Will he be rewarded like his brother?

Esta pequeña obra maestra de Steinbeck retrata la vida de Elisa Allen, una mujer fuerte y apasionada, que lleva una existencia sin brillo, dedicada a su hogar. Casada con un granjero de California, su única ilusión y orgullo es el cultivo de sus flores. La aparición...

Once there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find, but one day it went missing. So, the boy radioed the Martian for help and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! But there, he discovered that he wasn’t the only one who had always dreamed of having a star as a friend…

La clásica novela de aventuras escrita por el escocés Robert Louis Stevenson, adaptada y leída por Lorenzo Silva para ser disfrutada en audiolibro. Jim Hawkins, un joven que vive con su madre en la taberna Almirante Benbow, ha de ir a explorar una isla que esconde un tesoro...

Elling, obra que recibió el Premio de los Libreros de Noruega, nos cuenta las aventuras de uno de los personajes más tiernos y entrañables que ha dado la literatura nórdica en los últimos años. Elling posee una complicada e hiperactiva imaginación...