Mario: 2118 books

Serveuse dans un casse-croûte, Juliette manoeuvre tout en finesse pour qu'Yvan l'épouse enfin. Directeur de banque, le plus prospère membre de la famille Robichaud pourrait lui offrir un confort et une sécurité normalement hors de portée pour une femme de son statut. Malgré les mises en garde...

Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similiarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece....

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GODFATHER - "A classic... The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage." - New York Times Book Review Described by the author as his "best and most literary book." Puzo's classic...

Max O’Brien is in a race against time … and someone else’s past is catching up with him. Max O’Brien may be a professional con man, but that doesn’t mean you can’t count on him in a bind. So when he hears that his old friend Kevin Dandurand is a wanted man over a seemingly racially...

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Web applications are used every day by millions of users, which is why they are one of the most popular vectors for attackers. Obfuscation of code has allowed hackers to take one attack and create hundreds-if not millions-of variants that can evade your security measures. Web Application Obfuscation...

A New York Times Notable Book Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside...

A l'âge de quinze ans, Monique Robichaud voit sa vie prendre un tournant dramatique : elle attend un enfant, et ce, hors des liens sacrés du mariage… Nombre d'obstacles se dressent déjà sur le chemin de cette femme encore si jeune. L'accouchement survient tout juste avant que la propriété...

Esta obra, junto a Crónica Falsa de 1968, publicada en una nueva versión en 1972 bajo el título de La verdadera crónica falsa y Los judíos del Mar Dulce de 1971, conforman la Trilogía del Mar Dulce. En las novelas, Szichman narra la historia de la familia Pechof, inmigrantes judíos polacos, y...

La trama de La región vacía nos transporta desde los campamentos de guerreros santos en Pakistán, hasta los pasillos de seguridad de la CIA y del FBI. Se trata de un fascinante acertijo poblado de personajes históricos, entre ellos Osama bin Laden y George W. Bush, así como de funcionarios que...

Los Años de la Guerra a Muerte, que concluye la trilogía de La Patria Boba, es quizás el primer intento de congregar en una sola narración las figuras de Simón Bolívar, José Tomás Boves, El Diablo Briceño y José Félix Ribas, protagonistas de la más formidable y letal guerra civil que afectó...

A man in the winter of his life carries on his family’s tradition of making brooms. Making the world safe for witches, is the way his wife used to put it. One day a stranger comes to his workshop with an urgent request. (short story)

Una mescolanza di carni e verdure stufate, insomma cose diverse tra loro che possono però stare piacevolmente bene insieme, ecco, questo è il pot-pourri, un piatto semplice ma gustoso da assaporare che fa della semplicità la sua forza.Una selezione di letture tratte da varie opere correndo, in...