Alcachofa-Terror

This is a story of a young beautiful Jewish woman, trained as a gemologist, who experiences the excitement and intrigue of the world of diamonds and murder in the African Desert. She is accused of murdering the family who owns the Alonso Diamond Mining Company and whose home she had just left ten days earlier. On her return to New York City by way of ocean liner and in the course of being arrested for murder she meets a young reporter by the name of Stephen Hauk. It is a story of deep love and emotion with determination to succeed under all circumstances that will leave you in awe of Emmy...

‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...

Chico Paco, nicknamed Barbasco, has lived a precarious existence since he was a child. Orphaned, he suffered the hunger and misery of the peasant. As an adult, he suffered humiliation and helplessness before a boss and an administrator skilled in exploiting him.The owners of farms and haciendas make the peasant youth the victim of their appetites.Nature is at times beautiful, propitious for man; sometimes it is barren, eroded and poor.The reader experiences the anguish and pain of the peasant.

Cientos de individuos con habilidades especiales se refugian en una ciudad abandonada. El gobierno busca exterminarlos y un grupo de monstruos desea robarles sus poderes. Los enemigos se fortalecen a cada minuto y sus ataques son cada vez más certeros. La resistencia, liderada por una psíquica y dos ex agentes, lucha por la supervivencia de la singular multitud que los rodea, una alternativa de victoria y un verdadero futuro para la humanidad."Lágrimas del cielo sobre el mundo" es la tercera entrega de la saga "Fines y reinicios de la Tierra". La historia de una eterna batalla entre la...