The story begins when Bastian, furtively, takes a book from a bookstore and he begins to read it in his school. This book is about a world named Fantastica, ruled by the Childlike Empress. She has a strange disease, therefore, she entrusts the task of finding a cure to … [Read more...]
Michael Ende – Momo.
Momo is different from the other girls, she's gifted with the extraordinary ability of listening. The Time's Bank is an institution created and led by a group of men who are, always, dressed with gray clothes. They cheat people telling everyone that they must save … [Read more...]
Max Brooks – World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
It's a book written as a documentary about the spread of a virus that turns humans into zombies and the world war against the zombies. It presents, in chronological order, interviews made to survivors in which they talk about the war since the beginning of the virus' … [Read more...]
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief.
This novel is about Liesel Meminger, a german girl who discovers that she loves books. It occurs in Nazi Germany, so Liesel's life isn't easy. She was an orphan, but a couple adopted her; happily they're not a bad couple and they care for her. The real problems … [Read more...]
Katherine Neville – The Eight.
The Eight is a wonderful novel that tells us two stories, both related with the Montglane Abbey's chess which is related with the freemasonry and alchemy. The first story tells us all about what Valentine and Mireille are going to live. They're two novices who had … [Read more...]
Jules Verne – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
After falling overboard from the ship where they were traveling, the professor Pierre Aronnax, his assistant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land, are taken prisoners of the Captain Nemo. He keeps them in his submarine named Nautilus; it's worth to mention that the … [Read more...]
H. P. Lovecraft – Compilation of His Tales.
In these compilations you'll find many Lovecraft's tales such as: The Colour Out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Silver Key, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and … [Read more...]
John Grisham – The Client.
Mark Sway has only eleven years, but he acts like he's older. He witnesses the suicide of a mafia lawyer with his little brother. Before suiciding, the lawyer confesses to Mark the place where a senator's corpse is buried. The senator was killed by the lawyer's client. … [Read more...]