Mario: 2118 books

Hazel, my lovely wife, had been to a course where she had learned a technique of reading brain waves. Unfortunately, I was the first person she was trying it on and had gotten the impression that there was a secret room in our ancient home. Nothing I could say would dissuade her from searching for...

My name is Wilma. I was working at Apex and met Tom Duncan in the company's cafeteria while having lunch. We enjoyed each other's company and began seeing each other a great deal. One day, we agreed to each taking a half day of vacation so we could get to know each other better. We had dinner, then he took me to his home. There he made an indecent proposal. This story tells how I reacted.

The seer Nostradamus died in 1566, but devotees are still ferreting out the meanings of his cryptic prophecies today. No one has been more committed to that goal that Mario Reading, the author of five books on the occult master. The latest probes perhaps the ultimate questions about Nostradamus' prognostications:...

UN SUCCESSO SENZA PRECEDENTI CHE CONTINUA A RAPPRESENTARE IL QUADRO PIÙ AUTENTICO E CLASSICO DELLA MAFIA ITALO-AMERICANA. Il libro che ha ispirato il capolavoro di Francis Ford Coppola. Protagonista del «Padrino» è Don Vito Corleone, capo delle cinque famiglie che esercitano il loro...

Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams provides very tangible approaches on how Configuration Management with its practices and infrastructure can be adapted and managed in order to directly benefit agile teams. Written by Mario E. Moreira, author of Software Configuration Management Implementation...

In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made...

Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced...

Included in the New York Times’ preview of 2019 international literature “A wise, lonely novel . . . [and an] honest reflection of exile.” —The New Yorker In the tradition of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, a celebrated classic and heart-wrenching story of a family torn...

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...

First Jesuit. First Latin American. And a new pope who chose as his first act a simple request: please pray for me. The recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took the world by surprise and for good reason. More than 600 years had passed since a pope last left his post. Jorge Mario...

This is a short collection of information about the history of the Orzali Family back to our first ancestor Nicolao born 1580 including some hypothesys about the origin of the family name and the reasons started the "Simposium" meetings the family organizes every Year in Lucca (Italy)

William found a photo in a book that haunted him. He needed to follow up and was finally able to talk to a person who could tell him who were the people in the photo and under what circumstances it had been taken. You'll find yourself thinking about this story long after you read it.

Con uno stile che colpisce per la schiettezza e la trasparenza, Mario Melazzini ripercorre la sua personale esperienza nella lotta contro la SLA. Da quando i sintomi della malattia si fanno presenti con i primi segnali, a quando la malattia si trasforma in un'alleata per tutelare quanti ne sono affetti...

Prologue to the epic ebook series "Apocalypsis" by Mario Giordano. Is this the end of the world? Rome, Italy. Pope John Paul III has disappeared without a trace. One-by-one his close confidants are being brutally murdered. When police come up short, journalists Peter and Loretta team up...