The election of Fernando Belaunde as president of the republic in 1980 marked Peru's return to democracy after twelve years of military government. Since then, the country has had nine general elections and no military coups. Even so, there have been a number of episodes that have posed a serious risk to Peruvian democracy. In April 2021, Peruvians will face what is perhaps the most critical election of the last four decades. With the dual crises of public health and the economy unleashed by the Coronavirus pandemic, made even more acute by a third, political crisis forged within the country's …

Oscar Wilde es una de las figuras más brillantes de la literatura inglesa. El retrato de Dorian Gray (1891), es una de sus obras más famosas. Encuadrada en lo que se dio en llamar movimiento decadente o simbolista de la mitad del siglo XIX, reivindicaba un credo estilístico puro y absoluto, una primacía de lo artístico sobre lo objetivo. Dorian Gray, un joven hermoso como un atleta griego, se dedica a apurar el cáliz de todos los placeres, mientras su retrato es el que envejece y recibe en su imagen las huellas de la depravación.

Oscar Wilde is one of the most important …

Return to the world of the internationally bestselling urban fantasy series for another action-packed Templar adventure in book two of the Templar Chronicles!

Cade Williams was just an ordinary cop until the night he came face to face with a fallen angel known as the Adversary and nearly died.  Now he commands the Echo Team, a special ops squad of modern Templar knights, and the things they hunt are far darker and much more deadly than your average criminals.

When a Jesuit priest wanders out of the New Mexico desert, telling wild stories about a secret research installation and bloodthirsty demons hunting …

Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo (1818) de Mary W. Shelley (1797-1851) es, a diferencia del “romance científico” de Verne, quizá la primera obra de ciencia-ficción en sentido estricto. “La autora parece poseer una imaginación poética de un vigor poco común -dijo Walter Scott-. En conjunto, esta obra nos da una alta idea del genio original de la novelista y de su feliz poder de expresión.”

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary W. Shelley (1797-1851) might be, unlike the ‘scientific romance’ by Verne, the first science-fiction novel strictly speaking. ‘The author seems to have a very uncommon and vital poetic imagination –according to Walter Scott–. …

When a circus sets up camp outside their small town, Amy and Paula are immediately drawn to its exotic allure. However, this is not your typical spectacle of acrobatics, wild animals and zany circus clowns. The two young women are surprised to find trapeze artists wearing nothing but thongs and tattoos, and an equestrian act with human females as ponies, complete with bridles, harness and tails fixed to rumps that bear the marks from a trainer's whip. Even the clowns have contrived to lose most of their clothing. Had this circus camped inside the town limits, it would have been …

Lily Lake is a smart sexy girl from the 'wrong side of the tracks' who is suddenly swept into a passionate sexual affair with the wealthy businessman Patrick ThorntonWynn. After a whirlwind wedding, Lily quits her teaching job and starts writing a gossip column that turns her into a celebrity in her husband's uppercrust social circle. Her life couldn't get any better. But when Lily is too busy to pay attention to her husband, Patrick gets pissed, and gives her a painful spanking followed by hard anal sex. While Patrick quickly regrets the incident, it only inspires Lily's dormant desires …

In August 2001 - one month before 9/11 - a gang of Southern California car thieves find themselves blackmailed by a band of Asian insurgents into smuggling guns for gold and eventually leading a charge against a prison garrison in Western China. Their most formidable adversary is not the Chinese Army guarding the garrison, but the American F-16s attacking from above, dispatched by the president of the United States. Hunted by the FBI, infiltrated by the CIA, and compromised by an international network of espionage operatives and assassins, these street-wise G-Riders must navigate through the perils of an entire world …

FEMDOM. Sadistic females abound in these eighteen new Femdom tales. From Daydreaming where Stephen is so obsessed with his girlfriend’s ass that he will do anything to please her, to Possession where Amanda’s exhusband is so enslaved he could actually leave without being stopped…though he won’t – since he’s one of her possessions. Find out why. In Banded and Tagged, when ten women falsely swear that you agreed to be a banded slave, the bitches band your balls and you’re a slave life! In the Dog House, Jerry’s wife wants a better husband, one who obeys her like a mindless …

France, July 1918. Nineteen-year-old Roland Massey, fresh out of grammar school, has been conscripted into the British Army and sent to the Western Front. His overriding aim is to see out the remainder of the war and return unscathed to the comfortable middle-class life he left behind in Cheshire. Following a battle near Rheims, he is given temporary charge of Paul Sondheim, a captured German soldier. Their brief conversation results in a reunion after the war … and Roland’s introduction to Paul’s sister, the beautiful Stefanie Sondheim. A Chance Encounter is a tale of friendship, romance, and betrayal set in …