El libro de la realidad, Arturo Arango

Mientras estudian al instituto, un grupo de adolecentes se entrena para ir luchar en toda América Latina. Estamos en Cuba, en los años sesenta, y la figura mítica de Él está en todas las mentes aunque nunca se dice su nombre. Pero este entrenamiento tiene un precio, ya que toda esta operación está secreta y los elegidos no pueden decir nada a sus familias, de las cuales se van alejar quizás para siempre.

Confessions d’une fanatique des langues, Elizabeth Little

Elizabeth Little est une fanatique des langues. Elle plonge dans les livres de grammaire comme on lit un roman, s’immerge des week-ends entiers dans le roumain, le mongol ou le cri, s’émerveille des différences et des similarités qui les éloignent ou les rapprochent, des conjugaisons et des déclinaisons.
Dans son livre Confessions d’une fanatique des langues, elle partage des anecdotes de tout genre sur son sujet préféré, des bizarreries, des exceptions aux règles grammaticales, passant de la formation des pluriels en arabe ou en hopi à la notion d’aspect en anglais et en russe, du système numérique du danois aux nombres en sindarin, du coup de glotte tahitien ou navajo à l’origine du baka japonais, des sacres québécois aux noms des couleurs qui sont loin d’être universels.

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Martians were people like us, so to speak. They had cities and villas, feelings and philosophy, a way of living true to the world and themselves. Telepathy eased it up, as well as a tens of thousands year-old civilization. Then men arrived from Earth, one rocket and one crew at a time. They arrived with their American way of life, their newly found atom power already brewing new wars on Earth. And the Martians disappeared, leaving behind themselves the epitome of their civilization for us to discover, for the few ones to be able to. And Mars worked it through, changing earthlings from within, making them the new Martians.

You should test that, Chris Goward

Each website, each landing page, is built with an objective in mind, and often multiple objectives competing against each others. When the SEO has played its role and the visitors have landed on your page, how many of them meet these objectives, how many of them fill your form, order your product, share your content, convert?

A mentira sagrada, Luís Miguel Rocha

Quando o décimo sexto Papa Bento foi eleito, recebiu com a carga da Igreja um envelope do Papa João Paulo e uma capa de couro. Nesta estava guardado um segredo partilhado apenas por papas. Terá a ver com os pergaminhos do Mar Morto descobertos na verdade por um banqueiro israelita que se chamava Ben Isaac? Mas o Statu Quo, o acordo de 50 anos entre ele e a Santa Sé está agora em perigo.

The scheme for full employment, Magnus Mills

In the Scheme, UniVans deliver goods from depot to depot, following the daily schedule and a set of rules, with each worker performing his duties along the Ring Road, drivers and assistants, gatekeepers and superintendents, fuel attendants and forklift men alike. But even though the Scheme has been providing an honest day's wage for an honest day's labor for the last thirty years, it can still be perverted when some of its members use it for their personal purpose, like George and his cakes delivery scheme within the Scheme, or those who liked to have an early swerve from time to time and have now decided this exception is a granted right. But the real danger may come from an ideologic turn surreptitiously seeping through its mere fabric.

Livro, José Luís Peixoto

Geralmente, a emigração portuguesa fica um segredo quase familiar, e não se fala muito das razões, da chegada, e mais ainda, da dificuldade de fugir de um país sob ditadura. José Luís Peixoto conta neste livro simplesmente chamado Livro a história do Ilídio e da Adelaide que fugiram de Portugal em 1960, da adaptação deles a um pais que desconheciam, do qual não falavam a língua, dos encontros no caminho, uns miseráveis com ladrões, outros consideráveis de coração aberto que os ajudaram nesta experiência.