Carmen: 1047 books

Rufus, a brave little mouse, returns from an errand to find his home destroyed and his family kidnapped. He then takes on a journey to rescue them. On the way he is aided by many animals and learns the importance of not only teamwork, but courage and perseverance. This perfect bedtime story is not...

College and career are hard enough without bringing love into the mix, so the last thing Jesse is looking for is a spring break fling. His future entails getting an MBA and taking over the reins of his father’s small-time plumbing company and making it successful. He doesn’t have time for a girl,...

Esta novela es la evocación de la representación del "Hamlet" shakespeariano por artistas ambulantes y gentes de un pueblo de la meseta en la inmediata postguerra; y la evocación, por parte del narrador, de la figura de una de sus maestras, Carolina Donat, "una señorita maestra...

Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's...

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Bewegte Zeiten. Bewegend erzählt. 1949: Die vier Freundinnen Henny, Käthe, Ida und Lina stammen aus ganz unterschiedlichen Verhältnissen. Dabei sind sie im Hamburger Stadtteil Uhlenhorst nicht weit voneinander entfernt aufgewachsen. Seit Jahrzehnten schon teilen sie Glück und Unglück miteinander,...

Rafael Molinet Rojas, an inconspicuous Spaniard living in London, regrettably finds that there is nothing worth living for when his closest companion–his mother–dies. Hoping to make a dignified–and, although he won’t admit it, dramatic–exit from this world, Molinet plots his escape, picking...

How far would you go to keep a secret? How many years of your life would you spend protecting something this dark? Marjory and Leonard have been doing just this for so many years that it has become second-nature to them. But the secret they've kept for so long is now doing more damage than ever.

The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues -- outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa animates this world of bloody chaos and uncertain...

Baker Natalie Brooks needs to fix her home before it falls apart, but her late husband's alcohol addiction left her broke. When her sexy father-in-law shows up at her house and offers his help to compensate for failing his son before he died, she accepts though she doesn't know him that well. However,...

Some lucky women meet the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. Some lucky women focus on a career and make their own happily ever after. And then some women wake up after fifteen years of marriage and discover that their luck just ran out … right into the arms of another woman. Jana...

Canadian Carmen Bourcier accepts a teaching job in Thailand. The initial one year contract becomes a five year stay in a world where everything is new to her. Her search for adventure ultimately becomes a journey of self discovery. Growing up in government housing and being painfully shy,...

San is a bushman drawing who lives alone in a cave deep in the Karoo. To his surprise, he finds out that there are other bushmen like him. After an unexpected meeting, he befriends a chameleon, and with the chameleon’s help, he faces his fear of the unknown. They embark on a journey to find San’s...

Poeta, dramaturga y narradora, Carmen Boullosa reúne en el presente volumen una selección de sus libros de poesía publicados anteriormente, así como material inédito, agrupado bajo el título de "La infiel".