Carmen: 1047 books

Texas would not be Texas without the formidable women of its past. Beneath the sunbonnets, Stetsons or high-fashion couture, the women of the Lone Star State carved out ranches, breathed new life into spreads and expanded acreage when husbands, sons and fathers fell. Throughout the centuries, the women...

Navarra, 22 de mayo de 1938, penal de San Cristóbal. La mayor evasión de la historia está a punto de comenzar. El 22 de mayo de 1938, en plena guerra civil española, dos mil quinientos presos del Fuerte de San Cristóbal de Pamplona, en su mayoría encerrados por motivos políticos, consiguieron...

Hay historias que atrapan hasta que no hay más remedio que escribirlas. Así lo confiesa la autora con esta novela, que nos adentra en el estreno de Electra, de Benito Pérez Galdós, una obra teatral que recogió el pulso de la calle hasta desencadenar el movimiento anticlerical más importante habido...

Alle Jahre Für und Wider Weihnachten … Die Zeit der peinlichen Krippenspiele, der unbedachten Geschenke, der kleinen und großen Wunder. Man verbringt die Feiertage zu Hause, auf dem Weg dahin im Zug – oder auch mal als Weihnachtsbaum verkleidet in den Ecken fremder Wohnzimmer. Wir feiern einsam,...

Ease your pain Away is a small book, very easy to read with easy to digest information about: · breaking habitual thought-patterns and behaviors that lead to increased pain... · lessen pain for yourself and those around you... · leaving suffering behind... · encouraging...

This timely collection of essays on British and European Catholic spiritualities explores how ideas of the sacred have influenced female relationships with piety and religious vocations over time. Each of the studies focuses on specific persons or groups within the varied contexts of England, France,...

Saronna Maynard never expected to be sold into an off-world household, anymore than Duncan Trushenko expected to return from a business trip to find that his father had bought a companion for him. Saronna is grateful, in many ways. Her new protector is too horrified by the customs of Krueger’s World...

Surrounded by the beauty of her native Mayo, eighteen-year-old Lily dreams of being a famous singer on the London stage - but her parents have planned a more normal life for her, taking a degree in UCD. But leaving home also means leaving a passionate romance with a handsome, visiting American named...

When Marianne gets bored and lonely in her sexless marriage, she begins exchanging flirtatious emails with a man from work, and she wonders just how good it would feel to have an affair. Is adultery so wrong, when it feels so good? 5,700+ word short story of workplace adultery.

Alexander Napier never wanted to be a soldier. But on the planet Gaulle, if the Emperor's press gangs find you, saying no is not an option. Alex wears a holographic tattoo of the Emperor's Own Corps, but he knows the marks of his service that don't show are the ones that count most....

Tychon Damiano was minding his own business when disaster struck. Of course, since his business was buying and selling stolen goods, disaster was not entirely unexpected. What was unexpected for him was waking up in a palace full of servants and high tech gadgets, including a virtual girlfriend. It's...

Seit 1991 lebt die rumänische Autorin Carmen-Francesca Banciu in Berlin und ist inzwischen selbst zu einem Teil der Stadt geworden. In ihren autobiographischen Reportagen und literarischen Miniaturen taucht sie ein in das Leben der Metropole, streift magische Orte der Weltgeschichte und erzählt...

Kristie is excited about going to the beach with her friends because she is finally going to get a chance to hang out with her long time crush: Robert, who's on the football team. When her and Rob separate from the group to get a little private time, they aren't expecting to be attacked by a monster... an anal thirsty monster.

Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Since civil societies are ruled by law, they can be evaluated, both figuratively and literally, by how animals are treated in the criminal justice system. This book depicts...