Carmen: 1047 books

Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives...

El cuento es la forma literaria que recoge la magia de la narración desde tiempos inmemoriales hasta ahora. Este género plasma como pocos la historia de la literatura y su cercanía a la población: el cuento oral, el cuento en las hogueras de la tribu, el cuento en las cocinas de las casas, el...

An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic” (The Miami Herald). In Cleopatra Dismounts, Carmen Boullosa has written a remarkable imaginary life of one of history’s most legendary...

Carmen Tafolla’s New and Selected Poems continues TCU Press’s series of collections by the Poets Laureate of Texas. Named the first-ever Poet Laureate of San Antonio in 2012, Tafolla was named Poet Laureate of Texas in 2015. This collection displays her mastery of the art of bilingual code...

La storia di una sorella amata. E perduta Questo romanzo breve, autobiografico e malinconico, è un grido di dolore, una protesta contro chi ha il potere di migliorare la salute di coloro che l’hanno persa o di coloro che non l’hanno mai avuta. Una protesta contro chi non sempre ascolta i familiari...

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.

The Secret and Its Price is a wonderful, vivid and compassionate book which takes us on a journey into the secret world of incest. In its pages, Marlene Carmen Nappa takes a risk and shares how her experience impacted her family, her relationshipsand ultimately, her entire life. Her story helps the...

L'AMORE CONTA - Romanzo L’amore conta è un romanzo psicologico, prima che d’amore. Irene è sposata da due anni, Luca è un marito presente e affettuoso, eppure lei si sente inquieta e insoddisfatta; alla soglia dei quarant’anni le sembra che la vita le stia scivolando via. Così, un...

„War das das Glück?“, dachte er bei sich. Jedenfalls war das Mägdelein so wunderschön, wie er noch keines gesehen … Aber sein Drang in die Ferne war stärker als der Wunsch nach Glück; er dachte, das Glück werde er sich schon erwerben, das werde ihm nicht davon laufen. Carmen Sylva: Prinz...

Als Carmen Hanken im April 2002 auf dem Hankenhof eintraf, ging es einzig um das Wohlbefinden ihres geliebten niederländischen Wallachs Grand Cru. Er litt unter einigen Beschwerden, die nach etlichen erfolglosen Therapien vom Knochenbrecher behandelt werden sollten. Ihre Mutter hatte ihn im Fernsehen...

Sofía, nuestra reina más querida, cumple ochenta años en un momento crucial para la monarquía española. Con este motivo repasamos su vida, haciendo especial hincapié en los acontecimientos que en los últimos años han puesto a prueba la solidez de la institución monárquica. La reina...

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and...

BESTSELLER E LONGSELLER AMAZON DAL 2014 NEI ROMANZI STORICI KINDLE Contiene la nuova edizione integrale del thriller storico "La contessa di Calle", con illustrazioni di Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke, John Austen Aprile 2011. Il ritrovamento di un antico diario getta finalmente...

San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown—the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries—in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio’s corazón in Tafolla’s poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary...