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The Old Gringo

by Carlos Fuentes & Margaret Sayers Peden

In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American...

A New Time for Mexico

by Carlos Fuentes

Fuentes discusses the origins and nature of Mexico's political system and the unforeseen, tumultuous events that began in 1994 with the rebellion in Chiapas and continued with a rash of assassinations, the break...

Myself with Others

by Carlos Fuentes

In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer,...

Murray McMurray Hatchery's Chickens in Five Minutes a Day

by Farmers at Murray McMurray Hatchery

Having chickens has never been so easy and fun. 

This from-zero-to-go guide to raising a flock of chickens in your backyard gives you the easiest route to amazing fresh eggs and tried-and-true short cuts so...

The Military Quotation Book, Revised for the 21st Century

by James Charlton

Revised and expanded to include over 1,200 quotations, The Military Quotation Book brings together the wisdom of fallen heroes and living politicians, honored statesman and rebellious writers--quoting official...

Midnight's Kiss: Part 1

by Donna Grant

First in an exclusive four-part e-serial by New York Times bestselling

author Donna Grant

A new tale of The Dark Warriors—powerful Highlanders who are bound by the gods and have taken their battle from ancient...

Hydra Head

by Carlos Fuentes & Margaret Sayers Peden

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced...

The Good Conscience

by Carlos Fuentes & Sam Hileman

The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated...

The Glass Wives

by Amy Sue Nathan

Evie and Nicole Glass share a last name. They also shared a husband.

When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There’s no love...

Distant Relations

by Carlos Fuentes & Margaret Sayers Peden

Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the...

Diana

by Carlos Fuentes & Alfred MacAdam

On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the...

The Death of Artemio Cruz

by Carlos Fuentes & Alfred MacAdam

As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the...

The Crystal Frontier

by Carlos Fuentes & Alfred MacAdam

The nine stories comprising this brilliant work of fiction from Carlos Fuentes all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso,...

Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

by Carlos Fuentes

Renowned as a novelist of unsurpassed invention, Carlos Fuentes here presents his second collection of stories to appear in English.  Where his first, Burnt Water, published in 1980, had as its underlying theme...

Christopher Unborn

by Carlos Fuentes & Alfred MacAdam

This inspired novel is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel....

A Change of Skin

by Carlos Fuentes & Sam Hileman

First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday.  The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi,...

The Campaign

by Carlos Fuentes

In this witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner,...

Burnt Water

by Carlos Fuentes & Margaret Sayers Peden

The rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City.

Aura

by Carlos Fuentes

This eBook edition includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp.  The Spanish text is not included.

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs....

A Compact Guide to the Christian Life

by The Navigators

Get immediate access to information through highly relevant, concise explanations of how Christianity works in practice. More than 100 topics are covered, including: • Prayer • The Bible • Important Doctrines...