Sam and Dave Bean don't expect much excitement in the little Texas town of Papagayo. And that suits them just fine-a nice, quiet vacation is just what Bean Brothers, Private Eyes, need. But the very day they arrive at their Aunt Margaret's, a fierce argument breaks out in her cafe. Mariposa and Carlos, rivals for the prize for the best float in the town's annual fiesta, accuse each other of stealing their ideas. The next morning, Carlos's daughter, Cielita, disappears into thin air. So much for a quiet vacation! Sam and Dave get right to work. And what they uncover is some of the nastiest business sleepy Papagayo has ever seen.
Fire from Within by Carlos Castanedaby Carlos Castaneda
Back from the abyss and without don Juan, Carlos Castaneda is faced with the staggering effort of recovering, on his own, don Juan's teachings. In doing so, he understands what don Juan and his cohorts were really doing to him: "They were not teaching me sorcery, but how to master three aspects of an ancient knowledge they possessed: awareness, stalking, and intent. And they were not sorcerers; they were seers." This work deals with the mastery of awareness and with the realization of a new cycle of seers, "warriors of total freedom, ... such masters of awareness, stalking, and intent that they are not caught by death
The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665 - 1700
Christopher Storrs presents a fresh new appraisal of the reasons for the survival of Spain and its European and overseas empire under the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665-1700). Hitherto it has been largely assumed that in the "Age of Louis XIV" Spain collapsed as a military, naval and imperial power, and only retained its empire because states which had hitherto opposed Spanish hegemony came to Carlos's aid.
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Portraits by Vicente Fernando
Fernando Vicente is a well known Spanish illustrator. His work is released weekly in "Babelia", the cultural supplement of "El Pais" newspaper. In "Portraits" he has collected more than fifty of his best portraits dedicated to writers like Truman Capote, Juan Carlos Onetti, Bolano, Cortazar, Celine, Paul Celan o Ernesto Sabato among many others.
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The latest in the extensive Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz is an anthology of essays by learned scholars discussing the finer points of the novel "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962) by contemporary Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. This novel about the legacy of the Mexican Revolution, as told from the perspective of Artemio Cruz on his deathbed, expresses a core search for Mexican identity in the wake of promises, failures, and hopes following the Revolution.
