Catalina has an almost purrrfect life, although sometimes she is sand and sometimes, she is a little bit lonely. Then one day her owners come home with not one, not two, but three puppies. now she isn't lonely, she's cranky! What's a cat to do? It takes a while, but Catalina comes to see that perhaps puppies aren't so bad after all.

Catalina begins on America's east coast, where the "dense woods are full of secrets/full of children with their heads ducked against the weather." The book's first poems (in the "Coast" section) explore a gradual coming to awareness on that right coast. The book's second section ("To Coast") takes the long journey west to the Pacific, "through the great rippling heartland, a bridge between Oceans," with an accompanying focus on the mysteries and conflicts...

La dura vida de una mujer que, a pesar de que su cuna le garantizaba todo, sufrió innumerables dolores desde su más tierna infancia. Catalina de Habsburgo nació con todos los privilegios de clase que una mujer del S. XVI podía tener, nieta de los Reyes Católicos, hija de Juana la Loca y de Felipe el Hermoso y hermana de los emperadores Carlos V y Felipe I, su vida, como nos muestra Catalina de Habsburgo, reina de Portugal, no fue un camino de...

A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman's downward spiral following the end of an affair Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that's her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends (childhood friend Charlotte and her wayward husband,...

For years, reaching the paradise destination of Santa Catalina Island, located miles out in the Pacific Ocean, was possible primarily by steamship. But as early as 1912, the first amphibious airplane landed in Avalon Bay, and the first air-passenger service was introduced in 1919. Seaplane service thrived on Catalina, and aircraft engine roars became a distinctive memory for many residents, along with the thrill of crossing the channel by plane and...

In her debut album, Soy Mujer y Hago Show, Catalina describes herself as the guru of failed romances, always ending up with the crazies, weirdos and mama's boys. Catalina also discusses society's pressure for women to look perfect, which is probably why women torture themselves with things like uncomfortable underwear. As Guzmán reveals, a man can either have a beautiful woman or a calm and collected one, but never both. Soy Mujer y Hago Show was...

Series Now Complete! Each book is a standalone complete mystery that's solved in the end but the mystery of who Sadie ends up with is revealed at the end of the series. It is a Purrfect Mix of Romance, Food, and Mystery. Fashionable Celebrity Pastry Chef Sadie Silver loves mixing travel, food, romance, and crime solving wherever she goes or stays...along with the help of her intelligent cat Orchid and sensitive-smelling-nose dog Biscuit. handsome...

La olvidada princesa francesa cuyo valor catapultó a la dinastía Tudor La guerra hizo de ella la reina de Inglaterra. Su amor por un galés la hizo inmortal. Mejor conocida como la novia de Agincourt de Enrique V en 'Enrque V' de Shakespeare, Catalina de Valois era una mujer extraordinaria de fe, valor y convicción en una época con mujeres políticamente poderosas. Hija menor del rey Carlos VI de Francia, aterrorizada por su enfermedad mental,...

En 1762, el Zar Pedro III muere en un complot y Catalina asume el cargo de emperatriz como sucesora de su esposo, lo que la convierte a los 33 años en Catalina de Rusia. Desde el primer momento, manifiesta los planteamientos que habrían de regir su política: fortalecimiento del Estado a nivel interno, apoyo ilimitado a la nobleza y acción exterior agresiva para lograr la hegemonía de Rusia en Europa oriental, y situarse en la comunidad internacional...