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Ripper by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende. For Amanda Martin and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But when security guard Ed Staton is found dead in the middle of a school gym, the murder presents a mystery that baffles the San Francisco police, not least Amanda's father, Deputy Ch ...Show more
Ripper by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
PRE LOVED - A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende. For Amanda Martin and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But when security guard Ed Staton is found dead in the middle of a school gym, the murder presents a mystery that baffles the San Francisco police, not least Amanda's fa ...Show more
Ripper - A Novel by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
"Literary icon Isabel Allende mesmerizes . . . this race-against-the-clock thriller is pure magic."--People Magazine, Four StarsNOW WITH A NEW DEAR READER LETTERNew York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with this atmospheric, fast-paced mystery inv ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world s most gifted and imaginative storytellers. "The House of the Spirits" brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pur ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic bestseller is a richly symbolic family saga that is also the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colourful and all-too-human inhabitants ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
"Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America." --The New York Times Book Review The House of t ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by a memorable, often eccentric, cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of a Latin American classic - the enthralling saga of three generations of the Trueba family, their love, magic and fate. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious deat ...Show more
The Infinite Plan - A Novel by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
"Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade."--Boston GlobeAn enthralling tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to contend with the pain and deprivation that shaped him.Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in ...Show more
The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma B ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Franci ...Show more