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A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
The Sunday Times bestseller Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life and the fate of his country forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find them ...Show more
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-i ...Show more
Aphrodite - A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
Category: Biography
Like Diane Ackerman''s bestselling book, The Natural History of the Senses, Allende's book is a very personal blend of imagination, memory and the senses.aIn Aphrodite, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly to evoke the p ...Show more
Aphrodite : A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
New York Times-bestselling author Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in ...Show more
Aphrodite: a Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
"New York Times" -bestselling author Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly ...Show more
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Category: Young Adult | Series: City of the Beasts Ser.
An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque - one of the world's greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story that will appeal to all ages. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip ...Show more
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Category: Young Adult | Series: Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende. Fifteen-year-old Alexander C ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
The international No.1 bestselling novelist returns to her best form with this magnificent sweeping tale. Isabel Allende's best novel since The House of the Spirits. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the stor ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune - A Novel by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
"Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surprising."--Denver Post From the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one ...Show more
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ileg timo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problem tico director de pel culas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna inventa una realidad pers ...Show more
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction
The author has invested an unforgettable heroine, placed her against the background of a turbulent South American country, and give her a life where love, politics, tragedy and disaster all play their part. By the author of "The House of the Spirits".
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'My name is Eva, which means 'life', according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the ...Show more