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The narrator and protagonist of 'Maya's Notebook' is a 19 year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, with the two strands of the story unfolding at the same time.

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La casa de los espíritus narra la historia de la saga de los Trueba, una poderosa familia de terratenientes. Ambientada en algún lugar de América Latina, la novela sigue paso a paso el dramático y extravagante destino de unos personajes atrapados en un entorno sorprendente y exotico, que encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales y abarca practicamente todo el siglo XX.

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, ''The House of the Spirits'', was based on her Chilean childhood, and other autobiographical works include the deeply moving ''Paula'' -- a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma -- and the fascinating My Invented Country, which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet''s military coup. Now, in ''The Sum of the Days'', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends -- her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 -- when Allende recounts spreading Paula''s ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends -- kindred spirits -- central to her life.The book is particularly illuminating and revealing about her working life -- she must begin every new book she writes on January 8th or else abandon it for a year.''The Sum of the Days'', based on Allende''s own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family and friends.

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk.

Isabel Allende escribe con el corazón para que sus lectores vuelvan a leer con el alma. Inés Suárez no es más que una humilde costurera extremeña hasta que, empeñada en encontrar a su esposo, perdido en sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlantico, se embarca hacia America. Alli comienza el heroico destino de una mujer que desafio las convenciones de la epoca y se vio involucrada en la fundacion del Reino de Chile. Guerra, pasion y esta valiente luchadora que conquisto Chile en el siglo xvi y que ahora conquistara el corazon de miles de lectores.

Un piccolo e paradisiaco paese, il Regno Proibito, incastonato tra le montagne dell'Himalaya, che vive in uno splendido e pacifico isolamento da milleottocento anni; un monaco buddista che si sta occupando della formazione spirituale del giovane erede al trono; un prezioso oracolo in grado di predire il futuro in una lingua sconosciuta, quella anticamente usata dagli yeti. Questi sono gli ingredienti della nuova avventura di Nadia e Alexander, gia protagonisti di "La citta delle bestie", ora alle prese con una pericolosa setta di sanguinari banditi indiani assoldati da un'organizzazione criminale internazionale per trafugare la preziosa statua dai poteri divinatori e per rapire il re che sa come interpellarla.

A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende. For Amanda Martín 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,

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 Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ichimei and his family - like thousands of Japanese Americans - are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the older woman and her grandson, Seth, at Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, and learn about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

Le eroine di Isabel Allende recano tutte il medesimo tratto dominante: la passione. Sono le passioni a scolpirne il destino. E Zarité Sedella, detta Tété, ultima incarnazione della donna come la vuole Isabel, non fa eccezione. 1770, Santo Domingo, ora Haiti. Tete ha nove anni quando il giovane francese Toulouse Valmorain la compra perche si occupi delle faccende di casa. Intorno, i campi di canna da zucchero, la calura sfibrante dell'isola, il lavoro degli schiavi. Tete impara presto com'e fatto quel mondo: la violenza dei padroni, l'ansia di liberta, i vincoli preziosi della solidarieta. Quando Valmorain si sposta nelle piantagioni della Louisiana, anche Tete deve seguirlo, ma ormai e cominciata la battaglia per la dignita, per il futuro, per l'affrancamento degli schiavi. È una battaglia lenta che si mescola al destarsi di amori e passioni, all'annodarsi di relazioni e alleanze, al muoversi febbrile dei personaggi piu diversi - soldati e schiavi guerrieri, sacerdoti vudu e frati cattolici, matrone e cocottes, pirati e nobili decaduti, medici e oziosi bellimbusti. Contro il fondale animatissimo della storia, Zarite Sedella, soprannominata Tete, spicca bella e coraggiosa, battagliera e consapevole, un'eroina modernissima che arriva da lontano a rammentarci la fede nella liberta e la dignita delle passioni.

Lepica storia damore tra la giovane Alma Belasco e il giardiniere giapponese Ichimei: una vicenda che trascende il tempo e che spazia dalla Polonia della Seconda guerra mondiale alla San Francisco dei nostri giorni.Ci sono passioni che divampano come incendi fino a quando il destino non le soffoca con una zampata, ma anche in questi casi rimangono braci calde pronte ad ardere nuovamente non appena ritrovano lossigeno.

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 Belasco''s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family''s Japanese gardener, and between them a tender love blossoms. Following Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart when Ichimei and his family - like thousands of Japanese Americans - are declared enemies by the US government and relocated to internment camps. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world.Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the older woman and her grandson, Seth, at Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, and learn about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

Una lección magistral de cómo hacer frente a los distintos retos que depara la vida.Isabel Allende narra a su hija Paula todo lo que ha sucedido con la familia desde el momento en que ella murió. El lector vive, junto con la autora, la superacion personal de una mujer con una gran fuerza inspiradora, rodeada siempre de amigos y familiares. Su historia es emotiva, pero tambien esta repleta de humor, personajes pintorescos y anecdotas caoticas y divertidas sobre la complicidad, el amor, la esperanza, la magia y la fuerza de la amistad.

Le eroine di Isabel Allende recano tutte il medesimo tratto dominante: la passione. Sono le passioni a scolpirne il destino. E Zarité Sedella, detta Tété, ultima incarnazione della donna come la vuole Isabel, non fa eccezione. 1770, Santo Domingo, ora Haiti. Tete ha nove anni quando il giovane francese Toulouse Valmorain la compra perche si occupi delle faccende di casa. Intorno, i campi di canna da zucchero, la calura sfibrante dell''isola, il lavoro degli schiavi. Tete impara presto com''e fatto quel mondo: la violenza dei padroni, l''ansia di liberta, i vincoli preziosi della solidarieta. Quando Valmorain si sposta nelle piantagioni della Louisiana, anche Tete deve seguirlo, ma ormai e cominciata la battaglia per la dignita, per il futuro, per l''affrancamento degli schiavi. È una battaglia lenta che si mescola al destarsi di amori e passioni, all''annodarsi di relazioni e alleanze, al muoversi febbrile dei personaggi piu diversi - soldati e schiavi guerrieri, sacerdoti vudu e frati cattolici, matrone e cocottes, pirati e nobili decaduti, medici e oziosi bellimbusti. Contro il fondale animatissimo della storia, Zarite Sedella, soprannominata Tete, spicca bella e coraggiosa, battagliera e consapevole, un''eroina modernissima che arriva da lontano a rammentarci la fede nella liberta e la dignita delle passioni.

Duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates and impossible rescues - these are the deeds that forged the legend of Zorro. But where did the man begin? In southern California, in the late 18th century: Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds, his father an aristocratic Spaniard, his mother a Shoshone warrior. Growing up he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt to Native Americans. Later, following the example of his fencing master, the young Diego joins a secret movement devoted to helping the powerless. His first steps on the road to heroism have been taken. But a great rival will emerge from the ranks of the cruel oppressors. How will Zorro defeat him? And will his childhood sweetheart Isabel claim the prize she so longs for - his true love?

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité, is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, she finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind...

In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memoryand recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.