Best Selling Books by Isabel Allende

THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDEPRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR''A grand storyteller'' - KHALED HOSSEINI''A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat'' - DAILY MAIL''What a joy it must be to come upon Allende for the first time'' - COLUM MCCANNNo, we''re not lost.The wind knows my name.And yours too.Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht -- the night their family loses everything. As her child''s safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel''s mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Duran, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita''s mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers -- and never stop dreaming.

sta es la historia de Gregory Reeves, un hombre que sobrevive en el dif cil mundo de los hispanos de California. Gregory quiere llevar a la pr ctica el peculiar "plan infinito" que se traz a s mismo en su infancia. Sin embargo, para conseguirlo debe recorrer un duro camino lleno de obst culos: la marginaci n social, el racismo, el brutal contraste entre pobreza y riqueza o la guerra de Vietnam.

Chilenische Autorin, geb. 1942. - Die junge Aurora macht sich auf die Spuren ihrer Vergangenheit, um endlich einem quälenden Albtraum zu entkommen, der ihr Leben bestimmt. Wer waren ihre Eltern, welches Geheimnis umgibt die Jahre ihrer Kindheit?

Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco. The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian. Long divorced from Amanda’s father, she’s reluctant to settle down with either of the men who want her—Alan, the wealthy scion of one of San Francisco’s elite families, and Ryan, an enigmatic, scarred former Navy SEAL. While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD’s Deputy Chief of Homicide. Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world. When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother’s disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her mother’s life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she’s ever faced before it’s too late.

Paula, nata il 22 ottobre 1963, è una ragazza felice, innamorata del marito, appassionata del suo lavoro. La sua è una vita semplice, che non ha niente a che vedere con quella di sua madre Isabel. Due donne, due destini diversi. Improvvisamente Paula si ammala di una malattia gravissima, la porfiria, che la trascina in un coma da cui non c''è ritorno. Isabel accorre al suo capezzale per cercare di trattenerla in vita, o forse per accompagnarla dolcemente verso la fine... Con la scrittura la madre-scrittrice cerca di "distrarre la morte", cerca di trovare un senso a una tale insensata tragedia: grazie alla magia della parola evoca tutti i componenti della sua esuberante e bizzarra famiglia perché circondino Paula, superando i confini individuali di vita e di morte.

This guide to all things erotic is an international history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating, and titillating recipes and advice.

Reunited once more, young Alexander Cold and his best friend, Nadia, embark upon a new adventure, following Alex''s frighteningly fearless journalist grandmother Kate to a forbidden kingdom hidden away in the frosty peaks of the Himalayas. They seek the fabled Golden Dragon—a sacred statue and priceless oracle coveted by a greedy and powerful outsider. To prevent the desecration of the holy relic, they will need the help of a sage Buddhist monk, his young royal disciple, and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors. But even the mystical power of their totemic animal spirits may not be enough to save the teenagers and this remote world from the destructive encroachment of “civilization.” Kingdom of the Golden Dragon is the second book in a remarkable trilogy by internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende.

Fortunas Tochter ist die bewegte Geschichte der Eliza Sommers, einer lebenshungrigen jungen Frau, die zwischen zwei Kulturen lebt und einen abenteuerlichen Weg geht. Als chilenisches Findelkind in der Obhut einer englischen Familie in Valparaìso aufgeu00adwachsen, bricht sie, kaum siebzehnjährig, aus dieser wohlbehüteteten Welt aus. Die Suche nach ihrem Geliebten, der der Verlockung des kalifornischen Goldrauschs nicht widerstehen konnte, macht aus dem unerfahrenen Mädchen eine selbstbewußte Frau, und am Ende ihrer Odyssee ist Eliza endlich ganz bei sich und in der Welt: Ya estoy libre!

Los cincuenta aos son como la ltima hora de la tarde, cuando el sol se ha puesto y uno se inclina naturalmente a la reflexin.En mi caso, sin embargo, el crepsculo me induce a pecar y, tal vez por eso, en la cincuentena reflexiono sobre mi relacin con la comida y el erotismo, las debilidades de la carne que ms me tientan, aunque, hlas, no son las que ms he practicado.

Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaiso en 1849, el ano que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquin Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la busqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraidos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo comun. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi''en, un medico chino, quien la conducira de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciones de la condicion humana. Hija de la fortuna es un retrato papitante de una epoca marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasion y el valor. En esta su mas ambiciosa novel, Isabel Allende presenta un universo fascinante, poblado de entranables personajes que, como tantos otros de la autora, se quedan para siempre en la memoria y el corazon de los lectores.

Join famous fiction writers and up-and-coming authors for this new collection of globetrotting real-life travel tales. By turns funny, poignant and thought-provoking, you''ll be transported from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland and beyond.

Morris'' work embodies a spiritual quality that sharply contrasts old beliefs with those of the modern world

Eva Luna, héroïne du précédent roman d''Isabel Allende, n''avait pas son pareil pour conter des histoires aussi extraordinaires que véridiques, tirées de la chronique locale de son village, Agua Santa.On trouvera ici un nouvel échantillon du talent de la Schéhérazade latino-américaine. Vingt-trois récits burlesques ou sombres, de nostalgie ou de colère, d''ironie ou de révolte. Vingt-trois contes d''une prodigieuse diversité de situations, où la romancière de La Maison aux esprits révèle les mille et une facettes de son inspiration.

Irène, fille de bourgeois, est la maîtresse de son fiancé de toujours, le beau capitaine Gustavo Morante. Journaliste, elle noue avec Francisco, fils d''émigrants rescapés de la guerre civile espagnole, qui travaille avec elle comme photographe, une relation d''amitié complice. Mais Irène et Francisco vont se trouver incidemment à l''origine de la révélation d''un de ces massacres politiques dont abondent les annales des dictatures d''Amérique du Sud. La répression se tourne alors contre eux... Ce qu''ils vont vivre transforme peu à peu leurs sentiments fraternels en un amour indissoluble. Passant sans cesse de l''ombre à la lumière et de l''amour à la terreur, ce second roman d''Isabel ALLENDE fait vivre des dizaines de personnages pathétiques ou burlesques et, surtout, ces inoubliables figures de mères, d''épouses, de filles, qui font de l''auteur de LA MAISON AUX ESPRITS la romancière par excellence du destin des femmes latino américaines.

''La casa de los espíritus'' narra la saga familiar de los Trueba, desde principios de siglo hasta nuestra época. Magistralmente 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 exótico.

This is an anthology of ten short stories dealing with a broad range of Spanish American literary themes: love, hate, vengeance, justice, oppression and solidarity. A reading guide offers tips for reading in Spanish and provides guidelines for predicting a story''s major events. Following each story are two different sections of comprehension activities, as well as exercises on key modismos (idioms) and grammar structures.