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Author
Publisher
HarperFamingo
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, 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 Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
380 p ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his attempt to reconcile his past which included poverty, neglect, war, and abusive relationships with his current strivings for success and peace of mind.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, 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, as the rest of...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
615 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of Sira Quiroga, a young seamstress from Madrid, who becomes entangled in the web of powerful friendships and political alliances determined to keep Francoist Spain from entering WWII on the side of the Axis.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the life of ground-breaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, this Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three characters whose lives are intertwined with that of an enigmatic author"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
457 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.
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Language
English
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Language
English
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Description
A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that...
10) The Third Reich
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Udo Bergerhas returned to Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Accompanied by his girlfriend, they spend most of their time playing their favorite game: The Third Reich. One night they meet another German couple, Charly and Hanna, who plan to spend some time in town. But later that night, Charly disappears and Udo's peaceful life changes abruptly.
"A comedic novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
11) All my goodbyes
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in the southernmost region of Patagonia, she convinces herself she has found happiness, until she's caught up in the horrific murders that haunt her story.
12) Vlad
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asuncin̤ Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
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