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(0)Isabel Allende
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
With her earliest memories erased by a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised amid great wealth in Chile by her shrewd, commanding Grandmother. But her nights are tormented by a nightmare. ow, reaching womanhood and thrust into a marriage that leaves her disillusioned, she begins a search for her missing years and unwinds a twisted saga linking three generations of a powerful family to a courageous CHinese physician.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Presents an adventure novel that describes how Diego de la Vega, the son of a Spanish aristocrat and Shoshone woman, grew to become the elusive Zorro, who returns to California to reclaim the hacienda of his childhood and fight for the rights of the underprivileged.
9) Paula
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
The autobiography of Isabel Allende written for her daughter, Paula, who has slipped into a coma.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Chilean author Isabel Allende tells her life story, describing the impact of the military coup of 1973, the violent death of her uncle, her move to the U.S., and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as well as the influence of memory and nostalgia on her novels.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
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.
Author
Publisher
Flamingo
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andiera, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquin takes off for...
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