Isabel Allende
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Language
English
Description
Isabel Allende talks about her passion for writing. She speaks with great depth of feeling about the death of her daughter Paula. She says, "Every book is triggered by a very strong emotion that has been with me for a long time, and usually that emotion is painful. However, the process of writing is so joyful."
Author
Publisher
FonoLibro Inc
Language
Español
Description
Doña Inés Suárez, nacida en España, proveniente de una familia pobre, sobrevive a diario trabajando como costurera. Es el siglo dieciséis y la conquista de América está comenzando. Un día el esposo de Inés desaparece rumbo al Nuevo Mundo, ella aprovecha para partir en busca de él y escapar de su vida claustrofóbica que lleva en su tierra natal. Su accidentado viaje la lleva a Perú, donde al llegar se entera que su esposo ha muerto en
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English
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If you've ever wished to sit down over a cup of tea and a plate of chocolates for an intimate conversation with a favorite author, you'll treasure this dialogue. Isabel Allende reflects on her early years in Chile, her decision to take her family into exile, the culture she left behind, and her views on politics and feminism in the world today. Ms. Allende shares the events and emotional experiences that inspired the writing of her books, and explains...
46) El plan infinito
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Series
Language
Español
Description
Es su primera novela situada en los Estados Unidos y con personajes nortemamericanos. Es la saga de un hombre que, durante los largos aos de su juventud y madurez, busca amor y aceptacin. Allende traza la pobreza y abandono de la niz de su protagonista, la persecuzion de las pandillas de un barrio de Los Angeles, el horror de sus experiencias en Vietnam, su vida frenica como abagodo en San Francisco--una serie de frustraciones que por fin se resuelven...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Description
El joven Alexander Cold, su mejor amiga Nadia, y su abuela Kate, periodista especializada en viajes han sobrevivido su aventura en las Amazonas. Junto con los fotografos de la revista National Geographic emprenden marcha a otro remoto rincon del mundo. La mision del equipo es adentrarse en un reino prohibido, oculto en los picos helados del Himalaya, y localizar el legendario oraculo y estatua sagrada, el Dragon de Oro.
The teenager Alexander Cold,...
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
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother."--
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Series
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Español
Description
Traces the lives of the Trueba family, beginning with clairvoyant Clara del Valle's summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and following them from the turn of the century to the violent days of the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in 1973.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a package packed with powerful stories and visual storytelling are 75 recipes from some of the great food entrepreneurs who have graduated from La Cocina, for decent home cooks looking for new recipes, and those who want to support a good cause via a beautiful Bay Area cookbook"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"The author describes her lifelong commitment to feminism in a meditation on what it means to be a woman, discussing progress within the movement in her lifetime, what remains to be done, and how to move forward in the future."--
