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(0)Isabel Allende
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English
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Though 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...
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Pub. Date
2017
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Una de las historias más personales de Isabel Allende, repleta de emoción, amor y segundas oportunidades.
Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -«en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible»- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan «en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas»: una chilena, una joven guatemalteca ilegal...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Spectacular...an absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits...is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America." —The New York Times Book Review
The House of the Spirits, the unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of...
The House of the Spirits, the unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).
“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child,...
“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child,...
9) Violeta
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2022
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'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso da̕ de 1920, siendo la primera nią de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estar m̀arcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todava̕ se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe espaǫla llega a las orillas de su pas̕ sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldr ìndemne de...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país. Recibidos como héroes en Chile --ese "largo pétalo...
11) Paula
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cayó en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzó a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oímos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anécdotas increibles de los años jóvenes, los secretos más íntimos se oyen en murmullos.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos.
Este audiolibro incluye dedicatoria, agradecimientos y prefacio narrados por Isabel Allende.
El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social
...13) Eva Luna
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación.
La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nostálgico álter ego de la autora, que se llama a sí misma «ladrona de historias» precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo.
Novela de hondo perfil humano, Eva Luna funde el destino individual con el colectivo
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
Las mejores novelas contemporáneas para escuchar.
La historia de amor entre la joven Alma Velasco y el jardinero japonés Ichimei conduce al lector por un recorrido a través de diversos escenarios que van desde la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el San Francisco de nuestros días.
«A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero,
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"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
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
From Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, 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 Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family.
The protagonist, Aurora del Valle, suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollections...