Isabel Allende
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Español
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Inés Suárez es una joven y humilde costurera extremeña que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlántico. Anhela también vivir una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En América, Inés no encuentra a su marido, pero sí un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Franciso Pizarro, junto a quien Inés se enfrenta...
Author
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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.
46) Amor
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestr©Ưa, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilaci©đn de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitaci©đn a sumergirse en la lectura, so©łar y sonre©Ưr. La gran narradora chilena escribe abiertamente, haciendo un gui©ło a sus lectores, sobre sus experiencias en el sexo y el amor.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, 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 she meets Ichimei Fukuda,...
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
56) El plan infinito
Author
Publisher
HarperLibros
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 29
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...
59) Dom Dukhov
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Izdatelʹstvo "Inostranka"
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
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"Three generations of the Trueba family ... patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into...
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Publisher
Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the first children's book written by critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling superstar Isabel Allende, Perla, the mighty dog, teaches her human brother, Nico Rico, how to use his superpowers to stand up to a bully. Perla is a mighty dog who has two superpowers--making people love her, and roaring like a lion. When she finds out her human brother, Nico Rico, is being bullied at school, she knows she has to step in! But what will Perla do?...