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Soy Maya Vidal, diecinueve años, sexo femenino, soltera, sin un enamorado, por falta de oportunidades y no por quisquillosa, nacida en Berkeley, California, pasaporte estadounidense, temporalmente refugiada en una isla al sur del mundo. Me pusieron Maya porque a mi Nini le atrae la India y a mis padres no se les ocurrió otro nombre, aunque tuvieron nueve meses para pensarlo. En hindi, maya significa "hechizo, ilusión, sueño".

Love, be it wild or tender, often defies logic. In fact, at times, the only rationale behind the instant connection of two souls is plain magic. Bibiña Aranda, runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the loving arms of a naked man whose name she doesn’t know. She and the man with no clothes, Indar Zubieta, attempt to explain to the authorities how they got there. It’s a story of love at first sight and experience beyond compare, one that involves a dreamlike journey through the museum.

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 circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.

Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común.

África Ecuatorial. Hasta allí se han trasladado Nadia, Alexander y su abuela Kate para disfrutar del primer safari en elefante. Kenia es una fiesta de color: bella y sensual, una mezcla de sabores, olores y sonidos inunda cada rincón de esta tierra. Sin embargo, este paraíso también esconde sus sombras. Y la primera señal llegará con las enigmáticas palabras de una sacerdotisa vudú: les espera una durísima prueba, la que les enfrentará al temible monstruo de tres cabezas.

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tt finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves.

Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in poverty, survived the killing fields of Vietnam, and is now a lawyer in San Francisco. Though he has successfully survived this hard journey, Gregory’s life has suddenly gone off the rails thanks to an illusory and wrongheaded quest that has left him feeling lost and listless. To find what he is missing and what his heart truly wants, he must return to his roots. Only by excavating the past can he see the way to his future.

En el Chile del siglo XIX, Aurora del Valle sufre un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su época pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traición del hombre al que ama y la soledad, Aurora decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.

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 the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart.

Cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos: una oda personal a los placeres de la comida y el sexo.

“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have.

«Mi vida sexual comenzó temprano, más o menos a los cinco años, en el kindergarten de las monjas ursulinas, en Santiago de Chile.» Con estas palabras, Isabel Allende inicia este compendio sobre amor y eros compuesto por fragmentos escogidos de sus obras, que esbozan a través de sus personajes la propia trayectoria vital de la autora. Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestría, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor es Isabel Allende.

Lucía, cilena espatriata in Canada negli anni del brutale insediamento di Pinochet, ha una storia segnata da profonde cicatrici: la sparizione del fratello all'inizio del regime, un matrimonio fallito, una battaglia contro il cancro, ma ha anche una figlia indipendente e vitale e molta voglia di lasciarsi alle spalle l'inverno. E quando arriva a Brooklyn per un semestre come visiting professor si predispone con saggezza a godere della vita. Richard è un professore universitario spigoloso e appartato.

The final installment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy of the journeys of Jaguar and Eagle soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings, and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship, as Alexander and Nadia embark on mission in Kenya that begins as a search for elephants and ends up exposing a system of injustices.

September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile.

Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make, and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers — and never stop dreaming.

Perla es una súper perrita que tiene dos súper poderes: hacer que todos la quieran y rugir como un león. Cuando descubre que su hermano humano, Nico Rico, se ha perdido de camino a casa, ¡sabe que tiene que intervenir! Pero ¿qué hará Perla?

Esteban Trueba, ein Mann aus einfachsten Verhältnissen, kommt zu Vermögen und Macht. Seine Verlobte Rosa del Valle verstirbt in jungen Jahren. Ihre übersinnlich begabte Schwester Clara besitzt die Fähigkeit, Katastrophen vorherzusehen. Estebans Tochter Blanca verliebt sich hoffnungslos in Pedro, den Sohn des Vorarbeiters. Durch ihre Augen sehen wir, wie Chile sich von den 1920er Jahren bis zur Militärdiktatur um 1970 entwickelt: Persönliche Dramen und politische Umbrüche prägen das Bild einer Familie und eines Landes über vier Generationen hinweg.

O dublă poveste de dragoste, la distanță de mai bine de jumătate de secol, se dezvăluie treptat în Amantul japonez. Scris cu aceeaşi atenţie pentru amănuntul istoric şi profundă înţelegere a personajelor care au constituit dintotdeauna marca lui Isabel Allende, romanul Amantul japonez semnalează întoarcerea autoarei la povestea clasică, de largă respiraţie, fiind totodată un omagiu emoţionant adus sufletului omenesc şi stăruinţei în dragoste, într-o lume a necontenitelor schimbări.

Immerse yourself in a world of love, vengeance, compassion, and irony with the evocative stories of Eva Luna. Author Isabel Allende introduced this well-loved character to audiences in her earlier novel, Eva Luna. Listen to Allende talk about the role of writing in her life in Giving Birth, Finding Form. This program also features Alice Walker and Jean Shinoda Bolen.