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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2015Allende, Isabel.
Summary: "A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2014Allende, Isabel.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005
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Summary: Traces the lives of the Truebas, beginning with clairvoyant Clara del Valle's summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and following their participation in the history of their times which is their destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLibros 1995
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ALLAllende, Isabel.
Summary: A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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Summary: A narrative memoir of the author's life in the wake of her daughter's tragic death describes the idiosyncratic network of friends she has gathered around herself and the realizations she has formed about such topics as love, parenthood, and addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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Summary: "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 Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature--willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely protective--a woman whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Allende, Isabel.
Summary: Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. Two life-altering events inflect the peripatetic narration of this book: The military coup and violent death of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a writer. The terrorist attack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 863.64 AllAllende, Isabel.
Summary: Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to confront the mystery of her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Contents: Una trama de una saga familiar, ambientada en la mitad del siglo XIX, y que viaja entre Chile y California a causa de la fiebre del oro. Sus personajes viajan entre la narracion de Allende, para posarse poco a poco en la retina del lector.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 ALLAllende, Isabel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1991
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Summary: A work of historical fiction chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman who journeyed to the New World and helped found a nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1993
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Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995