Isabel Allende
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn...
Author
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...
3) Violeta
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Real Simple, Reader’s...
“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Real Simple, Reader’s...
Author
Language
Español
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Portrayal of a woman determined to solve the mystery of a past she cannot remember and a dream she cannot forget. Aurora del Valle's earliest memories were erased by a brutal trauma. She has been raised in great wealth in Chile by her Grandmother, and begins a search for her missing years as she grows into a young woman. A twisted saga emerges linking three generations of a powerful family.
7) Paula
Author
Language
English
Description
The autobiography of Isabel Allende written for her daughter, Paula, who has slipped into a coma.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Español
Description
Basada en una investigación meticulosa, esta novela narra la vida de Inés Suárez. Española de una familia pobre, Inés trabaja como costurera. Es el siglo dieciséis, y la conquista de América está apenas comenzando. Cuando un día el esposo de Inés desaparece rumbo al Nuevo Mundo, ella parte en busca de él, escapando de su vida claustrofóbica. En Perú, Inés se entera de que su esposo murió en una batalla, y muy pronto empieza una apasionada...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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,...
13) Eva Luna
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
15) Zorro
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
16) Ripper: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Maya relates her experiences with drug deals and addiction, rehab and relapse, sex, blackmail that began when she was sixteen, while she hides out on an island off the coast of Chile.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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.
19) Paula
Author
Publisher
HarperLibros
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
Español