As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to t[...]

As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.[...]

In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families - a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story.[...]

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue--the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage--ZaritE, known as TEtE, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initia[...]

From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong? Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. At s[...]

While his mother struggles with cancer, fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold goes on an expedition to the Amazon with his reporter grandmother where he comes to learn a great deal about his own strengths while also developing a special bond with Nadia, the daughter of their local guide. Reprint.[...]

El primer recuerdo que Isabel Allende tiene de Chile es el de una casa que nunca conocio la "casa grande y vieja" de la calle Cueto, donde nacio su madre. Esta casa, evocada por su abuelo con tanta frecuencia que Isabel cree haber vivido alli, se convierte en la protagonista de su primera novela La [...]

Escorted by his bold grandmother, reporter Kate Cold, Alexander and his friend, Nadia, enter a magical realm in the Himalayas in search of the Golden Dragon, but the task isn't simple and soon the explorers must seek help from the animal spirits to safely guide them through what lies ahead.[...]

Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and hel[...]

Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and hel[...]

"Alexander Cold, Nadia Santos, and Kate Cold head to Africa on assignment and discover a hidden world of corruption and slavery in the final installment of Isabel Allende’s adventure trilogy for young readers."[...]