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Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 schoo ...Show more
Paula by Isabel Allende
$14.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
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. Thi ...Show more
Paula - A Memoir by Isabel Allende
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
"Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful."--Los Angeles Times In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkabl ...Show more
Ripper by Isabel Allende
$23.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
PRE LOVED - A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende. For Amanda Martin and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But when security guard Ed Staton is found dead in the middle of a school gym, the murder presents a mystery that baffles the San Francisco police, not least Amanda's fa ...Show more
Ripper by Isabel Allende
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende. For Amanda Martin and her friends, Ripper was all just a game. But when security guard Ed Staton is found dead in the middle of a school gym, the murder presents a mystery that baffles the San Francisco police, not least Amanda's father, Deputy Ch ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
$36.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic bestseller is a richly symbolic family saga that is also the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colourful and all-too-human inhabitants ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"Spectacular...An absorbing and distinguished work...The House of the Spirits with its all-informing, generous, and humane sensibility, is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America." --The New York Times Book Review The House of t ...Show more
The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells 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.
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Franci ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; Nick Caistor (translator); Amanda Hopkinson (translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 B ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 B ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more