Library home. Books by Isabel Allende

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DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5560 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 11
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 15.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Douglas, Hazel
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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An orphan brought up by a Victorian spinster in Chile, Eliza Sommers falls in love with Joaquin. When he goes to California to seek his fortune in the gold rush, Eliza follows, but when she finally hears news of him she has to decide what true love is.

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EVA LUNA

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 3442 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 13.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Laughton, Cecilia
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Eva's story conjures up the rich & complex life of a South American nation;

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HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS,THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6894 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
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\pause{1500}Reader: Owen, Alan
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Set in an unnamed Latin American country with a turbulent history, this is also the history of the Trueba family. The passions, struggles and secrets of three generations of the Trueba family are more complex than the political revolutions happening in the country.

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INFINITE PLAN, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4063 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 18.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Douglas, Hazel
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Son of itinerant preacher yearns to escape poverty of Hispanic ghetto in Los Angeles.

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MY INVENTED COUNTRY: A MEMOIR

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6628 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
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\pause{1500}Reader: Down, Nicola
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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In this memoir Isabel Allende explores events of her own life and those of her homeland, Chile. She takes the reader on a highly personal tour of the country she loves and lived in until the assassination of her cousin, President Salvador Allende.

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OF LOVE AND SHADOWS

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6768 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Down, Nicola
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and summary executions, this is the story of the passionate affair between Irene Beltran, a journalist and photographer Francisco Leal. It is also about their search for justice and truth, even if this engulfs them in a vortex of terror and violence.

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PAULA

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4405 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 18.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Laffan, Jeanne
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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When author's 28 year old daughter became ill & fell into a coma, Isabel Allende recounted her life story to help her daughter survive.

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PORTRAIT IN SEPIA

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6210 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 14.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Douglas, Hazel
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Despite growing up a rich, privilged young woman in San Francisco, Aurora del Valle is unhappy. Haunted by nightmares and childhood memories she travels to Chile to discover what had such an effect on her early life.

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STORIES OF EVA LUNA

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5746 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.75
\pause{1500}Reader: Biagi, Bridget
\pause{1500}Main subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
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Rolf Carle asks his lover, Eva Luna, to tell him a story, and so she begins to weave for him stories of passion, love and death, all set in the landscapes of South America.

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ZORRO

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7201 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Lister, Tony
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Adventure Stories
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In Southern California in the late eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is the child of a Spanish aristocrat and a Shoshone warrior. When he witnesses injustice, especially to Native Americans, he joins a secret movement dedicated to helping the powerless, so taking his first steps to becoming a hero, - and Zorro!

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