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Isabel Allendes leidenschaftliche und inspirierende Betrachtung darüber, was es bedeutet, eine Frau zu sein. Was treibt die Seele einer Feministin - und jeder Frau - heutzutage an? "Ich übertreibe nicht, wenn ich sage, dass ich schon als Kind Feministin war." Als junges Mädchen ist Allende kämpferisch, fest entschlossen, ein anderes Leben zu führen als ihre Mutter - unabhängig und selbständig, nicht auf die Hilfe ihres Mannes angewiesen. Als junge Frau schließt sie sich einer Gruppe von gleichgesinnten Journalistinnen an und schreibt mit Leidenschaft über Frauenthemen.

As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality.

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have.

The final installment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy of the journeys of Jaguar and Eagle soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings, and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship, as Alexander and Nadia embark on mission in Kenya that begins as a search for elephants and ends up exposing a system of injustices.

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for International Geographic, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their team - including a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctor - is to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast.

Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snakebitten gardener - born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her.

Ventitré racconti, storie di passione e violenza, popolati da personaggi a tinte forti, in cui corre un filo sottile e misterioso.

Sullo sfondo di un paese oppresso dalla dittatura, un'indimenticabile figura di donna nata dalla grande tradizione del romanzo picaresco spagnolo, in un libro che è insieme storia d'amore, quadro d'ambiente e romanzo d'avventura. Un'ulteriore conferma delle doti di narratrice di Isabel Allende.

Alex ha quindici anni. La malattia della madre lo costringe a lasciare una tranquilla cittadina californiana per seguire l'eccentrica nonna Kate, reporter di professione, in una spedizione nel centro dell'Amazzonia. Bisogna cercare una Bestia mostruosa e gigantesca che paralizza con il suo odore chi la incontra. Alex si trova così ad affrontare eventi e situazioni eccezionali, dalle banali punture d'insetti all'incontro con animali feroci, come l'affascinante giaguaro.

Just as the style of a great writer cannot easily be imitated, the performance of a great reader is hard to duplicate. This volume features some of the best readers dramatizing some of the best writings.

Readers, listeners, and critics everywhere have applauded the Best Women’s Erotica series, exclaiming that it shows "women’s sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises" ( Libido) and "gets racier every year" ( San Francisco Bay Guardian). With stories that have raised the bar for women’s erotic writing, this series tells the truth about women’s sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth. Now listeners can experience the hottest of the hot and the best of Best Women’s Erotica from the past six years.

Le donne della famiglia Jackson, Indiana e Amanda, madre e figlia, sono molto legate pur essendo diverse come il giorno e la notte. Indiana, che esercita come medico olistico, è una donna libera e fiera della propria vita bohémienne. Sposata e poi separatasi molto giovane dal padre di Amanda, è riluttante a lasciarsi coinvolgere sentimentalmente, che sia con Alan, ricco erede di una delle famiglie dell'élite di San Francisco, o con Ryan, enigmatico e affascinante ex navy seal dell'esercito americano, ferito durante una delle sue ultime missioni.

Ésta es la historia de Gregory Reeves, un gringo que sobrevive en el difícil mundo de los hispanos de California. Gregory quiere llevar a la práctica el peculiar «plan infinito» que se trazó a sí mismo en su infancia. Sin embargo, para conseguirlo debe recorrer un duro camino lleno de obstáculos: la marginación social, el racismo, el brutal contraste entre pobreza y riqueza o la guerra de Vietnam.

Para ser una esclava en el Saint-Domingue de finales del siglo XVIII, Zarité había tenido buena estrella: a los nueve años fue vendida a Toulouse Valmorain, un rico terrateniente, pero no conoció ni el agotamiento de las plantaciones de caña ni la asfixia y el sufrimiento de los trapiches, porque siempre fue una esclava doméstica. Su bondad natural, fortaleza de espíritu y honradez le permitieron compartir los secretos y la espiritualidad que ayudaban a sobrevivir a los suyos, los esclavos, y conocer las miserias de los amos, los blancos.

Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común.

Immerse yourself in a world of love, vengeance, compassion, and irony with the evocative stories of Eva Luna. Author Isabel Allende introduced this well-loved character to audiences in her earlier novel, Eva Luna. Listen to Allende talk about the role of writing in her life in Giving Birth, Finding Form. This program also features Alice Walker and Jean Shinoda Bolen.

Für Irina ist der neue Job ein Glücksfall. Die junge Frau soll für die Millionärin Alma Belasco als Assistentin arbeiten. Mit einem Schlag ist sie nicht nur ihre Geldsorgen los, sondern gewinnt auch eine Freundin, wie sie noch keine hatte: extravagant, überbordend, mitreißend und an die achtzig. Doch bald spürt sie, dass Alma verwundet ist. Eine Wunde, die nur vergessen scheint, wenn eines der edlen Kuverts im Postfach liegt. Aber wer schreibt Woche um Woche diese Liebesbriefe? Und von wem stammen all die Blumen? Auch um sich von den eigenen Lebenssorgen abzulenken, folgt Irina den Spuren, und es beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise bis weit in die Vergangenheit.

Amanda ist klug und ausgesprochen eigensinnig. Sie wächst in San Francisco auf, der Stadt der Freigeister. Ihre Mutter Indiana führt eine Praxis, der Vater ist Chef des Polizeidezernats und ermittelt in einer grausamen Mordserie. Auf eigene Faust beginnt Amanda Nachforschungen dazu anzustellen, unterstützt von ihrem Großvater und einigen Freunden. Doch als Indiana spurlos verschwindet, wird aus dem Zeitvertreib plötzlich bitterer Ernst. Und Amanda muss über sich hinauswachsen, um die eigene Mutter zu retten.

lnés de Suàrez nasce all'inizio del Cinquecento in Spagna, figlia di un modesto artigiano di Plasencia. Dotata di un forte temperamento che male si addice alla condizione femminile sottomessa all'autorità del clero e del maschio, lnés sposa contro la volontà della famiglia Juan de Malaga, che presto la abbandona per cercare fortuna in America. La giovane non si dà per vinta e, con i soldi guadagnati ricamando e cucinando, si imbarca anche lei per il Nuovo Mondo.