Allende, Isabel

The story of a young Hispanic-American woman growing in San Francisco and Santiago, Chile.

The epic story of the passionate Trueba family begins at the turn of the century in South America.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover the missing years of her early childhood.

A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the military regime.

Story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with childhood poverty and neglect.

Eighteen year old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.

Sixteen year old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

A collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.