City of the Beasts

An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque -- one of the world's greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story which will appeal to all ages Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate -- a fearless reporter with blue eyes 'as sharp as daggers' points'. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team -- including a local guide and his daughter Nadia, with her wild, curly hair and skin the colour of honey -- in search of a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding creature known to locals only as 'the Beast', only to find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants. In a novel rich in adventure, magic and spirit, internationally-celebrated novelist Isabel Allende takes readers of all ages on a voyage of discovery and wonder, deep into the heart of the Amazon.

Literature & Fiction

Peden, Margaret Sayers

ALLENDE,ISABEL

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

Full of the imagination and wonder that has made Isabel Allende one of the world's bestselling authors, The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon is an enthralling work of fiction that will delight the thousands of readers of all ages who bought and loved City of the Beasts.

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Harperperennial

Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' -- beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric. Beneath the mask, there is a man. And in his heart burns the fire of injustice ! Duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates and impossible rescues -- these are the deeds that forged the legend of Zorro. But where did the man begin? Southern California, late 18th century: Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds, his father an aristocratic Spaniard, his mother a Shoshone warrior. Growing up he witnesses the brutual injustices dealt to Native Americans. Later, following the example of his fencing master, the young Diego joins a secret movement devoted to helping the powerless. His first steps on the road to heroism have been taken. But a great rival will emerge from the ranks of the cruel oppressors. How will Zorro defeat him? And will his childhood sweetheart Isabel claim the prize she so longs for -- his true love?

Zorro

When her womanizing husband's spendthrift ways force her to to leave her native Colombia to find work in Madrid, Teodora Vencejos takes a job with master chef Dr. Amiel, who gives her a sensuous education in both the culinary and erotic arts.

Senora Honeycomb: A Novel

Buitrago, Fanny

Harpercollins

"The Tunnel" is the confession of Juan Pablo Castel, a painter and convicted murderer, who tells how his tormented love for Maria Irebarne compelled him to stab her to death. With the relentless logic of obsession, he seals himself within his paranoia and is driven deeper into his "tunnel" with no light, no end, only a descent into hellish isolation. This book is the first of a trilogy and the feature film of "The Tunnel" will be premiered in 1988 in America (spring) and Europe (autumn). Ernesto Sabato was born in Argentina and in 1985 won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (equivalent to the Nobel Prize for literature in Hispanic languages).

The Tunnel

Sábato, Ernesto

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Jose Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions - sometimes comic, often tragic - of the human condition. His Album de zoologia, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche - cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share.

TOLEDO, FRANCISCO

Pacheco, José Emilio

Esquinca, Jorge

Poetry

Univ of Texas Pr

If a picture paints a thousand words, a poem can evoke a thousand images. In this illustrated, bilingual volume of poetry, two of Mexico's most prominent artists, poet and painter, join their words and images of animals to create a work of startling insight and beauty. José Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions of the human condition. His Album de zoología, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche--cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share. Francisco Toledo, acknowledged as Mexico's foremost painter, also creates ceramics, tapestries, graphics, frescoes, and sculpture. His art is erotic, exuberant, and vital--rich with figures from nature, no few of which are drawn from the millenary Zapotec culture of his forebears. In An Ark for the Next Millennium, Toledo's arresting black-and-white drawings are the visual expression of Pacheco's wise, foolish, besieged, threatening, and threatened animals--our brothers and sisters on this imperiled planet.

University of Texas Press

Offers a selection of the poems Neruda wrote about everday objects, combining Marxist principles with innovative poetic techniques, in the original Spanish with parallel English translations

Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE) (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

NERUDA,PABLO

Univ. Of California Pr.

Passions and Impressions

FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, INC.

A work combining personal narrative and erotic lore offers recipes, poems, stories, paintings, and anecdotes focusing on the sensuality of food

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

Self-Help

G.K.Hall & Co.

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City of the Beasts

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Zorro

Senora Honeycomb: A Novel

The Tunnel

An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda (LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE) (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

Passions and Impressions

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses