Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007205163 Category : Aphrodisiacs Languages : en Pages : 370
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This guide to all things erotic is an international history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating, and titillating recipes and advice.
Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: Thorndike Press ISBN: 9780783803104 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 548
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Assembling a feast of fascinating facts about the aphrodisiac powers of food and drink, internationally acclaimed author Allende serves them up with both convincing admiration and irreverence. She offers suggestions, both ancient and modern, for luring a lover, kindling sexual ardor, prolonging the act of love, and reviving flagging virility. Aphrodite celebrates the sensual life with joy and imagination, as well as a naughty sense of fun, making it an irresistible feast of the senses.
Author: Rudolfo Anaya Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504011813 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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A Chicano PI hunts his cousin’s killer in “a compelling thriller [with] a deep-seated respect for the traditions of a people and a culture” (Booklist). The great-grandson of a legendary lawman and gunfighter, thirty-year-old Sonny Baca hopes he possesses even a tenth of El Bisabuelo’s courage. But instead of cleaning up New Mexico by hunting down dangerous desperadoes, the struggling PI looks for missing persons and deadbeat husbands. The game changes when his cousin Gloria—the first woman Sonny ever loved—is brutally slain. Her corpse is found drained of blood. A zia sun sign, the symbol on the New Mexican flag, is carved on her stomach. Gloria’s husband, Frank Dominic, a politician making a run for mayor of Albuquerque, has a powerful motive for murder. But Gloria wasn’t the first victim. A year earlier, another woman was slain in the exact same way. Is a serial killer on the loose? Or is this the handiwork of some satanic cult? Feeling his cousin’s spirit crying out for justice, Sonny and his girlfriend begin a search that takes them across New Mexico’s polluted South Valley to an environmental compound in the mountains. As Sonny moves closer to the truth, he uncovers a chilling connection between his past and a very real and present evil . . .
Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062254464 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul in a book that is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. She recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory. Here, too, are the amazing stories behind Allende’s books, the superstitions that guide her writing process, and her adventurous travels. Ultimately, The Sum of Our Days offers a unique tour of this gifted writer’s inner world and of the relationships that have become essential to her life and her work. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, bound together by the love, fierce loyalty, and stubborn determination of a beloved, indomitable matriarch.
Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063049686 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland by bestselling author Isabel Allende In My Invented Country Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country, a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States, brought forth from Allende an overdue acknowledgment that she had indeed left home. My Invented Country, whose structure mimics the workings of memory itself, ranges back and forth across that distance accrued between the author’s past and present lives. It speaks compellingly to immigrants, and to all of us, who try to retain a coherent inner life in a world full of contradictions.
Author: Cengage Learning Gale Publisher: ISBN: 9781375376365 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 60
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A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Isabel Allende Publisher: HarperPerennial ISBN: 9780732264208 Category : Aphrodisiacs Languages : en Pages : 315
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Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love.Readers will find recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and foreign literatures, paintings and personal anecdotes. There are fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of food and its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate and revive flagging virility, passages on the effect of smell on libido, a history of alcoholic beverages and much more.
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Author: Isabel Allende
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