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Paula
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Isabel Allende
This autobiography from best-selling writer Isabel Allende begins in December 1991, during a period when Allende's daughter Paula became gravely ill and fell into a coma. The author began her account during the long hours at the hospital and decided to record the story of her family for her unconscious daughter in an attempt to "bring [her] back ...
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Blue at the Mizzen
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Patrick O'Brian
This 20th volume in O'Brian's beloved Aubrey/Maturin series finds Jack back in command of his first ship, the Surprise. Faced with the desertion of half his crew, the frustrations of peacetime, and an accident at sea, he must also deal with the presence of a young aristocrat midshipman. Meanwhile, Stephen, newly widowed and in the midst of his ...
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Ines of My Soul
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Isabel Allende, Blair Brown (Read by)
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Portrait in Sepia" comes a captivating new novel that chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of Ins Surez, a spirited woman who journeys to the New World and helps establish the nation of Chile.
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Portrait in Sepia
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Isabel Allende
In this sequel to DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE, Aurora del Valle, who belongs to a large and colorful Chilean family, looks back on the 30 years of her life and the events leading up to her birth, covering the years 1862 to 1910. In the process she provides a history of her family--including her beautiful mother, her Chinese grandfather, and her eccentric ...
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Two Years Before the Mast
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Richard Henry Dana
On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...
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In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes ...
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The infinite plan
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Isabel Allende
The story of a man's struggle to survive and rise above his past in the barrio and the Vietnam War. Isabel Allende's first novel to be set in America.
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Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea
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Richard Henry Dana
On August 14, 1834, Richard Henry Dana, convalescing from an illness, set off for California from his Boston home--via a sailing ship. Using the journals he kept on the voyage, Dana created a classic re-creation of his experiences, both the highs and the lows, in what has long been considered a definitive look at the seaman's life in the 19th ...
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Sharpe's Devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821
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Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe, Cornwell's popular and adventurous hero, returns in this new historical thriller that leads him on a dangerous mission to South America and to a momentous encounter with Napoleon. Sharpe's Devil weaves a tale of treachery and heroics so real, and a plot so ingenious, readers will be entranced.
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Ines del Alma MIA
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Isabel Allende
Fiction about the conquistador experience in the New World . . . can't possibly get better than Allende's treatment of the subject in her latest novel, which is based on the life of a real historical character.--"Booklist," starred review.
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Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--A Deck's-Eye View of Cape Horn
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Dallas Murphy
Murphy undertakes the ultimate maritime rite of passage, and brings the reader along for a thrilling, exuberant tour. He weaves together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him.
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By Night in Chile
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Roberto Bolano
Father Urrutia wanted to be a poet but ended up a Jesuit literary critic who hobnobs with the famous and the mighty. Then he is secretly recruited to teach the dictator Pinochet the history of Marxism. Roberto Bolaņo's novel recounts all this in the priest's deathbed confession--a searing attack on the corruption and horror embedded deeply in ...
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Sharpe's Devil
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Bernard Cornwell
Lt. Colonel Richard Sharpe returns in this suspenseful high-seas adventure. The Waterloo veteran is enjoying farm life in Normandy when the desperate plea of a countess propels him to go find a missing man half a world away.
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My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
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Daniel Hays, David Hays
Daniel is wry, comic, and down-to-earth. David, his father, is romantic, excitable, and reflective. Together their voices weave a story of travel, of adventure, of difficult, dangerous sailing, as they embark on a treacherous and enlightening journey to the bottom of the world and back. Maps. Diagrams.
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Chile Death
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Susan Wittig Albert
China Bayles attends a chili cookoff where a womanizing judge dies of an allergic reaction to peanuts. And since everyone knows peanuts don't belong in a bowl of Texas chili, China knows something suspicious is afoot. Includes chili recipes.
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Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
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Peter Winn
Weavers of Revolution is a major reinterpretation of the Salvador Allende era in Chile as well as a compelling drama of human triumph and tragedy that exemplifies "the new narrative history" at its authentic best. Unfolding a vivid story as seen through the eyes of the participants themselves, the book focuses on the workers at the Yarur factory, ...
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The Great Chile Book
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Mark Miller, Lois Ellen Frank (Photographer), John Harrisson
Presents information on 50 fresh and 50 dried chiles, including heat scales and descriptions. Recipes from Mexico and the Southwest.
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The Rough Guide to Chile
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Melissa Graham, Rough Guides (Creator)
Thoroughly researched and lucidly written, guidebooks don't come much better than this one. Excellent sections on vineyards and wine-tasting, history, and trekking and outdoor pursuits round out this professional publication recommended for Chile newcomers and old-hands alike. Illustrations.
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My Old Man and the Sea
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David Hays
A compelling account of adventure by Dan Hayes, who sailed 17,000 miles in a 25-foot sailboat, which included "rounding the Horn" at the tip of South America. Dan was joined by his father, and co-author, David for much of the trip. Their first-hand musings on sailing, life, relationships, confessions, and the sea substantiates Dan's claim that he ...
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Retrato En Sepia: Una Novela
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Isabel Allende
Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels "Daughter of Fortune" and "The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia" is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets. Set at the end of the 19th century, it is the richly imagined saga of a woman who is forced to recognize her betrayal by the man she loves and to explore the ...
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Canto general
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Pablo Neruda
This volume represents Neruda's abandonment of traditional structure, rhyme, and syntax. The work contains 15 sections, many of them devoted to the South American natural world.
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Confieso Que He Vivido
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Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda presents a chronicle of his time, a testimony to his experiences, a portrait of his circle of friends and contemporaries, and an indispensable spiritual guide to his best poems.
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The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
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Derek Lundy
Based partly on the experiences of his great great uncle, an Irish sailor, Lundy recreates the voyage of a merchant sailing ship around Cape Horn in the 1880s. His masterful account reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself. Photos & illustrations throughout.
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Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
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Rockwell Kent
The 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent's journey to Tierra del Fuego.
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Latin & Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified: A Food Lover's Guide to the Best Ingredients in the Traditional Foods of Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, and the Carribbean Islands Including Cuba, Puerto Rico, & Jamaica
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Linda Bladholm
Taking the mystery out of actually cooking with those tantalizing recipes from Latin America and the Caribbean, this guide helps cooks shop for what they need. It includes definitions of hundreds of ingredients, to give shoppers the courage to go into an ethnic grocery store and purchase the right stuff.
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