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In this 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 ... 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...
2) Paula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 26
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Paula es una memoria encarnada que atrapa al lector como una novela de suspenso. Cuando la hija de Isabel Allende, Paula, cayo en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenzo a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente. En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros ancestros extraordinarios, oimos recuerdos maravillosos y amargos de la infancia, anecdotas increibles de los anos jovenes, los secretos mas intimos se oyen en...
3) Paula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 26
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"Paula is a soul-baring memoir, which, like a novel of suspense, one reads without drawing a breath. The point of departure for these moving pages is a tragic personal experience. In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and shortly thereafter fell into a coma. During months in the hospital, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious daughter. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before...
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[2003]
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Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. Two life-altering events inflect the peripatetic narration of this book: The military coup and violent death of her uncle, Salvador Allende Gossens, on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a writer. The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, on her newly adopted homeland, the United...
9) My name is Gabriela: the life of Gabriela Mistral = Me llamo Gabriela : la vida de Gabriela Mistral
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Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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This short biography of author and poet Gabriela Mistral describes her childhood and education as a teacher and her works that led to receiving the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.
11) Pablo Neruda
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[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Describes the life and times of the Chilean poet and diplomat.
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2004, c2003
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Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an 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...
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2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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The author recalls the period in his childhood when he and his parents lived in Mexico with the poet Pablo Neruda, describing the many things he learned from the poet, such as how to swim, how to eat grasshoppers, and how to stand up for one's beliefs.
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2013
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The Dance of Reality is a 2013 French-Chilean autobiographical film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, starring Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, and Jeremias Herskovits. It is Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film in 23 years. The film screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival