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With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma, Paula is the colorful story of Allende's life--from her early years in her native Chile, through the turbulent... (more)

The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

by Gertrude Stein

Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.

Of Love and Shadows

by Isabel Allende

Desarrollada en un país latinamericano sin nombre que vive bajo el dominio de una dictadura militar, la segunda, hipnotizante, novela de Allende cuenta la historia de una mujer y un hombre que están destinados, bajo las circunstancias más espeluzantes, a compartir un amor excepcional.Irene Beltrán es fruto de la clase alta, una bien intencionada, aunque algo ingenua, reportera en una revista para mujeres.... (more)

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

by Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Sylvie Le Bon De Beauvoir, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Vanessa Kling, Simone de Beauvoir

Now in paperback, the "amazing" (Los Angeles Times) and "engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) love letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren. Called "intimate, intelligent, and sincere" by The New Yorker, the more than three hundred love letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren after their love-at-first-sight meeting in 1947 are collected for the first time in A Transatlantic Love Affair. A unique... (more)

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

by Doris Lessing

The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her most famous work of fiction, The Golden Notebook. She describes how communism dominated the intellectual life of the 1950s and how she, like nearly all... (more)

Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949

by Doris Lessing

"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her politics,... (more)

Delta of Venus Erotica By Anais NinAnais Nin

Delta of Venus Erotica By Anais Nin

by Anais Nin

Disciplina do Amor, A

Un Soplo de VidaClarice Lispector

Un Soplo de Vida

by Clarice Lispector

Perto do coração selvagemClarice Lispector

Perto do coração selvagem

by Clarice Lispector

Text: Portugese

Love Again: Novel, A

by Doris Lessing

Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a... (more)

Correspondência incompletaAna Cristina Cesar

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Paula

by Isabel Allende

The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

by Gertrude Stein

Of Love and Shadows

by Isabel Allende

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

by Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Sylvie Le Bon De Beauvoir, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Vanessa Kling, Simone de Beauvoir

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

by Doris Lessing

Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949

by Doris Lessing

Delta of Venus Erotica By Anais Nin

by Anais Nin

Disciplina do Amor, A

Un Soplo de Vida

by Clarice Lispector

Perto do coração selvagem

by Clarice Lispector

Love Again: Novel, A

by Doris Lessing

Correspondência incompleta

by Ana Cristina Cesar

Poemas de Florbela Espanca

Amanhecer

by Stephenie Meyer