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  Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  by Salman Rushdie

  Haroun is the son of Rashid, the greatest of all storytellers who conjures up magical worlds and brings laughter to the city of Alifbay. Then one terrible day, everything goes wrong. Haroun's father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father.
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  Call Down the Stars (Harrison, Sue. Storyteller Trilogy, Bk. 3.)

  by Sue Harrison

  On that day of great terror and sadness, the girl called Daughter escaped with her grandfather across the icy North Pacific to find shelter on the islands of the Whale Hunters. But peace was not to be their lot. For here the mad medicine woman K'os was scheming vengeance against her most despised enemy, the revered warrior and statesman called Chakliux -- her son. And this young, innocent female from a far-off... (more)
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  Cry of the Wind: Book Two of the Storyteller Trilogy (Harrison, Sue. Storyteller Trilogy, Bk. 2.)

  by Sue Harrison

  Winter looms in this place of icy splendor near the top of the world-chilling a heart already frozen by hatred and cold dreams of revenge? Experience and adversity have made the storyteller Chakliux a wise and powerful hunter and a man of great respect. But a tender heart is his weakness. In his village lives the beautiful Aqamdax for whom he yearns, though she is mated to a cruel and dangerous tribesman she does... (more)
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  The Bonesetter's Daughter

  by Amy Tan

  ““As compelling as Tan’s first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “<An> absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing<s> with emotion and insight.” –People Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to... (more)
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  Eva Luna

  by Isabel Allende, Eva Allende

  Niece of the assassinated Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende has written a luminous literary novel that traces the life of an orphan from her impoverished beginnings to her rise to fame and fortune. HC: Knopf.
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  Song of the River (Storyteller Trilogy)

  by Sue Harrison

  Returning to the harsh and breathtaking landscape she so vividly recreated in her bestselling Mother Earth, Father Sky, author Sue Harrison brings us the first book of her remarkable Storyteller Saga. It is the tale of Chakliux, abandoned as a baby to die on the Arctic ice, only to be rescued and raised to manhood by K'os, a cold and cunning woman seeking vengeance on the men who defiled her. At the age of... (more)
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  Empty Bottle Moments: Cooking With Clive

  by Clive Berkman

  Award-Winner in the Cookbook/Food category of the 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner of the 2009 New York Book Festival's award in the Cookbook category In his career as a world class chef and restauranteur, Clive Berkman has learned much more than how to prepare mouthwatering five course meals. He finds that what he remembers most after a meal are the empty bottles, reminders of the power... (more)
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  The Poisonwood Bible

  by Barbara Kingsolver, Damian Alou

  La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase.