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1	Paula more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Sharpe's Devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821 more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.25! new only from $5.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico Por Chile more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist This highly personal memoir of exile and homeland is filled with the wit, melancholy, and distinctive voice that have charmed readers of Allende's fiction, from "The House of Spirits" to "Portrait in Sepia." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
4	The infinite plan more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family's lot, never questioning the validity of his father's homespun philosophy of life -- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Portrait in Sepia more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	In Patagonia more books like this by Bruce Chatwin add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Retrato En Sepia: Una Novela more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ines del Alma MIA more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $2.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	By Night in Chile more books like this by Roberto Bolano add to wishlist 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 Bolaño's novel recounts all this in the priest's deathbed confession--a searing attack on the corruption and horror embedded deeply in ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
10	Two Years Before the Mast more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. add to wishlist Eleanor Perenyi's quirky, entertaining, and learned essays are opinionated in the best way. Perenyi, who has been gardening for many years at her small plot in Stonington, Connecticut (and before that at a palatial estate in Hungary), knows what she's talking about. As she tackles (with gusto) a variety of garden topics--including beans, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Distant Star more books like this by Roberto Bolano add to wishlist An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a ... see all copies from $8.15! new only from $8.63! \| SVS
12 view cover	Last Evenings on Earth more books like this by Roberto Bolano add to wishlist Ernest Hemingway once said that a good story was like an iceberg; what is visible is always smaller than the part that remains hidden beneath the water, which confers intensity, mystery, power and meaning on what floats on the surface. This is certainly true of the fourteen stories here, the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean ... see all copies from $7.94! new only from $8.04! \| SVS
13 view cover	House of mist more books like this by María Luisa Bombal add to wishlist "House of Mist" stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner - and the mysteries surrounding their life together in a house deep in the lush Chilean woods, Penelope Mesic wrote in the "Chicago Tribune" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn more books like this by Daniel Hays, David Hays add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea more books like this by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents more books like this by John Dinges add to wishlist The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents reveals the covert actions of an international intelligence network responsible for South America's worst human rights abuses. see all copies from $6.72! new only from $11.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile more books like this by Isabel Allende, Blair Brown (Read by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Memoirs more books like this by Pablo Neruda, Hardie St Martin (Translator) add to wishlist Neruda's candid and thoughtful memoirs, which he wrote at his beloved Isla Negra home off the Chilean coast, were published shortly after his death in 1973. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.71! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Patagonia Revisited more books like this by Bruce Chatwin add to wishlist Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for "the ultimate", the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti Memoir more books like this by Marc Cooper add to wishlist This analysis of three decades of rule in Chile is by the former translator for Salvador Allende, the socialist leader overthrown in the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Cooper revisited Chile several times and each time saw a different aspect of the life under Pinochet. Although Pinochet is gone, Chile has been changed ... see all copies from $4.65! new only from $25.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism more books like this by Peter Winn add to wishlist Winn's analysis of the dramatic seizure of the Yarur cotton mill in Santiago and its widely felt repercussions for Allende's revolution is based on extensive, unique interviews. Winn juxtaposes the workers' views and activities during the revolution with a portrait of the government. see all copies from $6.79! new only from $37.05! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	My Old Man and the Sea more books like this by David Hays add to wishlist An account of a father and son's journey around Cape Horn in a 25-foot boat, which describes their travels on the boat they built together, with only their skill as sailors, a compass, a sextant and a ship's cat to help them on their often perilous adventure. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet more books like this by Heraldo Munoz add to wishlist Written by the current Chilean Ambassador to the UN, this definitive book is a compelling look at former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, revealing why he was the most important third-world leader of the Cold War, the horrors perpetrated by his regime, and what it took to overthrow him.Augusto Pinochet was the most important third-world dictator ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Beyond Death: The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile more books like this by Bernardo T Arriaza, John W Verano (Foreword by) add to wishlist Thousands of years before ancient Egyptians mummified their dead elite, the South American Chinchorros performed elaborate mummification rituals for deceased members of every level and age of their society. In Beyond Death, Arriaza offers new interpretations of Chinchorro mortuary practices, and reconstructs this culture's daily life of 8,000 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey more books like this by Ariel Dorfman add to wishlist A memoir by a Chilean writer who has spent his life, from the age of 10, shuttling between the United States and Latin America, switching languages and cultures, and more than once narrowly escaping death during a military takeover in Chile. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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