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'Eva Luna's stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry. El rey ordenó a su visir que cada noche le llevara una virgen y cuando la noche había transcurrido mandaba que la matasen. ![]() Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely lyrical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is a cornerstone of Isabel Allende's work, and in her character Eva Luna she creates a modern-day Scheherazade. Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance, compassion and female power, depicting worlds that are at once poignantly familiar and intriguingly new. En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación. Lying in bed with her lover, European refugee and journalist Rolf Carle, Eva answers his request for a story 'you have never told anyone before' with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. ![]() INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE LOVERĪ captivating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our timeĮva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. ![]() ![]() Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about. When an emergency happens, however, the lion has a dilemma. An affectionate storybook tribute to that truly wonderful place: the library. ![]() Read more His big feet are quiet on the floor and he makes a comfy backrest for the children at story hour, too. But when the lion visits, she isn't sure what to do – there aren’t any rules about lions in the library! As it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting. The lion in the story cant get enough of the library and the stories. The head librarian, Miss Merriweather, is very particular about rules in the library. I hope you have this book because it illustrates the meaning of voracious reading. In this international and award-winning bestseller about the joys of discovering the library and making new friends, a lion visits the library for the very first time. A wonderful addition to any child's library, this is the multiple award-winning and bestselling picture book about what happens when a lion visits a library. ![]() ![]() ![]() The astonishing series of subsequent revelations leaves readers agog, eager to know how Maya and her pals will use their powers to heal the veil and save their mostly Black and brown neighborhood. Not only that, but Frankie’s newly found gift came from her late mother, who is also an orisha, and Eli is part orisha, too. What Maya, Frankie, Eli, and readers find out from Maya’s mother is that Papa’s real identity is Elegguá, the most powerful of the West African orishas, guardian of the veil between this world and those of the darkbringers and other forces. Maya, a comic-book–loving, anemic 12-year-old Black girl, is suffering through situational math when she experiences a sudden, time-stopped moment when “the color bled from the world like someone was sucking it away through a straw.” That is not the only strange incident: Maya has an all-too-real dream of a man with skin “the color of the moon” and “pale violet eyes” who has the same color-sucking ability her structural engineer papa literally disappears in front of her and when she and her friends Frankie and Eli find themselves fighting shape-shifting darkbringers, Frankie discovers her own light-shooting skills. Maya knows her father’s stories aren’t real-are they? ![]() ![]() * "An intense tale of survival and action. 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