Isabel Allende

Hanging 20 Isabelle "Izzy" Tihanyi Age: Nine minutes older than Coco Job: Co-owner of Surf Diva Surf School Education: Bachelor's degrees in communication and in literature and writing, UC San Diego Residence: La Jolla Family: Married, with one...

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || weeks on list || || 1. || Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf: $25) Stories of U.S.-born children and their Bengali parents straddling cultures. || 4 || || 2. || The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander...

The jacket copy on Ancestor Stones suggests that this excellent novel resembles The Joy Luck Club. It doesn't, not really. Aminatta Forna seems here more like Isabel Allende at the height of her early, inspired, politically testifying powers. Forna...

Check out the front window of Manhattan's Libreria Lectorum, one of the nation's largest Spanish-language bookstores, and you'll see a witch's hat and a handful of copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" -- in English. While millions have...

Book lovers like to proselytize. Some of us - the lucky ones - have even managed to find a way to turn pushing books into a living. I've spent the past few weeks (when I wasn't consumed by Harry Potter) reading three very different books by people who'...

"A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives and Inspiration" (Travelers' Tales: $18.95) Who is better at being a stranger in the world than the travel writer? Travel writers never seem truly to be at home unless they're on the...

Hidden amid big-box stores and chain restaurants lies the real Gaithersburg, a diverse Montgomery County community that has a storied history. It's hard to imagine in today's suburban sprawl, but Gaithersburg was once a rural summer home for Washington...

On Sept. 11, 1973, American-made jets attacked the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, as the Chilean military - backed enthusiastically by the Nixon administration - overthrew the democratically elected government and killed President Salvatore...

Friday May 10, 1996      "Of Love and Shadows" is the right story told the wrong way. Based on Isabel Allende's novel, it is an old-fashioned adventure-romance that lays bare the human rights atrocities committed in Chile under the Pinochet military...