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Authors: Isabel Allende

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In an exorcism of death and a celebration of life, Isabel Allende explores the past, questions the gods, and creates a magical book that carries the reader from tears to laughter, from terror to sensuality to wisdom. In
Paula
, readers will come to understand that the miraculous world of her novels is the world Isabel Allende inhabitsâit is her enchanted reality.

“Spellbinding.â¦ In flawlessly rich prose [Allende] shares with us her most intimate feelings.”

â
Washington Post Book World

The Jaguar and Eagle Trilogy (for children)

CITY OF THE BEASTS

City of the Beasts
is Isabel Allende's first novel for childrenâan eco-thriller in which fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. Parting from his family and ill mother, Alexander joins his fearless grandmother, a magazine reporter for
International Geographic
, on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon. Their mission, along with the others on their teamâincluding a celebrated anthropologist, a local guide and his young daughter Nadia, and a doctorâis to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, Alexander is amazed to discover much more than he could have imagined about the hidden worlds of the rain forest. Drawing on the strength of the jaguar, the totemic animal Alexander finds within himself, and the eagle, Nadia's spirit guide, both young people are led by the invisible People of the Mist on a thrilling and unforgettable journey to the ultimate discovery.

“Allende's writing is so vivid we hear the sounds, see the bright birds, smell and even taste the soft fruit.”

â
The Times
(London)

KINGDOM OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON

Not many months have passed since teenager Alexander Cold followed his bold grandmother into the heart of the Amazon to uncover its legendary Beast. This time, reporter Kate Cold escorts her grandson and his closest friend, Nadia, along with the photographers from
International Geographic
on a journey to another remote niche of the world, in the Himalayas. The team's task is to locate its fabled golden dragon, a sacred statue and priceless oracle that can foretell the future of the kingdom.

In their scramble to reach the statue before it is destroyed by the greed of an outsider, Alexander and Nadia must use the transcendent power of their totemic animal spiritsâJaguar and Eagle. With the aid of a sage Buddhist monk, his young royal disciple, and a fierce tribe of Yeti warriors, Alexander and Nadia fight to protect the holy rule of the golden dragon.

“Imagining this utopian land and animating Buddhist beliefs is clearly fun for Allende, and her joy translates onto the page.”

â
San Francisco Chronicle

FOREST OF THE PYGMIES

Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When
International Geographic
commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they headâwith Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crewâto the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches their camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlist the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of NgoubÃ©. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands.

“[C]aptures the romance of exotic travel.â¦ [H]as at least two things Allende's adult fiction is known for: passion and politics.”

âPhiladelphia Inquirer

Three Allende titles are available in Spanish only, from Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers:
Cuentos de Eva Luna, De Amory de Sombra,
and
La Casa de Los Espiritus.

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Also by Isabel Allende

The House of the Spirits

Of Love and Shadows

Eva Luna

The Stories of Eva Luna

The Infinite Plan

Paula

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

Daughter of Fortune

Portrait in Sepia

My Invented Country

Zorro

FOR YOUNG ADULTS

City of the Beasts

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Forest of the Pygmies

Copyright

The illustrations preceding each chapter have been reproduced from an edition of Alonso de Ercilla's
La Araucana
, published by Gaspar y Roig (Madrid, 1852).

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers.

P.S.â¢ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers.

INÃS OF MY SOUL
. Copyright Â© 2006 by Isabel Allende. English-language translation copyright Â© 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

F
IRST
H
ARPER
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ERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED
2007.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Allende, Isabel.

[InÃ©s del alma mÃa. English]

InÃ©s of my soul / Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers

Peden.â1. Ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 9780-06-116153-7

ISBN-10 0-06-116153-5

1. SuÃ¡rez, InÃ©s, 1507 (ca.)â1580. I. Peden, Margaret Sayers. II. Title.

PQ8098.1.L54I5413 2006

863'.64âdc22