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The House of the ...
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by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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Clarissa Clarissa said: " A tempestuous story spanning three generations of the Trueba/del Valle family. It’s hard to describe, as the book covers so much, but it is filled loves, grief, hate, greed, politics, etc. You see the family deal with personal and political problems ...more "

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