Blair Brown

In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts...

When Sheila married Blackthorne, she was convinced that she'd found her perfect soulmate, and helped him attain the privileged life. But under his smooth, charming facade lurked a violent, controlling sociopath -- a liar, scam artist, and sexual deviant. Finally she escaped from him, skelletally thin, bruised, and beaten. Later, recovered, she married again and was joyously pregnant, but she still feared her former husband. When her killer left her...

This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience and shares a revelatory view of this most complicated organ, which now contradicts much of what we previously believed. Narrated by actress Blair Brown, the series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary and cutting-edge animation. Viewers will not only learn startling new truths about the brain, they will voyage...

The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history.