Coelho, Paulo

The author provides an account of his journey through the Mojave Desert in search of his guardian angel and spiritual peace.

The author describes his journey across Spain along the road to Santiago on a quest for ancient wisdom.

Maria, a girl from a Brazilian village whose heart was broken at a tender age, is led into a career as a prostitute and develops a fascination with sex for its own sake--a view that is challenged when she meets a handsome painter who restores her belief in love.

Pilar, an independent young woman, renews her relationship with a childhood friend who is now a maverick seminarian, and together they follow a spiritual path to true love.

Paulo, having faced a crisis of faith and set off on a trip in search of spiritual renewal and growth, meets Hilal, a woman he betrayed five hundred years earlier, and, together, they travel through space and time on a mission to find love, forgiveness, courage, and happiness.

Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures found within himself.

A novel about the life of biblical prophet Elijah and the trial of his faith.

A fable in which Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd, leaves his home in Spain to search for worldly treasures, but the most important treasure he finds is the wisdom to listen to his own heart.

A novel presented from multiple viewpoints, told by the interviewees of a bereaved lover trying to collect the life story of the late Athena, a Gypsy orphan raised by a Lebanese Christian couple and shaped by journeys in Europe and the Middle East before she settled in London, where her magical gifts, cult following, and refusal to live by the rules of her time or abandon her dreams made her the victim of a witch hunt.