wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Rowing in Eden
ISBN: 9781439135754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ROWING IN EDENSam is not the only tormented soul in the tiny upstate village of Old Wickham. There's also Peter Quinn, a brilliant, troubled fourteen-year-old with quick fists, no past, and a truckload of attitude. Although a judge found him innocent, Peter knows better. Some things, he figures, "it don't matter why you did 'em, only that you did 'em."
On its surface, Old Wickham, New York, is a Norman Rockwell montage of red-cheeked youngsters skating on ponds, dogs frolicking in the snow, and villagers huddled around wood-burning stoves. Yet someone in this idyllic community has been... ROWING IN EDENSam is not the only tormented soul in the tiny upstate village of Old Wickham. There's also Peter Quinn, a brilliant, troubled fourteen-...
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89,53 zł |
Café Nevo
ISBN: 9781497637092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Cafe Nevo "is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel in its pioneering heyday."
"Cafe Nevo "is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nev...
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81,15 zł |
Suspicion
ISBN: 9781439101315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the common course of events, people choose houses. Sometimes, though, it doesn't work that way. Sometimes houses choose people: They reach out, they whisper, they entice and enfold.
Novelist Emma Roth was convinced that New York City was the only place to live, until the day she encountered the old Victorian mansion overlooking the Long Island Sound. Her husband, Roger, a chaos physicist, was entranced by the ever-changing convergence of land, water, and air; their son, Zack, by a backyard large enough for a real game of soccer. But for Emma, it was the octagonal tower library,... In the common course of events, people choose houses. Sometimes, though, it doesn't work that way. Sometimes houses choose people: They reach out, ...
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98,08 zł |
Hindsight: A Novel of the Class of 1972
ISBN: 9781439101308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The New York Times calls Barbara Rogan "a passionate writer whose prose is as vivid as lightning bolts." Now she delivers a mesmerizing tale of a long-hidden betrayal -- and its deadly repercussions. In the summer of 1972, on the night of their high school graduation, nine friends make a solemn vow to meet in twenty years' time. For Willa Scott, flanked by her best friend, Angel, and her boyfriend, Caleb, the future is a canvas to be painted in bold strokes and bright colors. But the ensuing decades bring change and separation. Willa becomes a biographer, and she drifts away from...
The New York Times calls Barbara Rogan "a passionate writer whose prose is as vivid as lightning bolts." Now she delivers a mesmerizing tale of...
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98,08 zł |
Saving Grace
ISBN: 9781497638457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jonathan Fleishman has always been perceived as the rarest kind of politician: as idealistic as he was powerful, genuinely committed to the good of the people. For Jonathan, public approbation is the oxygen he breathes; so it is deeply galling that the one person who refuses to see his worth is his own beloved daughter, Grace. When his spotless record is challenged by accusations of corruption leveled by Gracie's lover, a ruthless young journalist named Barnaby, Jonathan's good life is abruptly shattered. And Grace, faced with the betrayal of a lover who used her to get at her father, comes...
Jonathan Fleishman has always been perceived as the rarest kind of politician: as idealistic as he was powerful, genuinely committed to the good of th...
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85,43 zł |