The Immigrant
ISBN: 9781494734619 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Armed with courage, a sense of adventure, and high hopes for a better future, a Dutchman dreams of new opportunities in America. After the ambitions of his youth are shattered by the realities of the great economic depression of 1929 and the ravages of World War II, the Dutchman packs up his wife and six children for what he hopes will be a fresh start in a new land. Struggling to learn a new language and adjusting to a new culture, the immigrant works long hours at a variety of jobs to achieve the American Dream, giving his all for the sake of his children and future grandchildren.
Armed with courage, a sense of adventure, and high hopes for a better future, a Dutchman dreams of new opportunities in America. After the ambitions o...
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Spirit House
ISBN: 9781782390886 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Witty, wise, and deeply moving, this is a remarkable novel, a story of the fall of Singapore and life as a POW, and of a young boy making sense of his future while old men try to live with their past David is 13 and confused. His mother has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents. David's grandfather, Jimmy, is 70. He spends his days at the social club grumbling with his three best friends, all of them Jewish-Australian survivors of the enforced labor camps of the WWII Thai-Burma Railroad. But behind their playful backbiting and irresistible wit, Jimmy and his friends... Witty, wise, and deeply moving, this is a remarkable novel, a story of the fall of Singapore and life as a POW, and of a young boy making sense of ... |
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Sweet Iced Tea
ISBN: 9781494811280 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when Beezie, an Arizona psychic healer and Sue, an aristocratic Southern girl dying of cancer decide to return to Sue's home for the passing? Let's just say that a Southern rural family becomes unhenged and the reader becomes engaged. This book is a good read that evokes the gamut of emotions as the reader follows the unraveling of a family's deepest secrets through sadness, joy, folly, and the search for the meaning of life.
What happens when Beezie, an Arizona psychic healer and Sue, an aristocratic Southern girl dying of cancer decide to return to Sue's home for the pass...
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The Mesopotamians
ISBN: 9781495300080 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mesopotamians is a novel representing an effort to document the splendor of the marshlands of lower Mesopotamia and its inhabitants while telling an entertaining story. The novel details the life of the Me'dan People and their environment in a novel setting. The description of their culture, customs, villages, and habitats made the novel a showcase in an anthropological study of those people. It is a novel of two young Me'dan who fell in love and struggled with their way of life and beliefs. Their simple life centered around the reedbeds, water, canoes and an environment of unmistakable...
The Mesopotamians is a novel representing an effort to document the splendor of the marshlands of lower Mesopotamia and its inhabitants while telling ...
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113,28 zł |
Wtexas in 2 Plays
ISBN: 9780984822928 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A narrative of the lives and interactions of members of a Texas university ground crew. The narrative is presented in the form of two plays.
A narrative of the lives and interactions of members of a Texas university ground crew. The narrative is presented in the form of two plays.
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112,20 zł |
Year of the Cat
ISBN: 9781939322166 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Year of The Cat is an enchanting and informative new book for all children interested in other Cultures, Places here it's New York City's Chinatown] and Cats For juvenile readers, the story follows 8-year-old Ying as she celebrates the myths, customs and excitement of Chinese New Year while trying to turn the ancient Chinese Zodiac on its head. Ying shares her own observations and opinions about what makes Chinese New Year the 'best', introduces us to her family (including cats) and takes us along on her Year of the Cat campaign, all captured in Josie Yee's colorful, exquisitely detailed...
Year of The Cat is an enchanting and informative new book for all children interested in other Cultures, Places here it's New York City's Chinatown] ...
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58,86 zł |
While the Sands Whisper
ISBN: 9781483939469 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Cultural Heritage Literary Novel: . . . her camera reveals unforseen secrets of a ruthless desert No stranger to challenge; the freelance American-Israelidocumentary photographer, embarks on an adventure-filled, hazardous journey to photograph the Bedouin of Sinai. Ayishah meets her charismatic desert guide, Hakim Al-khalifa; whose life is lived on a rugged terrain where a constant battle for survival forces the Bedouin into illicit dealings, Thirty years his elder, their age difference mean little in a parched landscape hiding so many secrets. Ayishah is slowly drawn into a highly-fobidden...
A Cultural Heritage Literary Novel: . . . her camera reveals unforseen secrets of a ruthless desert No stranger to challenge; the freelance American-I...
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67,92 zł |
La chica Raleigh: Camino a la montaña
ISBN: 9781495308550 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La chica Raleigh es la primera novela del periodista y poeta Julio Zenon Flores Salgado. Una apasionante obra de ficcion, que desnuda el contraste de dos mundos, donde la ficcion y la realidad se mezclan. Julio Zenon Flores Salgado, nos demuestra en "La Chica Raleigh" que tiene mucho por decirnos a traves de sus obras."
La chica Raleigh es la primera novela del periodista y poeta Julio Zenon Flores Salgado. Una apasionante obra de ficcion, que desnuda el contraste de ...
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The Bookseller
ISBN: 9781495965104 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a humble bookseller on Al-Mutanabi street in Baghdad, and how the Iraqi War ruins his life. His son runs off to join Al Queda to fight the American invaders, his wife is killed in a terrorist bombing of the local market, and his bookstore and apartment are blown up by a car bomb. Nevertheless, he gets up, dusts himself off, and prepares for his future of selling books.
This is the story of a humble bookseller on Al-Mutanabi street in Baghdad, and how the Iraqi War ruins his life. His son runs off to join Al Queda to ...
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36,03 zł |
The King and the Widow: One Thousand and One Camels
ISBN: 9780991448807 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A short poem, transmitted by the author's great-grandfather to his grandfather, then to his father, and in turn to him, inspired Emile Tubiana to write this account of a king's love at first sight for a beautiful and virtuous widow. The story is set in Baghdad, during the reign of Harun Al-Rashid, in the time that followed the battles between the caliphate and the Byzantines. A victorious general helps the widow outwit the king without acceding to his demand and emerge with results delightful to all.
A short poem, transmitted by the author's great-grandfather to his grandfather, then to his father, and in turn to him, inspired Emile Tubiana to writ...
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The Legends of the Jews Volume I
ISBN: 9781478229827 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from the Judaism of the Bible, something actually opposed to it. Such observers held that the Jewish nation ceased to exist with the moment when its political...
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of ...
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127,96 zł |
The Legends of the Jews Volume II
ISBN: 9781478229926 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The arrangement and presentation of the material in this volume are the same as in Volume I. In both my efforts have been directed to bringing together as full as possible a collection of Jewish legends that deal with Biblical personages and events. The sources of those legends and explanations of some of them will be...
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of ...
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127,96 zł |
The Legends of the Jews Volume III
ISBN: 9781478230113 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. "When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a People of strange language, Jacob was His sanctuary and Israel His dominion. Jewish legend attempts to describe how God's sanctuary, the religion of Israel and His dominion, the beginnings of Israel as a nation, arose in the time between the Exodus from Egypt...
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The Legends of the Jews Volume IV
ISBN: 9781478230137 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The early history of the first Jewish conqueror in some respects is like the early history of the first Jewish legislator. Moses was rescued from a watery grave, and raised at the court of Egypt. Joshua, in infancy, was swallowed by a whale, and, wonderful to relate, did not perish. At a distant point of the sea-coast...
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Sacred Weapons of Terra Ocean Vol 2: (traditional Chinese Edition)
ISBN: 9781495459559 / Chiński / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long before the distant past, Earth was an organic whole without form and void. A divine goddess separated Earth from Heaven to form Terrestrial continents Once every sixty six thousand six hundred and sixty six year, a disastrous scourge would be brought upon this land. Floods, drought, famines, earthquakes and disease epidemics spread through out Earth Four Sages walked across the continents and discovered the myth of contrary forces, which were interconnected and interdependent in the dynamic natural cycle Relying on absorbing the spirits of sun, moon, fire, water, wind and earth, an...
Long before the distant past, Earth was an organic whole without form and void. A divine goddess separated Earth from Heaven to form Terrestrial conti...
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893: A Daughter of the Yakuza
ISBN: 9781625860071 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alpha, recently graduated from the East-West University in Hawaii, seeks his fortune in Japan by becoming an English teacher. He falls in love with Rie, the receptionist at the company where he is employed. Neither is aware of a hidden connection through Rie's uncle and father to the Japanese mafia (yakuza).
When Rie's terminally ill uncle tries to break into the domestic monopoly on the sale of pachinko machines, a strange twist of fate occurs. When her father tries to sever similar ties with the yakuza by opting not to play a monthly "gratuity," he pays a steep price. Finally, the... Alpha, recently graduated from the East-West University in Hawaii, seeks his fortune in Japan by becoming an English teacher. He falls in love with Ri...
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Filipino American Children
ISBN: 9781491857724 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is dedicated to the present generation of American children whose lives are enriched by the multi-cultural diversity of people coming from all over the world. In particular, this book focuses on the traditions and customs of Filipino culture and how Filipino American children could trace and find the roots of their identity through their parents' beautiful cultural heritage. By: Victoria Yape Dietz
This book is dedicated to the present generation of American children whose lives are enriched by the multi-cultural diversity of people coming from a...
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92,39 zł |
The Windwell: A Novel by Boris Laramie
ISBN: 9781494985721 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Families and bands both live and die by drama. The windwell is a novel which deals in the relationship between generations and dreams. Everybody has a windwell, and this story reveals for the reader how this unfolds.
Families and bands both live and die by drama. The windwell is a novel which deals in the relationship between generations and dreams. Everybody has a...
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Pointing With Lips: A Week in The Life of a Rez Chick
ISBN: 9781495945298 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is rare that you come across a new voice as authentic as Dana Lone Hill. She writes with passion and determination about a side of America that few will ever see. But Lonehill takes you there with emotion and raw power. Pointing With Lips is a startling debut." - Paul Harris, The Guardian Sincere Strongheart is a modern day rez chick and single mother of three, living on one of the poorest Indian reservations in America. The novel Pointing with Lips covers a week of her life in Pine Ridge, interacting with many unforgettable characters in her large family. Sincere's story is funny, raw,...
"It is rare that you come across a new voice as authentic as Dana Lone Hill. She writes with passion and determination about a side of America that fe...
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La vague brisée
ISBN: 9781496029249 / Francuski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Une histoire de mer, de vagues, de voiliers et d'espace a l'aube du XXeme siecle. Apres douze romans d'espionnage (les series "Guerres sous-marines," "Guerre pour l'espace"), Claude-Jean Sire presente ici une autre saga, plus historique, ou l'on retrouve son gout pour la mer et les grands espaces. Depuis un petit port breton jusqu'aux bancs de Terre-Neuve, l'auteur nous conduit au large, a l'epoque des bisquines et des grands voiliers. Cette edition reprend les quatre premieres nouvelles parues sur Kindle sous un autre nom de plume: 1. La barque de Solwenn - tome 1 2. Maria-la-rousse - tome 2...
Une histoire de mer, de vagues, de voiliers et d'espace a l'aube du XXeme siecle. Apres douze romans d'espionnage (les series "Guerres sous-marines," ...
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81,56 zł |