The Whale Chaser
ISBN: 9780897336109 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Whale Chaser" is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father - a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists - Vince finds solace by falling in love. Classmate Marie Santangelo, the butcher's winsome daughter, entices him with passionate kisses and the prospect of entering her family's business. Yet he pursues Lucy Sheehan, an older girl with a "reputation."When Vince abruptly flees Chicago, he ends up in Tofino, a picturesque fishing town on the...
"The Whale Chaser" is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago....
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133,35 zł |
The Angina Monologues
ISBN: 9781770098121 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three female medical interns are sent to a rural KZN hospital where gang assassinations and rogue snakes are facts of life and AIDS simply does not exist. This is the story of three women finding courage, love and compassion in the most unlikely places.
Three female medical interns are sent to a rural KZN hospital where gang assassinations and rogue snakes are facts of life and AIDS simply does not ex...
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69,22 zł |
Heartache of the Hunter
ISBN: 9780982585481 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,50 zł |
The Contract Surgeon
ISBN: 9780803235878 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Western Heritage Award, this beautifully crafted historical novel from one of the West s most popular writers tells the true story of the friendship between Valentine McGillycuddy, a young doctor plucked from his prestigious medical career and newly married wife to serve in the army during the Great Sioux War, and the fearsome chief Crazy Horse. When Crazy Horse finally agrees to surrender to the United States, mistrust and treachery on both sides generate further conflict, and he is gravely wounded. McGillycuddy declares the chief his patient and struggles through a long night...
Winner of the Western Heritage Award, this beautifully crafted historical novel from one of the West s most popular writers tells the true story of th...
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85,68 zł |
The Indian Agent
ISBN: 9780803235885 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dan O'Brien's earlier award-winning novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Crazy Horse. Through McGillycuddy's eyes, the novel recounts the friendship that so deeply impacted history. It also chronicles the great Sioux Wars, one of the most violent periods in this nation's history.
The Indian Agent is the riveting sequel to The Contract Surgeon. After Crazy Horse's death, McGillycuddy went on to become the youngest agent in history for the Red Cloud Agency, renamed the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, of... Dan O'Brien's earlier award-winning novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Cr...
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85,68 zł |
Chateau Island
ISBN: 9781439274187 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An adult fiction novel filled with todays real life experiences, from relationships, religion, drugs, illegal residents, teen pregnancy and bullying to sex and passion. Venture into the lives of pirates, indians, professional athletes and lovers. Enjoy the climate, music, food and luxury life of the families that live there
An adult fiction novel filled with todays real life experiences, from relationships, religion, drugs, illegal residents, teen pregnancy and bullying t...
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63,71 zł |
Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby
ISBN: 9789889987480 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humor and insight.
This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Sha...
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81,11 zł |
Mata Naveena
ISBN: 9781935925583 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the East Indian state of Bihar, an area poor in finances but rich in vibrant culture, the long-awaited spring season has finally arrived. But as her family gathers on the veranda to celebrate the first tempest of the year, young Shashi Verma hides away in a bedroom closet, startled by the violent rumbling of thunder. And for eight-year old Shashi, this isn't the only time she will find herself frightened into silence. Upon experiencing a devastating trauma at the hands of an older relative, her mother's reaction transforms the event into a secret shame-and as the cycle of the seasons... In the East Indian state of Bihar, an area poor in finances but rich in vibrant culture, the long-awaited spring season has finally arrived. But as... |
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67,41 zł |
Revelations
ISBN: 9781770098084 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Revelations' is a narrative journey undertaken by artists and modern-day warriors, who, after the liberation of South Africa, try to understand what was fought for, and why. A South Aftican dance troupe in Chile brings back stories of that country's trials and tribulations and a parallel is drawn with our own struggle to reconcile.
'Revelations' is a narrative journey undertaken by artists and modern-day warriors, who, after the liberation of South Africa, try to understand what ...
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79,91 zł |
The Lizard's Tale
ISBN: 9780810127029 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation
Jose Donoso was the leading Chilean representative of the Latin American "Boom" of the sixties and seventies that included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Manuel Puig, among others. Written as a draft in 1973, set aside, and forgotten, The Lizard's Tale was discovered among Donoso's papers at Princeton University by his daughter after his death. Edited for publication by critic and poet Julio Ortega, it was published posthumously in Spanish under the title Lagartija sin cola in... Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation
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149,38 zł |
The League of Family: I
ISBN: 9781456599133 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. i did nothing heroic or extraordinary, Human beings were in peril and I had to do something."--Meip Gies-- Haven't we all dreamed somewhere in the back of our mind how wonderful it would be if certain corrupt or evil political figures, tyrants, or dictators, were permanently eliminated from the world stage for violating the human rights of the innocent? I have created a little fiction/non-fiction group of normal people from various continents and various religions who have come together in Lisbon to plan and execute assassinations of players on the world stage. Our group has a very unique...
i did nothing heroic or extraordinary, Human beings were in peril and I had to do something."--Meip Gies-- Haven't we all dreamed somewhere in the bac...
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45,10 zł |
The Island of Apples
ISBN: 9780708324295 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1965, "The Island of Apples" is a brilliant account of a pre-adolescent boy s romantic imagination and dangerous enthrallment, set vividly in industrial south Wales and rural Carmarthenshire in the early twentieth century. In the novel, the life of Dewi Davies is suddenly altered by the appearance of a stranger in his valley town, a youth from a seemingly glamorous background who possesses all that Dewi finds lacking in his own restricted existence."
First published in 1965, "The Island of Apples" is a brilliant account of a pre-adolescent boy s romantic imagination and dangerous enthrallment, s... |
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23,89 zł |
Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
ISBN: 9780060846800 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York City Failed in all his career aspirations, recently laid off from Kinko's, and burdened with a frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on the streets of New York City's Lower East Side in the form of a Nuyorican homegirl equipped with an array of powers to cure his problems. Their misbegotten romance transforms him from a perpetual loser to an overnight success, but fame comes with a hefty price. Omaha must soon struggle... From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York City <... |
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68,67 zł |
Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry
ISBN: 9781608622832 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains includes several short stories based on the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains. Before the time of cell-phones, computers and television, family members would gather on the front porch and offer up stories through simple oral traditions. These stories were to provide simple forms of entertainment to their children. With each generation, the stories become more elaborate and creative. These yarns became known as Appalachian folklore. Mountain people have always led a difficult life; but how they dealt with their struggles is a unique perspective on...
Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains includes several short stories based on the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains. Before the time of cell-ph...
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52,67 zł |
Zero and Other Fictions
ISBN: 9780231157407 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's attention. After decades of innovative work, he is now one of Asia's most celebrated authors, crucial to understanding the development of Taiwanese literature over the past fifty years. The first collection of Huang Fan's work to appear in English, this anthology includes Zero, a prize-winning dystopian novella echoing George Orwell's chilling 1984. Set in a postapocalyptic world, Zero features Xi De, a young man raised in an elite...
Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's...
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117,58 zł |
The World Through the Eyes of Angels
ISBN: 9780815609919 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up. Burdened with chores from an early age, and afflicted with an older brother who persecutes him with mindless sadism, the child finds happiness only in stolen moments with his beloved older sister and with friends in the streets. Closest to his heart are three girls, encountered by chance: a Muslim, a...
Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ...
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77,09 zł |
Diddle
ISBN: 9781908011183 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "American Dream" mythos. Somehow each story typifies the experience of life for outsiders in the US, coupled with the impossibility of absolute acculturation. The book comprises a dozen short stories, each generated out of a line from the old nursery rhyme, laced with double entendres, multiple meanings and overlaps. These tales, written by a poet with a rich touch of language, question the very notion of identity and belonging, instead presenting the...
Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "America...
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72,15 zł |
Renny
ISBN: 9781478701729 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,39 zł |
Skin Deep
ISBN: 9780976098805 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biracial but white-looking, Nina Moore is the daughter of a rich and famous black musician and a deceased white woman no one in the family will talk about. Burdened with secrets her father refuses to divulge, Nina finds that living as a black woman in white skin, she's attracting the wrong men, receiving privileges she didn't earn and running from a past she didn't create. After dumping her colorstruck fiance, Nina falls for Ahmad Jefferson, a sexy and intriguing ex-convict and single father who has no love for white folks and won't give her the time of day. While Ahmad focuses on raising his...
Biracial but white-looking, Nina Moore is the daughter of a rich and famous black musician and a deceased white woman no one in the family will talk a...
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58,58 zł |
African Cookboy
ISBN: 9781770098695 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dhlamini Shatterproof Bhekuzulu is a wily tsotsi geeza if there ever was one. Born into a world with two options for the black man: life as a doormat, or life as a tsotsi, Shatterproof chooses the one that absolves him from begging the nazi amaboere for every oxygen inhalation.
Dhlamini Shatterproof Bhekuzulu is a wily tsotsi geeza if there ever was one. Born into a world with two options for the black man: life as a doormat,...
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79,91 zł |