ilość książek w kategorii: 52761
March
ISBN: 9780143036661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. ...
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77,49 zł |
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
ISBN: 9780143036746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their father's intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian...
With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the un...
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73,19 zł |
The King of Kings County
ISBN: 9780143037699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The second novel by Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant--an engrossing portrait of a Kansas City family's suspect pursuit of fortune.
In The Huntsman, a first novel hailed by Esquire as "ambitious, rousing and entirely spectacular," Whitney Terrell introduced us to the streets and neighborhoods of Kansas City. Now he offers us the story of their creation. A stunning, intensely private portrait of one man's life and his city, The King of Kings County presents a dazzling fifty-year arc through the heart of the American dream." The second novel by Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant--an engrossing portrait of a Kansas City family's suspect pursuit of fort...
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94,71 zł |
Augusta Locke
ISBN: 9780143038290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail
Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature. Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson's new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited... An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail
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129,15 zł |
The Night Journal
ISBN: 9780143038573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy
With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt's Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her family's legacya heritage beginning with the journals written by her great-grandmother in the 1890s and solidified by her grandmother Bassie, a famous historian who published them to great acclaim. Until now, Meg has stubbornly refused to... A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy
With its family secrets and hallowed texts contain... |
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94,71 zł |
Rasputin's Daughter
ISBN: 9780143038658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia's most notorious figure
Called "brilliant" by USA Today, Robert Alexander's historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Maria Rasputin--eldest of the Rasputin children--recounts her infamous father's final days, building a breathless narrative of... From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia's most notorious figure
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94,71 zł |
Against the Day
ISBN: 9780143112563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as "a major work of art" by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters and a kaleidoscopic plot, Against the Day confronts a world of impending disaster, unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places and still manages to...
The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as "a major work of art" by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten year...
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107,63 zł |
The Bastard of Istanbul
ISBN: 9780143112716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A -vivid and entertaining- (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice
-Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.- --USA Today As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in... A -vivid and entertaining- (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Forty Rules of Love
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81,80 zł |
Halo
ISBN: 9780156001137 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets Justly, a young woman, and her mother and is drawn into their lives. Winner of the David Higham Prize as the best first novel published in the U.K. or British Commonwealth.
A tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets...
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94,50 zł |
Baltasar and Blimunda
ISBN: 9780156005203 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, ...
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68,84 zł |
Pushing the Bear
ISBN: 9780156005449 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a novel that retains the complexity, immediacy, and indirection of a poem, Glancy brings to life the Cherokees 900-mile forced removal to Oklahoma in 1838 and gives us a powerful witness to one of the most shameful episodes in american history (Los Angeles Times).
" In a novel that retains the complexity, immediacy, and indirection of a poem, Glancy brings to life the Cherokees 900-mile forced removal to Oklahoma ...
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68,84 zł |
Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
ISBN: 9780156006026 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that acclaimed writer Geoffrey Moorhouse explores with utmost fascination, scholarship, and imagination in Sun Dancing. A must read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Celtic spirituality, Moorhouse's lively narrative is a superbly imagined account of the monks' isolated life-the...
Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A san...
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77,45 zł |
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
ISBN: 9780156006248 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this ingenious novel (New York Times) by one of Europe s most original and remarkable writers (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader s deliberate slip opens the door to romance-and confounds the facts of Portugal s past. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
" In this ingenious novel (New York Times) by one of Europe s most original and remarkable writers (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader s deliberate slip ...
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77,45 zł |
Panther in the Basement
ISBN: 9780156006309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Countries need writers as their voices of conscience; few have them. Israel has Oz. Washington Post
The year is 1947: the last days of the British mandate in Palestine. Twelve-year-old Proffy, indoctrinated by his patriotic father and a zealous Bible teacher, dreams of dying heroically in battle, fighting for the creation of a Jewish state. Then he meets and befriends a kindly British soldier who shares with Proffy a love of language and the Bible. Accused of treason for the friendship, Proffy must learn the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Panther in the Basement is a rich... Countries need writers as their voices of conscience; few have them. Israel has Oz. Washington Post
The year is 1947: the last days of the ... |
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60,06 zł |
The Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 9780156006484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save...
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is bein...
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81,59 zł |
The Years with Laura Diaz
ISBN: 9780156007566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers.
Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled new novel sees the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura D'az, a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as of the Mexican history she observes and helps to create. Born in 1898, this extraordinary woman grows into a wife and mother, becomes the lover of great men, and, before her death in 1972, is celebrated as a politically committed artist. A complicated and alluring heroine, she lives a happy life despite the tragedies and losses she... A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers.
Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled new novel sees the... |
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128,94 zł |
Shipwrecks
ISBN: 9780156008358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring villages. But this industry serves another, more sinister purpose: the fires of the salt cauldrons lure passing ships toward the shore and onto rocky shoals. When a ship runs aground, the villagers slaughter the crew and loot the cargo for rice, wine, and rich delicacies. One day a ship founders on the rocks. But Isaku learns that its cargo is far deadlier than could ever be imagined....
Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live o...
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60,06 zł |
Soulcatcher and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780156011129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist.
Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales of the effects and experience of slavery, each based on historical fact, and each about those Africans who arrived on our shores in shackles. From Martha Washington's management of her slaves, bequeathed... Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist.
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55,76 zł |
A Journey to the End of the Millennium
ISBN: 9780156011167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with...
In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter h...
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85,89 zł |
Snow Mountain Passage
ISBN: 9780156011433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of our most dramatic pioneer story--the ordeal of the Donner Party. Through the eyes of James Frazier Reed, one of the group's leaders, and the imagined "Trail Notes" of his daughter Patty, we journey along with the ill-fated group determined, at all costs, to make it to the California territory.
James Reed is a proud, headstrong, yet devoted husband and father. As he and his family travel in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built--and ultimately cumbersome--covered wagon, they thrill to new sights and cope with conflict and constant... Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of our most dramatic pioneer story--the ordeal of the Donner Party. Through the eyes of James Fra...
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81,75 zł |