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Desert Flower
ISBN: 9781860497582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Waris Dirie, whose name means desert flower, was born in Somalia of nomadic parents. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of five, and when she was 13 her father sold her into marriage with a 60-year-old for five camels, at which time she ran away. She was discovered by a fashion photographer in the United States whilst working as a janitor at McDonald's, and became a model who has been used to promote Revlon skin-care products. She also speaks on women's rights in Africa and travels the world to give lectures on behalf of the UN. This is her autobiography.
Waris Dirie, whose name means desert flower, was born in Somalia of nomadic parents. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of five, and...
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True At First Light
ISBN: 9780099282129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Hemingway must take on his new role of leader and, of equal importance, assist his wife Mary to pursue the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. This work details the African landscape, the thrill of the hunt, and the heartfelt relationships with his African neighbours.
Hemingway must take on his new role of leader and, of equal importance, assist his wife Mary to pursue the great lion she is determined to kill before...
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The Rebecca Notebook: and other memories
ISBN: 9781844080908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An investigation of the creation of one of the most famous novels of all time.
An investigation of the creation of one of the most famous novels of all time.
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65,84 |
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Two Babushkas
ISBN: 9780747570806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A story of twentieth-century Russia through the lives of two extraordinary women.
A story of twentieth-century Russia through the lives of two extraordinary women.
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87,77 |
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Out of Africa
ISBN: 9780141183336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm. This book presents her experiences and friendships with the people around her.
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ra...
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The Speckled People
ISBN: 9780007148110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place. His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or Eichmann as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English is what they use when they bring him to trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. Out of this...
The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place. His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his...
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The Character of Rain: Now the Oscar Nominated film, Little Amelie
ISBN: 9780571220496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 'The Character of Rain', we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state."
In 'The Character of Rain', we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have...
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The White Masai
ISBN: 9781905147083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves into a tiny shack with him and his mother in his village, and spends four years in Kenya. Slowly but surely
Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves in...
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In My Brother's Shadow
ISBN: 9780747579755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A memoir exploring a brother's death fighting for the SS and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi rule.
A memoir exploring a brother's death fighting for the SS and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi rule.
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I, Claudius
ISBN: 9780141188591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth. Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his...
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clar...
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Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
ISBN: 9780747585657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates difficult emotions through the use of hand puppets.
When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received...
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The Gamblers
ISBN: 9780099461180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of Annabel's, Mark Birley; the womani
Follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elw...
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The Journals : Volume 2
ISBN: 9780099443438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This final volume of John Fowles' journals sees him leave London to live in a remote house on the Dorset coast near Lyme Regis. It reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind his outward success and marks a writer's continuing quest for wisdom and self-understanding.
This final volume of John Fowles' journals sees him leave London to live in a remote house on the Dorset coast near Lyme Regis. It reveals the often r...
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Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved
ISBN: 9780747585411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova was history's most famous seducer who talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant and devastatingly attractive, this womaniser could also be ruthless, cruel, selfish and dishonest. This book
Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova was history's most famous seducer who talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant an...
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The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
ISBN: 9780747590415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bruna Surfistinha ran away from home at the age of seventeen to become a high-class call girl. This book portrays her estranged middle-class family, her drug use and her unbridled sexuality. This book brings to life the her adventures with men, women and c
Bruna Surfistinha ran away from home at the age of seventeen to become a high-class call girl. This book portrays her estranged middle-class family, h...
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67,11 |
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Mr Nice & Mrs Marks : - Adventures with Howard
ISBN: 9780091909192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Howard Marks s story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world s then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 registered companies. Thanks to the technical brilliance of his networking skills, it was estimated that he was trafficking as much as a tenth of all the marijuana smoked in the world. But this is only half the story, for intimately involved throughout was Marks s wife Judy. From living the high life hobnobbing with movie stars andnightclubscenestersto mixing with the IRA and CIA, and finallythe long, increasingly desperate years on the run, this...
Howard Marks s story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world s then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 registered ...
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Alek
ISBN: 9781844084425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York
Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New...
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The Invisible Wall
ISBN: 9780099504283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Bernstein offers a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.
A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Berns...
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After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
ISBN: 9781845963088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings. This book follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closes
In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped...
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55,70 |
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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781847080110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These t
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf ...
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