wyszukanych pozycji: 131
4 Brothers
ISBN: 9781329967274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 4 Brothers (originally titled 1 Brother) is an excellent childhood memoir by Andrew Miller that has been cruelly sabotaged by his three brothers. It would have been a beautifully written, insightful and amusing account of growing up in Sydney through the 60's, 70's and 80's but instead has become a questionably written, argumentative, and occasionally vulgar piece which has somehow turned out to be wholly entertaining. Few memories are agreed upon, and many are strongly, if not hotly, debated. What is, superficially at least, a nostalgic and entertaining read, also turns out to be a valuable...
4 Brothers (originally titled 1 Brother) is an excellent childhood memoir by Andrew Miller that has been cruelly sabotaged by his three brothers. It w...
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73,15 zł |
The Grace Quota
ISBN: 9780359030897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,28 zł |
Oxygen: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
ISBN: 9780340728260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Oxygen is a contemporary tale of courage, love and liberation. It is the latest novel from the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial, International Impac and Grinzane Cavour Prizes and one of the most celebrated debutants of the '90s, Andrew Miller.
Oxygen is a contemporary tale of courage, love and liberation. It is the latest novel from the winner of the James Tait Black Memorial, International ...
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50,87 zł |
The Slowworm's Song
ISBN: 9781529354201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,32 zł |
A Moment in Time
ISBN: 9781312601468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 477 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One Life, many moments. One life, three possible outcomes. One life, one shot. A Moment in Time takes you into the simple life of Tony MacKenzie and with him into the underbelly of Japanese society, the mayhem of international marriage, the absurdities of English education in Japan, illicit romance, desperate comradery, the yakuza, Korean spies, God, flatulent beagles, Japanese cowboys and finely cooked ribs. It's all here. There but for the grace of God goes Tony..."
One Life, many moments. One life, three possible outcomes. One life, one shot. A Moment in Time takes you into the simple life of Tony MacKenzie and w...
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129,23 zł |
The Optimists
ISBN: 9780156030557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he went to Africa and witnessed the aftermath of a genocidal massacre.
Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing-work, love, sex-can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able to connect with is his sister, who has made her own sudden retreat from reality into the shadows of mental illness, and he finds some peace nursing her back to health in rural Somerset. Then news... Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he went to Africa and witnessed...
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78,21 zł |
Driven
ISBN: 9781304341280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,57 zł |
Driven
ISBN: 9781329155299 / Japoński / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. (Japanese version) Three short stories place the birth of Christ in modern times. Each brings a very different perspective. Each brings insight, warmth and a touch of humour. Each sees how Jesus might have worked the social media, healed in the light of modern medicine and handled the fame culture. Driven even addresses that nagging question: 'What would Jesus drive?'
(Japanese version) Three short stories place the birth of Christ in modern times. Each brings a very different perspective. Each brings insight, warmt...
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58,57 zł |
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
ISBN: 9781444784664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as ‘excellent’, ‘gripping’, ‘as suspenseful as any thriller’, ‘engrossing’, ‘moving’ and ‘magnificent’.
One rainswept winter’s night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain’s disastrous campaign against Napoleon’s forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind. He will not – cannot – talk about the war or face the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna.... The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as ‘excellent’, ‘gripping’, ‘as suspenseful as any thr...
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50,87 zł |
The Crossing
ISBN: 9781609453473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of Pure Andrew Miller's The Crossing is a fascinating modern tale of a brave and uncompromising woman's attempt to seize control of her life and fate. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began. He wants her--wants to rescue her, to reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him, that she is not already complete. A woman with a talent for survival, who works long hours and loves to sail--preferably on her own....
From the author of Pure Andrew Miller's The Crossing is a fascinating modern tale of a brave and uncompromising woman's attempt to s...
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78,44 zł |
The Slowworm's Song
ISBN: 9781529354195 / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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96,69 zł |
Oxygen
ISBN: 9780156027403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the summer of 1997. Alec Valentine is returning to England to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, preoccupied with an acting career that is sliding toward sleaze and a marriage that is faltering. In Paris, on the other hand, the Hungarian playwright Laszlo Lazar seems to have it all--critical acclaim, a loving boyfriend, and a close circle of friends--yet even he is haunted by guilt and tragedy. For each of them the time has come to assess the turns taken,...
It is the summer of 1997. Alec Valentine is returning to England to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of i...
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78,21 zł |
Church This Week
ISBN: 9780359323463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,53 zł |
One Morning Like a Bird
ISBN: 9780340825150 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life. But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lies.
Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life. But conscription looms and the mood turns again...
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50,87 zł |
Eve
ISBN: 9781329896079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mad scientist or brilliant artist? Dr. Manny Loewe makes history by creating, Eve, the world's first ever living humanoid with real DNA. His joy in creating her is matched only by her voluptuous physical beauty and her enormous capacity for love. Yet i
Mad scientist or brilliant artist? Dr. Manny Loewe makes history by creating, Eve, the world's first ever living humanoid with real DNA. His joy in cr...
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65,89 zł |
The Slowworm's Song
ISBN: 9781529354232 / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
So This Is Suffering...
ISBN: 9781312651357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. God loves his children, blesses his own, rewards those who serve him, tells us to ask and receive, and heals those who believe. Really? Then why on earth am I lying in a hospital bed with cancer? So This Is Suffering... is a first-hand, real-time a
God loves his children, blesses his own, rewards those who serve him, tells us to ask and receive, and heals those who believe. Really? Then why on ea...
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48,75 zł |
Gender Disparity in Occupational Therapy
ISBN: 9786206183662 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Research and national statistics reveal gender disparities among many health care and helping professions, including in the occupational therapy field (American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTA], 2015a; Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS], 2018; Maxim & Rice, 2018). Key literature supports the need for a comprehensive, recruitment program targeting an underrepresented, male population in an effort to achieve gender balance in occupational therapy. Based on evidence, a male recruitment program, URePro (Undergraduate Recruitment Equality Program), was created and proposed to a group of...
Research and national statistics reveal gender disparities among many health care and helping professions, including in the occupational therapy field...
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361,59 zł |
Pure
ISBN: 9781444724288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. *WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*
*WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*
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50,87 zł |