wyszukanych pozycji: 37
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Fortune's Rocks
ISBN: 9780349112763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 14-year-old Olympia Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at Fortune's Rocks. She is swiftly despatched to Boston when it's discovered she has embarked on an affair with a friend of her father's, but Olympia is already pregnant.
14-year-old Olympia Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at Fortune's Rocks. She is swiftly despatched to Boston when it's discovered she...
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50,16 |
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The Last Time They Met
ISBN: 9780316781145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance enco...
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137,21 |
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All He Ever Wanted
ISBN: 9780349115580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together - two strangers grateful to have escaped the burning building with their lives. Many years later he recounts their courtship and their time together.
It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together - two strangers grateful to have escaped the burning bui...
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50,16 |
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Strange Fits of Passion
ISBN: 9780156031394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A labyrinthine tale of truth and deception from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New York City journalists, have a happy, stable marriage. It's the early '70s and no one discusses or even suspects domestic abuse. But after Maureen suffers another brutal beating, she flees with her infant daughter to a coastal town in Maine. The weeks pass slowly, and just as Maureen begins to settle into her new life and new identity, Harrold reappears, bringing the story to a violent, unforgettable climax."
A labyrinthine tale of truth and deception from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New...
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60,80 |
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A Change In Altitude
ISBN: 9780349120591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they travel to Kenya with the intention of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural city, she struggles to maintain her balance as her sense of self, her marriage, and her understanding of the world are shaken to the core.
Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they travel to Kenya with the intention of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural c...
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50,16 |
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All He Ever Wanted
ISBN: 9780316711128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them...
"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession wi...
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163,89 |
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The Pilot's Wife
ISBN: 9780349110851 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is a tale of love, loss and betrayal, as Kathryn Lyons, the pilot's wife of the title, comes to terms with her husband's death and discovers secrets about his past. Anita Shreve is the author of five previous novels, including The Weight of Water.
This is a tale of love, loss and betrayal, as Kathryn Lyons, the pilot's wife of the title, comes to terms with her husband's death and discovers secr...
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50,16 |
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The Stars Are Fire
ISBN: 9780345806369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history In October 1947, after a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife...
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cena:
72,42 |
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The Weight Of Water
ISBN: 9780349109114 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is a tale of obsessive love, hidden motivations, and the endless resonance of guilt. Jean is a photographer sent to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to report on a legendary crime.
This is a tale of obsessive love, hidden motivations, and the endless resonance of guilt. Jean is a photographer sent to Smuttynose Island, off the co...
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50,16 |
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Sea Glass
ISBN: 9780349115177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When an English biographer, Mr Moxom, sets out to write a story on the Rose Street massacre of 1933, he interviews elderly Honora Beecher, one of the few remaining survivors, whose husband was involved.
When an English biographer, Mr Moxom, sets out to write a story on the Rose Street massacre of 1933, he interviews elderly Honora Beecher, one of the ...
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50,16 |
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The Pilot's Wife
ISBN: 9780316789080 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious,... Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing...
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95,29 |
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Where or When
ISBN: 9780156031271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What would you do if out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Sian Richards sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Callahan. After all, it's been thirty years and they are both married with families. But when they decide to meet again, an innocent correspondence becomes a dangerous intimacy. Swept up in the past and consumed by an obsessive love, Charles and Sian risk everything to be together. A heart-wrenching, suspenseful story with an unforgettable conclusion, Where or When is also a 'thoughtful, beautifully written contemporary romance' (The Washington...
What would you do if out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Sian Richards sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Cal...
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57,13 |
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Body Surfing
ISBN: 9780349119014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The bestselling author of A WEDDING IN DECEMBER returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer
The bestselling author of A WEDDING IN DECEMBER returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long N...
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50,16 |
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Sea Glass
ISBN: 9780316733731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.
With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a ric...
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167,71 |
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Light on Snow
ISBN: 9780316010672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in...
What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in th...
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cena:
83,81 |
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The Lives of Stella Bain
ISBN: 9780349123578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain. A stateless woman in a lawless country, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Suffering an agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way to London. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist, is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source....
Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the ...
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50,16 |
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Rescue
ISBN: 9780316020732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nineteen years after inexplicably leaving her family, Sheila returns, bringing long-buried questions to the surface. Shreve's tale of trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth portray a family trying to understand its fractured past to begin again.
Nineteen years after inexplicably leaving her family, Sheila returns, bringing long-buried questions to the surface. Shreve's tale of trespass and for...
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83,81 |
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The Pilot's Wife
ISBN: 9780316601955 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious,... Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing...
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72,38 |
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Eden Close
ISBN: 9780349105871 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Andrew is drawn again to the blind girl of his youth, drawn to save her from the neglect she has endured for 17 years without him. But first he must discover the truth about the night when Eden was blinded by the same gun that killed his father.
Andrew is drawn again to the blind girl of his youth, drawn to save her from the neglect she has endured for 17 years without him. But first he must d...
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50,16 |
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The Weight of Water
ISBN: 9780316780377 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses herself in the details of the case--an outburst of passion that resulted in the deaths of two women--Jean herself enters precarious emotional territory. The suspicion that her husband is having an affair burgeons into jealousy and distrust, and ultimately propels Jean to the verge of actions she had not known herself capable of--actions with...
"I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives...
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72,38 |