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Green Darkness
ISBN: 9780340921098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Tudor England brought to life in all its glory and bloodthirstiness, now packaged as one of Hodder's 'Great Reads'
Tudor England brought to life in all its glory and bloodthirstiness, now packaged as one of Hodder's 'Great Reads'
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56,48 zł |
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Avalon
ISBN: 9780340921227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the bestselling author of KATHERINE, this is the spellbinding story of a young French prince and a Cornish girl caught up in the intrigue of the 10th Century English Court.
From the bestselling author of KATHERINE, this is the spellbinding story of a young French prince and a Cornish girl caught up in the intrigue of the ...
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51,35 zł |
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Dragonwyck
ISBN: 9781444788228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It is May of 1844. 18-year-old Miranda Wells receives a letter from Nicholas Van Ryn, a distant cousin, inviting her for a visit. Happily accepting the invitation, she travels to Dragonwyck, his manor of Gothic magnificence and eerie manifestations. What evil could possibly befall Miranda in a rich gentleman's house on the Hudson River?
It is May of 1844. 18-year-old Miranda Wells receives a letter from Nicholas Van Ryn, a distant cousin, inviting her for a visit. Happily accepting th...
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51,35 zł |
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Katherine: The classic historical romance
ISBN: 9780340839881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen, and she turns the head of the King's favourite son John of Gaunt. But he is married, and she is soon to be betrothed. A few years later their paths cross again and this time their passion for each other cannot be denied or suppressed.
Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen, and she turns the head of the King's favourite son John of Gaunt. But he is married,...
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51,35 zł |
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Devil Water
ISBN: 9781444788204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Devil Water' is the true story of Charles Radcliffe, who escaped from Newgate prison in 1715 after his brother's execution, and of his daughter Jenny. She was the child of a secret marriage; they share a strong and abiding affection. When she immigrates to America, she and her father suffer years of separation.
'Devil Water' is the true story of Charles Radcliffe, who escaped from Newgate prison in 1715 after his brother's execution, and of his daughter Jenny...
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56,48 zł |
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The Winthrop Woman
ISBN: 9780544222922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment -- living history. Really good fictionalized history like this] often gives closer reality to a period than do factual records." - Chicago Tribune In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to...
"The Winthrop Woman is that rare literary accomplishment -- living history. Really good fictionalized history like this] often gives closer re...
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82,15 zł |
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Avalon
ISBN: 9780544222830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Princes, Vikings, and the history of tenth-century England come together in this saga of exploration and unrequited love.
Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred, is a searcher. He has visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthur's Avalon, "where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow." Merewyn grows up in savage Cornwall--a lonely girl, sustained by her stubborn courage and belief that she is descended from the great King Arthur. Chance--or fate--in the form of a shipwreck off the Cornish coast brings Rumon and Merewyn together, and from that... Princes, Vikings, and the history of tenth-century England come together in this saga of exploration and unrequited love.
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73,50 zł |
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The Hearth and Eagle
ISBN: 9781444788266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'The Hearth and the Eagle' is the story of the Honeywood family of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Most of the story takes place in the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Hester Honeywood is the young daughter of Roger, an ineffectual dreamer, and his practical hardworking wife, Susan. Hester, like many young people, longs for a more exciting life beyond the seacoast town where her family runs an inn, the Hearth and Eagle.
'The Hearth and the Eagle' is the story of the Honeywood family of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Most of the story takes place in the mid-19th to the ear...
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51,35 zł |
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My Theodosia
ISBN: 9780544242098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Anya Seton s portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible . . . The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background an entertaining account of the manners, the ways of living and traveling and entertaining followed during the early years of the nineteenth century. New York Times
Anya Seton s best-selling first novel, originally published in 1941, captures all the drama of the short life of Theodosia Burr (1783 1813). Her father, Aaron Thomas Jefferson s vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton holds sway over young... Anya Seton s portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible . . . The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background an e...
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77,83 zł |
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Green Darkness
ISBN: 9780544225565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay--the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history." Green Darkness is the story of a great love, a love in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century. The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young American wife, Celia, slowly turns tragic as Richard withdraws into himself and Celia suffers a debilitating emotional...
"The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay--the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual so...
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95,13 zł |
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The Turquoise
ISBN: 9780544242180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. This reader for one, enjoyed The Turquoise enormously." -- New York Times
"With accurate historical background, Anya Seton has constructed a touchingly tragic story of a girl who tried so hard to find happiness that she lost everything in her search. The life of Santa Fe Cameron lingers long in memory." -- Springfield Republican Santa Fe Cameron was named for the town where she was born, because her Scottish father and a distressed priest could agree on no... "Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. This reader for one, enjoyed The Turquoise enormously." ...
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69,60 zł |
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My Theodosia
ISBN: 9781444788280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Theodosia's father is Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson's vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton. With charm and tenderness he holds sway over young Theodosia's heart, but his arrogance forces her to choose between the man he insists she marry and her love for a young soldier who will turn out to play a decisive role in her father's fate.
Theodosia's father is Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson's vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton. With charm and tenderness...
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51,35 zł |
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Foxfire
ISBN: 9781444788242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Amanda Lawrence, a sheltered young woman meets Jonathan Dartland on board the Bremen returning to America from Europe. Her father died of a heart attack sometime after the 1929 stock market crash, and she can't afford to return to Vassar to complete her studies. Jonathan, a mining engineer, is on his way home from a mining job in South Africa. He is different than the carefree playboy types she knows. His mother is part Apache Indian, and her family is somewaht scandalised when she falls in love with him. They marry and head off to Lodestone, Arizona where he has a new position as mine...
Amanda Lawrence, a sheltered young woman meets Jonathan Dartland on board the Bremen returning to America from Europe. Her father died of a heart atta...
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51,35 zł |
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Devil Water
ISBN: 9780544240407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A true story fictionalized by a writer who has a special feeling for the dramatic . . . Mixed by Miss Seton s skillful hands, the dust of the past becomes the clay of the artist and is molded into memorable, lifelike form. Chicago Tribune
This fiercely beautiful novel tells the true story of Charles Radcliffe, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of Jenny, his daughter by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of... A true story fictionalized by a writer who has a special feeling for the dramatic . . . Mixed by Miss Seton s skillful hands, the dust of the past bec...
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82,15 zł |
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Dragonwyck
ISBN: 9780544223400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck.
In the spring of 1844 the Wells family receives a letter from a distant relative, the wealthy landowner Nicholas Van Ryn. He invites one of their daughters for an extended visit to his Hudson Valley estate, Dragonwyck. Eighteen-year-old Miranda, bored with the local suitors and her commonplace life on the farm, leaps at the chance for escape. She immediately falls under the spell of Nicholas and his mansion, mesmerized by its Gothic towers, flowering gardens, and luxurious lifestyle... There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck.
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82,15 zł |
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The Hearth and Eagle
ISBN: 9780544242135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A substantial and well-told story that makes real one of the longest and most vigorous strands in the making of our country. New York Herald Tribune
In the mid-1940s, the great historical novelist Anya Seton embarked on a fervent search for her forebears that led her to Marblehead, Massachusetts, a sea-girdled town of rocks and winding lanes and clustered old houses. There she found not only an ancestor, but also the setting for this, her fourth novel. It is not only the story of Marblehead, from its earliest settlement to Seton s present, and of a family who... A substantial and well-told story that makes real one of the longest and most vigorous strands in the making of our country. New York He...
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77,83 zł |
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