wyszukanych pozycji: 46
Animal Dreams
ISBN: 9780062278500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world. At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." Filled with... From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classic... |
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81,55 zł |
Demon Copperhead, 3 Audio-CD, 3 MP3
ISBN: 9783839821046 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias. Das Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der »Hillbilly-Cadillac«-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pickups, aufgegeben von sämtlichen Superhelden und dem Rest der Nation. Hier kommt Demon Copperhead zur Welt - die Mutter ist noch ein Teenie und frisch auf Entzug, der Vater tot. Ein Junge mit kupferroten Haaren, großer Klappe und einem zähen Überlebenswillen, trotz allem, was das Leben für ihn bereithält: Armut, Pflegefamilien, Drogensucht, erste Liebe und unermesslicher Verlust. Es ist seine Geschichte, erzählt in seinen Worten,... Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias. Das Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der »Hillbilly-Cadillac«-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pi... |
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137,34 zł |
The Lacuna
ISBN: 9780060852580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds--an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Pois... |
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72,96 zł |
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571376483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse-and his efforts to conquer them. - the PulitzerSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKWITH OVER 26,000 5* REVIEWS'Extraordinary.' OPRAH'She means to save us by telling us stories. . A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addi... |
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51,46 zł |
Small Wonder: Essays
ISBN: 9780060504083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places. Sometimes grave, occasionally... In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended l... |
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81,55 zł |
Homeland: Faber Stories
ISBN: 9780571355983 / Miękka / 2019 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who'd resisted capture long ago. Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home, to a place now named Cherokee.
She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who'd resisted capture long ago. Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home, to a p...
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18,05 zł |
Unsheltered
ISBN: 9780062859907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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146,01 zł |
Pigs in Heaven: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571298839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions.
When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead...
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51,46 zł |
Animal Dreams
ISBN: 9780349102702 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A wonderful novel about unravelling a young woman's secret past.
A wonderful novel about unravelling a young woman's secret past.
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51,46 zł |
Flight Behavior
ISBN: 9780062124272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words." The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in... "Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words." The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacu... |
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77,30 zł |
Homeland: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571179572 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of 12 stories, with settings ranging from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia, that explore the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. By the author of Pigs in Heaven and The Bean Trees.
A collection of 12 stories, with settings ranging from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia, that...
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51,46 zł |
Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571215775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards.
This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in...
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61,76 zł |
Pigs in Heaven
ISBN: 9780062277763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption--their new life together begins to crumble. Depicting the clash... Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale o... |
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81,55 zł |
Demon Copperhead
ISBN: 9783423283960 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Als hätten die Coen-Brüder Dickens verfilmt.« The Times »Jeder weiß, dass alle, die in diese Welt geboren werden, von Anfang an gezeichnet sind - Gewinner wie Verlierer.« Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias, dem Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der Hillbilly-Cadillac-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pickups. Hier kommt Demon Copperhead zur Welt - die Mutter ist noch ein Teenie und frisch auf Entzug, der Vater tot. Ein Junge mit kupferroten Haaren, großer Klappe und einem zähen Überlebenswillen,... »Als hätten die Coen-Brüder Dickens verfilmt.« The Times »Jeder weiß, dass alle, die in diese Welt geboren wer... |
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119,03 zł |
The Lacuna
ISBN: 9780061927560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds--an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Pois... |
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129,82 zł |
Prodigal Summer
ISBN: 9780060199661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her "extravagantly gifted narrative voice" (New York Times Book Review), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist,... Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her "extravagantly gifted narrative voice" (New York Times Book Review), has created with this no... |
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125,06 zł |
Unsheltered: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571347025 / Miękka / 2019 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them.
Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, fa...
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51,46 zł |
The Lacuna: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571252671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Mexico, 1935. Harrison Shepherd is working in the household of Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. When exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky arrives, Shepherd throws in his lot with art and the revolution.
Mexico, 1935. Harrison Shepherd is working in the household of Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. When exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky arrive...
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51,46 zł |
Prodigal Summer: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780571298853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding...
From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated int...
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51,46 zł |
Lot motyla
ISBN: 9788383573007 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Dwukrotna laureatka NAGRODY PULITZERA oraz THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONDellarobia jest młodą żoną i matką, mieszka na podupadającej farmie, ledwie wiążąc koniec z końcem. Jej życie to pasmo rozczarowań. Pewnego dnia napotyka szokujący widok: jezioro ognia pośród cichej zalesionej doliny. Okazuje się, że jest to stado motyli monarszych, które z niewiadomych przyczyn zjawiło się w wiosce pośród Appalachów.Zjawisko wywołuje wielką konsternację wśród naukowców, przywódców religijnych i dziennikarzy, wywracając życie Dellarobii i okolicznych mieszkańców do góry...
Dwukrotna laureatka NAGRODY PULITZERA oraz THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONDellarobia jest młodą żoną i matką, mieszka na podupadającej farmie, ledw...
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85,41 zł |