wyszukanych pozycji: 220
The Testament of Mary
ISBN: 9781451692389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Toibin is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity--shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the...
"Toibin is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman...
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58,36 zł |
House of Names
ISBN: 9780241257692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
It's Earlier 'Tis Getting: The Christmas Book of Irish Mammies
ISBN: 9781848272415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Christmas - a time for peace, joy and Mammies. While others are focusing on Santa/Santy, the school nativity play, the office party and its wild cousin the Twelve Pubs, panicked present shopping and the delicate diplomacy of in-law visiting, the Irish Mammy is mobilized in her war-room - ready for the campaign. Electric blankets have been set to maximum power; cards have been despatched; the turkey has been ordered; the decorations have been retrieved from the Place Where The Decorations Go and the fifth Big Shop (to get breadcrumbs) has been completed. There are homecomings... Christmas - a time for peace, joy and Mammies. While others are focusing on Santa/Santy, the school nativity play, the office party and its ... |
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59,43 zł |
Ann Devine, Ready for Her Close-Up
ISBN: 9781848272477 / Miękka / 2020 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Warm, charming and laugh-out-loud funny... Ann Devine, Ready For Her Close-Up is a little ray of sunshine, sure to delight' Irish IndependentMeet Ann Devine, a riddle, wrapped up in a fleece, inside a Skoda Octavia.
Warm, charming and laugh-out-loud funny... Ann Devine, Ready For Her Close-Up is a little ray of sunshine, sure to delight' Irish IndependentMeet Ann ...
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54,02 zł |
The Blackwater Lightship
ISBN: 9781035029853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
Mothers and Sons
ISBN: 9781416534662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Toibin writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, by the stronghold of the past. Many are trapped in lives they would not choose again, if they ever chose at all. A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in one night. A famous singer captivates an audience, yet cannot beguile her own...
Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balanc...
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83,33 zł |
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
ISBN: 9780330373579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is a book about European Catholics. Toibin sets off on a quest that takes him to Poland with the Pope for a celebration of authoritarian belief, and to Croatia where the Virgin appears to her visionaries."
This is a book about European Catholics. Toibin sets off on a quest that takes him to Poland with the Pope for a celebration of authoritarian belief, ...
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56,22 zł |
Man of the House: A Memoir
ISBN: 9788885272187 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,22 zł |
Brooklyn
ISBN: 9781501106477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go,...
Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Award...
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75,03 zł |
Crack Whore Pickup
ISBN: 9781105816949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 59 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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144,50 zł |
A Guest at the Feast: Essays
ISBN: 9781476785219 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,03 zł |
Size Really Does Matter: The Nanotechnology Revolution
ISBN: 9781786346612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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282,54 zł |
The Blackwater Lightship
ISBN: 9780743203319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Toibin explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with... It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dyi...
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70,86 zł |
Love as a Way of Knowing
ISBN: 9781947995758 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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98,00 zł |
Kyan Green Battles the Multiverse
ISBN: 9781526641786 / Miękka / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,88 zł |
Between the ears
ISBN: 9789082811704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,65 zł |
Gooch - The Autobiography
ISBN: 9781848272194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'The greatest Gaelic footballer of all time.' Pat SpillaneWhen Colm Cooper retired from inter-county football in 2017, he left behind a remarkable legacy. From a family steeped in Gaelic football, and a core member of the Dr Crokes team, Colm was still in his teens when he first played for Kerry at senior level.
'The greatest Gaelic footballer of all time.' Pat SpillaneWhen Colm Cooper retired from inter-county football in 2017, he left behind a remarkable leg...
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64,84 zł |
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
ISBN: 9780330419932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as the greatest living Irishwoman - Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively championing causes close to her heart.
This biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as the greatest living Irishwoman - Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celt...
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45,99 zł |
The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize
ISBN: 9780241970584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel ... |
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51,10 zł |
The Master
ISBN: 9781035029860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |