wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
ISBN: 9781451642971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This "mesmerizing new work of historical fiction" (The Miami Herald) imagines the deep friendship of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert as they travel up the Nile. Before she became the nineteenth century's greatest heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at the same time in 1850. But where history would have these two figures float right by each other, the award-winning writer Enid Shomer brings them together to ignite a passionate friendship that alters both their...
This "mesmerizing new work of historical fiction" (The Miami Herald) imagines the deep friendship of Florence Nightingale and ...
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110,19 |
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This Close to the Earth: Poems
ISBN: 9781557282552 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often startling insight. This Close to the Earth celebrates the courage to live intensely in the body. Here are loves, lives, and losses, retold with the energy that bare emotion commands. Peopled by almost touchable characters - John James Audubon, for instance sketching his birds in a pre-dawn light, and the unnamed narrator of "Among the Cows", who learns to "breathe with the Holsteins / as a form of meditation" - these poems explore the natural...
Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often...
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130,58 |
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Black Drum
ISBN: 9781557284976 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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77,35 |
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Black Drum
ISBN: 9781557284945 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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106,39 |
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This Close to the Earth: Poems
ISBN: 9781557282569 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) -- The Pope Joan section, 1992 winner of the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry Magazine
-- The Pope Joan section, 1992 winner of the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry Magazine
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77,35 |
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Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
ISBN: 9781557287120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) These poems give voice to the life of the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. While Jacqueline Cochran was alive, no man or woman in the world could match her records for speed, distance, and altitude flying. Founder and director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, Cochran continued to fly competitively until she was sixty, owned and operated her own line of designer cosmetics for three decades, ran for Congress, and generally placed herself on the path of history. Having begun life as a foundling in the crushing poverty of a lumber company town...
These poems give voice to the life of the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. While Jacqueline Cochran was alive, no man or woman in th...
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75,83 |
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Trembling Air
ISBN: 9781557287526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Moving through us in waves of light and sound, the words and trappings of the material world brim here with spiritual force and resonate with the power of things poised on the brink of revelation.
Moving through us in waves of light and sound, the words and trappings of the material world brim here with spiritual force and resonate with the powe...
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77,35 |