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Amity Street
ISBN: 9781887043298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Amity Street is the sequel to Kitty Burns Florey's 2012 novel The Writing Master, which took place in New Haven in 1856. Amity Street moves ahead 35 years: it is now 1892. Anna Felice, a wealthy former opera star, travels from Rome, Italy, to America--to Manhattan, to New Haven, finally to Amherst, Massachusetts--in search of the truth about her birth. Amity Street is the sequel to Kitty Burns Florey's 2012 novel The Writing Master, which took place in Ne... |
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85,05 zł |
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Five Questions
ISBN: 9780759550209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wynn Tynan, a young woman growing up in rural Maine, has been raised by her accomplished parents to be an artist. When Wynn's idyllic life takes a brief wrong turn--she becomes pregnant as a teenager--her loving but dominating mother is determined that her goals remain intact, and with reluctance, Wynn gives the baby up for adoption. At art school, she meets Patrick Foss, with his golden eyes, ragged sweaters, and single-minded devotion to his sculpture, and knows she has found the love of her life. But fate intervenes with a tragedy from her past, and Wynn's life spirals into nightmare.
Wynn Tynan, a young woman growing up in rural Maine, has been raised by her accomplished parents to be an artist. When Wynn's idyllic life takes a bri...
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93,51 zł |
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Solos
ISBN: 9781497693708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog, Otto, live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog-walker and fellow Scrabble nut, whose father is Emily's shady ex-husband who wants the lovable Emily dead. A mystery unravels, a valuable lost cache of paintings is found, and Emily's life changes in ways she could not have anticipated.
Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog, Otto, live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. ...
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59,49 zł |
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The Sleep Specialist
ISBN: 9780615148809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert Sinclair and his wife, May, move to New York City's Gramercy Park area at the height of the Great Depression. Robert is a playwright, May an aspiring actress. As Robert attempts to begin his career and to keep the love of his glamorous wife, he also struggles to overcome the insomnia that plagues him--though, paradoxically, it's on his solo night walks around the city that his best ideas come to him. But finally, desperate for a good night's sleep, he consults Mrs. Amalfi, the Sleep Specialist, who has her own mysterious past. As a background to these characters' stories is the...
Robert Sinclair and his wife, May, move to New York City's Gramercy Park area at the height of the Great Depression. Robert is a playwright, May an as...
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75,90 zł |
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Souvenir of Cold Springs
ISBN: 9781582431536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, woven together through four generations into a tapestry of memory and love. A humorous novel of power and grace.
One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, woven together through four generations into a tapestry of memory and love. A humorous novel of power and ...
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136,08 zł |
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Family Matters
ISBN: 9781497693715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Betsy Ruscoe, a single university professor in her mid-30s, is pregnant, and the man she thought she loved is not interested in fatherhood. At the same time, her dying mother begs Betsy to find the woman who gave her up for adoption at birth fifty years ago and then disappeared. Betsy struggles to cope with the changes in her life as she also sets out on a quest to uncover her mother's surprising history.
Betsy Ruscoe, a single university professor in her mid-30s, is pregnant, and the man she thought she loved is not interested in fatherhood. At the sam...
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59,49 zł |
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Real Life
ISBN: 9781497693562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew, Hugo, comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn't own a television so he can watch the soap opera he's devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, but deeply satisfying truths about real life.
Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew, Hugo, comes to li...
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55,24 zł |
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
ISBN: 9780156034432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: "It was a bit like art, a bit like mathematics. It was a picture of language. I was hooked." Now, in this offbeat history, Florey explores the sentence-diagramming phenomenon, including its humble roots at the Brooklyn Polytechnic, its "balloon diagram" predecessor, and what diagrams of famous writers sentences reveal about them. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar....
In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade fro...
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80,76 zł |
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Vigil for a Stranger
ISBN: 9781497693586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A chance encounter on a train leads painter Christine Ward to wonder whether Orin Pierce, her beloved college friend, believed dead for two decades, may actually be alive. As she begins to track down the man she believes he might be, she finds herself in the grip of a troubling past she thought she had come to terms with. In her search through the tangles of truth and illusion, memory and dream, she questions her roles as lover, mother, artist, and mourner of the dead. This haunting literary thriller is an uncompromising portrait of a contemporary woman in crisis.
A chance encounter on a train leads painter Christine Ward to wonder whether Orin Pierce, her beloved college friend, believed dead for two decades, m...
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46,74 zł |
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The Writing Master
ISBN: 9781935052654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Writing Master, a work of historical fiction set in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, is about Charles Cooper, a penman-teacher of handwriting-who is attempting to come to terms with his tragic past, and Lily Prescott, an unconventional woman with her own troubled story. When a brutal murder takes place just outside the city, Charles becomes involved in its solution.
The Writing Master, a work of historical fiction set in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, is about Charles Cooper, a penman-teacher of handwriting-who i...
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85,05 zł |
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The Quest for Inez: Two Ways to Find a Grandmother
ISBN: 9781887043151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A HIGHLY UNUSUAL APPROACH TO A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY In April 1910, a young woman named Inez Willick gave birth to a baby girl, put her up for adoption, and disappeared. When Inez's granddaughter began the search for her mother's mother, she didn't have much more than a name. But, as happens so often in genealogical research, she stumbled into an overwhelming bounty of information. Among her discoveries were another secret child, a close tie to one of America's titans of industry, and a second cousin in California with a cache of family photos. What remained elusive was a definitive answer to...
A HIGHLY UNUSUAL APPROACH TO A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY In April 1910, a young woman named Inez Willick gave birth to a baby girl, put her up for adoption...
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85,05 zł |
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Chez Cordelia
ISBN: 9781497693579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cordelia Miller, an endearing young misfit in a scholarly, cultured family, loves junk food, TV, and the son of the local grocer. Her attempt to escape her stifling background and find her way in the world takes her on a classic journey from innocence to experience. She encounters a varied cast of characters--some comic, some calamitous--and, in the end, discovers her true vocation.
Cordelia Miller, an endearing young misfit in a scholarly, cultured family, loves junk food, TV, and the son of the local grocer. Her attempt to escap...
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59,49 zł |
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The Garden Path
ISBN: 9781497693593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rosie Mortimer, celebrity gardener with a successful TV show, has a pleasantly uneventful life with her undemanding beau. Her gay son and his partner live nearby. When her estranged daughter, Susannah, product of a fractured family, returns to Rosie's Connecticut town with her husband, a former priest, to open a restaurant, the tense relationships among these three build to a near-tragedy. Rosie is forced to face the mistakes and failures that have plagued her--and Susannah, who has her own demons, learns to forgive.
Rosie Mortimer, celebrity gardener with a successful TV show, has a pleasantly uneventful life with her undemanding beau. Her gay son and his partner ...
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63,75 zł |
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