wyszukanych pozycji: 236
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Family Dancing: Stories
ISBN: 9781620407042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (The Washington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a knowledge of others' lives . . . that a writer twice his age might envy" (USA Today). "Regardless of age," wrote the New York Times, "few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages." In... Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-... |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the invention of computers
ISBN: 9780753822005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
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The Body of Jonah Boyd
ISBN: 9780747568285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Body of Jonah Boyd".
"Body of Jonah Boyd".
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The Lost Language of Cranes
ISBN: 9781408854587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend most Sundays apart; while Rose buries herself in crosswords and newspapers, Owen visits gay porn theaters. But when they discover they may lose their apartment and their son, prompted by his new relationship, reveals his homosexuality, their lives cannot continue as they were. Owen and Rose are forced to confront not only their son's revelation but also Owen's latent homosexuality. Poignant and lingering, this is a tale of love and relationships,...
Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend m...
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Being, While Knowing That You Are Not: Surrendering to the sadness and madness of life
ISBN: 9798741512210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
ISBN: 9781551529516 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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American Women Managers and Administrators: A Selective Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Leaders in Business, Education, and Government
ISBN: 9780313237485 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. While biographical information on many of the women is readily available in other sources, this is a handy compilation, especially for identifying material on contemporary women administrators. It would be appropriate in larger public libraries and academic libraries, especially those that focus on women's studies. "Library Journal"
While biographical information on many of the women is readily available in other sources, this is a handy compilation, especially for identifying ... |
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Girls in Trouble
ISBN: 9780312339739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt's Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds and maternal love. Sara, sixteen, is in denial about her pregnancy and too far along for an abortion. Her once-devoted boyfriend has disappeared so Sara decides her only option is an open adoption with George and Eva, a couple desperate for a child. After the birth it's clear Sara has a bond with the child that Eva can't duplicate and Eva and George make a drastic decision, with devastating consequences for them all.
In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt's Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds...
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The Little Aaron Book
ISBN: 9781502422828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Ella's Magical Christmas
ISBN: 9798836060367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Garden Just Beyond
ISBN: 9781250858528 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Lost Language of Cranes
ISBN: 9781620407028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own problems: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to the family is Philip's father's own struggle with his suppressed homosexuality, realized only in Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's revelation to his parents leads his father to a...
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old P...
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Cockroaches, God, Death, and Mangoes: The True Story of Bikonzi Moise
ISBN: 9781636986852 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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North of Supernova
ISBN: 9781250327895 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,92 |
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The Indian Clerk
ISBN: 9780747596325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. January, 1913. G.H. Hardy, considered to be the greatest British mathematician of his age, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time. Hardy determines to learn more about the mysterious Ramanujan.
January, 1913. G.H. Hardy, considered to be the greatest British mathematician of his age, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius...
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Buffalo Flats
ISBN: 9780823443420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Bohemian Society
ISBN: 9789354206948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Complete Cancer Diaries: One Man's Journey Into Darkness, Wonder and Hope
ISBN: 9780990723530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,23 |
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By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year in the War in Ukraine
ISBN: 9780374614331 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
ISBN: 9781616086398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand- white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions--shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration--all the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness. Midge, a Harvard educated intellectual, struggles to comprehend the simplest words; Sarah's father, Rob, slowly adapts to his new role as full-time...
In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease tra...
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