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Like a Sister
ISBN: 9780060931797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested in kids. Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends a kindly neighbor named Willa, who appears to be everything a mother should be. But when a respected and powerful man in town notices that Sister is blossoming -- unsupervised -- into quite a young woman, trouble starts to brew. Willa soon steps in to intervene, and Sister thinks she may have found salvation. But within the pages of Like a Sister, things are never what they... It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested... |
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Earl in the Yellow Shirt: Novel, a
ISBN: 9780060928988 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant novel of a family in crisis, set in the backwoods of Georgia.
Meet the Scurvy family, an impoverished clan who are the scourge of their small white-trash community. Mother has died in childbirth, leaving behind her newborn and four uneducated children. Father, a toothless and slothful man, cannot muster the money for her funeral. Their 15-year-old daughter, the only girl among three brothers, realizes that the newborn infant is now hers to... From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant n...
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Whistle
ISBN: 9780060930912 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman' s body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss' s property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will be charged with murdering a white woman and sent back to jail, he decides to hide the body where it won' t be found. As days and then weeks pass, and the search for the missing woman continues, Roper begins to doubt himself. Did he do the right thing? Why didn' t he call for help? Will anybody believe he is innocent and, most important, how can he...
Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman' s body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his n...
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