wyszukanych pozycji: 26
The Chaperone
ISBN: 9781594631436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old...
Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times...
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78,44 zł |
While I'm Falling
ISBN: 9781401310233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In While I'm Falling, Laura Moriarty presents a compelling depiction of how one young woman's life changes when her family breaks up for good. Ever since her parents announced that they're getting divorced, Veronica has been falling. Hard. A junior in college, she has fallen in love. She has fallen behind in her difficult coursework. She hates her job as counselor at the dorm, and she longs for the home that no longer exists. When an attempt to escape the pressure, combined with bad luck, lands her in a terrifying situation, a shaken Veronica calls her mother for help--only...
In While I'm Falling, Laura Moriarty presents a compelling depiction of how one young woman's life changes when her family breaks up for good...
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95,82 zł |
The Center of Everything
ISBN: 9781401300319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty's captivating debut novel hit the stores in June '03. Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised The Center of Everything as "warm" and "beguiling." USA Today compared the scrappy yet tender-hearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. It garnered extensive national attention; from Entertainment Weekly to the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle, the press raved about the wisdom and poignancy of Moriarty's writing. The Book-of-the-Month Club snatched it up as a Main Selection, as did the...
Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty's captivating debut novel hit the stores in June '03. Janet Maslin of the ...
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161,23 zł |
Rest of Her Life
ISBN: 9781401309435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy--the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspective, as she grapples with the hard...
In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions...
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95,82 zł |
While I'm Falling
ISBN: 9780141031545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What makes a family? That's what 19-year-old Veronica is wondering. Her family have always made her feel safe and protected but that's all been snatched away from her and she's beginning to wonder if she really knows her family at all.
What makes a family? That's what 19-year-old Veronica is wondering. Her family have always made her feel safe and protected but that's all been snatch...
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87,48 zł |
The Center Of Everything
ISBN: 9780786888450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"The Center of Everything is as realistic and familiar as a summer day in Kansas--brave and gritty, strong voiced and spare."--O, The Oprah Magazine Set in Kerrville, Kansas, The Center of Everything is told by Evelyn Bucknow, an endearing character with a wholly refreshing way of looking at the world. Living with her single mother in a small apartment, Evelyn Bucknow is a young girl wincing her way through adolescence. With a voice that is as charming as... "A warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"The Center of Everything is as rea... |
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108,90 zł |
A Semblance: Selected and New Poems 1975-2007
ISBN: 9781890650278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Semblance: Selected and New Poems (1975-2007) is the first selected compilation of poetry by Laura Moriarty. Drawn from her previous poetry collections and including new work, this selected demonstrates Moriarty's ability to make each lyric phrase into a portal where we find ourselves turning at once in two directions--backward, to probe the newly exposed limits in our old ways of understanding, and forward to experience a more evolved and involved attention to our world through the animated potentials she offers us. Whether examining the historically gendered gaze of art or of culture's...
A Semblance: Selected and New Poems (1975-2007) is the first selected compilation of poetry by Laura Moriarty. Drawn from her previous poetry collecti...
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65,65 zł |
The Chaperone
ISBN: 9780718158972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years.
On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it s...
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49,18 zł |
The Misfit Wins
ISBN: 9781536962239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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27,46 zł |
The Dirty Dubliner: A Dan Delaney Mystery
ISBN: 9781517601768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,55 zł |
The Art of Celtic Healing
ISBN: 9781653777730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,37 zł |
The American Murders: A Dan Delaney Mystery
ISBN: 9781523679034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
Writers of Pinellas Anthology
ISBN: 9781534720497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The creative imagination of our Pinellas County authors have presented you with engrossing reflections on human relationships and customary events. Your curiosity should be piqued by their individual interpretations of life re-imagined through a collection of written work that will appeal to lovers of classic and Avant-garde pieces. Contributors to the Anthology: Bria Burton - Patricia Callen - Richard Erlanger - Kay Hogan - Maureen Jenkins - Ursula Masdal - Laura Joyce Moriarty - Douglas Paul - Jack Romig
The creative imagination of our Pinellas County authors have presented you with engrossing reflections on human relationships and customary events. Yo...
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45,76 zł |
Controversies in Victimology
ISBN: 9781138138841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Controversies in Victimology features original works of noted scholars and practitioners, aiming to shed light on the debates over, the media attention on, and the psychology behind victimization. This book discusses the controversies from all sides of the debate, and attempts to reconcile the issues in order to move the field forward.
Controversies in Victimology features original works of noted scholars and practitioners, aiming to shed light on the debates over, the media...
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909,47 zł |
The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons II: The Rose Oisín
ISBN: 9781452837574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 762 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This novel is the Sequel to The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons, a story about an Irish family from a fictional Village in Aghadoe, Ireland, whose dashing good looks, charming personalities, and joyous love of life becomes the envy and unquenchable obsession of another family---one very rich, incredibly shallow, and unmercifully corrupt. The heroine, Mary Elizabeth O'Malley is blessed with a mysterious gift that becomes the fixation of a vicious assassin whose passionate lust to control her, leads to a deceptive plot that leaves her and her husband isolated and abandoned in Latin America. As the...
This novel is the Sequel to The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons, a story about an Irish family from a fictional Village in Aghadoe, Ireland, whose dashing ...
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127,88 zł |
The Misjudged Romantic
ISBN: 9781499776997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
The Famished Irishman: A Story by a Dingle Bed
ISBN: 9781975630485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons: The Beginning
ISBN: 9781440494512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Part thriller, part mystery, part impossible deceptions---an Irish woman's supernatural gift becomes the obsession of a vicious assassin. Accused of murdering her husband, Mary Elizabeth O'Malley is imprisoned for two decades while her kidnapper waits for his father to die so he can inherit his fortune and find the woman he believes will help him control a vast criminal empire. Back in Ireland, her nine sons grow up intent on discovering the truth behind their father's murder and mother's disappearance. On the way, they discover ruthless and massive corruption, and such unspeakable scandals...
Part thriller, part mystery, part impossible deceptions---an Irish woman's supernatural gift becomes the obsession of a vicious assassin. Accused of m...
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127,88 zł |
Joe O'Malley
ISBN: 9781480144798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,70 zł |
The Irish Suspect: A Dan Delaney Mystery
ISBN: 9781508700517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. About the book . . . Dan Delaney is a first class detective in Dublin who was blamed for a poorly prosecuted case of a child murder. By caving to the department brass, he suffered severe criticism and retribution from his superiors, some of whom secretly covered for the real perpetrator. For ten years, he has been passed over for promotions and works on petty crimes at a branch station with his partner Joe Murphy. Then suddenly Dan is given a new murder to solve. Dan knows the only reason they passed it on to him was because someone outside the police headquarters, and high up in the...
About the book . . . Dan Delaney is a first class detective in Dublin who was blamed for a poorly prosecuted case of a child murder. By caving to the ...
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72,98 zł |