wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Murder and Memory
ISBN: 9780307279200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When a murder occurs in beautiful Hawaii, the suspects are two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Mayann Acker is eighteen-years-old. Her husband, William, is twenty-eight and just out of prison.Linda Spalding is chosen as a juror for Maryann's trail. Surprisingly, the chief witness against her is William. Spalding has her doubts, but on the last day of the trial she is abruptly dismissed from the jury. Maryann is found guilty. Who Named the Knife is the story of how, eighteen years later, Spalding tracks down Maryann and uncovers much more than the answer to the question of her...
When a murder occurs in beautiful Hawaii, the suspects are two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Mayann Acker is eighteen-years-old. Her husband, ...
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103,32 zł |
Daughters of Captain Cook
ISBN: 9780747504771 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As Jesse Quill watches her husband become obsessed with Maya, a sensuous Hawaiian aged 14, it soon becomes clear that she battles not merely with infidelity, but age-old beliefs of Hawaii. Through Jesse, the author creates a tale of the clash of cultures and people, shaped by their ancestral past.
As Jesse Quill watches her husband become obsessed with Maya, a sensuous Hawaiian aged 14, it soon becomes clear that she battles not merely with infi...
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71,06 zł |
The Purchase
ISBN: 9780804173261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction Pennsylvania, 1798. Daniel Dickinson, a devout Quaker, has just lost his wife. When he marries a fifteen-year-old Methodist orphan to help with his five small children, his fellow Quakers disown him for his impropriety. Forced out of the only community he's ever known, Daniel moves his family to the Virginia frontier. He has in hand a few land warrants, with which he plans to establish his new homestead.Although determined to hold to his Quaker belief in abolitionism, Daniel is now in a slave state, and he soon finds... Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction Pennsylvania, 1798. Daniel Dickinson, a devout Quaker, has just lost his wife. W... |
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Lost Classics
ISBN: 9780747561750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Contains essays that cover such classics as Dr Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; The Journey of the Stamp Animals; Life of Rossini; The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Westcott; The Headmaster's Papers by Richard A Hawley; and, The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews.
Contains essays that cover such classics as Dr Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; The Journey of the Stamp Animals; Life of Rossini; The Pilgrim...
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82,01 zł |
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-Read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission
ISBN: 9780385720861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, being lovers of books, we ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that... An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost great books overlooked, under-read, out of... |
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94,71 zł |