wyszukanych pozycji: 49
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Heat Wave
ISBN: 9780141196824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing.
Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daught...
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50,04 zł |
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Consequences
ISBN: 9780141021287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away.
In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington exi...
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84,45 zł |
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A Stitch in Time
ISBN: 9780007443277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination. So when she begins to hear things that nobody else does, she's not sure if they are real. Then Maria finds a Victorian embroidered picture, and feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old girl, Harriet, who stitched it.
Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination. So when she begins to hear things that nobody else does, she's not sure if they a...
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40,03 zł |
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Moon Tiger
ISBN: 9781405967006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,04 zł |
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Life in the Garden
ISBN: 9780241982181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,05 zł |
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Consequences
ISBN: 9780143113430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Booker Prize?winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women
?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day? (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women?Lorna, Molly, and Ruth?from World War II?era London to the close of the century. Told in Lively's incomparable prose, this is a powerful story of growth, death, and renewal, as well as a penetrating look at how the major and minor events of the twentieth century changed lives. By chronicling the choices and consequences that comprise one family's history, Lively offers an... The Booker Prize?winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women
?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day?... |
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89,86 zł |
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Moon Tiger
ISBN: 9780802135339 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center -- forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world -- is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. ...
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69,44 zł |
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The Road To Lichfield
ISBN: 9780140061178 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus.
Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she sha...
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55,05 zł |
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How It All Began
ISBN: 9780241957271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When... Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is ...just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events.
When... Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Mario...
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50,04 zł |
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Treasures of Time
ISBN: 9780141044859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. This edition features an introduction by Selina Hastings. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Penelope Lively's Treasures of Time was published in 1979,...
Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secr...
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52,76 zł |
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Nachtglimmen
ISBN: 9783038201533 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Claudia Hampton war Kriegsreporterin, sie ist Schriftstellerin und Historikerin. Eine kluge und selbstbewusste Frau, berühmt, in ständiger intellektueller Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Umgebung und sich selbst. Jetzt, todkrank in einem Krankenhausbett, blickt sie zurück. Persönliche Erinnerungen gehen nahtlos über in politische Ereignisse. Sie erzählt von einer Kindheit kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, über den Zweiten Weltkrieg und darüber hinaus. Alles in ihrem Leben ist Gegenwart: Kindheit und Krieg, Ägypten und England, die ganze Welt und ihre Vergangenheit. Aber Claudias... Claudia Hampton war Kriegsreporterin, sie ist Schriftstellerin und Historikerin. Eine kluge und selbstbewusste Frau, berühmt, in ständiger intell... |
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106,85 zł |
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Měsíční tygr
ISBN: 9788075777898 / Czeski / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Claudia je silná a nezávislá žena. Dětství strávila v předválečné Británii, působila jako válečná zpravodajka v Káhiře a vydobyla si místo v čistě mužské disciplíně — historii. Roky ubíhaly a její život se postupně prolnul s osudy dalších lidí. Nalezla i ztratila pravou lásku, porodila dceru, kterou nedokázala milovat, měla milence, kterému se nedalo věřit, a bratra, jehož zbožňovala. Teď leží na nemocničním lůžku a v duchu sepisuje „historii světa a zároveň s ní i tu svou“. Je nemilosrdnou kritičkou všeho a všech, ale jako...
Claudia je silná a nezávislá žena. Dětství strávila v předválečné Británii, působila jako válečná zpravodajka v Káhiře a vydobyla si...
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64,79 zł |
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Family Album
ISBN: 9780143117872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." --The New York Times Book Review Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect facade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however,...
"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." --The New York Times Book Review<...
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89,86 zł |
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Judgment Day
ISBN: 9780802139665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Judgment Day takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sideshows of adultery and gossip. With flawless precision, Lively brings the village and its inhabitants to life as an unpardonable death reminds them all that the world is a very uncertain place.
Judgment Day takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sid...
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69,44 zł |
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780241978535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,04 zł |
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Spiderweb
ISBN: 9780060929725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. She has spent her life studying communities of people--their families, social structures, how they welcome outsiders into their midst-remaining an observer, privileged to share in their intimate life but not obliged, and finally unwilling to tie herself closely to any lover, friend, or social group. In Somerset, Stella once again finds an... At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a profess... |
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65,31 zł |
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Cleopatra's Sister
ISBN: 9780060922177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,14 zł |
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Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
ISBN: 9780141188324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Egypt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view.
An autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories...
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50,04 zł |
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Making It Up
ISBN: 9780141021195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if' she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18?
Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own...
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68,61 zł |
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Perfect Happiness
ISBN: 9780140069969 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her own loss, until, shocked into feeling by the revelations and sufferings of others, she is drawn into the sunlight of new hope.
After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her...
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68,61 zł |