wyszukanych pozycji: 27
Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
ISBN: 9780099542025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of Britain's favourite and bestselling writers.
Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. Based on de Bernieres' recollections of the village he grew up in, Notwithstanding is a funny and moving depiction of a charming vanished England. "From the Hardcover edition."
A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of Britain's favourite and bestselling writers.
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50,63 zł |
Light Over Liskeard
ISBN: 9781787303997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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101,36 zł |
So Much Life Left Over
ISBN: 9781784705886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CAPTAIN CORELLIS MANDOLIN
At the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War – and its effects on their marriage – behind them. Back in England, Rosies sisters are dealing with impossible challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and they find themselves taking unconventional means to achieve what they want. Around them the world changes, and events in Germany take a dark and... FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CAPTAIN CORELLIS MANDOLIN
At the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with th... |
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50,63 zł |
War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
ISBN: 9780749391300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them.
Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them, they must run. Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilization. "The War of Don Emmanuel s Nether Parts" is the... When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmis...
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55,70 zł |
Red Dog
ISBN: 9780099429043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The narrator of this story travels to a small mining town in Western Australia to host a literary dinner. Whilst there, he comes across a statue to Red Dog. He is intrigued, and resolves to find out as much as he can about this splendid dog.
The narrator of this story travels to a small mining town in Western Australia to host a literary dinner. Whilst there, he comes across a statue to Re...
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50,63 zł |
Ptaki bez skrzydeł
ISBN: 9788373929302 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 734 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Jest początek XX wieku. W małej miejscowości w południowo-zachodniej Anatolii żyją od wieków Turcy, Grecy, Ormianie, chrześcijanie i muzułmanie. Żyją zgodnie, żenią się między sobą, przyjaźnią, pomagają sąsiadom. Muzułmanie składają ofiary przy ikonie Najświętszej Maryi Panny, chrześcijanie wzorem sąsiadów wieszają czerwone szmatki na sosnach, żeby spełniło się ich życzenie. Ba, nawet imam i ksiądz chrześcijański darzą się wielką przyjaźnią, odwiedzają się w domach (wprawdzie po zmroku, żeby nie budzić sensacji) i wiodą niekończące się...
Jest początek XX wieku. W małej miejscowości w południowo-zachodniej Anatolii żyją od wieków Turcy, Grecy, Ormianie, chrześcijanie i muzułman...
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84,55 zł |
Blue Dog
ISBN: 9781784704179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' GuardianWhen a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him.
'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' GuardianWhen a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it loo...
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50,63 zł |
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
ISBN: 9780749398576 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment.
But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation The second part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's... While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, un...
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55,70 zł |
A Partisan's Daughter
ISBN: 9780099520283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'A Partisan's Daughter' features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily-married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Yugoslavian woman who tells him of her troubled, adventurous past.
'A Partisan's Daughter' features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily-married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Yugoslavian woman who ...
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92,77 zł |
Oxford Bookworms Library: Red Dog: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary Level 2
ISBN: 9780194790833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.
Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words. This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. ...
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73,08 zł |
Perched: FeleksAn Onar
ISBN: 9781911300984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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126,69 zł |
Level 6: Captain Corelli's Mandolin
ISBN: 9781405882606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Contemporary / British English This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia's fiance is fighting the Italian army... Captain Corelli's Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicolas Cage.
Contemporary / British English This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love w...
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60,17 zł |
Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World
ISBN: 9780099428442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a celebration of the author's ten years living above a small shop in a London suburb. De Bernieres writes about the people, their humour and their tragedy, that helped make him feel he was living at the centre of the world."
This is a celebration of the author's ten years living above a small shop in a London suburb. De Bernieres writes about the people, their humour and t...
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70,93 zł |
Light Over Liskeard
ISBN: 9781529920611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,63 zł |
Station Jim: A perfect heartwarming gift for children and adults
ISBN: 9781787301610 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Beautifully illustrated, it is the perfect gift.One day in autumn, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a railway guard found something abandoned on a train... Mr Ginger Leghorn is used to collecting up umbrellas and other lost property but he's never found an abandoned puppy on his train before.
Beautifully illustrated, it is the perfect gift.One day in autumn, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a railway guard found somethi...
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55,70 zł |
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
ISBN: 9780099597834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?
In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But...
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
ISBN: 9780749397548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned...
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself ...
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Birds Without Wings
ISBN: 9780099478980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed. Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd who has courted her since infancy are but two of the many casualties.
When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peace...
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50,63 zł |
Labels and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781784705893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,63 zł |
So Much Life Left Over
ISBN: 9781786141569 / Angielski / CD-Audio / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day.
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the Fir...
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109,20 zł |