wyszukanych pozycji: 82
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Gnade
ISBN: 9783499018060 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Nordamerikanische Kolonien, Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Die kleine Florens, nicht älter als sieben oder acht Jahre, wird zur Begleichung einer Schuld an den Farmer und Geldverleiher Jacob Vaark verkauft. In Florens' Leben ändert sich dadurch alles. Sie gehört nun zu Vaarks Haushalt, zusammen mit seiner Frau Rebekka, die nicht freiwillig in die Neue Welt gekommen ist, mit der indigenen Hausangestellten Lina, die als eine der wenigen ihres Dorfes die Pocken überlebt hat, und mit der geheimnisvollen Sorrow, die nach einem Schiffbruch gerettet wurde. Als Vaark stirbt, kämpfen die vier... Nordamerikanische Kolonien, Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Die kleine Florens, nicht älter als sieben oder acht Jahre, wird zur Begleichung einer Schu... |
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108,11 |
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Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9780307278449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized...
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her ...
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73,82 |
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Samoszacunek. Eseje i medytacje
ISBN: 9788367616416 / Polski / twarda / 2023 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Umieramy. Być może to właśnie stanowi sens życia. Ale tworzymy język. Być może to jest miarą naszego życia. Pierwszy w Polsce wybór esejów, przemówień i medytacji Toni Morrison. To zbiór błyskotliwych, osobistych, ale i zaskakująco aktualnych tekstów doskonałe połączenie jej literackiego geniuszu z refleksją nad kondycją współczesnego świata. Noblistka podejmuje sporne kwestie społeczne: praw człowieka, rasy, płci, podziałów i wykluczeń. Skupia uwagę na osobach czarnych, kobietach, cudzoziemcach, nie pomijając tematów dotykających nas na co dzień:...
Umieramy. Być może to wÅ‚aÅ›nie stanowi sens życia. Ale tworzymy jÄ™zyk. Być może to jest miarÄ… naszego życia. Pierwszy w Polsce wybór esejÃ...
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cena:
69,90 |
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Sula
ISBN: 9780099760016 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken.
A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a ...
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50,63 |
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Jazz
ISBN: 9781400076215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe s wife, Violet, attacks the girl s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life."
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty ...
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cena:
66,05 |
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Remember: The Journey to School Integration
ISBN: 9780618397402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
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cena:
77,66 |
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Song of Solomon
ISBN: 9781784879129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
52,03 |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9780525659273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
124,32 |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780099768210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma.
The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays a...
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cena:
50,63 |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9781784877255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,63 |
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Song of Solomon
ISBN: 9781784876456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,63 |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780804169882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. -They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair... -They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.- So begins Toni Morrison's Paradise, which opens with a hor... |
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69,93 |
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Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement
ISBN: 9780061774010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political developments--including the passage of the Patriot Act--have shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Burn This Book features a sterling... Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censo... |
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66,00 |
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The Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9780808562825 / Angielski / Prebound / 2007 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the 1993 Nobel Prize-winner comes a novel "so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry" (The New York Times). First published in 1965, The Bluest Eye is the story of a black girl who prays--with unforeseen consequences--for her eyes to turn blue so she will be accepted. Includes a new Foreword by the author.
From the 1993 Nobel Prize-winner comes a novel "so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry" (The New York Times). First published in 1965,...
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150,74 |
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Sula
ISBN: 9783499013614 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Zwei Mädchen, die zu Frauen heranwachsen. Zwei Freundinnen, die zu schlimmsten Feindinnen werden: Die fügsame Nel und die Rebellin Sula sind als junge Mädchen unzertrennlich, als sie in ärmlichen Verhältnissen in einer Kleinstadt in Ohio aufwachsen, die ausgerechnet «Bottom» heißt. Während Nel dort eine Familie gründet, flieht Sula zu den fortschrittlichen Idealen der Großstadt. Als sie nach zehn Jahren zurückkehrt, hat sich zwischen den beiden alles verändert. Nel und Sula müssen sich mit den Folgen ihres Handelns und dem schrecklichen Geheimnis aus ihrer Kindheit... Zwei Mädchen, die zu Frauen heranwachsen. Zwei Freundinnen, die zu schlimmsten Feindinnen werden: Die fügsame Nel und die Rebellin Sula sind als ... |
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81,08 |
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Recitatif: A Story
ISBN: 9780593556641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
69,93 |
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Ojos azules / The Bluest Eye
ISBN: 9788497932660 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
58,09 |
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God Help the Child
ISBN: 9780099555926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother.
Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-li...
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50,63 |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9780099540977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless.
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new...
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cena:
55,70 |
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Beloved
ISBN: 9781400033416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering...
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lu...
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66,66 |