wyszukanych pozycji: 32
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Beneath the Cypress Tree
ISBN: 9781447248675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A sweeping saga of friends and lovers, set in Crete during the Second World War.
A sweeping saga of friends and lovers, set in Crete during the Second World War.
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87,95 |
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The Flower Garden
ISBN: 9781447230038 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. To tell a patient they are about to die is never the easiest of tasks. When the patient is thirty-five, a woman and exceptionally beautiful, the task is even harder.
In the winter of 1934 Nancy Leigh Cameron learns that she has only one more year to live. She is famous, sought-after, and living a life of deep inner loneliness. Her husband, Senator Jack Cameron, is cold and self-seeking. He needs Nancy because she can help him to become President. Her father, Chips O'Shaughnessy, ebullient Irish mayor of Boston, loves Nancy, but also needs her socially desirable marriage to last so that he... To tell a patient they are about to die is never the easiest of tasks. When the patient is thirty-five, a woman and exceptionally beautiful, the task ...
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98,30 |
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A Season of Secrets
ISBN: 9781447248569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A magnificent tale of romance and war sweeping through the first half of the twentieth century
A magnificent tale of romance and war sweeping through the first half of the twentieth century
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cena:
103,53 |
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Coronation Summer
ISBN: 9781447262343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is early summer in 1953, and the friends and neighbours of Magnolia Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. The war has become a memory; the future seems rosy. Kate Emmerson looks on with pride at her growing family, including Matthew, whose father was killed during the war. But Matthew's wealthy relations have never really forgiven Kate for marrying Leon, a West Indian who works as a Thames lighterman, and when Matthew runs away from his smart boarding school in Somerset the tensions which exist between the two families come to a head. Meanwhile Zac, the wonderfully...
It is early summer in 1953, and the friends and neighbours of Magnolia Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. The war has become a ...
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cena:
72,42 |
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Yorkshire Rose
ISBN: 9781447230540 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through. In pre-First World War Bradford, Rose's maternal grandfather, Caleb Rimmington, is one of Bradford's wealthiest mill owners and her father is a highly talented tapestry designer. Laurence Sugden's artistic talent is not put to use at Rimmington's Mill, however, for Caleb, disappointed in his daughter's marriage to a mere working-man, has disowned her and refuses all contact with her three children.
To Rose, and her brother Noel and sister Nina, their grandfather Caleb is a myth they long to meet; even more so, they long to meet their... Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through. In pre-First World War Bradford, Rose's maternal grandfather, Caleb Rimmington, is one of Bradfor...
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cena:
98,30 |
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The Oyster Girl
ISBN: 9781509841813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
45,36 |
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Rendezvous With Danger
ISBN: 9781447244592 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Susan Carter's idyllic Bavarian holiday was rudely shattered while picnicking on the hillside by the sound of a speeding car, followed by a crash. Looking through her binoculars she saw the occupants leave their wrecked car and then take off in her own small Morris. If only Susan hadn't read the newspaper account of the murder of a German minister If only she hadn't recognized the photograph of the car-said to have been used by the assassins For Susan life gradually takes on the horror of a nightmare. Nor does she know which of her 'rescuers' to trust -Stephen Maitland or Gunther Cliburn.
Susan Carter's idyllic Bavarian holiday was rudely shattered while picnicking on the hillside by the sound of a speeding car, followed by a crash. Loo...
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cena:
87,95 |
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The Guilty Secret
ISBN: 9781447244653 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Scratch the veneer of opulence at the 'Enclave', a cluster of villas bought for the movie star Rosalind by her millionaire husband, and a reality of fear, frustration, guilt and love betrayed glimmer from beneath. Rosalind's cousin Jenny is there to fight her despair over killing a woman and child in a car accident. The stranger Jonathan is burdened by some darkness in his past. Mary also has something to conceal. When Rosalind is found dead, the knot of intrigue tightens.
Blackmail, passion and revenge - each takes its turn in this tautly told story of mystery and malice. Scratch the veneer of opulence at the 'Enclave', a cluster of villas bought for the movie star Rosalind by her millionaire husband, and a reality of f...
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cena:
77,60 |
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Forever
ISBN: 9781447230014 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the summer swelter of New Orleans, society girls talk of eligible young men, and of whom they will marry.
For Augusta Lafayette, only the scandalous Beauregard Clay will do. He is years older than she - and dangerous by all accounts. But Gussie wants to make him hers - forever. How was she to know that the ritual she performed was not the joke her friends said it was? How was she to know she would soon love someone else? How was she to know that forever meant beyond the grave? In the summer swelter of New Orleans, society girls talk of eligible young men, and of whom they will marry.
For Augusta Lafayette, only the scand... |
cena:
77,60 |
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Never Leave Me
ISBN: 9781447230076 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. June 1944 in occupied France, and the embattled coast of Normandy anxiously awaits the Allied invasion.
Lisette de Valmy - just eighteen years old and an ardent member of the Resistance, she is torn between loyalty to the Cause and her love for one man. Dieter Meyer - a German officer, handsome and courageous, he must fight for his country and for his future with Lisette. Greg Dering - generous and warm-hearted, he liberates the de Valmy home but falls captive to the sad beauty of the girl who welcomes him to France. And Luke Brandon - obsessed by Lisette from the start, he... June 1944 in occupied France, and the embattled coast of Normandy anxiously awaits the Allied invasion.
Lisette de Valmy - just eighteen years old... |
cena:
98,30 |
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Flight to Verechenko
ISBN: 9781447244721 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lady Catherine Davencourt is heartbroken when her fiance is murdered, so she is doubly horrified when the disreputable Dominic, the new Marquis of Clare, offers to marry his brother's bereaved fiancee.
Her only escape lies in disguising herself as a governess and fleeing to a position with a Russian family. But on arrival in St Petersburg, she finds that Dominic too has fled England . . . Why is she fated to be thrown into his company? Could she possibly be in love with him-a man she had left England rather than marry, a man who had left England rather than marry her? Lady Catherine Davencourt is heartbroken when her fiance is murdered, so she is doubly horrified when the disreputable Dominic, the new Marquis of Cla...
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cena:
77,60 |
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Party in Peking
ISBN: 9781447244790 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Olivia Harland is enjoying her stay with her aunt and uncle in the Western Hills fifteen miles from Peking. It is 1900 and the air is heavy with the talk of Boxers, the Chinese rebels who are driving the Europeans from China.
Adam Ross is a doctor in the Northern Provinces. His Chinese wife has been brutally murdered in a Boxer attack, and he is leaving Peking after depositing his baby son there for safety. As he departs, Olivia rides out into the Western Hills to contemplate a proposal of marriage from handsome young diplomat Phillippe Casanaeve, and it is then that the Boxers attack... Olivia Harland is enjoying her stay with her aunt and uncle in the Western Hills fifteen miles from Peking. It is 1900 and the air is heavy with the t...
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cena:
77,60 |
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An Embarrassment of Riches
ISBN: 9781447230137 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Here she is ' Alexander was shouting. 'This is your new daughter-in-law An Irish peasant . . . An illegitimate . . . illiterate . . . Irish peasant '
1860: Alexander Karolyis, only son of the wealthiest entrepreneur in New York, spends most of his adolescence battling within his father. Nothing he does is considered correct. The girl he loves is highly unsuitable, his behaviour is unruly, and, in a last-ditch attempt to marry him off to a suitable Protestant aristocrat, his father packs him off on a European Grand Tour. And while Alexander was feuding with his father, beautiful... 'Here she is ' Alexander was shouting. 'This is your new daughter-in-law An Irish peasant . . . An illegitimate . . . illiterate . . . Irish peasant ...
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cena:
98,30 |
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Magnolia Square
ISBN: 9781447262336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal.
But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate Voigt was at last able to marry Leon Emmerson, the man she loved, a Londoner like herself, but of mixed race. When old man Harvey, a powerful and wealthy figure in South London and great-grandfather to Kate's small son, heard of the match he was determined that young Matthew should not be raised by a 'darkie'. Slowly, insidiously, he began the fight to wrest Kate's son away... 1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal....
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cena:
72,42 |
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Forget-Me-Not Bride
ISBN: 9781447230199 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the Alazkan Klondike, at the height of the gold-rush, respectable women were thin on the ground and the San Franciscan based Peabody Marriage Bureau did a roaring trade despatching mail-order brides to women-starved stampeders.
When half-Irish Lilli Stullen boarded the S.S. Senator as a Peabody bride, she did so not because she was hungry for a gold-rich husband but because it was the only way she could remove her orphaned younger brother and sister from the clutches of their hated uncle. To Lilli, the sacrifice of marrying a man she had never met was small in comparison to... In the Alazkan Klondike, at the height of the gold-rush, respectable women were thin on the ground and the San Franciscan based Peabody Marriage Burea...
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cena:
98,30 |
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The Summer Queen
ISBN: 9781509841783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
41,36 |
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The Four of Us
ISBN: 9781447230618 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Four very different girls from different worlds meet on their first day of school in 1962. Artemis is the daughter of a self-made man; Geraldine is from an upper-class family; Kiki's father is a doctor and Primmie is a scholarship girl. They are inseparable, and when they leave school and move into a flat together it seems perfect. But it doesn't take long for their illusions about each other to be shattered, and they go their separate ways.
Each of them has a reason for not wishing to rekindle their friendship, so, years later, when Primmie posts a message on Friends Reunited in the hope... Four very different girls from different worlds meet on their first day of school in 1962. Artemis is the daughter of a self-made man; Geraldine is fr...
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cena:
87,95 |
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Vengeance in the Sun
ISBN: 9781447244639 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A broken love affair takes Lucy Matthews to the Villa d'Este as governess to the six-year-old Danielle Van de Naude. But instead of a refuge Lucy finds she has entered a world of intrigue and fear. Why did Danielle's previous governess die? Is someone trying to kill her too? Determined to find out, Lucy encounters death and murder as Danielle is kidnapped to thwart her father's political ambitions, and only Lucy can save her life. But who can she trust to help her? Ian Lyall, who watches her so disturbingly? Steve Patterson who wishes to marry her? The suave Bradley Van de Naude, Danielle's...
A broken love affair takes Lucy Matthews to the Villa d'Este as governess to the six-year-old Danielle Van de Naude. But instead of a refuge Lucy find...
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cena:
87,95 |
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Silver Shadows, Golden Dreams
ISBN: 9781447230052 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's not every child who is named after a motor car, and when little Daisy Ford discovers she's been abandoned by her mother, she resolves to put the name - and her unhappy years at the convent orphanage - behind her for ever.
Quite unaware of her haunting beauty, frighteningly innocent of the harsh ways of the outside world, Daisy makes her way to Hollywood, determined to become an actress in the great tradition of the stars she admired as a child. Taking the name Valentina, and refusing to reveal any details of her past, she is discovered by the brilliant Hungarian director Vidal... It's not every child who is named after a motor car, and when little Daisy Ford discovers she's been abandoned by her mother, she resolves to put the ...
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cena:
98,30 |
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Lion of Languedoc
ISBN: 9781447244707 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Accused of witchcraft and hunted by Louis XIV's fanatical Inquisitor, Marietta Riccardi is only rescued from being burned alive by the intervention of Leon de Villeneuve - the Lion of Languedoc. Small wonder that she falls in love with him Yet Leon is on his way to marry his childhood sweetheart, Elise, and to him Marietta is nothing but a tiresome peasant girl . . . beautiful and seductive perhaps, but an unwelcome distraction from his forthcoming wedding. Marietta knows that she should leave France - escape her persecutors and her hopeless love - yet she cannot tear herself away from...
Accused of witchcraft and hunted by Louis XIV's fanatical Inquisitor, Marietta Riccardi is only rescued from being burned alive by the intervention of...
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cena:
87,95 |