wyszukanych pozycji: 25
Route 66 Sweetheart
ISBN: 9781596300705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Route 66 Sweetheart tells the story of a young woman growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 1930s. Marion (Mid) Lacy, who traces her ancestry back to the early New World Settlement of Nantucket, worries that she is overshadowed by more brilliant siblings and friends. In an era restricted by economic hard times and haunted by the prospect of approaching world war, she learns that all are counted in the creation of history, even the "sweetheart" of a distant admirer who travels "the Mother Road."
Route 66 Sweetheart tells the story of a young woman growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 1930s. Marion (Mid) Lacy, who traces her ancestry ba...
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77,18 zł |
Route 66 Dreamer
ISBN: 9781596300835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Route 66 Dreamer is Michael Lund's tenth novel set in the historical background of Route 66, the Nation's "Mother Road." Earlier novels depicted life as it was in the Midwest during the early golden ages of interstate highways and experiences of related characters in "Growing Up on Route 66." The current 5-volume series, headlined At Home and Away, chronicles an American family during times of peace and war from 1915 to 2015. The first book, Route 66 Sweetheart (2011), is set mostly in and around Rutherford, New Jersey, during the 1930s. Route 66 Dreamer (2012) features the son of a Swedish...
Route 66 Dreamer is Michael Lund's tenth novel set in the historical background of Route 66, the Nation's "Mother Road." Earlier novels depicted life ...
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77,18 zł |
Maddy's Game
ISBN: 9781544681344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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58,97 zł |
Route 66 Spring
ISBN: 9781888725988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the fifth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel series, the lives of four young Missourians are changed when a bottle comes to the surface of one of the state's many natural springs. Inside is a letter written by a girl a dozen years after the end of the Civil War. Lucy Rivers Johns' epistle contains a sad story of family failure and a powerful plea for help. This message from the last century crystallizes the individual frustrations of Janet Masters, Freddy Sills, Louis Clark, and Roberta Green, a group of kids growing up near Route 66 around 1960. Their response to the past charts a...
In the fifth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel series, the lives of four young Missourians are changed when a bottle comes to the surface of one ...
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77,18 zł |
Route 66 Choir: A Comedy
ISBN: 9781596300583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Route 66 Choir Stanley Measure takes early retirement just before September 11, 2001, and his impulsive decisions participate in an unraveling of confidence in the American way of life. His wife Felicia finds that everything she holds dear is in danger of coming apart: her marriage, her church, her business, and even her country. Who or what can orchestrate the recovery of harmony necessary to sustain the spirit of the Mother Road?
In Route 66 Choir Stanley Measure takes early retirement just before September 11, 2001, and his impulsive decisions participate in an unraveling of c...
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77,18 zł |
Route 66 Kids
ISBN: 9781888725704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder about their origin. When kids asked "Where do I come from?" in the 1950s, they were really asking about sex, the biggest mystery for those growing up in an age of American innocence. Cold War children also wanted to know more about their parents and the community which surrounded them. Central characters in this novel, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, find out about the past in the structures of the Missouri small town they live in, which is located...
Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder abo...
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77,18 zł |
Miss Route 66
ISBN: 9781888725964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the fourth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel Series, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contest. Now married and with teenage children in St. Louis, she recounts her youthful adventure in this small town along "America's Highway." At the same time, she plans a return to Fairfield in order to right injustices she feels were done to some young contestants in the Miss Route 66 Pageant. Throughout this journey she wonders what, if anything, was feminine in the "Mother Road" of the 1950s.
In the fourth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel Series, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contes...
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77,18 zł |
Minimalism: A Beginner's Guide to Simplify Your Life
ISBN: 9781506130644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Minimalism: A Beginner's Guide to Simplify Your Life If you are interested in learning How To Declutter, De-Stress And Simplify Your Life With Simple Living, this book is your first step to learning how to live more with less. Minimalism: A Beginner's Guide to Simplify Your Life will teach you the fundamental basics of minimalism, all in simple terms that even the most novice of beginners can understand and implement. In this book you will learn: - What Minimalism Really Is - What Minimalism Definitely Is Not - Who is Minimalism Good For - The Many Benefits of Minimalism - How to Start...
Minimalism: A Beginner's Guide to Simplify Your Life If you are interested in learning How To Declutter, De-Stress And Simplify Your Life With Simple ...
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27,28 zł |
Growing Up on Route 66
ISBN: 9781888725315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the children growing up there as the "Circle." That time and place are remembered by the novel's narrator as ideal, but closer scrutiny repeatedly--and often humorously--complicates this innocent picture. In growing up we continually confront things that do not make sense. Then, in sudden moments of inspiration the pieces come together. For those growing up in the 1950s, the biggest mystery of childhood was sex. And central characters in this story,...
Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the ch...
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77,18 zł |
The Lazy Investors' Guide
ISBN: 9781502945310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Save money. Retire early. The lazy way. So you've heard of lazy investing? But you're not quite sure what it's all about? You want to invest your money wisely, while avoiding crazy high fees and shady brokers? You know you need to save for retirement, but you don't know how? If this sounds like you, then The Lazy Investors' Guide is exactly what you need Investing doesn't have to be as difficult as it's usually made out to be. There's got to be an easier way to do it right, with minimal effort, and end up ahead in the race. Investing has got to be less about paying fees to others (Brokers...
Save money. Retire early. The lazy way. So you've heard of lazy investing? But you're not quite sure what it's all about? You want to invest your mone...
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40,94 zł |
Route 66 Chapel
ISBN: 9781596300125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When the forces of progress threaten the foundation of small town life-a small church-five senior citizens, a mysterious newcomer, and one young couple band together in an unlikely campaign to save it. The embattled meeting point of old and new is Route 66 Chapel, a building curiously linked to America's "Mother Road."
When the forces of progress threaten the foundation of small town life-a small church-five senior citizens, a mysterious newcomer, and one young coupl...
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77,18 zł |
Across the Lines of Conflict: Facilitating Cooperation to Build Peace
ISBN: 9780231704502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided countries, including Burundi, Cyprus, Estonia, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, that have experienced communal conflicts in recent years. In Estonia and Guyana, peacebuilding initiatives sought to ward off violence. In Burundi and Sri Lanka, initiatives focused on ending ongoing hostilities,...
Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties lear...
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300,88 zł |
How to Not Tell a War Story
ISBN: 9781596300798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) HOW TO NOT TELL A WAR STORY is a collection of short stories about veterans who went to war but left without a war story to tell. Forty years after their experience, these veterans begins question if there is something more to say about their military service. Among other things, they come to appreciate the lovers, friends, and family who helped them shape a new, post-war identity. " . . . when the courage of NFL star Tillman was referred to, or Jessica Lynch was rescued, they all found themselves thinking back to their long-ago tours. Did they have stories? Maybe memory had played tricks on...
HOW TO NOT TELL A WAR STORY is a collection of short stories about veterans who went to war but left without a war story to tell. Forty years after th...
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Eating with Veterans
ISBN: 9781596301009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Only when I had finished a good draft of most of these stories did I realize the characters were often seen eating--eating and talking. I realized then that this was no accident, as most of these characters are aging veterans who look for places to voice their thoughts. And throughout all ages and in all cultures, sharing a meal allows us to put into words what we have experienced. When wine is added, of course, tongues are even looser. In these pages, then, sometimes older vets eat with younger ones; on other occasions they share a table with civilians; a few times they are a group by...
Only when I had finished a good draft of most of these stories did I realize the characters were often seen eating--eating and talking. I realized the...
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77,18 zł |
Farewell, Route 66
ISBN: 9781596301085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The title of this book might suggest that I'm saying goodbye to the central subject of my fiction. That is not the case. A fifth and final book in this At Home and Away novel series is in progress because, like the rebirth of the Mother Road as "Historic Route 66," the story of America is always adding new chapters connected to its past. This five-volume novel series chronicles an American family during times of peace and war from 1915 to 2015. The first book, Route 66 Sweetheart, is set mostly in and around Rutherford, New Jersey, during the 1930s. Route 66 Dreamer features the son of a...
The title of this book might suggest that I'm saying goodbye to the central subject of my fiction. That is not the case. A fifth and final book in thi...
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77,18 zł |
The Victorian Serial
ISBN: 9780813913148 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund provide a new approach to the study of installment literature by showing how it embodied a view of life intrinsic to Victorian culture. They examine how the serial format affected the ways Victorian audiences interpreted sixteen major works of poetry and fiction. Their findings show that Victorian interpretations were different from those of twentieth century single-volume readings. Hughes and Lund conclude that in order to understand Victorian literature, we must understand serialization, since it was the vehicle for the best literature of the age. Further,...
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund provide a new approach to the study of installment literature by showing how it embodied a view of life intrinsic to ...
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367,53 zł |
The Victorian Serial
ISBN: 9780813929385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund provide a new approach to the study of installment literature by showing how it embodied a view of life intrinsic to Victorian culture. They examine how the serial format affected the ways Victorian audiences interpreted sixteen major works of poetry and fiction. Their findings show that Victorian interpretations were different from those of twentieth century single-volume readings. Hughes and Lund conclude that in order to understand Victorian literature, we must understand serialization, since it was the vehicle for the best literature of the age. Further,...
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund provide a new approach to the study of installment literature by showing how it embodied a view of life intrinsic to ...
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246,11 zł |
A Left-Hander on Route 66
ISBN: 9781888725889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fairfield, Missouri native Hugh Noone knew he had been born on the wrong side of the tracks, and society's reaction to his left-handedness convinced him that he would never enjoy the promise represented by Route 66 or new freedoms of the Sexual Revolution. In fact, he writes his life story from jail, appealing a wrongful conviction and imprisonment twenty years after the event. But revealing the details of his past and effecting a resolution of his case lead to a surprising rearrangement of his views. About Michael Lund's earlier Route 66 novels: "extremely heartwarming and nostalgic look at...
Fairfield, Missouri native Hugh Noone knew he had been born on the wrong side of the tracks, and society's reaction to his left-handedness convinced h...
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77,18 zł |
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
ISBN: 9780813918754 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer&emdash;-a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs. Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace. Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work portrays... For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected... |
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367,53 zł |
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
ISBN: 9780813929378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer&emdash;-a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs. Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace. Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work portrays... For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected... |
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218,79 zł |