wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Undrowned Child
ISBN: 9781444000047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Venice is dying - and a long-ago prophecy of an enchanted child has been awakened from the canal's poisoned waters.
Venice is dying - and a long-ago prophecy of an enchanted child has been awakened from the canal's poisoned waters.
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41,35 zł |
The Book of Human Skin
ISBN: 9781408809648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 12-year-old Minguillo, who has already contrived to lose one sibling, is listening to the birth-cries of his new sister Marcella, a threat to his inheritance. Minguillo's jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But Marcella is not quite the soft target Minguillo imagines.
12-year-old Minguillo, who has already contrived to lose one sibling, is listening to the birth-cries of his new sister Marcella, a threat to his inhe...
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71,88 zł |
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters
ISBN: 9781408833445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long-flowing locks. And when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty in Ireland, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognise their potential. It begins with a singing and dancing septet, with Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not the sisters' singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. And their hair will take dark-hearted Darcy, bickering twins Berenice...
It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long-flowing locks. And when seven sisters, born into fatherless...
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49,75 zł |
Virago Book of Christmas
ISBN: 9781860499227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now, the circumstances have changed, but for women today, Christmas is still a time of joys garnered against the odds. We have moved on from stables and mangers to supermarkets and microwaves; palm fronds and shepherds have given way to a spangled conifer and a fat man in a red suit. In this anthology, reflecting the experiences of more than 50 women at Christmas, Ntozake Shange andAgatha Christierub shoulders with Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf. Curl up with a...
Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now, the circumstances hav...
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154,77 zł |
The Remedy: A Novel of London & Venice
ISBN: 9780060859862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this darkly beautiful and hauntingly vivid novel, Michelle Lovric, acclaimed author of The Floating Book, embarks on an unforgettable journey through the winding alleys and shadowy streets of eighteenth-century Venice and London. With vibrant prose, she weaves together the stories of three disparate yet intertwined characters who find themselves embroiled in a world of murder and secrets. There is Mimosina Dolcezza, the Venetian actress employed as an agente provocatrice by surreptitious European power brokers. By fortune and circumstance, she begins an affair with the... In this darkly beautiful and hauntingly vivid novel, Michelle Lovric, acclaimed author of The Floating Book, embarks on an unforgettable j... |
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75,11 zł |
The Floating Book
ISBN: 9780060578572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Venice, 1468. Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany with the foundations of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. While Bruno and Felice become entwined in an obsessive love triangle with a beautiful Dalmatian woman named Sosia, Wendelin tempts the fates by publishing the first edition of the erotic Roman poems of Catullus -- a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change all of their lives... Venice, 1468. Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany with the foundations of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together w... |
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70,69 zł |
The Wishing Bones
ISBN: 9781444009972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A brand new exquisitely imagined and superbly plotted historical fantasy novel from award-winning author, Michelle Lovric.
A brand new exquisitely imagined and superbly plotted historical fantasy novel from award-winning author, Michelle Lovric.
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36,17 zł |