wyszukanych pozycji: 29
Light from Arcturus
ISBN: 9780803297692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stuck in the middle of Nebraska in the late nineteenth century, Julia Hauser felt restless. "The four walls of her parlor bound her world too securely," writes Mildred Walker. But what could she do? She was married to a dull small-town merchant and soon confined by children. She lacked money and social position. Light from Arcturus shows how Julia stepped beyond sacrifice and duty, impressed herself on a larger scene, fed her spirit, and grew in dignity. Grounded in memorable events, this novel illustrates the significance of the period's great world's fairs to the early settlers. The...
Stuck in the middle of Nebraska in the late nineteenth century, Julia Hauser felt restless. "The four walls of her parlor bound her world too securely...
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67,83 zł |
A Piece of the World
ISBN: 9780803298231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Calder Bailey's parents divorce and her mother needs some time to put her house in order, Calder is dismayed to learn that she's expected to leave her California neighborhood to stay with her grandmother in Weldon, a village in Vermont. When Calder discovers a mysterious rock, an enormous green and strangely shaped serpentine boulder in the deep woods above town, she is drawn into friendships with Walt, a boy whose family owns the rock and the property it sits on, and with Mr. Cooley, an elderly traveler and retired professor of geology staying at the local inn. These friendships are...
When Calder Bailey's parents divorce and her mother needs some time to put her house in order, Calder is dismayed to learn that she's expected to leav...
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63,58 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 1): Unsolved Cases And Riddles Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9781792130236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,40 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 4): Unsolved Mysteries And Cases Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9798678509215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,12 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 6): Complex Murder Cases And Puzzles Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9781702918107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,25 zł |
Short Horror Stories: Supernatural Tales That Are Scarier Than The Dead
ISBN: 9781702915922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,49 zł |
Bagbris the Word-searcher RPG: The Quest to Save The Sanctuary (Word Search Meets LitRPG)
ISBN: 9781702917018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,01 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 5): Crimes Of Moriarty Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9781702918091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,25 zł |
Medical Meeting
ISBN: 9780803297883 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dr. Henry Baker and his wife, Liz, have spent twelve years developing a cure for tuberculosis. Working at a lab in their home, they have persisted without adequate funding and assistance, sacrificing new clothes and vacations to make their contribution to humanity. Tests have so far proved very encouraging. At the beginning of Medical Meeting they are ready to announce their discovery at a convention in Chicago. What promises to be a reward for years of work, a great moment to savor, turns into a disaster, professionally and possibly personally.
Dr. Henry Baker and his wife, Liz, have spent twelve years developing a cure for tuberculosis. Working at a lab in their home, they have persisted wit...
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52,42 zł |
The Quarry
ISBN: 9780803297791 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about-and to feel the national history that they could not escape. Originally published in 1947 and considered one of...
In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to...
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76,34 zł |
The Orange Tree
ISBN: 9780803298644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As in Chekhov s play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker s Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives and yet from such a seemingly ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues. Editing Walker s last novel, which the author reworked for nearly two decades, Carmen Pearson has found indications that the Chekhov play had in fact been a template that Walker contemporized in The Orange Tree.
The novel centers on two families living in Boston in the 1970s: an older couple, Tiresa and Paulo Romano, and the... As in Chekhov s play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker s Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often u...
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63,58 zł |
The Body of a Young Man
ISBN: 9780803297876 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student. Hoping to gain perspective and peace of mind, he travels with his wife, Phyllis, to Vermont to spend the summer at the farm of old friends, Josh and Lucy Blair.The Body of a Young Man is a deeply moving story of four people whose friendship asks more than they can give and offers more than they can take. Only in observing another tragedy does James begin to see vulnerability as a virtue and ambiguity as a source of strength."
James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student. Hoping to gain perspective and peace of mind, ...
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63,58 zł |
If a Lion Could Talk
ISBN: 9780803297784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by their "journey into strangeness." Marcus Ryegate returns to Massachusetts obsessed by a beautiful Indian woman. For sermonizing about her, he pays a heavy price. Harriet, one of Mildred Walker's most fully realized characters, writes in her journal about "the effect of the Wilderness on civilized persons who are...
Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With...
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72,08 zł |
Winter Wheat
ISBN: 9780803297418 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is " Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, who wrote nine of her thirteen novels while living in Montana.
For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's viv...
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89,15 zł |
Unless the Wind Turns
ISBN: 9780803297814 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Davis has a dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere. There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, Serena, are shallow and unsatisfying. In the late 1930s, he tries to rekindle their marriage by bringing her to a special place from his past the Montana mountains. He is chagrined when she asks other people to join them on the camping trip. Plans are further disrupted by a catastrophe a forest fire that rages uncontrolled for three days. Forced to reach outward to others in this crisis, the members of the party ultimately have to face themselves...
John Davis has a dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere. There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, S...
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63,58 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 4): Unsolved Mysteries And Cases Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9781702916868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,25 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 1): Unsolved Cases And Riddles Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9781702915748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,25 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 3): Spending A Day In London With Mycroft Holmes
ISBN: 9781702915830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,25 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 2): Bloody Murders Of Moriarty Documented By Dr John Watson
ISBN: 9781796342369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,12 zł |
Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 1-3): Compilation Of 3 Books With Additional Bonus Contents By Mrs Hudson
ISBN: 9781796698800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,56 zł |