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A Piece of the World
ISBN: 9780803298231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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53,50 |
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Light from Arcturus
ISBN: 9780803297692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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58,37 |
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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. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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52,85 |
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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. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,82 |
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Unless the Wind Turns
ISBN: 9780803297814 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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53,50 |
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The Body of a Young Man
ISBN: 9780803297876 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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The Orange Tree
ISBN: 9780803298644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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53,50 |
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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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82,71 |
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The Quarry
ISBN: 9780803297791 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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68,10 |
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If a Lion Could Talk
ISBN: 9780803297784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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63,23 |
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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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43,76 |
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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. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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52,85 |
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Short Horror Stories: Supernatural Tales That Are Scarier Than The Dead
ISBN: 9781795644693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,86 |
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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. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,70 |
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Sherlock Puzzle Book (Volume 3): Spending A Day In London With Mycroft Holmes
ISBN: 9781796344288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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52,85 |
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The Brewers' Big Horses
ISBN: 9780803297869 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel son and later, as a widow, took over the business. Sara's struggle against the intolerance and hypocrisy of family and friends who disapproved of a woman running a brewery and opening a beer garden makes her a standout among the characters of Mildred Walker. The Brewers' Big Horses recreates the manners and traditions of Germans in America as Prohibition gets up steam. Mildred Walker, chronicler of...
Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came t...
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72,96 |
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Dr. Norton's Wife
ISBN: 9780803297821 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dr. Norton's Wife was praised for its quiet honesty and artistic integrity when it was first published in 1938. It stands up firmly as a portrait of a marriage subjected to the strain of unexpected invalidism. As a doctor's wife, Sue Norton is no stranger to matters of life and death. But medical shoptalk screens her from the realities of illness until she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Never clinical, Walker, herself the wife of a doctor, accurately describes the disease's progress and the adjustments necessary to cope with it. The result is a tender story of "the marriage of true...
Dr. Norton's Wife was praised for its quiet honesty and artistic integrity when it was first published in 1938. It stands up firmly as a portrait of a...
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The Curlew's Cry
ISBN: 9780803297579 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Curlew's Cry is the story of three decades in the life of Pamela Lacey and a Montana town. Descended from pioneers and the daughter of a rancher, Pamela lives according to her own script, and nothing seems to happen as expected. The world beats on--World War I, the influenza epidemic of 1917, the Great Depression--and local fortune rise and fall with the price of beef. For Pamela the fight that counts is defined by a sense of independence and pervasive loneliness, by the twists and turns of love and friendship. Mary Clearman Blew is the acclaimed author of Runaway, All But the Waltz:...
The Curlew's Cry is the story of three decades in the life of Pamela Lacey and a Montana town. Descended from pioneers and the daughter of a rancher, ...
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The Southwest Corner
ISBN: 9780803297685 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At eighty-three Marcia Elder was alert and active but felt insecure about facing another winter alone, yet she dreaded giving up her old home and entering a re-tirement facility. So, with great resourcefulness, she advertised for a companion and eventually staked out a corner of her own-one with a view. Mildred Walker's skill as a storyteller never falters in this portrayal of an elderly woman who won't give up.
At eighty-three Marcia Elder was alert and active but felt insecure about facing another winter alone, yet she dreaded giving up her old home and ente...
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48,63 |
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Fireweed
ISBN: 9780803297586 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers. Radios and flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to escape from an isolated place where wild violet fireweed grows to the edge of the woods. Annick Smith is a freelance writer, editor, and filmmaker. Her story,...
Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The...
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