wyszukanych pozycji: 6
The Plain Sense of Things
ISBN: 9780803216198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, The Plain Sense of Things tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska family. These tales of sorrow and hope are connected by the sinews of need and flawed love that keep families together. A farm wife struggles to support her children after the death of her second husband; a young woman grapples with the shift from girlhood to motherhood; World War II wreaks havoc on those left behind; and a failing farmstead breaks a family's heart. Amid hardship and change, these interwoven stories illuminate the resilience and...
In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, The Plain Sense of Things tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska f...
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77,90 zł |
In Reach
ISBN: 9780803254831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships.
With insight, wry humor, and deep compassion, Joern renders a cast of recurring characters engaged in battles public and private, epic and mundane: a husband and wife find themselves the center of a local scandal; a widow yearns for companionship, but on her own terms; a father and son struggle with their broken relationship; a man longs for escape from a community s limited view of love;... In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tens...
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77,90 zł |
At the Corner of Past and Future: A Collection of Life Stories
ISBN: 9781496242785 / Angielski / 01-06-2025 Książka dostępna od: 01-06-2025 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 01-06-2025
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69,07 zł |
The Floor of the Sky
ISBN: 9780803276314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land-and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky, Toby Jenkins, an aging widow, is on the verge of losing her family's ranch when her granddaughter Lila-a city girl, sixteen and pregnant-shows up for the summer. While facing painful decisions about her future, Lila uncovers festering secrets about her grandmother's past-discoveries that spur Toby to reconsider the ambiguous ties she holds to her embittered sister Gertie, her loyal ranch hand...
In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land-and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carte...
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67,50 zł |
Toby\'s Last Resort
ISBN: 9781496232694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Toby Jenkins, the oldest surviving member of her family, has opened a summer residence program in the Nebraska Sandhills for the wounded and broken, misfits and dreamers. Besides her guests—a minister on sabbatical and a woman recovering from cancer treatment—Toby is joined by Anita and Luís, her hired help; Anita’s brother Gabe; and someone Toby least expected, her nearly estranged daughter, Nola Jean. Mother-daughter tensions, age-old prejudices, and generational divides challenge the members of this disparate community as they bump up against each other. Parallel conflicts occur...
Toby Jenkins, the oldest surviving member of her family, has opened a summer residence program in the Nebraska Sandhills for the wounded and broken, m...
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88,29 zł |
Re-Membering and Re-Imagining
ISBN: 9781606087459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most controversial ecumenical church event in decades, the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference shook the foundations of mainline Protestantism. In this diverse collection of reflections, poems, vignettes, speeches, letters, and artwork, participants offer a candid view of what actually occurred -- and of the aftershocks that followed.
The most controversial ecumenical church event in decades, the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference shook the foundations of mainline Protestantism. In this d...
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147,80 zł |