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The Kin
ISBN: 9781504014786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and...
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the ni...
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Shadow of a Hero
ISBN: 9781504015950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) To save a country, a girl and her grandfather must learn what it means to be a hero The greatest hero in the history of Varina was baptized in a cave. Every schoolchild knows the story. His parents were on their way to the city when a storm drove them to take shelter in the mountainside, along with a priest, a bandit, and a scholar. When the storm did not abate, they asked the priest to give their child a name, and he christened the boy Restaur Vax. The boy would grow to be a warrior, a scholar, and a man of god, and his name would lead an oppressed people to independence for the first time....
To save a country, a girl and her grandfather must learn what it means to be a hero The greatest hero in the history of Varina was baptized in a cave....
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64,40 |
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In the Palace of the Khans
ISBN: 9780955780585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A thrilling new adventure for young adults by internationally celebrated and prizewinning author, Peter Dickinson. Nigel's father is the British ambassador in Dirzhan, a small country up among the mountains way out east. It has one foot in the middle ages and one in the age of the internet. Its national myth is called The Vengeance of the Khan. On his first morning there he settles down write his blog. He's off to a good start, invited to visit the Khan's daughter Taeela, a real princess living in a real palace. Her father rules Dirzhan with an iron fist. His people are divided into feuding...
A thrilling new adventure for young adults by internationally celebrated and prizewinning author, Peter Dickinson. Nigel's father is the British ambas...
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59,50 |
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My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community
ISBN: 9780228001072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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541,84 |
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Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature Into Film
ISBN: 9780802044754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Audiences often measure the success of film adaptations by how faithfully they adhere to their original source material. However, fidelity criticism tells only part of the story of adaptation. For example, the changes made to literary sources in the course of creating their film treatments are often fascinating in terms of what they reveal about the different processes of genre recognition and gender identification in both media, as well as the social, cultural, and historical contexts governing their production and reception. In Screening Gender, Framing Genre, Peter... Audiences often measure the success of film adaptations by how faithfully they adhere to their original source material. However, fidelity criticis... |
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212,87 |
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AK
ISBN: 9781504014892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a child. He is a warrior one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government of Nagala. He has no family but the boys who fight beside him, and he owns nothing but his AK-47 rifle. This is the only life he has ever known, and it is one he understands right until the day the standoff ends and his life changes forever. Paul buries his AK and heads north to join a school and attempt to live life as just another child. But at...
A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a chil...
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The Weathermonger
ISBN: 9780007140312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson's cult classics England in the future - but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes - a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to a more primitive lifestyle. It is a time of hardship and fear... When 16-year-old Geoffrey, a "weathermonger" starts to repair his uncle's motorboat, he and his sister Sally are condemned as witches. Fleeing for their lives, they travel to France - where they discover that everything is normal. Returning to England, they set... Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson's cult classics England in the future - but an England that is less rather than more civilised. ... |
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Hindsight: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved It s been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan s Preparatory School. When a biographer asks the now-middle-aged novelist about his youth, it triggers memories that Rogers thought he had lost forever. He begins writing about the summer of 1940, when the Nazis took Paris and his entire boarding school was evacuated to a country house in Devon. There the boys discovered a pastoral countryside whose woods held...
In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that nee...
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Play Dead: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Reginald Hill).
Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a tiny grandson while his mother is busy seeking public office. Sad and resentful, Poppy feels completely detached from the nannies she's now forced to associate with when she brings little Toby to the park to play. But her discomfort is replaced by a creeping dread when she notices a stranger watching her and... A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Regina...
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64,40 |
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Eva
ISBN: 9780440207665 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1990 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . . But there is something, Eva senses, that she's not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?
THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to ...
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34,07 |
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A Bone from a Dry Sea
ISBN: 9781504014823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive
She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child's people have made their homes by the bay for as long as anyone can remember, diving for mussels and any other food the ocean will serve to them. They have no language; they have no names. Although they know love and jealousy and pride, they are not quite human--not yet. This child of the sea will show them the way. Two million years later, Vinny is visiting her father at an archaeological site in Africa... On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive
She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as s... |
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64,40 |
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Tulku
ISBN: 9781504014915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) When Theodore s safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life and his faith are in danger Thirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life and never felt terror, until his father s missionary settlement is attacked and burned in the night. Theodore follows his father s orders and hides in the forest, only creeping back the next morning to see if anything or anyone has survived. But before he reaches the smoldering wreckage he runs into the formidable Mrs. Jones, a botanist and adventurer who s traveling across China on horseback with her young companion, Lung. The three head into...
When Theodore s safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life and his faith are in danger Thirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life ...
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In the Palace of the Khans
ISBN: 9781504015042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In a far-off kingdom, an English boy befriends the mad ruler s daughter The Khan of Dirzhan is a monster. Nigel, the son of the English ambassador to a backward Asian country, is transfixed by stories of the Khan s brutality. It is said that he had his own brother strangled, that he once shot two cabinet ministers to death during a government meeting, and that he will stop at nothing to keep his daughter safe. At first, these are nothing but stories, but when Nigel and the Khan s daughter form an unlikely friendship, the terror of the Khan will become all too real. Enlisted by the Khan to...
In a far-off kingdom, an English boy befriends the mad ruler s daughter The Khan of Dirzhan is a monster. Nigel, the son of the English ambassador to ...
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90,93 |
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World stages, local audiences: Essays on performance, place, and politics
ISBN: 9780719081743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting point, Dickinson maps the spaces of connection and contestation, the flows of sentiment and social responsibility, produced by different communities in response to global sports spectacles. He also analyses how such topics are taken up in the work of playwrights, conceptual, installation, and...
World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, pro...
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432,86 |
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Chuck and Danielle
ISBN: 9780440869795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Chuck is a whippet. A very nervous whippet, who's scared of absolutely everything: paper bags, pigeons, supermarket trolleys, cats. Some people say Chuck's a wimpet, not a whippet & Mum keeps pretending she's going to give Chuck away, but Danielle loves her whippet & knows that there's more to Chuck than meets the eye.
Chuck is a whippet. A very nervous whippet, who's scared of absolutely everything: paper bags, pigeons, supermarket trolleys, cats. Some people say Ch...
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50,87 |
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Skeleton-In-Waiting: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain s beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner Piers Chandler and enchanted by their infant son, Davy. While visiting a certain Mrs. Walsh a mysterious old woman claiming to be a royal relation, a Romanov who escaped the terror of the Russian Revolution Louise and little Davy are nearly taken captive by would-be kidnappers. Through pluck and quick...
A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in ...
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My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community
ISBN: 9780228001089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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164,49 |
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Cagetalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage
ISBN: 9781580465090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. In CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, Peter Dickinson showcases a collection of vividly revealing and unpublished interviews given by Cage in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. For this paperback edition, Dickinson presents a new preface noting developments in Cage criticism since the book's publication in 2006, updated comments from several of...
John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely ...
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130,58 |
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The Lizard in the Cup
ISBN: 9781504005043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Simulated war games morph into the real thing when a crime wave hits a Greek island in this fast-paced mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson The West Indies island of Hog s Cay is soon to open for tourism, but the money behind the deal comes from the Mafia, which is ready to turn the island into the next Vegas. And the politicos in charge have given Greek tycoon Thanassi Thanatos the contract. That s where James Pibble comes in. The former Scotland Yard superintendent has come to Thanatos s hideaway on the Ionian island of Hyos to protect the Greek tycoon from the Mob, which doesn...
Simulated war games morph into the real thing when a crime wave hits a Greek island in this fast-paced mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickins...
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71,98 |
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Some Deaths Before Dying
ISBN: 9780446676120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Harrowing Suspense in the Most Unexpected Places
Paralyzed by a debilitating illness, 90-year-old Rachel Matson finds herself confronted by a disturbing mystery -- one that begins when a 19th-century pistol that belonged to her husband pops up on Antiques Roadshow. Determined to solved it, she begins the arduous task of teasing the past from the shadows, uncovering a tale bearing a sordid secret -- and an even more devastating truth. Harrowing Suspense in the Most Unexpected Places
Paralyzed by a debilitating illness, 90-year-old Rachel Matson finds herself confronted by a dist... |
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