wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Vows
ISBN: 9780743249089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Vows is a compelling story of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. Peter Manseau's riveting evocation of his parents' parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their experiences in the seminary and convent, and how they met while tending to the homeless of Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the riot-prone 1960s is a page-turning meditation on the effect that love can have on profound faith.
Vows is a compelling story of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. Peter Manseau's riveti...
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78,25 zł |
The Jefferson Bible: A Biography
ISBN: 9780691205694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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108,78 zł |
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
ISBN: 9781416538714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this acclaimed fiction debut, "a rich, often ironic homage to Yiddish culture and language" (Publishers Weekly), Peter Manseau weaves 100 years of Jewish history, the sad fate of an ancient language, and a love story shaped by destiny into a truly great American novel. In a five-story walkup in Baltimore, nonagenarian Itsik Malpesh--the last Yiddish poet in America--spends his days lamenting the death of his language and dreaming of having his memoirs and poems translated into a living tongue. So when a twenty-one-year-old translator and collector of Judaica crosses his...
In this acclaimed fiction debut, "a rich, often ironic homage to Yiddish culture and language" (Publishers Weekly), Peter Manseau weaves 100...
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78,25 zł |
One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History
ISBN: 9780316100014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking new look at the story of America
At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the Puritans and the shining city on the hill give us just one way to understand the United States. Rather than recite American history from a Christian vantage point, Peter Manseau proves that what really happened is worth a close, fresh look. Thomas Jefferson himself collected books on all religions and required that the brand new Library of Congress take his books, since Americans needed to consider the "twenty gods or no god" he... A groundbreaking new look at the story of America
At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent sce... |
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108,63 zł |
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
ISBN: 9781328557063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |
The Maiden of All Our Desires
ISBN: 9781950994212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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117,33 zł |
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible
ISBN: 9780743232777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback -- the book that caused a religious and critically acclaimed stir. Publishers Weekly called it "the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road." The Buffalo News hailed it as "one of the most eccentric and fascinating books of the year." O, The Oprah Magazine said "This collection proves that fear and trembling are human, but a sense of humor is divine."
Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet have created a work of calling that is as odd, moving, and inspiring as the people and the scriptures... Now in paperback -- the book that caused a religious and critically acclaimed stir. Publishers Weekly called it "the most original and insightf...
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91,07 zł |