wyszukanych pozycji: 14
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All Over But the Shoutin'
ISBN: 9780679774020 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the habit of running out on the people who needed him most. But at the center of this soaring memoir is Bragg's mother, who went... A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin ... |
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72,62 |
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
ISBN: 9780062078247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) New York Times Bestseller The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis--and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like -Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On- and -Great Balls of Fire, - that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and... New York Times Bestseller The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, trac... |
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72,58 |
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The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
ISBN: 9780525658818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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131,15 |
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story LP
ISBN: 9780062326683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis--and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like -Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On- and -Great Balls of Fire, - that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances;... The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of a... |
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106,97 |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Southern Table
ISBN: 9781400032693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
76,44 |
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The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
ISBN: 9780593081419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
68,80 |
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The Prince of Frogtown
ISBN: 9781400032686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The final volume of Rick Bragg's bestselling and beloved American saga documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick's youth, to Jacksonville's one-hundred-year-old mill and to Rick's father, the troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow.
Inspired by Rick Bragg's love for his stepson, The Prince of Frogtown also chronicles his own journey into fatherhood, as he learns to avoid the pitfalls of his forebearers. With candor, insight, and tremendous humor, Bragg seamlessly weaves these luminous narrative threads together and delivers... The final volume of Rick Bragg's bestselling and beloved American saga documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of R...
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68,80 |
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
ISBN: 9780593310809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
68,80 |
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Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
ISBN: 9780375725524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others.
For twenty years, Bragg has focused his efforts on the common man. So while some of these stories are about people whose names we know-such as Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two sons-most are people whose names we've never heard, people who have survived tornadoes and swamps, racism and bombs. In incisive, unadorned... With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offer...
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cena:
64,97 |
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The Most They Ever Had
ISBN: 9780817356835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the best payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and...
In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across ...
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cena:
60,96 |
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Pat Conroy: Our Lifelong Friendship
ISBN: 9781648210891 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
72,58 |
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The Game: In the Press Box at the Iron Bowl
ISBN: 9781466365735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book is about Alabama-Auburn football; specifically 20 games played during the five decades when Jimmy Smothers sat in the press box at the famed Iron Bowls. His columns reflect how special this rivalry is between these teams.
This book is about Alabama-Auburn football; specifically 20 games played during the five decades when Jimmy Smothers sat in the press box at the famed...
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cena:
80,26 |
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What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History
ISBN: 9781476763071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller--A Perfect Storm on land--that chronicles America's biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns. April 27, 2011 was the climax of a three-day superstorm that unleashed terror from Arkansas to New York. Entire communities were flattened, whole neighborhoods erased. Tornadoes left scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from terrible destruction emerged...
Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller--A Perfect Storm on land--that chronicles America's biggest tornado outbreak sin...
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72,58 |
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New Delta Rising
ISBN: 9781617031502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Mississippi Delta has been called -the most southern place on earth.- This fertile expanse of flat land sprawls along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, southward to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Culturally rich as well, the Delta is the land where the blues began. New Delta Rising is an exploration of Mississippi Delta life and a celebration of the indefatigable Delta people who live there. Award-winning photographer Magdalena Sole spent a year interviewing and photographing hundreds of residents in the Mississippi Delta. The deep connection she felt comes through in... The Mississippi Delta has been called -the most southern place on earth.- This fertile expanse of flat land sprawls along the Mississippi River fro... |
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155,77 |