wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Prayers the Devil Answers
ISBN: 9781476772844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Depression-era Appalachia, a desperate sheriff's widow takes on her late husband's job and discovers that a prayer the devil answers comes at a terrible price. The year is 1936 and society provides no safety net for newly widowed Ellie Robbins, a woman in a small mountain town who suddenly has to support her family on her own. She's not trained to be a teacher or a nurse, the only respectable careers for a woman. So in order to care for her children, Ellie takes the only job available: that of her late husband, the sheriff. Ellie has long proven that she can handle herself, and her...
In Depression-era Appalachia, a desperate sheriff's widow takes on her late husband's job and discovers that a prayer the devil answers comes at a ter...
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92,13 zł |
The Songcatcher: A Ballad Novel
ISBN: 9781987728354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,94 zł |
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel
ISBN: 9780312573621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight."--The New York Times Book Review In 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father in National journalists descend on Wise County, intent upon exonerating the defendant, and on stereotyping the mountain community to satisfy their Depression-era... "Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narr... |
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79,56 zł |
MacPherson's Lament
ISBN: 9780345384744 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
Mary Higgins Clark Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN. Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill--a novice lawyer--from a charge that could send him to prison. It seems that eight women, the daughters of Confederate veterans, had asked Bill to sell their antebellum mansion. But the real estate deal is the cover for a calculated deception. As Bill finds himself facing fraud charges, his clients suddenly disappear without a trace. It will fall to Elizabeth to follow a... "Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
Mary Higgins Clark Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN. Forensic anthropologist Elizab... |
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33,47 zł |
The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel
ISBN: 9780312388874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The New York Times Bestseller Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb's crowning achievements. In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt---but the wheels of justice were mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged. Now, more than a century... The New York Times Bestseller Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, th... |
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87,98 zł |
Bimbos of the Death Sun
ISBN: 9780345483027 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller." *Mary Higgins Clark
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD "Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today's novelists." *San Diego Union-Tribune For one fateful weekend, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Rubicon, has all but taken over a usually ordinary hotel. Now the halls are alive with Trekkies, tech nerds, and fantasy gamers in their Viking finery *all of them eager to hail their hero, bestselling fantasy author Appin Dungannon: a diminutive despot whose towering ego more than compensates for his... "Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller." *Mary Higgins Clark
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD "Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no sup... |
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62,84 zł |
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
ISBN: 9780449149980 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill's fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on two complex cases. Eleanor Royden, a perfect lawyer's wife for twenty years, has shot her ex-husband and his wife in cold blood. And Donna Jean Morgan is implicated in the death of her Bible-thumping bigamist husband.
Bill's feminist firebrand partner, A. P. Hill, does her damnedest for Eleanor, an abused wife in denial, and Bill gallantly defends Donna Jean. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's forensic expertise, including her special knowledge of... When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill's fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on t...
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33,47 zł |
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy O
ISBN: 9780345369062 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.
When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace. Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those days are best left forgotten for Spencer Arrowood, too. But sometimes the past can't rest, and those who try to forget it are doomed to... Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.
When 1... |
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33,47 zł |
Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780345414946 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star-crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature. . . . The overall effect is spellbinding."
--The Washington Post Bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb is "a born storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark) who astonishes readers and reviewers with the power and scope of her talent, prompting the San Diego Union-Tribune to declare: "There is no one quite like her among present-day writers. No one better, either." Foggy Mountain Breakdown, the first-ever collection of Sharyn McCrumb's short fiction, is a... "In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star-crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature. . . . T...
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33,47 zł |
The Rosewood Casket: A Ballad Novel
ISBN: 9780312388867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Eloquent, lyrical, and richly textured . . . There is no one quite like McCrumb] among present-day writers. No one better either." --San Diego Union-Tribune With a career spanning decades, and superlatives from reviewers nationwide--whose bestselling novels have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and the LA Times--this is one of Sharyn McCrumb's most cherished novels. The stage is set for family drama when Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons come home to build him a coffin made from the special... "Eloquent, lyrical, and richly textured . . . There is no one quite like McCrumb] among present-day writers. No one better either." --San Diego... |
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79,56 zł |
Missing Susan
ISBN: 9780345483591 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb brings you her sixth Elizabeh MacPherson mystery novel.
The unsinkable Elizabeth is on tour of England's most famous murder sites, when Rowan Rover, the group leader, is quietly asked to commit murder. He does, of course, but not without misgivings--not the least of which is having Elizabeth MacPherson, canny observer and all-around murder spoiler, on his tail... "Sharyn McCrunb is definitely a rising star in the New Golden Age of mystery fiction. I look forward to reading her for a long time to come." Elizabeth Peters From the Paperback... Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb brings you her sixth Elizabeh MacPherson mystery novel.
The unsinkable Elizabeth is on tour of England's most fam... |
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79,60 zł |
Ghost Riders
ISBN: 9780895875761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,20 zł |