wyszukanych pozycji: 166
The Turning
ISBN: 9780330441353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, abrupt transitions. The seventeen stories overlap to paint a convincing and cohesive picture of a world where people struggle against the terrible weight of their past and challenge the lives they have made for themselves.
In these extraordinary tales about ordinary people from ordinary places, Tim Winton describes turnings of all kinds: second thoughts, changes of heart...
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51,58 zł |
A New Dawn in Deer Isle
ISBN: 9781523803477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Every once in a while we read a book that profoundly affects the way we perceive our lives. A NEW DAWN IN DEER ISLE is one of those rare books. A common man of modest means, world-weary George McLast decides to forget all his problems and take the trip he and his beloved wife had only dreamed about before she passed away three years earlier. Despite all the unnerving feelings he's been getting in his chest, his son's disapproval, and his precarious financial situation, he sets out across America following the same route John Steinbeck took in 1959 with his pet poodle, Charley. And as the...
Every once in a while we read a book that profoundly affects the way we perceive our lives. A NEW DAWN IN DEER ISLE is one of those rare books. A comm...
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46,97 zł |
Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost
ISBN: 9781478160588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost is not a story of spooks and spirits. It is an entertaining weave of heartrending emotion, humor, and a sprinkling of little known facts. The novel also examines the lives of two very different men. One is mortal, the other immortal. One is painfully ordinary, the other world famous. But despite their differences, they both learn some invaluable lessons from one another during their few days together. Jack Phelan is a forty-two-year-old underachiever. He lives in South Florida, and though he mows lawns for a living, he's not what you might think. He's got an...
Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost is not a story of spooks and spirits. It is an entertaining weave of heartrending emotion, humor, and a sprinkling of...
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56,13 zł |
Cloudstreet
ISBN: 9781035038930 / Miękka / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,74 zł |
The Shepherd's Hut
ISBN: 9781509863846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'A page-turning heartbreaker' Emma Donoghue, author of Room For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. And so Jaxie runs. There's just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven't reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only...
'A page-turning heartbreaker' Emma Donoghue, author of Room For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes...
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56,74 zł |
An Open Swimmer
ISBN: 9780330412582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tim Winton's debut novel is a haunting and powerful meditation on the horrors and joys of adulthood, and the conflict between ideals and reality.
Tim Winton's debut novel is a haunting and powerful meditation on the horrors and joys of adulthood, and the conflict between ideals and reality.
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60,35 zł |
The Turning: Stories
ISBN: 9780743279796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds -- changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not...
Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds -- changes of hear...
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91,69 zł |
Scission
ISBN: 9780330412605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking.
Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking.
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54,86 zł |
Riders
ISBN: 9780684822778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An exploration of marriage and the rich relationship that can exist between father and daughter, The Riders is a gorgeously wrought novel from the award-winning author Tim Winton. After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house, Jennifer returns to Australia to liquidate their assets. When Scully arrives at Shannon Airport to pick up Jennifer and their seven-year-old daughter,...
An exploration of marriage and the rich relationship that can exist between father and daughter, The Riders is a gorgeously wrought novel from ...
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82,99 zł |
Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities (hc)
ISBN: 9781641138802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book's authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve. Their chapters discuss findings from research grounded in diverse theories, including institutional ethnography, critical disability theory, and critical race theory. The...
Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge ...
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579,43 zł |
Juice: A page-turning epic about survival and resilience from the twice Booker-shortlisted author
ISBN: 9781035050598 / Twarda / 2024 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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113,57 zł |
The Shepherd's Hut
ISBN: 9781250215048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,10 zł |
Cloudstreet
ISBN: 9781250035516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty... From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. |
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96,10 zł |
Dirt Music
ISBN: 9780743228480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier's Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreading Award-Readers Choice Book of the Year Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman--a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a "project of forgetting." Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White...
Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier's Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreadi...
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82,95 zł |
The Riders
ISBN: 9781509871117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, only his small daughter steps off the plane . . . So begins Tim Winton's The Riders. This is Scully's desperate journey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn't know.
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated ...
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51,58 zł |
In the Winter Dark
ISBN: 9780330412599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Acorss the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again. Winton delivers a truely spine-tingling thriller.
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Aco...
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54,86 zł |
Juice
ISBN: 9781035050819 / Miękka / 2024 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,72 zł |
Eyrie
ISBN: 9781250069337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and new--always revealing the raw, instinctual drives that lure us together and rend us apart. Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award |
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82,99 zł |