wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Print, Poetics, and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia
ISBN: 9789067182331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study presents the text and first English translation of a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic called the tale of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim Leman, the hero's name. This is a famous southern Batak story from the town of Sipirok. The version at issue, in the Angkola Batak language, was published as a folkloric but also rather novelistic printed paperback book for a popular southern Batak audience in 1941, at the end of Dutch colonial rule in the Indies. This sly book version of Datuk Tuongku by the novelist and newspaperman M.J. Soetan Hasoendoetan, gave southern Batak readers...
This study presents the text and first English translation of a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic called the tale of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim...
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156,21 zł |
Let The Music Cry
ISBN: 9781987966053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I lost. I hurt. Everybody has a breaking point. Jessie Wheeler's is Josh - when he hurts, she hurts. In Let The Music Cry, Jessie faces an impossible truth - she needs to help herself but all of her strength is embroiled in her husband. Josh is lost - he's so entangled in a dark, downward spiral that his Drifters friends, his family, and his wife are losing faith in his ability to ever rebound. The last thing Jessie wants to do is let Josh go, because she knows she is the key to his future. She is Josh's rock, his faith, his hope. Without her, she knows he will lose the will to go on. Before...
I lost. I hurt. Everybody has a breaking point. Jessie Wheeler's is Josh - when he hurts, she hurts. In Let The Music Cry, Jessie faces an impossible ...
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137,36 zł |
And Then There Was Silence
ISBN: 9781987966046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Family is everything. When it splinters, suddenly the meaning of family is even more profound. Jessie finally gets the 'go ahead' to reconnect with long lost relatives, but those in her protective circle grow wary. Is she strong enough to handle the fallout, be it good or bad? Jessie hopes for healing and a blood connection. What she finds surprises everyone, as they once again learn from her seemingly endless capacity to forgive, and to help others get past old hurts. In the meantime, she struggles to maintain some semblance of control over her busy life despite its ever-changing landscape....
Family is everything. When it splinters, suddenly the meaning of family is even more profound. Jessie finally gets the 'go ahead' to reconnect with lo...
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137,36 zł |
Listen To The River
ISBN: 9781987966190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ‘Close your eyes, and listen to the river. Open your heart, and let the water flow.’ A wish was in those eyes – Jessie could see it plain as day, hovering just beneath the surface. It was accompanied by genuine sorrow and a sprinkle of peace. Idyllic Prince Edward Island has always been touted as a land of healing, a place of rest. For the Sawyers, the land of the bright red mud offers unexpected bliss and treasured family time. Yet, as much as Jessie has always wanted to live a ‘normal life,’ in P.E.I. she... ‘Close your eyes, and listen to the river. Open your heart, and let the water flow.’ A wish was in thos... |
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129,56 zł |
If I Could Sing You Home
ISBN: 9781987966060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brokenhearted couple's brutal game deepens when it takes a right turn, resulting in the desperate need for a heartless single-minded outcome. Although the intended victim is really Josh, it's Jessie who finds herself in the crossfire, a necessary pawn in the vicious plot. Around Jessie are people she loves who are all struggling to figure out where they fit in and how they can help. In the end, choosing what's most important in life leaves a trail of broken hearts, while the trigger-quick actions of two men in the face of a heartsick woman's final choice drive home the true meaning of...
A brokenhearted couple's brutal game deepens when it takes a right turn, resulting in the desperate need for a heartless single-minded outcome. Althou...
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137,36 zł |
No Greater Love
ISBN: 9780986950261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Book 3 of the Drifters series A lonely man works to help the homeless on the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver - it is his way of telling his old friend, Jessie Wheeler, that he cares about her world and what's important to her. Meanwhile, Jessie has made a choice that reverberates around the world. Upon finding Josh - the love of her life - in a smelly garbage pile, she told him there is always hope. Now she clings to that advice herself, hoping against hope she will find her way back to him, to Josh, to the man whose chestnut hair she loves to tuck behind his ear, the man who helped her find a...
Book 3 of the Drifters series A lonely man works to help the homeless on the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver - it is his way of telling his old friend,...
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137,36 zł |
Whispers of Home
ISBN: 9781987966008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There is a timeworn honor in battle. But sometimes the weariness of war changes the landscape, and those fighting the war lose their perspective. They make choices that open old wounds and have the potential to harm rather than save. In Whispers of Home, Jessie Wheeler finally gets back to work. But distance from Josh and intimate work with Jacob challenge the newfound strength she earned from the salty Prince Edward Island breeze. Left to his own devices, Josh decides to investigate yet another old red thread from Jessie's past, when she was homeless and struggling for survival in...
There is a timeworn honor in battle. But sometimes the weariness of war changes the landscape, and those fighting the war lose their perspective. They...
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137,36 zł |
After The Rain: Drifters, Book Nine
ISBN: 9781987966114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After The Rain Drifters, Book Nine The storm has passed...or has it? Jessie, Josh and Jacob have moved on after the turbulent events of the last few years, but loose ends threaten to unseat their newfound peace. At the center of the new angst are children caught between two men, and a woman who loves with an open heart despite a history of loss. Just when things seem to be settling, a sudden tragedy sets Josh and Jessie on a whole new path of fear and worry. Jacob's world explodes as Kayla's spirals into chaos and confusion. Suddenly... After The Rain Drifters, Book Nine The storm has passed...or has it? Jessie, Josh and Jacob have mov... |
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137,36 zł |
Castles In The Sand
ISBN: 9781987966213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The three of them were in the photo; standing prominently in front of their tanned bodies was a newly built sandcastle, formed with the patient fingers of a man who thought he was lost, a woman who was hiding from loss, and a child who needed to be found. Disillusioned and lonely, country singer Dallas White hightails it off a stage in Seattle and hides in a small tent overlooking the beach in an idyllic Prince Edward Island campground. In the camp store Dallas meets Cassie Keough, an elegant young widow, and her quiet eight-year-old son, Ry. 'Glamping' in a... The three of them were in the photo; standing prominently in front of their tanned bodies was a newly built sandcastle, formed with the... |
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137,36 zł |
Promises
ISBN: 9780986950254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Promises is the second book in the Drifters series, following A Song For Josh.
Jessie Wheelers past catches up with her as an old nemesis settles in Vancouver, threatening to destroy any chance at the singers newfound happiness. But Jessie is an old hat at acting. She has picked up the habit of disappearing inside herself and creating characters in order to help herself survive. Backed into a corner by Deuce McCall, she relies on a tougher version of herself to help her through the dark days while she seeks a solution to free herself of Deuces clutches. As she tries to gain a foothold in... Promises is the second book in the Drifters series, following A Song For Josh.
Jessie Wheelers past catches up with her as an old nemesis set... |
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137,36 zł |
A Song for Josh
ISBN: 9780986950223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Music has the power to heal. Discovered while busking on the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Jessie Wheeler -- once a teen runaway from Prince Edward Island - is now a popular singer-songwriter and actor. On the day her boyfriend Charlie proposes, he kicks an estranged friend - actor Josh Sawyer - out of his Club. Jessie sees something of herself reflected in Josh's sorrowful chocolate brown eyes -- a deep loneliness and angst. When a part on Josh's new television series Drifters becomes available, Jessie can't resist the temptation, despite the fact that taking the part threatens...
Music has the power to heal. Discovered while busking on the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Jessie Wheeler -- once a teen runaway from Prin...
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90,80 zł |
Like A Song
ISBN: 9781987966237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,36 zł |
Riptide
ISBN: 9780986950285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Healing is the hardest part... Quaint patchwork Prince Edward Island, Canada, has turned out to be a great place to hide. In an attempt to reconnect after the tumultuous and terrifying events of the past few years, Jessie and Josh have squirreled themselves into a weathered grey farmhouse on the island's north shore, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where they find themselves lost in a rip current of fear and bad memories they feel powerless to escape. One day, an old Wheeler family friend shoves a mysterious white box under their noses. Afraid it will unleash more pain the couple feel they can't...
Healing is the hardest part... Quaint patchwork Prince Edward Island, Canada, has turned out to be a great place to hide. In an attempt to reconnect a...
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137,36 zł |
Telling Lives, Telling History
ISBN: 9780520085473 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau villages. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers inevitably tell the story of their country's turbulent journey from colonial subjugation through...
These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twen...
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170,24 zł |
When The West Wind Moves
ISBN: 9781987966176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to the heart, it knows. -Native American Proverb.
We've been handed an opportunity here, boys. We can end this unholy war and save this family.
Choices.
It would be great if they were always black and white, but the truth is, most times choices are gray.
After the unthinkable happens, the Keating camp is left reeling. Strangely, out of the turmoil a rainbow appears. It's a light in the... Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to the heart, it knows. -Native Ameri... |
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Into The Blue: Drifters, Book Ten
ISBN: 9781987966121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Into The Blue Drifters, Book Ten "I'm telling you that I've been lonely, Matt. I've been very lonely." Matt Kelly has been an anchor in the Keating camp right from the start. Just as he is about to leave for Belgium to watch over Jessie on her new film shoot, his wife Julie stuns him with a difficult request. Matt is forced to make a choice he thought he would never have to make, and it catapults him into a whole new world where he must measure the true meaning of love against faith, loyalty and friendship. Josh has been struggling... Into The Blue Drifters, Book Ten "I'm telling you that I've been lonely, Matt. I've been very lonely." ... |
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137,36 zł |
Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6
ISBN: 9781935708650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Dont be fooled by the lovely, lady-like voices that lure you into the twenty-two short stories in Susan Jackson Rodgers Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6. Its hard not to be pulled into the deceptively charming female heads and start laughing along, relating to the frazzled divorced woman unhappy to bump into her ex-boyfriend, or the little girl innocently feeding birds outside by the pool. Then a devastating twist towards the end lurches your heart out and shocks you so much you have to go back to reread the beginning to see what the author had slyly slipped past that youd barely noticed. Think:...
"Dont be fooled by the lovely, lady-like voices that lure you into the twenty-two short stories in Susan Jackson Rodgers Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6. Its ...
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72,44 zł |
Watch Over Me
ISBN: 9781987966145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Watch over Me Drifters, Book Twelve
"How much of your life have you spent being completely devoted to this woman and her family?" Stepping forward, Catherine yanked at Matt's T-shirt. Drawing it down hard over his shoulder, she brushed a thumb across the New York scar. Now, her tone was a tearful whisper. "Is this not devotion, Matt? Is this not love?" Jessie and Matt. The friendship and trust between them is the soul-kind shared by soldiers who have been through bloody, spirit-weary battles. Their hearts are united in a forlorn... Watch over Me Drifters, Book Twelve
"How much of your life have you spent being completely devoted to ... |
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137,36 zł |
The Light In Me
ISBN: 9781987966152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The light in me honors the light in you.
Fear.
Sacred Peace's first season of production was not the idyllic shoot Josh and Jessie, and their cherished friends and family, had hoped for. Now, as season two looms, armed with only a sketchy, uncertain lead on who was targeting Josh and why, everyone is trying to move forward the best way they know how, in spits and starts, some with the uncertain hope that reaching out to the suspect behind the attacks might be the key to mitigating the threat.
A divided approach does nothing to... The light in me honors the light in you.
Fear.
Sacred Peace's first season of production was not the ... |
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129,56 zł |
A Sacred Peace
ISBN: 9781987966138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Sacred Peace Drifters, Book Eleven
"He's the kind of man whose sadness you want to peel away. Layer by layer, you know? Until he feels good again." Jessie turned a hand inward and pointed to herself. "I'm his sadness," she whispered. When Josh moves to Alberta to start work on Charlie's new series, Sacred Peace, he finds the best way to escape past hurts is to lose himself in his new fictional world. In Vancouver, Jessie buries herself in recording the new soundtrack for Sacred Peace. ...A Sacred Peace Drifters, Book Eleven
"He's the kind of man whose sadness you want to peel away. Layer ... |
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136,95 zł |