wyszukanych pozycji: 14
The Pilhannaw: A Journey into the Wilderness
ISBN: 9781537466446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. March, 1649. A court in Botolph sentences a woman to hang for supposedly trafficking with the devil. The old governor of Sagadac comes to regret his role in her execution and strives mightily to stop an outbreak of hysteria as a wave of accusations of witchcraft spreads through the colony. This story is based on an isolated case of alleged witchcraft that took place in Boston, Mass.
March, 1649. A court in Botolph sentences a woman to hang for supposedly trafficking with the devil. The old governor of Sagadac comes to regret his r...
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45,76 zł |
Send Me
ISBN: 9781539828976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Send Me" is the 5th and last novel in a series called "Witnesses," which creates a picture of part of America's heritage, from the late 17th century to the recent past. It includes stories about warfare and recovery, crisis and healing, evil and the courage to overcome it. In "Send Me," long-standing conflicts resolve, Paul Kingsley, the writer who explores America's heritage, achieves most of what he set out to do, and his editor, Stephanie Markham, finds stability and satisfaction after times of trouble and turmoil.
"Send Me" is the 5th and last novel in a series called "Witnesses," which creates a picture of part of America's heritage, from the late 17th century ...
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82,36 zł |
Guy Ridley
ISBN: 9781539413776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Guy Ridley runs a second-hand bookstore on the outskirts of a large American university. He faces several challenges. He's separated from the wife he loves. He tries to resolve a scandal that prompted her departure from the school. A mental weakness that takes the form of obsession with demons plagues him. Parts of his life go well, however. Fictional stories and sketches he's written about university life and that are included in the novel satisfy him. People he goes out of his way to help appreciate his generosity and offer moral support. The question is -- will he thrive and flourish or...
Guy Ridley runs a second-hand bookstore on the outskirts of a large American university. He faces several challenges. He's separated from the wife he ...
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68,63 zł |
Surveys
ISBN: 9781537647845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Daniel and Sonja Morley, both artists, leave their home in Europe to resettle on a university campus in the American Midwest. They are looking for renewal both in their marriage and their professional lives. Along the way, they collide with a devil-worshipping death cult that creates the biggest scandal the school has seen in fifty years. The purpose of the novel is to affirm one of the basic tenets of our way of life -- that people and institutions are resilient and even the worst troubles can be overcome.
Daniel and Sonja Morley, both artists, leave their home in Europe to resettle on a university campus in the American Midwest. They are looking for ren...
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54,90 zł |
Nightsongs: Notes for an Epic Poem
ISBN: 9781539800934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,33 zł |
The Angel of Recovery
ISBN: 9781539754602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Warfare touches the lives of many people. The novel "The Angel of Recovery" explores the experience of ordinary Americans during and in the aftermaths of wars in three different centuries. The novel also tells the story of people in the late 20th century who battled an imaginary destructive cult called "The Scythians." The is the second in a series of novels called "Witnesses."
Warfare touches the lives of many people. The novel "The Angel of Recovery" explores the experience of ordinary Americans during and in the aftermaths...
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73,21 zł |
The Hills of the Tigers
ISBN: 9781539039686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This novel takes place in two environments. The even numbered chapters tell the story of Carl Norberg who decided when he was in high school that he wanted to work as an artist. He dropped out of a college he didn't like and enlisted in the army to avoid the draft. Sent to an Asian nation named Kulon, he continues painting in his spare time. He makes friends with a local artist and his family. As the war builds up, he becomes involved in the perils of armed conflict. After his military service ends, he goes home to recuperate and moves to a large eastern city called Botolph because his older...
This novel takes place in two environments. The even numbered chapters tell the story of Carl Norberg who decided when he was in high school that he w...
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59,48 zł |
Testimonies
ISBN: 9781539793564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Testimonies" is the third novel in a series called "Witnesses." It consists of several narratives about people who are determined to improve their lives in spite of major hindrances. They contend with such obstacles as war, plague, corruption, inner waywardness, and the ambitions of a cult that has turned destructive. Do the main characters give up on their goals or do they persist in quests for renewal of life for themselves, for people close to them, and for the communities they belong to?
"Testimonies" is the third novel in a series called "Witnesses." It consists of several narratives about people who are determined to improve their li...
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86,93 zł |
Brief Lives
ISBN: 9781539336792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Loretta Freeman persuades her friend Bruce Drayton to write a play about a 19th century American stage magician-comic-songwriter who got into deep trouble when he strayed from his calling. Her parents, who run a theatre company, produce the play. The bulk of the novel consists of short accounts of people involved in the production or who are interested in it and difficulties they they encounter. The purpose of "Brief Lives" is to illustrate a common feature of human existence: that we compensate for the brevity of earthly life and the inconveniences that occur frequently with acts of...
Loretta Freeman persuades her friend Bruce Drayton to write a play about a 19th century American stage magician-comic-songwriter who got into deep tro...
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82,36 zł |
In the Time of the Scythians
ISBN: 9781539680840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Paul Kingsley -- journalist, teacher, veteran, story-writer -- writes fiction about two wars three centuries apart from each other and their effects on the lives of ordinary people. He also joins a fight in the near-present against a destructive cult called the Scythians whose leaders believe they are involved in a movement that will reform the world. As well, the story features Kingley's editor -- Stephanie Markham, who has reasons of her own to battle the Scythians. Like Kingsley, she explores and wrestles with the nature of America and parts of the country's history. This is the first of...
Paul Kingsley -- journalist, teacher, veteran, story-writer -- writes fiction about two wars three centuries apart from each other and their effects o...
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64,06 zł |
The World, the City, and the Wakemans
ISBN: 9781537790671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Wakemans live in a large city in the northeastern United States. With many advantages, they have been successful -- a businessman headed for early retirement, a teacher at a university, a musician, a restaurateur who runs for mayor of their city, an eager younger generation. Nothing is perfect, however. The novel tells about their various attempts to pull themselves out of mental, physical, or spiritual low points. Their encounters with a gang of thugs bring them another challenge to contend with. The story includes three interludes that take place in a society that has gone so haywire...
The Wakemans live in a large city in the northeastern United States. With many advantages, they have been successful -- a businessman headed for early...
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77,78 zł |
Witnesses and Troublemakers
ISBN: 9781539819752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This novel shows how wars in two different centuries and a battle in the recent past against a pernicious cult affect the lives of ordinary people. The point of the various narratives is to affirm one of the basic tenets of our culture -- that life often brings recovery from misery. This is the fourth volume in a series called "Witnesses."
This novel shows how wars in two different centuries and a battle in the recent past against a pernicious cult affect the lives of ordinary people. Th...
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82,36 zł |
The Opinionists
ISBN: 9781539169307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert Adair, a maverick film director, visits Stilton Fields, a town near the eastern seaboard, in hopes of finding the subject for a movie that will revive his career. He decides to work with a theological dispute in 17th century America and the woman at the center of it. In alternating chapters, "The Opinionists" recounts the making of the film and also, going back to the 17th century, the story of the controversy. This novel focuses on the quest for freedom in North America and also the misery that can result when neighbors dwell on irreconcilable differences.
Robert Adair, a maverick film director, visits Stilton Fields, a town near the eastern seaboard, in hopes of finding the subject for a movie that will...
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68,63 zł |
Love Builds a Nest in Our Park
ISBN: 9781539534389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 21 prose sketches about visitors to a large urban park who are looking for answers to questions about romance. Each relationship is different from the others. Some are on the point of collapse, some are in a holding pattern, a few look as if they will flourish. What are these folks doing right? What do they need to fix?
21 prose sketches about visitors to a large urban park who are looking for answers to questions about romance. Each relationship is different from the...
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27,46 zł |