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A Tale of Two Cultures: A Personal Account
ISBN: 9780983689911 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Professor Oweiss' book recounts in clear prose the story of an active and productive life lived largely in two different cultures--Egyptian (and Middle Eastern) and American. The reader will meet many interesting personages--well known and not well known--across seven decades of important changes in the world."--Carol Lancaster, Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor of Politics, Georgetown University.
"Professor Oweiss' book recounts in clear prose the story of an active and productive life lived largely in two different cultures--Egyptian (and Midd...
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Being Italian: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780983693109 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don't Ever Forget Where You Came From BEING ITALIAN: A MEMOIR is about a big Italian - American family blending the generations in the 1950's and 1960's in Brooklyn, N.Y. It is the story of huge Sunday dinners with Grandpa's homemade red wine and Grandma's big apron, big heart and thick accent. BEING ITALIAN: A MEMOIR will have you reminiscing about childhood memories, no matter where your immigrant family came from. Younger generations learn about their past, because by telling the story of one family and their struggles to become Americans, Marino Amoruso, in a larger sense, tells the tale...
Don't Ever Forget Where You Came From BEING ITALIAN: A MEMOIR is about a big Italian - American family blending the generations in the 1950's and 196...
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64,70 |
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American Journeys: Stories of Three Lives
ISBN: 9781465366092 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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Teeth Not Tears: Smiles Through the Rubble
ISBN: 9781461046752 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teeth Not Tears is a testimony to the human spirit. Learn what it's like to grow up and live in Haiti. The culture, traditions, and first hand accounts of the earthquake told from the point of the view of two Haitian brothers, not a volunteer outsider. The book offers the world a glimpse into the lives of the Thaylord brothers as they provide an exemplarily example of love, optimism, and courage. "As long as I breathe, I love." Jean Fournes Thaylord
Teeth Not Tears is a testimony to the human spirit. Learn what it's like to grow up and live in Haiti. The culture, traditions, and first hand account...
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
ISBN: 9781416584179 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature. Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long-awaited follow-up, It Calls You Back is the equally harrowing story of Rodriguez starting over, at age eighteen, after leaving...
Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out ...
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73,17 |
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Brittany's Accomplishments
ISBN: 9781420899856 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,76 |
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Walk Around the Tree
ISBN: 9781432783198 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diem Ngueyn's autobiography, Walk Around the Tree, chronicles her real life adventures from age four through early adulthood. The title comes from her first successful experience outside her home after having been sick with polio, but also represents the brave determination one must have to successfully walk through all of life's challenges. The first half of the book is about growing up in post-war Vietnam, and presents the lasting effects war had on life in that country as could only be seen through the eyes of a child, each event explained the way she experienced it. Diem only wanted a...
Diem Ngueyn's autobiography, Walk Around the Tree, chronicles her real life adventures from age four through early adulthood. The title comes from her...
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64,52 |
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This Road Of Life
ISBN: 9781438255118 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories of the past how fast they flee from us. Lula James Grove shares her memories of a life 95 years long. She lived through the history of the 1900's and now gives you insight into her life.
Memories of the past how fast they flee from us. Lula James Grove shares her memories of a life 95 years long. She lived through the history of the 19...
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40,26 |
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Mangrove Roots Chronicles
ISBN: 9781453527818 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Mangrove Roots Chronicles
ISBN: 9781453566909 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,53 |
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It's a Miracle
ISBN: 9781453597880 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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It's a Miracle
ISBN: 9781453597897 / Angielski / Twarda / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,34 |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781453724798 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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26,10 |
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Pebble in a Pond: A Memoir from a Distance
ISBN: 9781453831526 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serendipity, good fortune through chance, led Henry Bertram and Catherine O'Connell to Iowa, the heartland of America and a melting pot of immigrants. He was German and Lutheran; she was Irish and Catholic. They met at the dawn of the twentieth century, just as a young and hopeful America was spreading its wings and preparing to fly. This memoir blends muted tones of conversations, genealogy, history, artifacts, and photographs into a colorful and compelling portrait of an ordinary family living in extraordinary times. The narrative is a labor of love, a tribute to those who journeyed before...
Serendipity, good fortune through chance, led Henry Bertram and Catherine O'Connell to Iowa, the heartland of America and a melting pot of immigrants....
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101,16 |
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I Know I am a Winner
ISBN: 9781456318024 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In simply sublime prose, Mary Elaine Skram used the power of the written word to share her life with her twenty-three grandchildren. Now, I Know I Am a Winner gathers these evocative writings to lay out a life finely lived, with compassion, heart, and gentle humor. Bringing to vivid life a time in this country that is long gone, this rich memoir reveals a piece of the heartland, and offers a rare vantage of twentieth-century America from the kind eyes of a wife, mother, and selfless caretaker.
Starting her narrative with tales of her forebears, I Know I Am a Winner traces her family from... In simply sublime prose, Mary Elaine Skram used the power of the written word to share her life with her twenty-three grandchildren. Now, I Know I Am ...
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From Misery to Mystery
ISBN: 9781456566500 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -From Misery to Mystery- is about ups and down of ministry and life processed with humor. The author weaves together comedy, romance, adventure, intrigue, tragedy and spiritual revelation into a rich tapestry. From KGB interrogations in Soviet Russia to speed dating in downtown Kansas City, each chapter builds upon complex themes of enduring love, self-discovery, and spiritual fulfillment. This single-mother, immigrant, preacher, and storyteller develops resilience to bullying and harassment through humiliation, betrayal, and personal tragedy without ever losing hope and child-like wonder....
-From Misery to Mystery- is about ups and down of ministry and life processed with humor. The author weaves together comedy, romance, adventure, intri...
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A Pilgrimage Like No Other
ISBN: 9781461011521 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When I was a boy I spent twelve years in Catholic schools. At age 17 I left alienated and angry wanting nothing more to do with religion. Yet at the same time something in me kept pushing me to know more. That thrust has never stopped. At first I thought those religion and spiritual were the same thing, that knowing the Father God was the objective of the spiritual experience. But I soon learned religion as I experienced it was not the same as spirituality. Everyone I knew had a different idea about spirituality. For many the word spiritual is meaningless. For other it means something...
When I was a boy I spent twelve years in Catholic schools. At age 17 I left alienated and angry wanting nothing more to do with religion. Yet at the s...
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Old Destin: Through the Eyes of a Child
ISBN: 9781461098553 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once, Destin Florida's fishing boats were painstakingly handmade, built in captain's back yards, their primitive engines pieced together from automobile motors. Unbelievably plentiful schools of fish "fathomed out" and snared in seines. Fishing grounds then could be found by nothing more than dead reckoning, timed by a wind up watch, a compass, and the clouds and shore trees. A quiet life began in this particular spot, before the Civil War. But, in 1934, Destin was building a bridge, future WWII pilots were in training, and less than a handful of hardworking fishermen were feeding multitudes...
Once, Destin Florida's fishing boats were painstakingly handmade, built in captain's back yards, their primitive engines pieced together from automobi...
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Destiny
ISBN: 9781462064168 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First of all, the book describe about salvation. It thought you about life in the sense that before any plan could be put in place you must have the means to successive and that is the salvation my Father was talking about. On the other hands, the experience, the agony of defeat, and the day to day life experience life thought us, know one expected that, it is a natural situation that we must go through in life. We pray every day that we will not suff er much before we posses out possession in life. (Amen to that). In this world, if you don't have anyone to rely on, or you don't have... First of all, the book describe about salvation. It thought you about life in the sense that before any plan could be put in place you must have th... |
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49,91 |
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Yardie: Struggles of a Young Jamaican Growing Up in New York a Memoir
ISBN: 9781462883240 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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