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The Ghosts of 47th Street
ISBN: 9780965721363 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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Whittlin' and Fiddlin' My Own Way: The Violet Hensley Story
ISBN: 9780984910823 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Whittlin' and Fiddlin' My Own Way" reflects nearly a century of experiences through the eyes of Silver Dollar City personality Violet Hensley. The Arkansas Living Treasure Award winner from Yellville, Arkansas learned to fiddle in 1928 and make fiddles watching her father George W. Brumley in the community of Alamo, Arkansas in 1932. She raised a family of nine with her late husband Adren Hensley while he moved the family from town to town and state to state. With the advent of the folk music revival, Violet's blossoming musical and fiddle-making talents, caught the attention of Grammy (r)...
"Whittlin' and Fiddlin' My Own Way" reflects nearly a century of experiences through the eyes of Silver Dollar City personality Violet Hensley. The Ar...
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80,72 |
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The Paston Letters: A Selection Illustrating English Social Life in the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: 9781107453685 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1909 as part of the English Literature for Schools collection, this book contains selections from the Paston letters, a group of letters written by the Paston family between 1440 and 1485. The letters reveal important details about daily life in fifteenth-century England, and a family tree and critical notes are both supplied by the editor. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English history or the history of education.
Originally published in 1909 as part of the English Literature for Schools collection, this book contains selections from the Paston letters, a group ...
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143,50 |
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The Untold Story
ISBN: 9781499056310 / Angielski / Twarda / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,34 |
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The Untold Story
ISBN: 9781499056327 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,61 |
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A Legend Among Us: The story of William "Youngblood" McCrary of the Negro Baseball League Kansas City Monarchs
ISBN: 9781502784254 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the compelling story of a seventeen year old young man who entered the Negro Baseball League, before graduating high school, with great aspirations of playing in the Major League. Nicknamed "Youngblood" by Satchel Paige, William McCrary is a legend in himself and one of the few remaining figures of the acclaimed Negro Baseball League.
This book tells the compelling story of a seventeen year old young man who entered the Negro Baseball League, before graduating high school, with grea...
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68,74 |
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McElwain Family: From Ireland and Scotland To America
ISBN: 9781502816627 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The McElwain surname is of Irish and Scottish descent. Learn the different spellings of the name and see where it went from McElwain to the surname of Wayne. This collection begins with Thomas George McElwain in the 1700s and continutes to the present day.
The McElwain surname is of Irish and Scottish descent. Learn the different spellings of the name and see where it went from McElwain to the surname of...
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91,04 |
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Busted Flush! the Thomas Crapper Myth 'my Family's Five Generations in the Bathroom Industry'
ISBN: 9780956051578 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fourth generation of his family to run their bathroom business, Humphersons, Geoffrey Pidgeon was a key figure in the industry for more than 60 years. Amongst his many achievements, he was one of the first people to import the contemporary Italian products which transformed British bathrooms from the 1980's onwards. He also served on many important industry bodies. As well as finally despatching the myth surrounding Thomas Crapper, this book is a charming combination of family memoir and a fascinating, sometimes seamy, social history of London. Alongside serious factual information, it is...
The fourth generation of his family to run their bathroom business, Humphersons, Geoffrey Pidgeon was a key figure in the industry for more than 60 ye...
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174,79 |
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Stranger In My Own Country
ISBN: 9780374535537 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its past As a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha Mounk felt like a foreigner in his own country. When he mentioned that he is Jewish, some made anti-Semitic jokes or talked about the superiority of the Aryan race. Others, sincerely hoping to atone for the country's past, fawned over him with a forced friendliness he found just as alienating. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its past As a Jew i... |
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77,03 |
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Recollections of Slavery Times
ISBN: 9781502907912 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In presenting these pages to the public, but little explanation need be made, for they contain only the story of a slave, told as nearly as possible in his own words. One-third of a century has passed since slavery ceased forever in our land, and to the generation that has grown up in that time, it hardly seems possible that such an institution as slavery could have existed in this free land; but he who in these pages tells his simple story was only one of three millions of human beings who were bought and sold, kept in subjection and forced to labor without pay in order that their more...
In presenting these pages to the public, but little explanation need be made, for they contain only the story of a slave, told as nearly as possible i...
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68,30 |
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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place: A Memoir of the South Carolina Coast
ISBN: 9781611175233 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions, and youthful rambles through the lowcountry. She shared her bedroom with a famous ghost and an impatient older sister. But most of all she listened. She absorbed the tales of her talented mother and her beloved friend, listened to the stories of the region's older residents, some of them former slaves, who were her friends, neighbors, and teachers.
In this new edition she once again shares with... Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in he...
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73,42 |
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Belvidere: A Plantation Memory
ISBN: 9781611175547 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach," begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne's reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located between the Santee River and Eutaw Creek near present-day Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, Belvidere Plantation once produced Santee long-staple cotton (a hybrid of the famed Sea Island cotton) and short-staple cotton on its nearly eight hundred acres of rich lowcountry soil and served as the home of the Sinkler family from the 1770s until the 1940s. The author's great-grandmother Margaret Cantey Sinkler had an elegant two-story...
"Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach," begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne's reverential recollections of her ancestral...
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107,70 |
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Heaven Is a Beautiful Place: A Memoir of the South Carolina Coast
ISBN: 9781611176025 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in her front yard, deep-sea fishing expeditions, and youthful rambles through the lowcountry. She shared her bedroom with a famous ghost and an impatient older sister. But most of all she listened. She absorbed the tales of her talented mother and her beloved friend, listened to the stories of the region's older residents, some of them former slaves, who were her friends, neighbors, and teachers.
In this new edition she once again shares with... Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve "Sister" Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in he...
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132,18 |
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Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
ISBN: 9781630760021 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, P...
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86,87 |
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
ISBN: 9780252039232 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life.
In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of... A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polish...
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509,37 |
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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga
ISBN: 9780252080791 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life.
In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of... A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polish...
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97,90 |
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Selina of Sussex: 1818-1886
ISBN: 9781499090918 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,20 |
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Selina of Sussex: 1818-1886
ISBN: 9781499090925 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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193,83 |
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Growing up Jewish in Alexandria: The Story of a Sephardic Family's Exodus from Egypt
ISBN: 9781500446352 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucienne Carasso grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. Her cozy, secure and settled world was shattered by the Suez Canal Crisis in November 1956 when her father and uncle were interned by the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. This marked the beginning of the end of the century-long sojourn of her extended Sephardic family in Egypt. In her memoir, she shares the magical world of her childhood in the rich, multifaceted city of Alexandria, while giving the reader an intimate sense of the changes wrought by the nationalistic policies of the Nasser regime and of the greater historical forces which caused...
Lucienne Carasso grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. Her cozy, secure and settled world was shattered by the Suez Canal Crisis in November 1956 when her fat...
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68,59 |
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Annie's War
ISBN: 9781500551452 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the true story of early lives of author Mackenzie Brown's grandparents and is an epic love story set between two world wars.
This is the true story of early lives of author Mackenzie Brown's grandparents and is an epic love story set between two world wars.
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42,24 |
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