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Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast Who Forever Changed America's Views about Women, Academics and Sports
ISBN: 9780979689628 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the social norms of the Victorian age, iconoclast Louise Pound defied Americas prevailing views on female roles, academic sexism, and women in sports. This meticulously researched biography is almost a decade in the making, and will establish Pound among the most influential women pioneers.
Challenging the social norms of the Victorian age, iconoclast Louise Pound defied Americas prevailing views on female roles, academic sexism, and wome...
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
ISBN: 9781400032167 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unforgettable." --Salmon Rushdie
An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer ( A wonderfully free and original talent Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution. Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her... "A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unforg...
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
ISBN: 9781400034734 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio s great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rio s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence...
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across...
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
ISBN: 9781400079094 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth she brought tobestsellerBird by Bird, Anne Lamott gives us a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood.
It s not like she s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest... With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth she brought tobestsellerBird by Bird, Anne Lamott gives us a smart, funny, and c...
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
ISBN: 9781400079933 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western... In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious ...
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When the Rainbow Bends
ISBN: 9781401040680 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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When the Rainbow Bends
ISBN: 9781401040697 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,39 |
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Monday Morning Memoirs
ISBN: 9781401053659 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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The Year of Yes
ISBN: 9781401308728 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hilariously funny and ultimately inspirational, this formerly single girl's memoir recounts a year of saying yes--for 12 months, she dated every person who asked her out, regardless of circumstances.
Hilariously funny and ultimately inspirational, this formerly single girl's memoir recounts a year of saying yes--for 12 months, she dated every perso...
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Sequins and Sorrow
ISBN: 9781403303448 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Pretend Years: The Survival of a Lesbian Catholic in a Close-Minded Midwestern City During the 50's and 60's
ISBN: 9781403306357 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Surviving Aunt Ruth: Vignettes of a Caregiver's Struggles Or How To Keep Laughing When You Want To Cry
ISBN: 9781403307187 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,50 |
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Birth of a Tumbleweed: Memoirs of Growing Up in Post-Nazi Germany
ISBN: 9781403311719 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,71 |
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The Ghost Behind the Wheelchair
ISBN: 9781403315892 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,97 |
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A Tobacco Farmer's Daughter
ISBN: 9781403319074 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,95 |
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A Tobacco Farmer's Daughter
ISBN: 9781403319081 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,73 |
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Obsessed/With a Vision of Hope: Freedom for Battered Women A Story of Greed, Brutality and Deception
ISBN: 9781403321930 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,25 |
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Before I Could Walk
ISBN: 9781403333582 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,05 |
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My Father's Garden
ISBN: 9781403336101 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,50 |
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Seed of Life
ISBN: 9781403344601 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,25 |