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The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
ISBN: 9781788162128 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator 'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph 'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon Winchester One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be...
'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator 'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride ...
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48,62 zł |
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Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea
ISBN: 9781786891211 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It's an ode to our oceans - to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women...
'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Run...
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56,22 zł |
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The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption
ISBN: 9781786497260 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery recounts with startling candour as he explores what it means to make a family as a queer couple, to be an outsider in a foreign country, to grapple with the inheritance of intergenerational loss, and to discover that the emotions we feel are sometimes as mysterious to ourselves as to others. ...
A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks ...
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54,02 zł |
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Spies and Stars: MI5, Showbusiness and Me
ISBN: 9781526608802 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,02 zł |
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Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
ISBN: 9781526611468 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office in the day and engaging in spirited games of ping-pong in the evenings. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, he soon finds himself grappling with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love even though we know that they -...
We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning ...
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70,25 zł |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream
ISBN: 9781788161978 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young man learning to question the dreams of success and prosperity that are the foundation of modern America. Growing up gay in an ordinary black neighbourhood in Dallas, his parents struggling with mental health problems and addiction, Casey finds himself on a remarkable path to a prestigious Ivy League college, to the inner sanctums of power on...
Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelica...
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54,02 zł |
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The Grassling
ISBN: 9780141989624 / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,22 zł |
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Undeniable: Memoir of a covert war
ISBN: 9781431429776 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,25 zł |
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The Unlikely Mr Rogue (and me)
ISBN: 9781431429462 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,84 zł |
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Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams
ISBN: 9781431429790 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,84 zł |
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Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
ISBN: 9781788165167 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse 'Electric' Lemn Sissay 'Searing' Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die. But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood? Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political...
'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse 'Electric' Lemn Sissay 'Searing' Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourtee...
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86,91 zł |
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Freedom Writer: My Life and Times
ISBN: 9781431429370 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'It was said that my maternal grandfather, Iederoos Sallie, could stand on the corner of 15th and Krause Street in Fietas, and be heard all the way down to number 22 when he burst into song [...] I remember my mother telling me, when I was quite young but old enough to understand, that my father, Moegammat Sallie Sallie, had ridden off on a horse and cart with his half of the marriage spoils, with his mother, Amina, leaving my mother standing on the pavement with me in her arms, in front of Ouma Galima's house. I was 18 months old, according to my mother. At this point it would be prudent...
'It was said that my maternal grandfather, Iederoos Sallie, could stand on the corner of 15th and Krause Street in Fietas, and be heard all the way do...
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86,25 zł |
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Confessions of a Stratcom Hitman
ISBN: 9781431429622 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,65 zł |
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Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War
ISBN: 9781472274540 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence. "His work has saved lives and given hope." - Professor David Nott, bestselling author of War Doctor For thirty years, Hamish has served and volunteered in conflict zones around the world. As the army's foremost chemical weapons expert, he built a unique first-hand understanding of how to prevent attacks and train doctors on the frontline - saving countless lives in the process. After suffering near-death experiences time and again, Hamish discovered he had a ticking time bomb...
GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence. "His work has saved lives and given hop...
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102,30 zł |
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The Fear Talking: The True Story of a Young Man and Anxiety
ISBN: 9781909954441 / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,36 zł |
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Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away
ISBN: 9781473663985 / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,22 zł |
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Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating After a Marriage Ends
ISBN: 9780008395896 / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,68 zł |
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I An Distracted by Everything
ISBN: 9780718183790 / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
54,02 zł |