Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family
ISBN: 9780520230781 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweet Bamboo is the vivid and absorbing memoir of a Chinese American family who lived in Los Angeles since the first years of the twentieth century. Lovingly recounted by the second daughter, who went on to become the first Asian American reporter for a major American newspaper, this account illuminates the many changes that occurred in the family as members increasingly became integrated into American society. While much of the attention given to Chinese immigrants has focused on the struggles of working class people, this book sheds new light on a different kind of immigrant...
Sweet Bamboo is the vivid and absorbing memoir of a Chinese American family who lived in Los Angeles since the first years of the twentieth cen...
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198,40 zł |
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780520231306 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as "The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, "and "Giovanni's Room, "had become modern classics.
James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. He quotes from the vast and disturbing file that the FBI compiled on Baldwin and he discusses Baldwin's sometimes turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Marlon Brando, as... James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as "The Fire Next Time, Go Tell I...
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156,30 zł |
Untouchables : My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System
ISBN: 9780520252639 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. In this remarkable book, at last giving voice to India's voiceless, Narendra Jadhav tells the awe-inspiring story of his family's struggle for equality and justice in India. Based on his father's diaries and family stories, Jadhav has written the triumphant story of his parents--their great love, unwavering courage, and eventual victory in the struggle to free...
Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits,...
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216,43 zł |
The Things I Want Most: The Extraordinary Story of a Boy's Journey to a Family of His Own
ISBN: 9780553379761 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of a couple who risked everything to open their home--and their hearts--to answer an abandoned child's wish.
It was a small note buried in the file of a deeply troubled eleven-year-old boy--a plea for a normal life Rich and Sue Miniter couldn't ignore: The Things I Want MOST: A family A fishing pole A familyThe Miniters heard in that simple note the voice of a frightened child who wanted what all children want and need: someone to love who would love them in return. So they brought Mike home to the cozy country inn they'd restored and managed in... The remarkable story of a couple who risked everything to open their home--and their hearts--to answer an abandoned child's wish.
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81,60 zł |
Press On!: Further Adventures in the Good Life
ISBN: 9780553763294 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From flying daredevil combat missions over Nazi Germany and shattering records as test pilot to his annual trip into California's rugged sierras, General Chuck Yeager has always been a restless adventurer in search of new challenges. Now General Yeager is back in the cockpit in a book that exemplifies his special brand of living--full out and straight ahead. Like Yeager, his record-breaking best-selling autobiography, Press On is chock-full of the general's own brand of rugged individualism. In Press On you'll roam the world with Chuck Yeager in search of...
From flying daredevil combat missions over Nazi Germany and shattering records as test pilot to his annual trip into California's rugged sierras, Gene...
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81,60 zł |
True Confessions of a Real Mr. Mom
ISBN: 9780595000463 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,62 zł |
No Time Out from Grief: Surviving the Death of My Son
ISBN: 9780595000760 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,32 zł |
Journey of an Ordinary Man
ISBN: 9780595001309 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,56 zł |
Memories Are Like Clouds
ISBN: 9780595001415 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,39 zł |
His Hippopotamus Smile
ISBN: 9780595003709 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,32 zł |
Simple Elegance: A Journal
ISBN: 9780595006120 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,50 zł |
Miss Cody
ISBN: 9780595007196 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,32 zł |
52 Days with What's Her Name
ISBN: 9780595007691 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,32 zł |
Just a Thought: Understanding the Subtleties of Life
ISBN: 9780595009602 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,03 zł |
A Farmhouse in Provence
ISBN: 9780595091652 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,21 zł |
The River Bend: Collected Stories and Anecdotes
ISBN: 9780595122844 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,62 zł |
Dark Bouquet
ISBN: 9780595124411 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,03 zł |
On Main Street: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780595137350 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,50 zł |
Intensive Care: A Family Love Story
ISBN: 9780595137435 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
The Best of Both Worlds: (A-Not-So-Silent-Life)
ISBN: 9780595148219 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,74 zł |