Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
ISBN: 9780312427108 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice |
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107,36 zł |
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
ISBN: 9780316013260 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a reading group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years:
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It's a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey - life rediscovered through aspics, calves' brains and creme brulee. The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is... Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a reading group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years:
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85,85 zł |
Here If You Need Me: A True Story
ISBN: 9780316118941 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup, her husband, Drew, and their four young children were enjoying a morning like any other. Then Drew, a Maine state trooper, left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he patrolled each day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband. "Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to pursue what had been her husband's dream and became a minister. And soon she found a most unusual calling: serving as chaplain for search-and-rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing - and to the wardens who...
Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup, her husband, Drew, and their four young children were enjoying a morning like any other. Then Drew, a Maine state troop...
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163,19 zł |
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
ISBN: 9780316284615 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, 'The Unwanted' is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is now living in America.
A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, 'The Unwanted' is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Viet...
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138,51 zł |
Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism
ISBN: 9780316691246 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exiting Nirvana" is a strong and affecting profile of an artist with autism, beautifully written by her mother. . . . Skillfully weaving in theories of autism with the experience of raising an autistic child, Park goes beyond individual history to address the wider question of what it means to be human."--from the National Magazine Awards presentation.
Exiting Nirvana" is a strong and affecting profile of an artist with autism, beautifully written by her mother. . . . Skillfully weaving in theories o...
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85,85 zł |
Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
ISBN: 9780316735490 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - The hardcover edition of LEAVING MOTHER LAKE debuted at #3 on the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list.- A revelation of a culture virtually unknown in the West, a contemporary society in which women enjoy true sexual and economic freedom.- A huge international success, with rights sold in England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Sweden.- Hardcover ISBN: 0-316-12471-0
- The hardcover edition of LEAVING MOTHER LAKE debuted at #3 on the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list.- A revelation of a culture virtually un...
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118,99 zł |
Mi carta de renuncia: Deja tu marca
ISBN: 9780996469753 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La primera autobiografia de ficcion o ficcion autobiografica jamas contada ha visto la luz para celebrar otro aniversario de su autor. Quizas la sono o la vivio, pero en todo caso es una obra epica con todos los elementos requeridos para trascender, sean personajes unicos, lugares extraordinarios o tiempos para el recuerdo de quien la lea y se sorprenda de aparecer en ella. No dejes de revisar lo que la historia te tiene guardado, en el largo trayecto laboral por una vida mejor."
La primera autobiografia de ficcion o ficcion autobiografica jamas contada ha visto la luz para celebrar otro aniversario de su autor. Quizas la sono ...
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Reboot: Journey of a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor: Getting Through the Tough Times in Recovery and Life
ISBN: 9780996328104 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Evan, God gave you a second chance in life; He has something very special for you to do. I am going to leave you with the charge to find out what that special thing is and go do it." -Michael G. Sugarman, MD That was a powerful statement that was made by my neurosurgeon five months after my accident. He said he was astounded to see me walking and talking and that he had never witnessed such a miraculous recovery. A person recovering from a traumatic brain injury as severe as mine is one in a million. His statement made me realize that reading about what had happened to me might be an...
"Evan, God gave you a second chance in life; He has something very special for you to do. I am going to leave you with the charge to find out what tha...
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63,08 zł |
#WHATIF... So I Dared
ISBN: 9780994399304 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What If I went then? Would I ever be completely happy living with the regret? So I dared to come ...
What If I went then? Would I ever be completely happy living with the regret? So I dared to come ...
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94,65 zł |
Lost Wax: Essays
ISBN: 9780820350158 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For her collection Lost Wax, Jericho Parms borrows her title from a casting method used by sculptors. As such, these eighteen essays, centered on art and memory, offer an investigation into form and content and the language of innocence, experience, and loss. Four sections (each borrowing names from the sculptures of Degas, Bernini, and Rodin) frame a series of meditations that consider the boundaries of the discernible world and the extremes of the body and the self. Here Parms draws heavily on memories of a Bronx upbringing in the 1980s and1990s; explorations in Spain, Portugal,... For her collection Lost Wax, Jericho Parms borrows her title from a casting method used by sculptors. As such, these eighteen essays, cent... |
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111,45 zł |
Walking on Custard & the Meaning of Life: A Guide for Anxious Humans
ISBN: 9780993166839 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Occasional comedian and full-time worrier Neil Hughes isn't the kind of person you'd expect to write a helpful book. Occasional comedian and full-time worrier Neil Hughes isn't the kind of person you'd expect to write a helpful book. |
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144,25 zł |
Patient Zero: Three Years to Live
ISBN: 9781517246310 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Follow the true story of a 15-year-old, impoverished, illegal immigrant as she deals with a devastating disease known as Myasthenia Gravis. She grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, where she lived with her two brothers and parents. Disenchanted with failed attempts to make a living, her father moved the family to the United States, with hopes of finding work. Financial ruin, alcoholism and lack of legal status, forced the family to go back to Great Britain. After selling everything they owned and purchasing plane tickets, Margaret becomes gravely ill, and the move is cancelled. A former gymnast, she...
Follow the true story of a 15-year-old, impoverished, illegal immigrant as she deals with a devastating disease known as Myasthenia Gravis. She grew u...
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Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three Sobs
ISBN: 9780345353290 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too." --Columbia Journalism Review
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American ...
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115,95 zł |
Manhattan Country Doctor
ISBN: 9780345356598 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A wonderful picture of a doctor's life in (an almost vanished) New York."--Oliver Sacks
In the middle of the Depression, when the West Side of Manhattan was a small town of its own, the young Milton Slocum, MD, and his wife, Belle, set up general practice in New York City's notorious Hell's Kitchen. Available around the clock for every medical emergency, Dr. Slocum tended to a vivid cast of real-life characters--mobsters, theater people, Old World families, boxers, and others--who became his good friends as well as his patients. Dr. Slocum's tales of his thiry-year... "A wonderful picture of a doctor's life in (an almost vanished) New York."--Oliver Sacks
In the middle of the Depression, when th... |
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81,60 zł |
The Best Little Boy in the World: The 25th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Memoir
ISBN: 9780345381767 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic account of growing up gay in America.
"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in the world was a closet case who 'never read anything about homosexuality.' . . . John Reid comes out slowly, hilariously, brilliantly. One reads this utterly honest account with the shock of recognition." The New York Times "The quality of this book is fantastic because it comes of... The classic account of growing up gay in America.
"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class... |
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77,30 zł |
Family Heart
ISBN: 9780345394088 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived."
--USA Today " I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. Most are utterly unprepared for them. By writing The Family Heart, Robb Forman Dew has done such parents an extraordinary service." --The Washington Post Book World "TOUCHINGLY WRITTEN." --The Boston Globe "At the heart of this memoir lies a true epiphany: the author's sudden, galvanizing awareness of the suicidal consequences of... "ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived." |
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68,71 zł |
The Story of My Father: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780345455444 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A "NEW YORK TIMES" NOTABLE BOOK
In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he succumbed to Alzheimer s disease. Beginning an intensely personal journey, she recalls the bitter irony of watching this church historian wrestle with his increasingly befuddled notion of time and meaning. She details the struggles with doctors, her own choices, and the attempt to find a caring response to a disease whose special cruelty is to diminish the humanity of those it strikes. In luminous prose, Sue Miller has fashioned a compassionate... A "NEW YORK TIMES" NOTABLE BOOK
In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father, James Nichols, once a truly vital man, as he ... |
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85,89 zł |
Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart
ISBN: 9780345471260 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana-a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father-the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King-her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.
In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, her romantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering she endured in that relationship, and her adventures in the... Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana-a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in S...
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81,60 zł |
Go Long!: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame
ISBN: 9780345496126 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Go Long Jerry Rice shares the inspirational lessons and empowering practices that have helped him attain success, both on the football field and off. Through the ups and downs of Rice's life and incomparable career, we discover how self-motivation, determination, and humility are the keys to achievement and true fulfillment. It's been a long journey for Jerry Rice, from his childhood as a bricklayer's son in Crawford, Mississippi, to a berth in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Along the way, Rice has been fueled by tireless effort and a belief in a few simple principles, among...
In Go Long Jerry Rice shares the inspirational lessons and empowering practices that have helped him attain success, both on the football fiel...
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77,30 zł |
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
ISBN: 9780374105235 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. |
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103,07 zł |