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The Shunting Yard: The Umschlagplatz
ISBN: 9781481735230 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Following Poland's occupation by Germany, the eighteen year old Rurak felt that If that small band of "minutemen" could overthrow a world power such as Great Britain, why then can't we do the same, here in Poland?" Those were ambitious thoughts which would be sorely tested beginning in the Fall of 1939, at the war's outset. Details of events from those dismal years are recalled in this book. The writers accomplished this by contacting people who had lived through the horror. Other facts come from the written word, verified by eye witnesses. This book, likewise depicts experiences of a...
"Following Poland's occupation by Germany, the eighteen year old Rurak felt that If that small band of "minutemen" could overthrow a world power such ...
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The Land and the People
ISBN: 9781504914468 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "
A fast moving yarn of the Cox Family and their Catskill Mountain farm on the eve of the agricultural industrial revolution. Well-developed characters take you through a year in the lives of three generations of the Cox family. . Family relationships are rich in detail, the civil war veteran, his father and founder of the family farm Grampa Hobie, the stay at home mother Vera, the rebellious eldest son and others. Jack explores the issues of rural farm life in the late 19th century. life. Surprisingly similar to those of today they include Man vs Nature, Man vs Man, drought,... "
A fast moving yarn of the Cox Family and their Catskill Mountain farm on the eve of the agricultural industrial revolution. Well-developed charact... |
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Yesterday's Wind
ISBN: 9781504953788 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tanned farmer stood under the windmill in the hot, cloudless July afternoon. His soiled blue cotton shirt was buttoned to the collar. Before him, his nineteen-year-old son, ramrod straight in his immaculate marine dress blues, lamented, "Dad, if only I could turn back just a few months, then I wouldn't be in this predicament." The father, his jaw set, gazing up at the windmill vanes, quiet in the summer calm, uttered softly, "You can't pump water with yesterday's wind." Born in 1922 to a simple farming family in rural Colorado, Andrew Hubbard is athletic, handsome, and intelligent. Andy's...
The tanned farmer stood under the windmill in the hot, cloudless July afternoon. His soiled blue cotton shirt was buttoned to the collar. Before him, ...
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The MISTS of MANITTOO: A Mythic Story of Love and Freedom
ISBN: 9781524613075 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Torn Covenants
ISBN: 9781524612955 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Old King: Book Three of the Chronicles of Athan
ISBN: 9781504927352 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "King Athan has been happy in his little kingdom, a hundred leagues north and east of the great city-states of Athens and Sparta. It was true he had stolen the kingdom of Dassaria, but it was his now, and he meant to make it a good place to live for his subjects. Blessed with a magical amulet, he has stopped aging and so believes he has all the time in the world. Athan, however, is learning that being a king is a lot harder and much more dangerous than he ever imagined. He and his men must face challenges ranging from the mundane to the desperate. His little kingdom must fight to survive...
"King Athan has been happy in his little kingdom, a hundred leagues north and east of the great city-states of Athens and Sparta. It was true he had s...
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Home, Again!: A Novel of Identity, Self-Discovery, and Tragedy
ISBN: 9781481749862 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home, Again narrates the story of a European mother and her Indo-European son, who are struggling to understand who they are, against the backdrop of events in Europe and India. Angela Guttenberg, a twenty-two-year-old Austrian woman, graduates in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1933. Disenchanted with Europe because of Hitler's rise, as well as her lover's conversion to Nazism, she sails to India for her post-graduate research. And she goes to Jejuri, a temple town in the Deccan famous for the folk culture of the sun-god, Khandoba, as well as for the concentration of... Home, Again narrates the story of a European mother and her Indo-European son, who are struggling to understand who they are, against the backdrop... |
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Never Lark nor Eagle: A Fighter Pilot's Story (Volume I)
ISBN: 9781401070120 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Denying Liberty
ISBN: 9781456701192 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Glorious Reality of War
ISBN: 9781463468149 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Glorious Reality of War is not a biography. Rather, it is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Rickard based upon his own recollection recorded in a seventeen page letter to his grown daughter in 1925. He was fifteen when he joined as a fifer because: -They said I was too young for a private and would only muster me in as a fifer as the Col.'s son W.W. Byam had already enlisted as a drummer. (I had never seen a fife) but I could use a rifle, and was bound to go as something.-
The Glorious Reality of War is not a biography. Rather, it is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Rickard b...
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The Benediction
ISBN: 9781469139289 / Wielojęzykowe / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Long Journey to Destiny
ISBN: 9781468546590 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Making a Beeline Home
ISBN: 9781465345691 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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2 Wives 2 Laws: A Story of Mormon Polygamy
ISBN: 9781479756070 / Angielski / Twarda / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Porter Rockwell, Ike Potter: Heros or Villains
ISBN: 9781466975019 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Then early in the history of the Great Salt Lake valley, Issac Smith Potter and his family entered in a covered wagon and built a home in Springville. At first they built one home, and then they built one for Issac, better known as Ike. Several things were very important to Ike. Family, friends, and to leave a mark in life. A man's hands can build, and he wanted to leave a mark with his hands. Just as important to him were friends. He knew that good friends last forever, and he wanted nothing more than that. When his friends turned on him, that was one of the most hurtful things of his life....
Then early in the history of the Great Salt Lake valley, Issac Smith Potter and his family entered in a covered wagon and built a home in Springville....
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Escape from Tyranny
ISBN: 9781483679907 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Death Only Wins: The Stalin Trilogy: Volume One: Early Stalin
ISBN: 9781483691152 / Angielski / Twarda / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Death of A Nation
ISBN: 9781503559103 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mary Bernadette: Secrets of a Dallas Moon: A Young Vietnamese Girl's Tale from the Grave about the Killing of JFK
ISBN: 9781480819047 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mary Bernadette is a Vietnamese girl born on November 22, 1963--the day John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Raised in an orphanage, she finds herself unwittingly involved in an international incident at the age of six, when a Russian man who claims to be the second gunman on the grassy knoll during the assassination of JFK stumbles into the orphanage looking for help. Mary Bernadette is then witness to the opening rounds of Operation Excalibur, the CIA code name for the mission to capture this second gunman alive. In the late spring and early summer of 1971--while Americans are unaware... Mary Bernadette is a Vietnamese girl born on November 22, 1963--the day John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Raised in an orphanage, she finds herself ... |
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A Good Soldier: A Novel of History and Adventure
ISBN: 9781514423967 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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