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Darcy's Hope Beauty from Ashes: A Pride & Prejudice Great War Romance
ISBN: 9781517059699 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Escape to the era of Downton Abbey and experience all the drama of World War 1 alongside literature's iconic Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy. You'll watch their tender love unfold as they learn to work together and reconcile their differences amidst the turbulence of war.
* Heartbroken. Devastated. WW1 Captain Fitzwilliam Darcy was rejected by the woman he loved and left grief-stricken over the loss of his men. "Enough " Darcy vows, "No more sentimental entanglements. No comrades, no dog, and certainly no woman " But a covert assignment at a... Escape to the era of Downton Abbey and experience all the drama of World War 1 alongside literature's iconic Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy. ...
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60,15 zł |
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Rubyville: A Place in My Heart, Book 4
ISBN: 9781537096827 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love at first sight isn't a ticket to a lifetime of happiness Evelyn Barton Hanover has always been a tomboy at heart. She is ready to graduate and leave Rubyville, exploring the unknown. Her mother, Helen, has plans for Evelyn, as well. Plans that include staying in Rubyville and marrying the capable and responsible Aaron Darby. Richard King isn't looking for anyone in particular. Yet when Evelyn turns her gaze on Richard at the Senior Prom, he is swept away and starts making plans of his own. Evelyn must decide whether to live her life as she desires, or to follow the course her mother has...
Love at first sight isn't a ticket to a lifetime of happiness Evelyn Barton Hanover has always been a tomboy at heart. She is ready to graduate and le...
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55,52 zł |
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Threadbare: The Traveling Show
ISBN: 9781539426387 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you piece together your life when the world is falling apart at the seams?
It's 1945. The New American Republic may be done fighting their enemies overseas, but the war at home against Tall-Me, Cleo, and their army of patriots still rages on. Times are hard, but Amandine Stewart refuses to give up hope. Her father killed in action and her mother imprisoned in the faraway city of Nieuwestad, Amandine embarks on a dangerous journey to reunite what's left of her family. Her sunny disposition and skills as a seamstress get her a job with a traveling band of... How do you piece together your life when the world is falling apart at the seams?
It's 1945. The New American Republic may be don... |
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69,42 zł |
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Instead of the Thorn
ISBN: 9781539545996 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1916.
Instead of the Thorn is one of the much-talked-of books in the early twentieth century. The story is of a Chicago girl brought up in luxury, whose father is ruined under circumstances that seem to her to involve his business associate. The fact that this young man is in love with the girl greatly complicates the situation, and results in a dramatic and absorbing narrative. How the girl is finally persuaded to go to New England for rest, how the simple, quiet village life restores her poise and happiness, is told in Mrs. Burnham's inimitable... Originally published in 1916.
Instead of the Thorn is one of the much-talked-of books in the early twentieth century. The story is of... |
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74,05 zł |
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Hills to Climb
ISBN: 9781539559139 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HILLS TO CLIMB is the story of three women thrust into new roles when their husbands are drafted into military service as World War II rages in distant places. Although America's homeland escaped the hostilities, those left to guard the home front fought a different battle. Women, with children to rear, households to maintain, mounting shortages to overcome as the war progressed, reeled under the stress and loneliness. Ellen Parker, the heroine, along with her two friends, Evelyn and Jane, struggle to provide for their children, attempting to keep life as normal as possible while the war...
HILLS TO CLIMB is the story of three women thrust into new roles when their husbands are drafted into military service as World War II rages in distan...
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57,89 zł |
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The Conquests of Lonnie Dolan
ISBN: 9781625502650 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lonnie was just a fourteen-year-old boy in a one room schoolhouse when he first laid siege to the defenses of a beautiful woman, in this case, his nineteen-year-old teacher. After this first adventure into the delights of love, Lonnie expanded his exploration to other beautiful women, enjoying the chase, the seduction, and all the faces of love. Follow the exploits of this handsome young man as he explores himself, the Appalachian Mountains of his birth, and the charms of the women who find him as irresistible as he finds them.
Lonnie was just a fourteen-year-old boy in a one room schoolhouse when he first laid siege to the defenses of a beautiful woman, in this case, his nin...
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92,61 zł |
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Clever Betsy
ISBN: 9781539766117 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maine readers are always interested in a book by Clara Louise Burnham and "Clever Betsy" will be no exception, particularly as much of the scene is laid in a little Maine seacoast village which the author calls Fairport, but which readers may recognize by other names. The real "character" of the story is clever Betsy herself, the romance is woven around her protege, who is the "clinging vine" type of girl, rejoicing in a glorious crown of golden hair and the romantic name of Rosalie Vincent. She is one of the sort who "hopeth all things, endureth all things," (the unwelcome attentions...
Maine readers are always interested in a book by Clara Louise Burnham and "Clever Betsy" will be no exception, particularly as much of the scen...
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55,52 zł |
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Boston Family Saison 1
ISBN: 9782822100182 / Francuski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. C'est l'une des familles les plus en vue de Boston. Son histoire s'est etalee dans les journaux et les magazines people pendant plus de 100 ans, mais personne n'est capable de repondre a cette simple question: d'ou vient cette famille ? Surtout pas le grand-pere qui ne s'y est jamais interesse. La famille est-elle arrivee aux Etats-Unis en 1492, en 1620 ou plus tard ? Quel lourd secret se cache derriere cette enigme ? Une infamie ? Un tueur en serie ? Une famille bourgeoise ou meme princiere qui a echappe aux guerres ou aux revolutions europeennes ? C'est a l'occasion du mariage de ses...
C'est l'une des familles les plus en vue de Boston. Son histoire s'est etalee dans les journaux et les magazines people pendant plus de 100 ans, mais ...
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94,78 zł |
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The Coastal Steamer
ISBN: 9781539677987 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Coastal Steamer makes an 11-day voyage up the coast of Norway carrying cargo and passengers. Eve Merino, an American finds herself involved with WWII history and interesting passengers including the mysterious man with the scar over his eye. What is his secret? This is not her first trip on the Coastal Steamer. Eight years after WWII, Eve and her mother made the trip to find some information about her brother's bomber that went down in the North Sea in 1944. Memories and stories of the war years are not what Eve wanted to hear on her vacation, but she soon gets caught up in an interesting...
The Coastal Steamer makes an 11-day voyage up the coast of Norway carrying cargo and passengers. Eve Merino, an American finds herself involved with W...
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50,70 zł |
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War Trees
ISBN: 9781628801095 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The War Trees... "During the Second World War, soldiers trained around here. They used real ammunition. There are old mines among those trees, so just don't go in there." But it wasn't any fear of mines that kept people out of the woods; it had to do with someone in here now--not soldiers who fought war games sixty years ago... The War Trees... "During the Second World War, soldiers trained around here. They used real ammunition. There are old mines among those trees, so j... |
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98,78 zł |
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Christmastime 1940: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781946229052 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christmastime 1940: A Love Story, Book One in the series, is set in New York City against the backdrop of impending war. It tells of the unlikely romance of a struggling young mother who is trying to make a fresh start in life and a man who has lost his connection to humanity. Christmastime 1940: A Love Story, Book One in the series, is set in New York City against the backdrop of impending war. It tells of the unlikely r... |
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57,29 zł |
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Christmastime 1941: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781946229069 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christmastime 1941: A Love Story, Book Two, opens two days after Pearl Harbor has been attacked. War has just been declared, and New York City is in a state of chaos and panic as it tries to prepare for possible attacks. Following the same characters established in Book One, and introducing a few new ones, it tells of the power of old loves, new loves, and friendship. Christmastime 1941: A Love Story, Book Two, opens two days after Pearl Harbor has been attacked. War has just been declared, and New York City is i... |
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64,16 zł |
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Christmastime 1942: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781946229083 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Christmastime 1942: A Love Story, Book Three, the Axis forces are winning, and America struggles to find its footing in the war. Men leave to fight and women join the workforce. New York City vibrates with energy, romance, tension, and urgency. Yet love burns brighter than ever, bringing people together and giving them hope for the future. The famous Stage Door Canteen in Times Square provides the background for one of these romances - between the proud, but wounded, Edith Mason and the Shakespearean actor, Desmond Burke. In Christmastime 1942: A Love Story, Book Three, the Axis forces are winning, and America struggles to find its footing in the war. Men leave to fi... |
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64,16 zł |
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Christmastime 1943: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781946229090 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Christmastime 1943: A Love Story, Book Four, the war intensifies, the Christmas season arrives, and love is kept alive on the home front. In New York City, Lillian Drooms struggles on her own while her husband, Charles, is away at sea. She volunteers with "Artists for Victory" at a hospital for wounded soldiers, but soon begins to doubt her ability. In Christmastime 1943: A Love Story, Book Four, the war intensifies, the Christmas season arrives, and love is kept alive on the home front. In New... |
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64,16 zł |
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Becoming Cathy
ISBN: 9780985441333 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's 1957 and Cathy Fallon is home in Iowa, but not for long. Cathy doesn't want what most 23-year old women want - a husband. She doesn't care that her aunts worry that she will become an old maid. She knows what she wants. She wants to spend her days surrounded by great art. She already has an education. She earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Radcliffe (which was, by-the-by, the happy hunting ground for Harvard educated husbands). Now she is starting a career, working in California with the eclectic art collection amassed by the multi-millionaire William Randolph Hearst. A new life doing...
It's 1957 and Cathy Fallon is home in Iowa, but not for long. Cathy doesn't want what most 23-year old women want - a husband. She doesn't care that h...
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44,00 zł |
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Unwilling Promise
ISBN: 9781530405077 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Klarysa Tutko, a young single mother, moves to Caribou, Minnesota, where her family is now living, to put her life back in order. All she wants is to leave the past in the past; though a family friend has other ideas and persuades her to make a promise that she is unwilling to keep.
Klarysa Tutko, a young single mother, moves to Caribou, Minnesota, where her family is now living, to put her life back in order. All she wants is to ...
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27,74 zł |
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Bougainvillea Exile
ISBN: 9781539499299 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the period just before the onset of World War II, Emil and Magda Franz, a German Jewish couple of social and political influence, are forced to leave their homeland to escape Nazi oppression. They settle in a bougainvillea haven in Southern California. Emil's influence with President Roosevelt makes him an ideal person to bring together people with special talents and expertise to defeat the enemy. Six of these people, three couples, caught up in the insanity of war, form deep friendships. The men, Greg, Drax and Rory, engage the enemy in combat on the front lines, including battles on...
In the period just before the onset of World War II, Emil and Magda Franz, a German Jewish couple of social and political influence, are forced to lea...
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58,20 zł |
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A Price Above Rubies
ISBN: 9781539608639 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blume Speiser, daughter of a rabbi, longs to escape the constraints of an Orthodox Hasidic woman's life. She seeks freedom, to get a secular education, and to choose a husband herself. In her world, however, what she may study, whom she may love, and when, are rigidly prescribed. She vows that she is not going to live like her half-sister Itke, locked in a lovelessmarriage to a rabbi, her cousin Fay, powerless to protect her son from her husband's rigid conformity, or her sisters Charlotte, who has distanced herself from the family to be "modern," or Rivke, who glows in a haze of perpetual...
Blume Speiser, daughter of a rabbi, longs to escape the constraints of an Orthodox Hasidic woman's life. She seeks freedom, to get a secular education...
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69,23 zł |
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The Ebb
ISBN: 9781540409447 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her... CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Markson, a charming flirt who makes her laugh. Although she tries to keep him at arm's length, worried that village gossip will get back to her strict family, she falls desperately in love. That's when strange dreams about Brighton's West Pier and a woman dressed in black begin to haunt her. Who is this grieving woman? And how is her lament related to Sofia's feelings for Danny? BRIGHTON, 1937 Dreaming of wealth and happiness, Laura Mayfield arrives...
When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her... CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Mark...
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61,31 zł |
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Private Property
ISBN: 9781540435132 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two women living in different times and places intertwine their experiences and their fates. While one struggles for survival the other tries to find herself. Both need to be something more than that for which they seem predestined, but they must face gender discrimination and old social stereotypes. Love gets into their lives conditioning their decisions, their self esteem and their actions.
Two women living in different times and places intertwine their experiences and their fates. While one struggles for survival the other tries to find ...
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87,98 zł |
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