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The Wreck of the Sidonie Stone
ISBN: 9780692285039 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1936 the world was in turmoil; depression swept over the land stealing jobs and hope, and from Europe came rumblings of another war. Women had few choices: they could teach, nurse or marry, and none of these options brought a guarantee of a better life. Chances for success and for happiness were still in the iron grip of men
In 1936 the world was in turmoil; depression swept over the land stealing jobs and hope, and from Europe came rumblings of another war. Women had few ...
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45,49 zł |
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The House of Mirth: Original and Unabridged
ISBN: 9781499764192 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The House of Mirth by "Edith Wharton" is set against the backdrop of 1890s New York upper-class society, written in the style of anovel of manners. Wharton places her tragic heroine, Lily Bart, in a society that she describes as a "hot-house of traditions and conventions." The novel start with the unmarried Lily's visit to Lawrence Selden's apartment, a man whom she has feelings for. But to keep her social standing, Lily must marry a wealthier man than Selden. She turns towards Percy Gryce, a young and timid millionaire. The book received a good review with the "New York Times,"... The House of Mirth by "Edith Wharton" is set against the backdrop of 1890s New York upper-class society, written in the style of anovel of manners.... |
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58,97 zł |
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Back of the Moon
ISBN: 9781500463526 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,00 zł |
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A Snowdrop's Promise
ISBN: 9781500536145 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,90 zł |
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Blue Moon Rises
ISBN: 9781500693343 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,50 zł |
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The House of Mirth
ISBN: 9781501032363 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,81 zł |
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Ordinary Angels: A Novel of Love and Loss after World War Two
ISBN: 9781937997526 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,07 zł |
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Jenny Kissed Me!
ISBN: 9781497450356 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some folks are bothered that most love stories seem a bit contrived and have a suspension of belief. They normally label themselves as realists-"not into that fairy-tale stuff." But what better way to deal with the real world, 24/7, than to take a break, experience a lovelier world- one that transforms the mood and lifts the spirit, giving hope to something better. Although my story is fictional, the magical thing about it is that it could really happen. Jenny Kissed Me is a clean & wholesome novel for the truly romantic. When Jenny finds an old letter in a shoebox, her mind is flooded with...
Some folks are bothered that most love stories seem a bit contrived and have a suspension of belief. They normally label themselves as realists-"not i...
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46,85 zł |
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The Bitch of Broadway
ISBN: 9780964840102 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,94 zł |
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The Bootlegger's Wife: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781495202353 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Weta Nichols National Fiction Writing Contest for Historical Fiction, 2014. Life often demands much of love. True love always answers, yes. It's an age old story. But then again, every love story is brand new. And this my friends is a not a romance, but a love story. With all that that implies. Love's road is full of twists and turns. We know there will be drama, pain, sacrifice and difficult decisions to be made. But it's not the surprises that keep us turning the page, it's the love between two people. Young Frances Durant was bold, adventuresome and ready for excitement. She,...
Winner of the Weta Nichols National Fiction Writing Contest for Historical Fiction, 2014. Life often demands much of love. True love always answers, y...
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54,59 zł |
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The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War
ISBN: 9780062220516 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on... The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyri... |
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82,35 zł |
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Smiling at Heaven
ISBN: 9781494208608 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1919, Thea Hansen's world seems to spiral out of control. First, her dearly loved father dies suddenly from the influenza epidemic sweeping across the globe. Then her brother, Lloyd, returns from The Great War transformed into a brooding stranger. Could it get any worse? Yes, indeed. With a brutal murder close to home and her brother as chief suspect, Thea's wildly spinning world doesn't look like it will slow down anytime soon. She's lived in bucolic Blessing, Kansas, all her life, after all, and hasn't had much experience with out-of-control worlds. Still, the bright and...
In the fall of 1919, Thea Hansen's world seems to spiral out of control. First, her dearly loved father dies suddenly from the influenza epidemic swee...
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59,01 zł |
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December Moon
ISBN: 9781500983970 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,95 zł |
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The Moon Connection
ISBN: 9781502380227 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE MOON CONNECTION is fourth in the series of sagas continuing the lives of the Hamilton women. Janet Marie Scott Morgan, sixth generation of the attractive women who bore a stunning physical resemblance including auburn hair and enchanting green eyes, also exudes the same disquieting personality as both her parents seeking ambitions and goals that are at times troubling. Scott Pauley, a young veteran pilot, enters Janet's life as an instructor at the flight school, owned by Chris and Julie Morgan, her parents. A love story laced with intrigue, sadness, and ecstasy unfolds to delight the...
THE MOON CONNECTION is fourth in the series of sagas continuing the lives of the Hamilton women. Janet Marie Scott Morgan, sixth generation of the att...
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52,36 zł |
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The Late Elephant
ISBN: 9781502566812 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 1891. Ada Elverson is fourteen years old and lives with her family at The Late Elephant, a coaching inn on the outskirts of the small village of Swepstone in Leicestershire. The household is in turmoil, as it is her sister Jess's wedding day. The whole village turns out to attend the church service at St. Peter's, returning to the inn for a day of revelry. One week later, and with mixed feelings at leaving behind the love of her life, Ada makes her first journey by steam train. She joins the Ludlam family at Glenfield Mill to begin an apprenticeship as a cook. Unknown to her, the...
The year is 1891. Ada Elverson is fourteen years old and lives with her family at The Late Elephant, a coaching inn on the outskirts of the small vill...
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57,51 zł |
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Quiver of the Pure Heart
ISBN: 9781502835277 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quiver of the Pure Heart: Love, Corruption & Gentrification Collide; as New Novel Uncovers Family 'Secrets' During Heroine's San Francisco Displacement. A romantic suspense novel set in San Francisco, 1989. Twenty-eight year old Blis Dumas' peaceful life and sense of security becomes the target of a well-crafted scheme. Blis Dumas fears a repeat of the 1950-60s, redevelopment that took place displacing primarily African-American residents from the Western Addition's Fillmore District, their "Harlem of the West." Her world crumbles as she is notified that her own Victorian home, inherited from...
Quiver of the Pure Heart: Love, Corruption & Gentrification Collide; as New Novel Uncovers Family 'Secrets' During Heroine's San Francisco Displacemen...
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49,85 zł |
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Come What May
ISBN: 9780992375935 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,13 zł |
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After My Shotgun Wedding
ISBN: 9781502549983 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens one summer, when the best friend and buddy you ever had in your whole life turns out to be a girl instead of a boy like you and she is trapped in a family with an abusive father? You find a way to get her off of the mountain and into the city. And you make her your college roommate. Back home after graduation, Jim is a teacher and Curly is a nurse. An angry abusive father with the help of thirteen relatives with shotguns force Jim and Curly to deal with their true feelings for one another. Later Curly is called as nurse for Ann's sick baby. When Ann's baby dies, Curly decides to...
What happens one summer, when the best friend and buddy you ever had in your whole life turns out to be a girl instead of a boy like you and she is tr...
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92,20 zł |
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Bellagio: fine corsa
ISBN: 9781502892409 / Włoski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Milano, marzo '45. Un giovane medico, Michele, e una ragazza si incontrano per caso. Lui prende al volo il tram che lei sta guidando. Tra di loro nemmeno una parola. La sera stessa si ritrovano. Finalmente cominciano a parlare. Laura riesce a sganciarsi. Ma il giovane insiste. La cerca ancora. La trova proprio mentre alla rimessa dei tram si svolge una sfilata di moda. E la modella e lei All'evento e presente anche un ufficiale tedesco, insospettito da quella ragazza che sembra tenere gli occhi troppo bassi. Gli viene un dubbio: che sia ebrea? Intanto la situazione politica precipita. Un...
Milano, marzo '45. Un giovane medico, Michele, e una ragazza si incontrano per caso. Lui prende al volo il tram che lei sta guidando. Tra di loro nemm...
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29,82 zł |
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The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach
ISBN: 9780778317548 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale Summer 1941Young Adelia Montforte flees fascist Italy for America, where she is whisked away to the shore by her well-meaning aunt and uncle. Here, she meets and falls for Charlie Connally, the eldest of the four Irish-Catholic boys next door. But all hopes for a future together are soon throttled by the war and a tragedy that hits much closer to home. Grief-stricken, Addie flees--first to Washington and then to war-torn London--and finds a position at a prestigious... From the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale Summer 1941Young Adelia Montforte fle... |
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78,02 zł |
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