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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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26,15 |
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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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72,18 |
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Weep Tonight
ISBN: 9781499650310 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Be swept away in this exciting true story of faith, love and friendship. Follow the journey of two inspiring families as their contrasting lives interlace. This is the first book in this series. The second book is Joyful Morning.
Be swept away in this exciting true story of faith, love and friendship. Follow the journey of two inspiring families as their contrasting lives inter...
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99,74 |
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Tending Her Heart
ISBN: 9781502775139 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweet, Fun Romance--Set in 1971, nurse Julie Peters is ambitious and tenacious, but her plans to modernize Waterside Hospital's labor and delivery department are thwarted by old-school doctors and brown-nosing colleagues. The last thing on her mind is falling in love as she confronts her career-related demons. Still, she feels the pull of attraction to one special doctor. Dr. Michael Young turned away from a prestigious research position at Duke University to practice medicine in a smaller, less intense setting at Waterside Hospital. While nurses chase him by the dozen, he is intrigued and...
Sweet, Fun Romance--Set in 1971, nurse Julie Peters is ambitious and tenacious, but her plans to modernize Waterside Hospital's labor and delivery dep...
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43,86 |
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Willowbark
ISBN: 9781502864604 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebecca Mader is about to be married to a man she's having a few concerns about. Namely, does she even know him anymore? After today, she's no so sure. And, she has a funeral to arrange, an entire estate to run on her own, now...there is a man pointing a gun at her back Could her luck get any worse? She wants her fiance dead, and if someone won't do it for her, she'll just have to do it herself. She will not stand to be another mans' fool. Perhaps the handsome man who'd barged into her home, jeopardizing her life, can be convinced he now owes her this small favor. Sebastian LeGue, her...
Rebecca Mader is about to be married to a man she's having a few concerns about. Namely, does she even know him anymore? After today, she's no so sure...
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51,84 |
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Final Flight
ISBN: 9781922187109 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eight stories woven around the mystery of the Bucks Elbow Mountain, Virginia, plane crash of 1963. In the early fall of 1963 both the Shenandoah National Park Service and the fire stations on the Virginia Piedmont plain on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains are called during a nighttime thunderstorm. A small forest fire, reportedly preceded by an explosion, has been observed on the eastern slope of Bucks Elbow Mountain, ten miles north on the Skyline Drive from where highway 250 crosses the Blue Ridge at Rockfish Gap. The rain is heavy and the site of the fire is remote. By... Eight stories woven around the mystery of the Bucks Elbow Mountain, Virginia, plane crash of 1963. In the early fall of 1963 both the Shenandoah... |
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35,88 |
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Family Business
ISBN: 9781910624005 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When country doctor's daughter Diana Poultney becomes pregnant by haulier's son Bradley Armstrong, she marries him against the wishes of her parents, who feels she has ruined her life. Cut off by her family and friends, a defiant Diana devotes herself to being a good wife to Bradley and an adoring mother to their baby son. Though life is hard in the remote Weardale cottage they have restored as their home, they are happy together. But when tragedy strikes, their lives fall apart. Then the coming of the Second World War offers her a way out. Bradley joins the army and his father, short of men...
When country doctor's daughter Diana Poultney becomes pregnant by haulier's son Bradley Armstrong, she marries him against the wishes of her parents, ...
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56,27 |
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Governor's Road: A Novel of Southern Proportions
ISBN: 9781502804976 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The terrorized children of Governor's Road grew up without resolution or closure to the most devastating event of their young lives. Their friend, a child their age, disappeared one afternoon and somehow, they never seem to learn what happened. Saddened parents decide to protect their children and the obvious fear recedes in the face of the calm that settles back over the neighborhood. But, fear never really disappears until it's confronted. As adults, JoBeth and Billy set out to discover what happened to little Petey Shiner. The answer brings them to the conclusion that there is no perfect...
The terrorized children of Governor's Road grew up without resolution or closure to the most devastating event of their young lives. Their friend, a c...
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Behind The Narrow Street: published by Bamboo Talk Press
ISBN: 9781502381330 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Behind The Narrow Street' is a mystery, romance novel with a strong historical background. It takes place on the Caribbean island of Trinidad during World War 2 where the Americans had three army bases. Many entertainment facilities were established for the 'Yankee' servicemen in transit to the European front. The well known calypso, 'Drinking rum and Coca Cola' was the antidote to this bleak time in the island's history. An American airman, Robert Lambert, falls in love with a young prostitute, Anna. With his growing fear of what awaits him on the continent, he decides to desert his post....
'Behind The Narrow Street' is a mystery, romance novel with a strong historical background. It takes place on the Caribbean island of Trinidad during ...
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63,86 |
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Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996
ISBN: 9781503006720 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What we truly desire is too often unclear even to ourselves.... A year that began lightheartedly in a Long Island college class, ended on a frightening note. In Frontiers, we are once again in Lorient, Paris, New York, as well as now in London and farther afield. Isabelle, James, Valerie, Virginie, Mark, Beatrice, Stephane, Natalie, Lena, and others - including James's crime novelist, philandering Uncle Bill - are back. What lies ahead? Frontiers leads us through 1995-1996, continuing the story begun in Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995. As in that... What we truly desire is too often unclear even to ourselves.... A year that began lightheartedly in a Long Island college class, ended on a... |
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The Saints of Lost Things
ISBN: 9781505212846 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louisiana, 1965, and an unlikely, inevitable couple. Sammy Teague and Betsy Duplechain have grown up right next door to each other, but in different worlds, with expectations and circumstances that have always kept them separate. Now, as a powerful September hurricane bears down on the Louisiana coast, those worlds will come face to face. The choices they make will send them on an odyssey north and into the fall of 1965, as the brutal and envious sheriff Percy Parris pursues them. Along the way they meet an unusual and eclectic series of people who help them become more than what they were....
Louisiana, 1965, and an unlikely, inevitable couple. Sammy Teague and Betsy Duplechain have grown up right next door to each other, but in different w...
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Clara's Secret
ISBN: 9781505287141 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clara has spent twenty-three years watching life pass by from her family's country estate while they enjoyed all the pleasure and company available to the wealthy in 1920's America. But the day her parents and sister are due to return from an extended stay in the big city, everything Clara has known and accepted begins to change, starting with the unexpected appearance of a handsome stranger looking for assistance. Who is this man and what could he possibly want from Clara?
Clara has spent twenty-three years watching life pass by from her family's country estate while they enjoyed all the pleasure and company available to...
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Four Mothers
ISBN: 9781505301908 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is there really such a thing as a family curse? The tale of "Four Mothers" captivates readers with fantastic characters, magical events, foreign colors and scents while telling the story of a dynasty of women cursed to raise their daughters on their own. This is a vibrant first person recounting of matriarchal dynasty with rich strong women who pass their material and spiritual legacy on from one generation to the next. The last woman in the line, Amal, documents the wisdom of her female predecessors from the beginning of memory. The family has known riches and fame as well as... Is there really such a thing as a family curse? The tale of "Four Mothers" captivates readers with fantastic characters, magical events, foreign ... |
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Fading Shadows
ISBN: 9780974645018 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fading Shadows Historical fiction of true-to-life people caught up in the trauma of the twentieth century, especially World War II, when the world was tearing itself apart. Fading Shadows is the story of Glenn Hastings, a severely wounded Medal of Honor recipient in World War II, and his long, tortuous search for fulfillment and happiness. The painful journey led him back to York, Maine, where he had served as a young officer in 1942, and had found happiness. Glenn discovers more than he expected. Places and people, everything, had changed, except the love he had nurtured for twenty-five...
Fading Shadows Historical fiction of true-to-life people caught up in the trauma of the twentieth century, especially World War II, when the world was...
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Lake of Three Sorrows
ISBN: 9780974645025 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lake of Three Sorrows A warm spiritually uplifting story of courage, commitment, and sacrifice. This is the story of Dale Cooper, a battle-weary American soldier who served in two world wars. It was a unique time in our history when ordinary citizen-soldiers rose to challenge the strongest war-making-machines in history. Already traumatized by the death and destruction of the sordid trench fighting in France, Dale is faced with the death of his mother and father from the flu epidemic, and the betrayal of his fiancee. Desperate for emotional healing, he seeks the sanctuary of a log cabin on a...
Lake of Three Sorrows A warm spiritually uplifting story of courage, commitment, and sacrifice. This is the story of Dale Cooper, a battle-weary Ameri...
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The Road to Karinya
ISBN: 9781505392180 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prue King is nineteen and lives on Karinya Station, one of seven girls. She and her friend Sally decide to go on the adventure of a live time-a road trip, right around Australia. Neither Prue nor Sally is in any hurry to settle down, unlike some girls their age. They want to see the country and be independent. When they meet brothers Dan and Steve on the Sunshine Coast Prue is stunned by her feelings for him, but her plans remain the same. She and Sally are determined to get to Perth where they will live for at least a few months and decide what their futures hold. When the girls leave the...
Prue King is nineteen and lives on Karinya Station, one of seven girls. She and her friend Sally decide to go on the adventure of a live time-a road t...
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G.I. Bridegroom
ISBN: 9781785071607 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roger Bowler, aged twenty-one and from Oxford is a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WW2. He is sent to America to train as a pilot. Whilst there, he needs an operation. At the hospital, he meets Belinda, an eighteen-year-old nurse-aid. He jilts his English fiancee, Susan and marries Belinda. Due to health problems he fails to become a pilot and is sent back to the U.K. Belinda's uncle, a senator, pulls strings so she can join him. On the way to England her ship is torpedoed.
IS BELINDA ABOUT TO DIE? Roger Bowler, aged twenty-one and from Oxford is a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WW2. He is sent to America to train as a pilot. Whilst there, he...
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G.I. Bridegroom
ISBN: 9781785071614 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roger Bowler, aged twenty-one and from Oxford is a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WW2. He is sent to America to train as a pilot. Whilst there, he needs an operation. At the hospital, he meets Belinda, an eighteen-year-old nurse-aid. He jilts his English fiancee, Susan and marries Belinda. Due to health problems he fails to become a pilot and is sent back to the U.K. Belinda's uncle, a senator, pulls strings so she can join him. On the way to England her ship is torpedoed.
IS BELINDA ABOUT TO DIE? Roger Bowler, aged twenty-one and from Oxford is a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WW2. He is sent to America to train as a pilot. Whilst there, he...
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Snow Phoenix and Me
ISBN: 9781505410211 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 1913 in Shanghai, just after the fall of the Qing dynasty. Li Suet-foong, a sharp-tongued struggling artist ... Akecheta Lung, a notorious gun-for-hire ... Radically different in almost every way, their instant attraction to one another defies all logic and their love deepens. Amid all the chaos and lawlessness in the city besieged by warlords, Suet-foong and Akecheta begin a new life and take their uncompromising devotion to the next level with no inkling that their time together is ending ... fast. Hilarious, poignant, and filled with wonder, it is a story for those who are in...
The year is 1913 in Shanghai, just after the fall of the Qing dynasty. Li Suet-foong, a sharp-tongued struggling artist ... Akecheta Lung, a notorious...
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Passion of a Priest: The Flesh VS Celibacy: Diary of a Priest in Love 2: A Legion of Christ Missionary in Mexico
ISBN: 9781505465563 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Abelard and Heloise' passion threatens to over-run their religious discipline. The reader will find out how that tension rises and how they attempt to handle their mutual attraction. Will the defenses of a conservative, isolated and rigidly trained young priest, an emotionally immature Legionary of Christ, embarking on his first pastoral project in Mexico, crumble under the harsh reality of passionate love?
In this book Abelard and Heloise' passion threatens to over-run their religious discipline. The reader will find out how that tension rises and how th...
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