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My Struggle, Book 2: A Man in Love
ISBN: 9780374534158 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." --James Wood, The New Yorker " Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bour... |
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Elgan and Grace: A Twentieth-Century Saga
ISBN: 9781770678408 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the twilight of his life, a son examines fragments of his familys moral trek through the played-out century. Historically authentic settings and mores rekindle the past: backwoods Kentucky... a booming young Detroit... anti-German hostility during The Great War... whiskey-running and speakeasies... twists of fortune after The Crash... the Machiavellian inner sanctums of the worlds largest industry... the World War II American home front... sea-changes in society and in private lives that accompanied Post-War normalcy.
Gradually, the saga coheres on the pathways of its two protagonists:... In the twilight of his life, a son examines fragments of his familys moral trek through the played-out century. Historically authentic settings and mo...
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Brewster
ISBN: 9780393348835 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gifted with his fists as Jon is with his feet, is trying to take care of his baby brother while staying out of the way of his abusive, ex-cop father. When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it's not until Ray falls in love with...
The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's chi...
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Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780451417794 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh's pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile's marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut's games forces her to confront her guilt...and sets her on a profoundly changed course.
Hatshepsut enters a loveless marriage with her half brother, Thut, to secure his claim to the Isis Throne and produce a male heir. But it is another of Thut's wives, the commoner Aset, who bears him a son, while... Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh's pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and te...
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Blood and Beauty: A Novel about the Borgias
ISBN: 9780812981612 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS"
The "New York Times" bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels "The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, "and" Sacred Hearts" has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world s most intriguing and infamous families the Borgias in an engrossing work of literary fiction. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside... NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS"
The "New York Times" bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels "T... |
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On the Clock
ISBN: 9781683500407 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On The Clock is an all access pass into the world of country music and into the grueling process leading up to the NFL Draft. Through the eyes of football sensation Adam Alford, see how he and his country music star dad battle through the trials of adversity while pursuing their passions in life. Feel Adam's pain through a tragic loss in his life and the unsettling reality of his dad's arrest in connection to a murder. Discover the practical wisdom used to change the trajectory of both of their lives.
On The Clock is an all access pass into the world of country music and into the grueling process leading up to the NFL Draft. Through the eyes ...
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Jane the Quene
ISBN: 9780997133813 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All Jane Seymour wants is a husband; but when she catches the eye of a volatile king, she is pulled deep into the Tudor court's realm of plot and intrigue.... England. 1535. Jane Seymour is 27 years old and increasingly desperate for the marriage that will provide her a real place in the world. She gets the perfect opportunity to shine when the court visits Wolf Hall, the Seymour ancestral manor. With new poise born from this event, it seems certain that her efficiency and diligence will shine through and finally attract a suitor. Meanwhile, King Henry VIII is 45 and increasingly desperate...
All Jane Seymour wants is a husband; but when she catches the eye of a volatile king, she is pulled deep into the Tudor court's realm of plot and intr...
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Tommy's Tale: A Novel of Sex, Confusion, and Happy Endings
ISBN: 9780062321619 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, he starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy. Faced with the choice of maintaining his hedonistic, drugged-out, and admittedly fabulous existence or chucking it all in favor of a far more sensitive, fulfilling--and let's face it--sober lifestyle, Tommy finds himself in a true quandary. Through a series of adventures and... Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetti... |
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Dancer
ISBN: 9781250051790 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protege from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon... Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev throu... |
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The Expirement: The Box
ISBN: 9781489587978 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Kieran Folster is a young scientist at world leaders Darktronics; In the first of the trilogy we read from his memoirs on the unwanted adventures that he goes on. Someone is playing with him, someone is challenging him and it is now a matter of life and death. With all this all James want to do is live with his girlfriend and friends and just stop all this unwanted attention and yet someone sends him a box and is playing a game with him, will he survive? will he be able to save those he loves and care about. Come and visit Darktronics and the life that James is now living. Have you...
James Kieran Folster is a young scientist at world leaders Darktronics; In the first of the trilogy we read from his memoirs on the unwanted adventure...
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Devil Water
ISBN: 9780544240407 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story fictionalized by a writer who has a special feeling for the dramatic . . . Mixed by Miss Seton s skillful hands, the dust of the past becomes the clay of the artist and is molded into memorable, lifelike form. Chicago Tribune
This fiercely beautiful novel tells the true story of Charles Radcliffe, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of Jenny, his daughter by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of... A true story fictionalized by a writer who has a special feeling for the dramatic . . . Mixed by Miss Seton s skillful hands, the dust of the past bec...
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My Theodosia
ISBN: 9780544242098 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anya Seton s portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible . . . The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background an entertaining account of the manners, the ways of living and traveling and entertaining followed during the early years of the nineteenth century. New York Times
Anya Seton s best-selling first novel, originally published in 1941, captures all the drama of the short life of Theodosia Burr (1783 1813). Her father, Aaron Thomas Jefferson s vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton holds sway over young... Anya Seton s portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible . . . The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background an e...
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I Never Came to You in White: A Novel about Emily Dickinson
ISBN: 9780786755806 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1847 Edward Dickinson s daughter Emily was seventeen, a student at Mary Lyon s female seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Thrilled by the challenges of her education, yet repressed by the school atmosphere, she began writing letters home and to the friends she felt lonely for----passionate letters that reveled in bubbling and irreverent mischief and declared the affectionate intensity of the budding poet. Later, after her death at the age of fifty-five, friends and relatives exchanged misunderstandings of the woman they had known----and of the poetic...
In 1847 Edward Dickinson s daughter Emily was seventeen, a student at Mary Lyon s female seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massach...
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An Untimely Frost
ISBN: 9780989515115 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the novel An Untimely Frost, or The Authoress, set in 1830s London, American author Jefferson Wheelwright seeks out the reclusive English novelist Margaret T. Haeley, creator of Dunkelraum's monster and widow of the poet Stephen Haeley. The story is inspired by Washington Irving's rumored courtship of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. The book also includes the author's essay "Researching the Rhythms of Voice" and discussion questions.
In the novel An Untimely Frost, or The Authoress, set in 1830s London, American author Jefferson Wheelwright seeks out the reclusive English novelist ...
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Up Fool's Hill and Almost Down
ISBN: 9780989227506 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in a dogtrot house about a half mile off the dirt road, Joe is thrust into the teeth of the Great Depression. His southern home in Pickens County is nearly wiped away by economic ruin while Joe's father abandons the family and its five children. But his colorful boyhood is a happy one, marked by mule plows, swinging Muscadine vines, shotgun country stores, and blue clay baths. Joe sets out as an adult seeking to carve out a better life. He travels to different continents, meets almost every brand of people, practices law for over four decades, and eventually returns to farmland. Home, he...
Born in a dogtrot house about a half mile off the dirt road, Joe is thrust into the teeth of the Great Depression. His southern home in Pickens County...
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Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol I
ISBN: 9781480022010 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Swann's Way
ISBN: 9781495395192 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swann's Way is the first volume of the series In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: A la recherche du temps perdu). It is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine.""
Swann's Way is the first volume of the series In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: A la recherche du temps perdu). It is a se...
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Augustus
ISBN: 9781590178218 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an... WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an en... |
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The Tiger Queens
ISBN: 9780451417800 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph....
After her mother foretells an ominous future for her, gifted Borte becomes an outsider within her clan. When she seeks comfort in the arms of aristocratic traveler Jamuka, she discovers he is the blood brother of Temujin, the man who agreed to marry her and then abandoned her long before they could wed. Temujin will return and make Borte... In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Gr...
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Swann's Way
ISBN: 9781496056283 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Proust's most powerful and enduring works, Swann's Way is just as worth reading today as it was when first published. This vivid translation breathes a whole new life into the words on the page.
One of Proust's most powerful and enduring works, Swann's Way is just as worth reading today as it was when first published. This vivid translation br...
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