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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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Freud: The Penultimate Biography
ISBN: 9781935738572 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego than they are texts about the namesakes adorning their covers. So, if you want to read about Freud or Douglass or Hitler I suggest you do so elsewhere.) In this unofficial, unauthorized sequel to Peter Gay's groundbreaking Freud: A Life of Our Time, D. Harlan Wilson reveals a side of the man that has proven too disturbing and risque for past biographers. Based on newly recovered diaries, microfiche,...
(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies....
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55,13 |
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Douglass: The Lost Autobiography
ISBN: 9781935738565 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego than they are texts about the namesakes adorning their covers. So, if you want to read about Freud or Douglass or Hitler I suggest you do so elsewhere.) Frederick Douglass stands as one of American history's most extraordinary figures, overcoming the evils of slavery and racial construction by force of will and grit. As a fervent abolitionist, gifted orator, and sagacious editor and author, he became...
(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies....
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The Sands of Ammon
ISBN: 9781447271659 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continuing the saga of Alexander the Great, this book describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians.
Continuing the saga of Alexander the Great, this book describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persian...
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Lot komety
ISBN: 9788389133991 / Polski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Po tragicznych doświadczeniach bohaterowie książki „Hera, moja miłość” starają się na nowo ułożyć sobie życie. Kometa, teraz Ala, zmieniła się nie do poznania. Przestała ćpać i zdała maturę. Ładnie ubrana, miła dla wszystkich, ma nadzieję, że Jacek znów będzie o nią zabiegał. Nikt nie wie, co kryje się za nowym wizerunkiem dziewczyny. Nikt się nie domyśla, że wstąpiła do Rodziny, niebezpiecznej sekty, wabiącej samotnych zagubionych ludzi obietnicą wyzwolenia ciała i duszy. Jacek wkrótce odkryje prawdę o Komecie, ale czy zdoła ją uratować, kiedy sam...
Po tragicznych doświadczeniach bohaterowie książki „Hera, moja miłość” starają się na nowo ułożyć sobie życie. Kometa, teraz Ala, zmie...
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Cambridge
ISBN: 9780345805942 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . ." "It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . ." |
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The Private War of William Styron
ISBN: 9781939930019 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,02 |
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Walking on Water
ISBN: 9781451628326 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new life: "Definitely a journey worth taking" (Booklist). After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen embarked on a daring cross-country journey--a walk across America, from Seattle to Key West, with only the pack on his back. Through it all he learned life-changing lessons about love, forgiveness, and most of all,...
With this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new lif...
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Sultana: The Bride Price: A Novel of Moorish Spain
ISBN: 9781939138156 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book #4 of the Sultana series. In fourteenth-century Moorish Spain, a marriage of convenience for the sake of peace leads to disaster in the medieval kingdom of Granada. The young queen Jazirah, caught up in a dynastic struggle between warring brothers, fights for her survival. Wed to a husband who looks at her with more suspicion than lust in his eyes, she must escape reminders of a brutal past in a quest to find forgiveness, hope, and love. Her husband Muhammad faces greater peril than union with a wife he cannot trust. Surrounded by enemies within his family who seek the throne and...
Book #4 of the Sultana series. In fourteenth-century Moorish Spain, a marriage of convenience for the sake of peace leads to disaster in the medieval ...
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The Private War of William Styron
ISBN: 9781939930279 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,04 |
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Pola
ISBN: 9788393407552 / Polski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pełna humoru, ale napisana też z czułością i zrozumieniem powieść o jednej z największych gwiazd kina niemego...
Pełna humoru, ale napisana też z czułością i zrozumieniem powieść o jednej z największych gwiazd kina niemego...
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Reeling in Time with Fish Tales
ISBN: 9781940869247 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read along with Captain Brain Smith and learn the secrets of his success. This chronology of fish tales will touch your heart and inspire your love of sun and fun. Each story tells of a boy and his journey as he fishes his way through life; a young man we can all relate to. Read about his experiences as a teenager when he was coerced into taking Mom and her friends fishing for catfish. Then there was his introduction to no-see-ums and the time he fell in love with his first boat. Captain Brian masterfully weaves his knowledge of the sport into each tale, allowing the reader to learn along...
Read along with Captain Brain Smith and learn the secrets of his success. This chronology of fish tales will touch your heart and inspire your love of...
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Our Musseque
ISBN: 9781910213070 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, shopkeepers, drunks, prostitutes and determined women battling to bring up their families, as Angola hurtles towards the beginning of its armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Meanwhile the children laugh, play, squabble and fight, puzzle at racial taunts and move rapidly through adolescence towards sexual awakening and a greater awareness...
Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards th...
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Ravelstein
ISBN: 9780143107576 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel
Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art. This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary... In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel
Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is ... |
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Księga Apokryfów
ISBN: 9788379980130 / Polski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jedna z najważniejszych książek autora „Inwazji Jaszczurów. Karel Capek kreśli w apokryfach inną wizję historii. Hamlet marzy, żeby zostać aktorem, Napoleon lubi swoje dziecięce zabawy, Don Juan nigdy ostatecznie nie uwiódł żadnej kobiety, Helena trojańska wcale nie była pięknością.
Jedna z najważniejszych książek autora „Inwazji Jaszczurów. Karel Capek kreśli w apokryfach inną wizję historii. Hamlet marzy, żeby zostać ...
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Women Who Overcame
ISBN: 9780692222768 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you facing heartache? Perhaps you're already battle weary and wonder where God is. How can you continue to believe in God's power and love when storms invade? These ladies from the past didn't just face the impossible, they overcame. Author Cynthia L Simmons offers historical vignettes to show trusting Jesus makes victors. You'll be challenged and encouraged.
Are you facing heartache? Perhaps you're already battle weary and wonder where God is. How can you continue to believe in God's power and love when st...
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Sybille: Life, Love, & Art in the Face of Absolute Power
ISBN: 9781497639003 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics.
Sybille d'Astarac, born to pampered luxury, is a gifted female troubadour. But her poems grow dark as the Catholic crusade seeks to eradicate her sect. In the face of massacre, can Sybille survive the Inquisition? Will her love songs? A work of stunning historical fiction, Sybille displays Marion Meade's pitch-perfect understanding of strong women facing the harsh realities of life in medieval times. As Robin Morgan, author of The Anatomy of Freedom,... A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics.
Sybille d'Astarac, born to pam... |
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Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard
ISBN: 9781497638990 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In twelfth century France, two of Europe s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they were torn apart from each other. But the spark of it remained smoldering inside the lovers until their death and beyond.Heloise and her tutor, Peter Abelard, share a devotion passionate in its depth and beautiful in its thoughtfulness. They marry, and Heloise bears a son whom she names Astrolabe. However, all of this must be done in secret, for Abelard is forbidden to wed by the church, which considers him a cleric. When the truth of their...
In twelfth century France, two of Europe s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they w...
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Le parfum de la Dame en noir
ISBN: 9781502803658 / Francuski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On retrouve dans Le Parfum de la dame en noir tous les personnages du fameux Mystere de la chambre jaune. Grace a Rouletabille, le mariage de Robert Darzac et de Mathilde Stangerson a enfin eu lieu et la mort de leur ennemi est officiellement constatee. A peine partie en voyage de noces, cependant, la belle Mathilde appelle Rouletabille a son secours. Leur impitoyable ennemi est reapparu La situation devient alors angoissante: disparition, crime... Le mystere s'epaissit. Le jeune reporter Rouletabille aura besoin de tout son flair et de son intelligence hors pair pour venir a bout de cette...
On retrouve dans Le Parfum de la dame en noir tous les personnages du fameux Mystere de la chambre jaune. Grace a Rouletabille, le mariage de Robert D...
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