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Nowhere in Africa : An Autobiographical Novel
ISBN: 9780299199647 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter, Regina, each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country-learning the local language and customs, and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's...
Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their o...
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87,71 zł |
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Narcisse
ISBN: 9781517253363 / Francuski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. " Quand, pour la premiere fois, en 1846, je fus envoye a la Faille-sur-Gouvre, la ville etait malpropre, comme la plupart des villes de France, laide en ce sens qu'a l'exemple general du temps, on s'etait acharne a l'embellir sans gout, et a detruire sans discernement ses vieux edifices; mais elle etait bien situee au bord d'un plantureux ravin, et le faubourg offrait encore des rues tortueuses, grimpantes, d'un effet original, et des groupes d'anciennes constructions assez pittoresques. Quand le destin m'y amena, je mis pied a terre avant d'arriver, et, m'etant enquis du nom de l'hotel ou le...
" Quand, pour la premiere fois, en 1846, je fus envoye a la Faille-sur-Gouvre, la ville etait malpropre, comme la plupart des villes de France, laide ...
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54,74 zł |
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Loving Frank
ISBN: 9780345495006 / Angielski / Miękka / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and... I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
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68,17 zł |
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Nadirs
ISBN: 9780803282544 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual tales reveal a child s often nightmarish impressions of life in her village. Seamlessly mixing reality with dream-like images, they brilliantly convey the inner, troubled life of a child and, at the same time, capture the violence and corruption of life under an oppressive state."
Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller...
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67,97 zł |
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Class 1902
ISBN: 9781570037122 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. First published in German in 1928 as Jahrgang 1902, Ernst Glaeser's autobiographical novel centers on the experiences of the narrator, E., and his friends. Born in 1902, E. and his generation come of age during the Great War, but they never know combat because the war ends before they can be drafted. Through their perspectives Glaeser provides glimpses into traumatic times on the German home front.
First published in German in 1928 as Jahrgang 1902, Ernst Glaeser's autobiographical novel centers on the experiences of the narrator, E., and his fri...
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130,31 zł |
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The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C. S. Forester's Famous Naval Hero
ISBN: 9781590130650 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblowerthe man who rose from Midshipman to Admiral of the British Fleet? Using Hornblower family papers discovered in the 1970s, C. Northcote Parkinson has set the record straight in this authoritative biography."
Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblowerthe ma...
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91,65 zł |
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Autobiography of an Elderly Woman : In Large Print for Easy Reading
ISBN: 9781843560210 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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97,92 zł |
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Streetwise
ISBN: 9781846590276 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Choukri is a powerful teller of stories. His telling of oppression is vivid and remarkable."--Morning Star The story of Mohamed Choukri's life is continued in the sequel to For Bread Alone. In his early twenties, Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read and write. When not at school he hangs out in cafes, drinking and smoking kif. Some nights he sleeps in a dosshouse, but mostly he sleeps in mosques or on the street, while local prostitutes take him home, providing some human solace. Mohamed Choukri is one of North Africa's most... "Choukri is a powerful teller of stories. His telling of oppression is vivid and remarkable."--Morning Star The story of Mohamed Chou... |
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54,97 zł |
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Insatiable
ISBN: 9780312380694 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a rare glimpse at the real life of a porn star, Heather Hunter shares a fictional account inspired by her own emergence in the adult film industry with the story of Simone Young. Simone is dying to become a star but her mother thinks if she's old enough to stay out all night partying, then she's old enough to get a real job. And that is exactly what Simone does, only she finds work in a world that changes her life forever. When Simone's best friend Carmen introduces her to the game of sex work, she embarks on a path she could have never imagined. Heather Hunter's Insatiable is... In a rare glimpse at the real life of a porn star, Heather Hunter shares a fictional account inspired by her own emergence in the adult film indust... |
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91,81 zł |
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The Gate: Things My Mother Told Me
ISBN: 9780978026707 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A moving story of the final years of a Polish emigree's life, the Gate draws you in with subtlety, wit, compassion and faith. An intriguing and captivating look at the last sixty years of western culture that holds you even though we all know how her story is going to end. It will be of particular interest to people who experienced Alzheimer's or Dementia in their immediate family."
A moving story of the final years of a Polish emigree's life, the Gate draws you in with subtlety, wit, compassion and faith. An intriguing and captiv...
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62,19 zł |
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Martina Geissler - Herzgewitter
ISBN: 9781517231415 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Was passiert, wenn der Ehemann vollig unerwartet ein ganz anderes Gesicht zeigt? Wenn der geliebte Partner einen so vollig anderen Wesenszug annimmt, dass die bisher heile Welt plotzlich in Scherben bricht? Martina Geissler hat diese Erfahrung durchlebt. Sie und ihr Ehemann hatten sich so zerstritten, dass sie sich in einer Paartherapie mit ihren Angsten auseinander setzen mussten. Doch der Blick in die eigene Seele kann sehr erschreckend sein. Martina hat diesen Blick gewagt und musste noch einmal die Schrecken ihrer Kindheit erleben. Sie erkannte, dass das Annehmen der Vergangenheit harte...
Was passiert, wenn der Ehemann vollig unerwartet ein ganz anderes Gesicht zeigt? Wenn der geliebte Partner einen so vollig anderen Wesenszug annimmt, ...
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42,46 zł |
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Bernard Jones and the Temple of Mammon: The Continuing Diary of a Cantankerous Investor
ISBN: 9780955493911 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this second volume of the Bernard Jones Diaries, retired civil servant Bernard Jones is approaching his 64th birthday. Making money through investing remains as elusive as ever, though his overbearing and over-sexed wife Eunice finds no trouble spending it. Hell's Bells, the share club started at the Ring o'Bells pub by a coterie of dubious acquaintances, seems to be a better forum for gawping at barmaids and consuming pork scratchings than it is for an elevated debate over price earnings ratios and dividend yields. As ever, Bernard's family, Guardian-reading schoolteacher son Brian, dopey...
In this second volume of the Bernard Jones Diaries, retired civil servant Bernard Jones is approaching his 64th birthday. Making money through investi...
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86,68 zł |
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Memory
ISBN: 9781416560005 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War. The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known.... Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator...
Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memori...
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52,33 zł |
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Gray
ISBN: 9781416567820 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A fascinating and stunning novel from Pete Wentz, the founder and bassist of punk sensation Fall Out Boy--that reveals the dark side of rock-and-roll. Sometimes, late at night in the hotel room, after the lights have gone out and the mistakes have already been made, when it is heavy and silent and still, I lie awake and listen to my pulse on the pillow... Imagine you are on a tour bus, the miles whistling away beneath you as you sleep. Tomorrow you will wake up in downtown Somewhere. It doesn't matter. All the skylines look the same. Time is only marked by events. The...
A fascinating and stunning novel from Pete Wentz, the founder and bassist of punk sensation Fall Out Boy--that reveals the dark side of rock-and-ro...
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107,60 zł |
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O the Clear Moment
ISBN: 9781582434308 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this enormously appealing implied autobiography, Merry Prankster Ed McClanahan has assembled a gathering of what he calls coming-of-age to coming-of-old-age stories that are both quirky and cutting, hilarious and lyrical, all told in the inimitable voice of one of his generation s best southern chroniclers of American life. The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with affectionate and precise detail. There s the summer he spends on a road crew in Yosemite National Park, striving (with...
In this enormously appealing implied autobiography, Merry Prankster Ed McClanahan has assembled a gathering of what he calls coming-of-age to coming-o...
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91,85 zł |
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Jesus Coyote
ISBN: 9781933293639 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further. Jaffe's "docufictional" novel based on the Manson murders proves that, like Manson's coyote totem, the myths around him continue to vibrate. In one sweeping panoramic arc, with the brutal murders at its center, Jaffe captures the perspective of Manson, his devotees, the prosecutors, the victims and their mourners-while exploding the sanctimony of institutionalized morality.
Building on the mayhem generated by the controversial but critically acclaimed 15 Serial Killers, Jesus Coyote goes still further. Jaffe's "docufictio...
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84,45 zł |
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Helena
ISBN: 9780140182439 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet. Her life coincided with one of the great turning-points of history: the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire. The enormous conflicting forces of the age, and the corruption, treachery, and madness of Imperial Rome combine to give Evelyn Waugh the theme for one of his most arresting and memorable novels.
The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built ch...
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49,57 zł |
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O Viata Aproape Obisnuita: Nuvele Si Schite
ISBN: 9781517136505 / Rumuński / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. AN ALMOST NORMAL LIFE "This book is in Romanian. It contains short stories that reflect an extraordinary life under the self-ironizing title an almost normal life."" Titlul cărţii este ironic: viaţa din care se inspiră autoarea (propria viaţă, desigur) nu este în niciun caz o viaţă obişnuită. De aceea ironia din titlu o înţelegem când terminăm cartea de citit. Viaţa unei femei care devine de mică orfană de tată, trăieşte într-o familie care pierde toate... AN ALMOST NORMAL LIFE "This book is in Romanian. It contains short stories that reflect an extraordinary life under the self-ironizing title an a... |
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96,35 zł |
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The Connollys
ISBN: 9781873855461 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When, as a young girl in County Cavan, the author wanted to have an excuse to give to her mother when she came home from her ramblings, she would tell her, "I've just been over to Connolly's." The Connollys didn't exist-they were an invention of young Jessica's fertile imagination. So, when she came to write her first novels, what better than to make them come to life? In Connolly's Pass, we begin to follow the story of Rosie Connolly. After the tragic death of her husband, she sets about raising her six children in a small Irish village, with her pride in their achievements overshadowed only...
When, as a young girl in County Cavan, the author wanted to have an excuse to give to her mother when she came home from her ramblings, she would tell...
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52,87 zł |
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Curriculum Vitae
ISBN: 9780811218320 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Funny, gorgeous and utterly unique, Curriculum Vitae is Yoel Hoffmann s triumphant look backward and inward: How stupid we are to let the world toss us from one place to another, while we need to speak to dentists and poets like warehouse clerks who keep an account of old equipment (bags here and belts there) and pile it up on the floor. What do we remember? The lake at Biwa and the houses across it. The cherry blossoms and Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidenak.... Hoffmann, as theChicago Tribune put it, is not just a good writer but a great one, with the ability to find, in the...
Funny, gorgeous and utterly unique, Curriculum Vitae is Yoel Hoffmann s triumphant look backward and inward: How stupid we are to let the wor...
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64,14 zł |