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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
ISBN: 9780385344166 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America's Gilded Age. She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more than a century later, her legend reaches out to us. As a child, Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Warren Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the...For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawlin... |
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Woeful Wisdom
ISBN: 9781432783730 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Metamorphosis of a Psycho, I Mean Psychic
ISBN: 9781434908841 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Shirley Hudson, Ph.D.,: My Clients, Their Stores, My Life!
ISBN: 9781450514156 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shards of life reconstructed, re-defined, restored by competent therapy and counseling. Making people whole again.
Shards of life reconstructed, re-defined, restored by competent therapy and counseling. Making people whole again.
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Madame Serpent: A Catherine De' Medici Novel
ISBN: 9781451686203 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess. Fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Amid the glittering fetes and banquets of the most immoral...
Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic ...
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Groundswell
ISBN: 9781451688108 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of The Comfort Table cookbook series makes her fiction debut with a compelling novel in the tradition of Gigi Levangie Grazer about a young woman recovering from divorce who finds healing--and love--through surfing. A butterfly flaps its win gs in New Y ork City . . . and a groundswell forms in Mexico. Sometimes the biggest ripples come from the smallest events. Like the day that novice PA Emma Guthrie walks into world-famous movie star Garrett Walker's trailer. When she walks out, she's on her way to becoming Mrs. Emma Walker, trading her jeans...
The author of The Comfort Table cookbook series makes her fiction debut with a compelling novel in the tradition of Gigi Levangie Grazer abo...
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Town Girl
ISBN: 9781453889190 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Companion to The Growing Erb Series by Sheila Caza... The Erb family has moved off the Farm, and "Baby" Kimmy is now a rambunctious seven-year-old. Her days are filled with friends, family and neighbors, and the happy - and often humorous - pursuits of small-town childhood. But Kimmy's siblings are almost all grown up now. And though they're all doing different things, it seems to her that they're all going in the same direction: away. And sometimes she wonders just exactly where she belongs, as the baby of this changing family. It takes an accident to make her see that Family doesn't just...
Companion to The Growing Erb Series by Sheila Caza... The Erb family has moved off the Farm, and "Baby" Kimmy is now a rambunctious seven-year-old. He...
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The Street Shrink Chronicles
ISBN: 9781456316648 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jason Wittman is fond of saying, "teens and young adults deserves 24/7 access to at least one responsible, caring adult who loves them unconditionally"; Unfortunately, many teens get cut off from their families and end up on the streets fending for themselves. For the past thirty-five years, Jason has been a father figure to countless teens and young adults. Follow Jason as he deals with street violence, suicides, judges and cops. Be there as hopelessly lost kids begin to turn around their lives as they receive his attention and guidance. With a mixture of high drama, raw dialogue, and tender...
Jason Wittman is fond of saying, "teens and young adults deserves 24/7 access to at least one responsible, caring adult who loves them unconditionally...
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Notes on the Past Imperfect.
ISBN: 9781461029113 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not easy to define - literary fiction, a kind of memoir, somewhat autobiographical... Alternative title: Phone Calls, Recalls and Spilt Milk. Chapters/Books/Sections... A mosaic of sorts. My favourite format? Radio Drama. By far. At its very best the listener is a fly-on-the-wall: eavesdropping, over-hearing, listening in, privy to the most intimate, soul-searching monologue, revealing dialogue... I worked in RTE's Drama Department for some 16 years in the '70's, '80's - directing, producing, scripting, editing. During that period I wrote and produced some of my own plays - well received and...
Not easy to define - literary fiction, a kind of memoir, somewhat autobiographical... Alternative title: Phone Calls, Recalls and Spilt Milk. Chapters...
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Catfish
ISBN: 9781461180043 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone who loved "Jaws" will love "Catfish" even more It's a little more down home, in fact, a way down home story. It has suspense, humor, great likeable characters and action, action, action Our story is told from boyhood to manhood in a Tennessee town famous for the best place to go cat fishing, Old Hickory Lake. We will have fun through our storyteller growing up with his grandfather teaching him all about the outdoors and learning to fish the lake. But when Dubois chemical started dumping titanium and other toxic waste from its drain pipe into the lake, it caused some sort of...
Everyone who loved "Jaws" will love "Catfish" even more It's a little more down home, in fact, a way down home story. It has suspense, humor, great l...
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Pinkhoneysuckle
ISBN: 9781461188209 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I've got some things to say to you, and I have questions to ask, for I am an Applachian daughter; And I want to know where and when America decided it could bear to sentence segments of our population within 3rd world shame. I did not learn until I was older and put the pieces together that between Washington and a foul mouthed bunch of folks who though, "Redneck," sounded mighty funny that I was a third rate citizen in this country. America learned that our country boys would be the first to volunteer in war time, then some would come home and be ashamed to ask for war pensions, for that was...
I've got some things to say to you, and I have questions to ask, for I am an Applachian daughter; And I want to know where and when America decided it...
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Catfish
ISBN: 9781463603052 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone who loved "Jaws" will love "Catfish" even more It's a little more down home, in fact, a way down home story. It has suspense, humor, great likeable characters and action, action, action Our story is told from boyhood to manhood in a Tennessee town famous for the best place to go cat fishing, Old Hickory Lake. We will have fun through our storyteller growing up with his grandfather teaching him all about the outdoors and learning to fish the lake. But when Dubois chemical started dumping titanium and other toxic waste from its drain pipe into the lake, it caused some sort of...
Everyone who loved "Jaws" will love "Catfish" even more It's a little more down home, in fact, a way down home story. It has suspense, humor, great l...
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Elizabeth Bathory: A Memoire: As Told by Her Court Master, Benedict Deseö
ISBN: 9781463678470 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accused of having murdered hundreds of her servants, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was walled alive in her castle until she died. Years later, desperate to know the truth behind his infamous mother's crimes, young Count Paul seeks out the only man still alive who can tell her story: Countess Bathory's court master and confidante, Benedict Deseo. However, revealing the truth could destroy the old man's sanity and, very possibly, ruin the family reputation which the count so desperately wishes to preserve. Using real names and places, this historic novella tells the behind-the-scenes story of what...
Accused of having murdered hundreds of her servants, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was walled alive in her castle until she died. Years later, desperate ...
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A Matter of Doubt - the novel of Claude Bernard
ISBN: 9781466339897 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A MATTER OF DOUBT (P Wise) Description and Back Cover text An extraordinary man: unlucky in love, inventive, inquisitive and gifted with words. This is the remarkable story of Claude Bernard, 19th century France's most illustrious medical scientist - told in the form of a novel. A boy from the Beaujolais, he had dreamed only of becoming a writer. Reluctantly he becomes a pharmacy apprentice in Lyon, but irritates everyone by endlessly questioning the science of his practice - inspired by the philosopher Descartes and his concept of scientific doubt. A careless accident - plus his boss's...
A MATTER OF DOUBT (P Wise) Description and Back Cover text An extraordinary man: unlucky in love, inventive, inquisitive and gifted with words. This i...
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Blinded by the Sun
ISBN: 9781466376939 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Motivated by the dream of becoming the next big thing, Dever, a Brooklyn-based metal band, storm their way through New York's nightclubs, making themselves known as a force to be reckoned with. Their intense live shows, coupled with their prowess of combining classic and contemporary elements of rock attract an ever-growing fan base with each concert. On stage and in the public eye, the band is larger than life due to front man Scott Ferrara's passion and powerful presence. Away from the limelight and manic-depressive, Ferrara senses there is more to life than just the mind-expanding evenings...
Motivated by the dream of becoming the next big thing, Dever, a Brooklyn-based metal band, storm their way through New York's nightclubs, making thems...
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The Badge, the Street and the Cop: A Lance Lapore Fictional Memoir
ISBN: 9781467037853 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Night Tripper: A True Story about the Tinsel Town taxi trade
ISBN: 9781467907590 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jack's not looking for love, truth and certainly not anything even remotely resembling reality. But in a town built on make-believe, self-loathing and lies, sometimes everything you're not looking for, finds you. Meet Jack Wudjinski, rookie night-shift cabbie. He's an unemployed actor who's taken to the neon-soaked streets of Tinsel Town in search of that ever-elusive catalyst for success. The one key ingredient that'll keep him in the business of show, just a little bit longer. Rent. Follow this chain-smoking, Nietzsche-quoting cinephile on a lyrical, satirical, descent into the bowels of...
Jack's not looking for love, truth and certainly not anything even remotely resembling reality. But in a town built on make-believe, self-loathing and...
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I, Nephi
ISBN: 9781467929677 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Folks in Jackson Hole raise kids and hell, and plenty of both." - Bill Menor, owner of Menor's Ferry, Jackson Hole, Wyoming There are those that raise kids and they're good at it. I wasn't one of them. Had no interest in the project. But hell-raising? Now, that was another matter. Folks said I contributed more than my share to it. I don't think I did enough although I sure had fun trying. - Nephi Moulton, homesteader, rancher and prankster extraordinaire. Nephi leaves home with three rules for living: 1-Rise early and work hard 2-Avoid all women 3-Seize every prank playing opportunity....
"Folks in Jackson Hole raise kids and hell, and plenty of both." - Bill Menor, owner of Menor's Ferry, Jackson Hole, Wyoming There are those that rais...
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The Tiny World of Vinod Saney
ISBN: 9781468111460 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the exploits of a boy named Vinod, and paints a vivid picture of life in his community in early 1970s Pune, India. Often taunted for being a sissy, Vinod likes to wear a dot on his forehead and have henna painted on his hands. He plays with his friends Kedar, Nilima, and Sentil, who ostracize him at times for one reason or another. He is disappointed when Mr. Zante, an adult whom he reveres, tells him to stop indulging in his favorite pastime of killing ants. Vinod is convinced that a sparrow that visits his home understands him. His sneaky side is revealed soon after he...
This book chronicles the exploits of a boy named Vinod, and paints a vivid picture of life in his community in early 1970s Pune, India. Often taunted ...
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Trafficked: The Diary of a Sex Slave
ISBN: 9781468149548 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My name is Elena and I used to be a human being. Now I am a sex slave. If you are reading this diary then I am either dead or I have managed to escape... Trafficked: The Diary of a Sex Slave is a gritty, gripping, and tear-jerking novella, inspired by real victims' accounts and research into the sex trafficking underworld. It's been listed as one of the Top 40 Books About Human Rights by Accredited Online Colleges. "Hodge took her readers to a rare journey that touches and break the hearts all at the same time through the eyes of Elena, the victim to whom the diary belongs. While reading, I...
My name is Elena and I used to be a human being. Now I am a sex slave. If you are reading this diary then I am either dead or I have managed to escape...
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