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Powerful People Powerful Lives: Stories of 7 Champions
ISBN: 9781439239742 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " I was clear at that moment that my mother, was going to kill me. Gasping for air, I tried to loosen the cord to no avail. The gushing blood from my head wound and the incessant throbbing created waves of nausea. I had to make my move. I was not going out like this. " Such is the life of Pablo and five other young people in Powerful People Powerful Lives. This book is a collection of fictional short stories inspired by the lives of amazing youth who are survivors of drug addiction, abuse, homelessness, physical challenges, and crimes words cannot describe. But, they all have one special...
" I was clear at that moment that my mother, was going to kill me. Gasping for air, I tried to loosen the cord to no avail. The gushing blood from my ...
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90,62 zł |
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EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
ISBN: 9781448615988 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,00 zł |
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When She Sleeps
ISBN: 9781453686348 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teenage sisters, worlds apart, meet in the world of their dreams.
Teenage sisters, worlds apart, meet in the world of their dreams.
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45,38 zł |
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Mixers
ISBN: 9781456313371 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1952, prep schools were, either 'all boys' or 'all girls'. Students met, however, at 'mixers' which followed joint choral concerts and relationships developed. This short novel follows six of these relationships along with one prep/high school encounter. Read Mixers and vote for your favorite couple: Bonnie Davis and Bill Barrow Lucy Bowden and Joe Finney Diana Longstreet and Mike Mahoney Jennifer Sides and Rick Seabrook Lydia Post and Elon Stewart Miriam Goldstein and Sandy Larabee Laura Tooney and Paul Whitesides
In 1952, prep schools were, either 'all boys' or 'all girls'. Students met, however, at 'mixers' which followed joint choral concerts and relationship...
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45,38 zł |
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Berry Fields West
ISBN: 9781456332877 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of Amelia Orlowski and how she allows life-changing events alter her own time by following others on an erroneous assumption of happiness and placing her love and faith in a man as misguided as she, and how she overcomes her transgressions with the words of divine inspiration.
This is the story of Amelia Orlowski and how she allows life-changing events alter her own time by following others on an erroneous assumption of happ...
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45,38 zł |
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The Candlestickmaker
ISBN: 9781456509033 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young American sailors form an unlikely bond. Each has fled an America they were raised to love but somehow no longer understand. When forced to choose whether to face combat or stay and fight the war in the streets, they sign up for a war that reflects the conflict that raged inside each of them. The one thing of which they were certain was that the only people in the world they could depend on were each other. As their friendship deepens in the bars and brothels from Hong Kong to Subic Bay, Ernie...
Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young American sailors form an unlikely bond. Each has fled...
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63,55 zł |
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Philo: The Desultory Peripatetic
ISBN: 9781456522407 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Analytical autodidacts read The Desultory Peripatetic" Catharsis for the scholarly erudite. Pedagogy for the profound genius. Love for the estranged unloveable. Home for the nixed genetic order. A great read for the real reader. Mock memoir for realists. In other words: transententical montage journalism."
"Analytical autodidacts read The Desultory Peripatetic" Catharsis for the scholarly erudite. Pedagogy for the profound genius. Love for the estranged ...
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68,09 zł |
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The Least Of These
ISBN: 9781453739563 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When James Alan Cole witnesses a fleeing murderer, his life becomes filled with turmoil and fear that only subsides when he discovers honor and courage in the face of injustice. Eleven-year-old James Alan Cole is a preacher's kid, but that is not what makes him different from anyone else. What makes him different is his desire to "do the right thing," but his integrity is sorely tested when he disobeys his father's instructions never to go near the dangerous river located a half mile away. When James Alan is the lone witness to a fleeing murderer, he knows he dare not say anything. Now he is...
When James Alan Cole witnesses a fleeing murderer, his life becomes filled with turmoil and fear that only subsides when he discovers honor and courag...
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67,90 zł |
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Stick Man: The long-awaited coming-of-age novel
ISBN: 9781456368685 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The best coming-of age novel since 'Catcher In the Rye'..." (Literary Review Journal) Stick Man is a coming-of-age story about a boy named Jeremiah Young who grows up in a bohemian household: "My childhood in Pittsburgh was one of extremes. First loves hung like photographs on the walls of my subconscious. They lingered there in my memory to battle their antithesis - Stick Man. I didn't think I'd make it to adulthood alive because Stick Man wanted to kill me." Jeremiah Young is an imaginative prodigy. He paints and plays guitar. His father is a bi-polar jazz guitarist and his mother is a...
"The best coming-of age novel since 'Catcher In the Rye'..." (Literary Review Journal) Stick Man is a coming-of-age story about a boy named Jeremiah Y...
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67,90 zł |
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The Cold November Son
ISBN: 9781456427320 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manhood, it is that imaginary line that every teenage boy must cross but when a teenage boy in a small town in South Dakota takes what he believes is a first step out of adolescence he has no idea how close to the line of adulthood he is stepping. The summer of 1983 starts innocently enough for thirteen year old Tommy with the gift of a shotgun, and an invitation to join his father in the upcoming pheasant hunting season. However, the innocence of that moment quickly evaporates as the son learns that life isn't as perfect as it may once have appeared to be. As the days of summer pass, the...
Manhood, it is that imaginary line that every teenage boy must cross but when a teenage boy in a small town in South Dakota takes what he believes is ...
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54,46 zł |
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Homeless Waters
ISBN: 9789956579518 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they didnt miss the father they hadnt known. Later on, in the alluvial valleys of Bonfuma and the lands beyond, Ngoma experiences the thrills and challenges of schooling and being schooled. Adolescents will appreciate his stories and struggles as he tries to reconcile his village roots with the desire for a modern education. He has special relationships with his grandfather, stepfather and teachers, and becomes captain of the college football team....
Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they d...
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173,50 zł |
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The Skinny: Adventures Of America's First Bulimic
ISBN: 9780962441547 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Funny Sexy Moving She thought she was the first one since ancient Rome. Her mother wished she could do it, too. Her doctor called it "a great weight control technique." In repressive 40's and 50's small-town America, no one knew of "eating disorders," but everyone yearned to be "skinny." Struggling with a spider-web of parental and social animosity up to and including abuse, Rowena Gay Wine is torn between a thirst for all of life's pleasures and her gut-wrenching secret. She survives -- even thrives -- with imagination, determination, and humor. Here is a novel that runs the gamut of...
Funny Sexy Moving She thought she was the first one since ancient Rome. Her mother wished she could do it, too. Her doctor called it "a great weigh...
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77,00 zł |
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Sumnertime!
ISBN: 9781928076087 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spunky, vivacious Sumner Donovan, a Grade 11 student at huge Buena Vida High School, is getting ready for her CalPro, a big student project that every junior must complete. Sumner wants to do hers on vintage clothing and Mexican poverty, but her guidance counselor says no; she must do her project as the promotions person at KPLC, the school's beleaguered radio station. Sumner knows zero about radio and cares even less, but her counselor is adamant--the girl must spend three months at the station, promoting it so that everyone at big, bustling Buena Vida High knows about KPLC, 99.9 FM.
Spunky, vivacious Sumner Donovan, a Grade 11 student at huge Buena Vida High School, is getting ready for her CalPro, a big student project that every...
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33,61 zł |
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Grits & Grace
ISBN: 9781453603345 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The follow-up novel from Off-Broadway playwright and award-winning filmmaker, Dara Harper is set in the author's hometown, Detroit, Michigan. This coming of age story follows 15-year-old Natalie Tillman's journey from Thomasville, Georgia to the Motor City in 1959. She and her parents move into a crowded west side flat with six other family members. Natalie struggles to adjust to life in the north, busy streets, integrated schools, beautiful cars, flirtatious men and freezing weather. The house overflows with food, laughter and music. But there's also abuse, alcoholism and painful secrets....
The follow-up novel from Off-Broadway playwright and award-winning filmmaker, Dara Harper is set in the author's hometown, Detroit, Michigan. This com...
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45,38 zł |
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Caught in the Winds
ISBN: 9781453647875 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Morrie Schiller is a new philosophy student at an evangelical college in the Midwest. Try though he may, he just doesn't fit into the Christian campus scene. The girl he loves sees him only as a 'brother', and he's in the crossfire as religious extremists rage against the school. Add to the mix, he's haunted by an obsession to become a Roman Catholic. Enter Jack Joplin, a mysterious stranger, offering a "new" philosophy, promising to 'transcend' religious conventionality. Morrie accepts and is catapulted into adventures that go beyond his wildest dreams. Time was when Morrie only wanted to...
Morrie Schiller is a new philosophy student at an evangelical college in the Midwest. Try though he may, he just doesn't fit into the Christian campus...
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70,40 zł |
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Labor Day
ISBN: 9780062313638 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith "Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks." --St. Petersburg Times Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives.... "Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestsel... |
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77,83 zł |
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Route 66 Kids
ISBN: 9781888725704 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder about their origin. When kids asked "Where do I come from?" in the 1950s, they were really asking about sex, the biggest mystery for those growing up in an age of American innocence. Cold War children also wanted to know more about their parents and the community which surrounded them. Central characters in this novel, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, find out about the past in the structures of the Missouri small town they live in, which is located...
Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder abo...
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77,00 zł |
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Miss Route 66
ISBN: 9781888725964 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fourth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel Series, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contest. Now married and with teenage children in St. Louis, she recounts her youthful adventure in this small town along "America's Highway." At the same time, she plans a return to Fairfield in order to right injustices she feels were done to some young contestants in the Miss Route 66 Pageant. Throughout this journey she wonders what, if anything, was feminine in the "Mother Road" of the 1950s.
In the fourth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel Series, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contes...
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77,00 zł |
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Dance of the Lights
ISBN: 9781936442003 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank relishes fast success and early retirement, but struggling to preserve his life's work thrusts him into a desperate battle to protect the people he cares about most. Beverly seeks a new beginning in Tarpon Springs-until those she trusts steal control of her destiny, forcing a fight for her very survival. All twelve-year-old Kevin wants is attention from the only man he respects, yet murder and the wrenching indifference of a callous legal system toward one vulnerable child proves even friendship might never be enough. Riven by tragedy, consumed by grief, all three must confront the...
Frank relishes fast success and early retirement, but struggling to preserve his life's work thrusts him into a desperate battle to protect the people...
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79,95 zł |
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Children of Bast: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781456514440 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gaylord felt imprisoned. He wanted to be a real cat, but held in Harriet and Ned's apartment stopped him from realizing his dream of roaming free and determining his own life. When Harriet left a door open one day, he escaped and headed for the streets and alleys. A tenderfoot, he had never hunted or killed to stay alive, so he was terrified. Then, pretty Adele came into his life and they fell in love. An experienced alley cat, she agreed to be his mentor and teach him how to survive. After introducing him to Chubby, the clowder's senior tom, his life changed forever. He was truly free.
Gaylord felt imprisoned. He wanted to be a real cat, but held in Harriet and Ned's apartment stopped him from realizing his dream of roaming free and ...
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34,07 zł |
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