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Hollywood Is Like High School with Money
ISBN: 9780446697194 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-four-year old Taylor Henning has just landed her dream job as an assistant at a major movie studio. But when her catty coworkers trick her into almost getting fired, she realizes that the old saying "Hollywood is like school with money" just may be true. The thing is, Taylor wasn't exactly a social butterfly in high school-how is she supposed to do any better the second time around?
That's when she meets her boss's popular sixteen-year-old daughter Quinn, and has an epiphany: maybe this teenager can teach her how to use her queen bee tactics to succeed in the Hollywood popularity... Twenty-four-year old Taylor Henning has just landed her dream job as an assistant at a major movie studio. But when her catty coworkers trick her into...
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139,48 zł |
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Naiv. Super.
ISBN: 9780976307204 / Norweski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Naiv. Super. is a story, naively yet poignantly imagined, about a young Norwegian man who suddenly finds himself in a crisis. To discover what's going on--and to rediscover himself--he drops out of his studies at the university, sells most of his belongings, and moves into his brother's unoccupied apartment. Through contemplation and play, he sorts through life's meanings, tries to gain perspective on the world, revisits his lost childhood, and becomes obsessed with the concept of time. After several weeks, he joins his brother for a vacation in New York City, where, with his brother's help,...
Naiv. Super. is a story, naively yet poignantly imagined, about a young Norwegian man who suddenly finds himself in a crisis. To discover what's going...
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90,85 zł |
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The Little Colonel
ISBN: 9781443715850 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic book is the first instalment of Annie F. Johnston s eponymous children s series, The Little Colonel . It is a semi-biographical story of a girl who becomes known as the little Colonel due to her bullying, which resonates with the personality of her grandfather, a former colonel on the confederate side. A charming and timeless tale, The Little Colonel would make for a great addition to any family collection, and is not to be missed by fans of Johnston s work. Annie Fellows Johnston (1863 1931) was an American author famous for writing popular children's books. Other notable works...
This classic book is the first instalment of Annie F. Johnston s eponymous children s series, The Little Colonel . It is a semi-biographical story of ...
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87,16 zł |
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Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp
ISBN: 9780767932349 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The hilarious sequel to the cult favorite Youth in Revolt, now a major motion picture starring Michael Cera and Justin Long. In the wry and subversive further journals of Nick Twisp, we reunite with America's most literate teen diarist as he accidentally ignites criminal mayhem; seeks union with his love, Sheeni Saunders; and still has to live as a girl to avoid the police--an absolute must-read for all fans of the oddball humor of Youth in Revolt. Praise for Youth in Revolt "The funniest book you'll read this year." --Los Angeles Times "This...
The hilarious sequel to the cult favorite Youth in Revolt, now a major motion picture starring Michael Cera and Justin Long. In the ...
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82,19 zł |
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This is an autobiographical novel about a young Jamaican boy who comes to England and is sucked into a life of crime. Rocky Carr stays in Wayland Prison, where he writes and works every day in the prison kitchen.
This is an autobiographical novel about a young Jamaican boy who comes to England and is sucked into a life of crime. Rocky Carr stays in Wayland Pris...
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86,48 zł |
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Water Falls Down
ISBN: 9780615840956 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What have they done to me in here, to cause me to be unable to see beyond my own cage? Three Teens, committed and sentenced to spend time locked away in a mental institution, suddenly answer an impulse to escape. Travel with them, as they blaze their own trail through the wild of California, eventually seeking refuge and solace in Yosemite National Park. Hiding out in the park, avoiding the authorities and parents, these teens rebuild a life for themselves with nothing but their wits and ingenuity. Struggling with the elements as well as their own psychological deviations, these three crash...
What have they done to me in here, to cause me to be unable to see beyond my own cage? Three Teens, committed and sentenced to spend time locked away ...
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54,51 zł |
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The Guitarist
ISBN: 9780615862248 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,46 zł |
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Not the End of the World
ISBN: 9780393310061 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being the daughter of the owner of a successful candy factory and living in a house with its own beach, Maggie should be living a sweet life. But after an explosive incident at school with her teacher, this spirited, funny, and troubled adolescent is just trying to make it through a long summer at home--while feeling a long hidden secret make its way to the surface.
Being the daughter of the owner of a successful candy factory and living in a house with its own beach, Maggie should be living a sweet life. But afte...
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81,97 zł |
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Labor Day
ISBN: 9780061893926 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 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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108,11 zł |
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College Girl
ISBN: 9781594484049 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A raw and resonant debut novel (Megan McCafferty) and a vivid portrait of life on a modern college campus.
College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious, but also painfully insecure. At twenty, she s still a virgin, never even having had a boyfriend. At school, Natalie hides out most weekends in the library until she meets Patrick, her fantasy (she thinks) of a cultured, intellectual Prince Charming. But the more time they spend together, the more Patrick brings out her worst insecurities. And before Natalie s ready, she winds up losing her virginity and her sense of direction,... A raw and resonant debut novel (Megan McCafferty) and a vivid portrait of life on a modern college campus.
College senior Natalie Bloom is beautif... |
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95,17 zł |
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Innocence: Simplicity of Spirit - Lilia Faith Christian's Family Legacy
ISBN: 9781606937105 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innocence: Simplicity of Spirit is an absolute delight of a book about a young, precocious eleven-year old girl named Lilia Faith Christian. Author Peggy L. Headlund's protagonist is an ideal role model for "tweens" and teenagers. This uplifting tale is set against the stunning backdrop of Wailua, Kauai where Lilia lives with her parents, Jacob and Francine, and her grandfather, Apelehama. Written with astounding insight into the mind of a young girl, Lilia's mischievous adventures and inventive ideas take the reader on a glorious romp through life on an island ranch, and a family's ups and...
Innocence: Simplicity of Spirit is an absolute delight of a book about a young, precocious eleven-year old girl named Lilia Faith Christian. Author Pe...
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127,62 zł |
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Post Grad
ISBN: 9780312596262 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when your life doesn't go according to plan? Ryden Malby had a plan. Step One: do well in high school, thereby achieving Step Two: get a kick-butt college scholarship. Step Three - limit her beer pong in order to keep said scholarship - wasn't always easy. Now that she's finally graduated, it's time for Step Four: moving to LA to land her dream job at the city's best publishing house. So far, Ryden's three-for-three, but she's about to stumble on Step Four.... When Jessica Bard, Ryden's college nemesis--the prettiest, smartest, most ambitious girl at... What happens when your life doesn't go according to plan? Ryden Malby had a plan. Step One: do well in high school, thereby achieving... |
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82,15 zł |
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Shadow Baby
ISBN: 9780307462282 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young girl forms an unforgettable friendship with an elderly neighbor while searching for answers about her family's past in this national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominee.
Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin sister, dead at birth, but her mother steadfastly refuses to talk about these people who are lost to her daughter. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky, a lone old man, for a school biography assignment, she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious and... A young girl forms an unforgettable friendship with an elderly neighbor while searching for answers about her family's past in this national bestselle...
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77,87 zł |
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Imperial Yellow
ISBN: 9780865347021 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this family epic, Donovan Merrill and his grandmother, Anna, reinvent themselves. Anna finds love again with a German expatriate, and Donovan pursues love and his art career in Santa Fe.
In this family epic, Donovan Merrill and his grandmother, Anna, reinvent themselves. Anna finds love again with a German expatriate, and Donovan pursu...
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107,93 zł |
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The Tree House
ISBN: 9780978797171 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Harris Thatcher's father dies, the boy's journey into manhood becomes complicated with questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciousness of death. Harris soon finds himself preaching the Mormon gospel as one of the first missionaries to West Germany following the devastation of World War II. Little does he know that his own war horrors await him upon his return home, when he is drafted into the Korean War. Starting out in the same 1940s-era Provo, Utah, that Thayer brought to life in his memoir Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood, this novel deepens and darkens as Harris is drawn...
When Harris Thatcher's father dies, the boy's journey into manhood becomes complicated with questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciou...
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73,32 zł |
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Some Dream for Fools
ISBN: 9780156032926 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ahleme, a young woman living on the outskirts of Paris, is trying to make a life out of the dreams she brought with her from Algeria and the reality she faces every day. Her father lost his job after an accident at his construction site. Her mother was lost to a massacre in Algeria. And her brother, Foued, boils with adolescent energy and teeters dangerously close to choosing a life of crime. As she wanders the streets of Paris looking for work, Ahleme negotiates the disparities between her dreams and her life, her youth and her responsibilities, the expectations of those back home and the...
Ahleme, a young woman living on the outskirts of Paris, is trying to make a life out of the dreams she brought with her from Algeria and the reality s...
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69,17 zł |
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China Girl: A Daughter's Journey
ISBN: 9780981454566 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There have been women trailblazers throughout American history, but no book has ever taken their perils and said, 'now this is how you achieve success.' This wonderful book takes lemons and turns them into lemon candy and cough drops to comfort and sooth the soul." -L. Marilyn Crawford Pres. and CEO Primetime Omnimedia & Symbiotic Pictures. THE STORY... At sixteen years old, Anna Lee, the beautiful daughter of a traditional, wealthy Chinese couple, wants nothing more than to move to America, go to college, and embark on a life of excitement and glamour-far away from the stifling conventions...
"There have been women trailblazers throughout American history, but no book has ever taken their perils and said, 'now this is how you achieve succes...
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86,25 zł |
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Lamana Rose
ISBN: 9781438910673 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the latter part of the 1800 s it became a practice of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to rescue native American children who were abandoned or were being used for barter. Lamana Rose was one of those children. She was bartered for two sacks of potatoes to a farmer in a small Utah community. Journey with Lamana Rose as she goes from a frightened, bewildered small child to a confident, intelligent woman. Love of a good family and a caring community, along with a good education, worked the miracle.
During the latter part of the 1800 s it became a practice of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to rescue native American children who we...
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65,81 zł |
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Don Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781438514314 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lord Dunsany was an Irish dramatist and storyteller. His fantasy worlds combined imagination with ingenuity to create stories full of wonder. His more than 50 works were full of fairies and gods. His kingdoms could often be macabre. Don Rodriguez chronicles of Shadow Valley is a fantasy novel set in the mythical golden age in Spain. The main character does not get his inheritance on the grounds that his skill with the sword and the mandolin should be all that he needs to get his own estate and a bride. Rodriguez sets out and soon has his own servant, Morano. Throughout their journeys the two...
Lord Dunsany was an Irish dramatist and storyteller. His fantasy worlds combined imagination with ingenuity to create stories full of wonder. His more...
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101,50 zł |
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Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story
ISBN: 9780061950261 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She's Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin' and Hopin'--an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story and David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries, Lamb's Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello--a distant cousin of the iconic Annette
Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She's C...
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99,46 zł |
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