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Suspension
ISBN: 9780060741372 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. A dazzling, remarkably original dark comedy about a young New Yorker's failed attempts to isolate himself in a city that won't take solitude for an answer For years it's been Andy Green's job to stump students nationwide by coming up with the wrong answers for their multiple-choice tests. Recently, however, his own life has become overwhelmed by wrong choices. When a love affair is mysteriously ended by a Post-it note and followed up by a random street assault, Andy locks himself in his Hell's Kitchen apartment. In solitude, he thinks, he might be able to get a grip on his life. But... A dazzling, remarkably original dark comedy about a young New Yorker's failed attempts to isolate himself in a city that won't take solitude for an... |
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61,54 zł |
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Serpent Box
ISBN: 9780061126260 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly serpents and drinking lye in front of large gatherings of the faithful. Believing his ten-year-old son Jacob--called Toad or Spud--to be a prophet, Charles, the patriarch, takes the boy down a long and arduous path as they travel the back roads of the postwar Deep South in search of God and plumb the depths of their unorthodox brand of faith. But sudden, shocking tragedy will shatter Charles's cherished dream of building a ministry and a permanent church--and set... In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly serpents and drinking ... |
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58,39 zł |
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The Summer of Secrets
ISBN: 9781517275945 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Being a teenager is hard enough without adding money, sex, secrets, and lies to the mix. For ten teenage girls, everything is about to change. This summer will test the boundaries of family, friendship, and even love. For Isabella Garcia, Esther Whitfield, Jane Hayward, Grace Lawrence, and Amanda Bradford, spending the summer apart for the first time since they became friends will give the girl's secrets time to become discovered. No one is safe from their own lies and Beverly Hills high school's most popular girls, a clique that call themselves 'The Peaches'. Blinded by revenge and jealous,...
Being a teenager is hard enough without adding money, sex, secrets, and lies to the mix. For ten teenage girls, everything is about to change. This su...
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47,38 zł |
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The Secret Life of Bees
ISBN: 9780142001745 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to... The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author ...
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65,69 zł |
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Secondhand World
ISBN: 9780307274991 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Isadora Myung Hee Sohn--Isa--has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her house and killed her parents. Moving back in time, "Secondhand World" casts a devastating spell, revealing the circumstances that led to the fire.
Growing up the daughter of Korean-born parents, Isa is bullied by American classmates and barely noticed at home. Seeking the company of another outsider, Isa falls in love with Hero, an albino boy. But what starts out as a small teenage rebellion sets in motion a series of events and revelations... Isadora Myung Hee Sohn--Isa--has just spent ninety-five days in a pediatric burn unit in Albany, New York, recovering from the fire that burned her ho...
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65,69 zł |
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The Tribes of Palos Verdes
ISBN: 9780312195328 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Medina Mason is a defiant, awkward newcomer to the affluent beach community of Palos Verdes, California. As her parents' marriage disintegrates and her beloved brother falls prey to the temptations of drugs and the lunacy of their mother, Medina surfs to survive, finding a bitter solace in the rough comfort of the waves. This is the moving story of growing up "different," of the love between siblings, and of one girl's power to save herself. Medina Mason is a defiant, awkward newcomer to the affluent beach community of Palos Verdes, California. As her parents' marriage disintegrates and... |
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65,65 zł |
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Shine
ISBN: 9780996725675 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Have you ever wondered about the fate of young children whose parents pass away suddenly? Are these children destined for lives full of hardships or are they capable of creating their own happy endings, regardless of their beginnings? Shine answers those questions in the author's own brilliant way. At the tender age of three, Ellie's life was forever changed when her father was killed by a crazed lunatic in a small town in New Jersey, a tragedy that would result in bold headlines, broken hearts, and tough times. She would spend a majority of her childhood and teenage years battling bullies...
Have you ever wondered about the fate of young children whose parents pass away suddenly? Are these children destined for lives full of hardships or a...
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51,73 zł |
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Who Am I
ISBN: 9780996712705 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. "So, who are you? What are you made of?" I just stare at her. What am I made of? No one had ever asked me that before. Who am I? Three...simple...words. How could three simple words make such a difference? Told from the point of view of high school senior, Tameka Cummings, Who Am I, takes the reader on a self-discovering journey as she encounters heart-wrenching tragedy, true friendship, and the hope of romance.
"So, who are you? What are you made of?" I just stare at her. What am I made of? No one had ever asked me that before. Who am I? Three...simple...word...
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36,60 zł |
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Hello, I Must Be Going
ISBN: 9780393330182 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. It's the early 1980s, and tomboy Frankie Hawthorne's world is overturned when her beloved father--a Vietnam amputee who masks depression by playing comedian--shoots himself. Frankie's neighborhood, in a down-at-the-heels industrial city near Boston, has had its own happier times. Left behind along with Frankie are her mother, Gerrie, a waitress at Friendly's, and a sweetly innocent younger brother, Teddy.Soon, Frankie decides not to talk, resisting the overly ebullient school psychologist, and comforting herself by drawing cartoons. Gerri, now chain-smoking and addicted to television--Doris...
It's the early 1980s, and tomboy Frankie Hawthorne's world is overturned when her beloved father--a Vietnam amputee who masks depression by playing co...
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90,11 zł |
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One for Sorrow
ISBN: 9780553384369 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD
Part thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a novel as timeless as The Catcher in the Rye and as hauntingly lyrical as The Lovely Bones. Christopher Barzak's stunning debut tells of a teenage boy's coming-of-age that begins with a shocking murder and ends with a reason to hope. Adam McCormick had just turned fifteen when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an autumn that will change his life forever. Jamie Marks was a boy a lot like Adam, a boy no... NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD
Part thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a nove... |
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65,69 zł |
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Demons Follow Dark Roads
ISBN: 9781517237325 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Al Capone Andrews has a story to tell about four bored university students who come together one wet day to form a band, to be known as 'The Sublimated Urge'. The band struggles through the minefields of drug and alcohol abuse, carnal knowledge charges, brawls, bloodshed and even murder, before they realise the exquisite chemistry that exists between them for writing songs and performing them on stage. These four young men discover that writing poetry can be a catharsis for alleviating the pain and suffering they have all been through. From humble beginnings, the band eventually achieves...
Al Capone Andrews has a story to tell about four bored university students who come together one wet day to form a band, to be known as 'The Sublimate...
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48,71 zł |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ISBN: 9780613237529 / Angielski / Prebound / 224 str. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt.
Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror P...
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110,64 zł |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ISBN: 9780671027346 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture...
Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its gl...
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61,54 zł |
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
ISBN: 9780802135162 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles."
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The...
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65,69 zł |
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Blaney Park
ISBN: 9780865345799 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Emily Stewart, a freelance artist and author of a study of upper Michigan wolves, is compelled to abandon the life and family she has been a part of since college and return to the soulful wilderness of Michigans untamed upper peninsula. She discovers more than just a familiar love of the environment with the help of Elsie Brooks, a retired native of Blaney Park.
Emily Stewart, a freelance artist and author of a study of upper Michigan wolves, is compelled to abandon the life and family she has been a part of s...
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118,85 zł |
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The Cruise of the Jest
ISBN: 9780979761300 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. The Cruise of the Jest is the story of a 16-year-old boy who sails a 35-foot boat alone around the world. Although fiction, the story is based on the author's experience.
The Cruise of the Jest is the story of a 16-year-old boy who sails a 35-foot boat alone around the world. Although fiction, the story is based on the ...
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81,99 zł |
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The House of Puppets
ISBN: 9781412096843 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Rusty van Wolkenten, an artist in her late thirties living with her husband, Sam, in San Francisco, is returning home to a small plantation on an island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. She is seeking answers from the three people who know her best: Fred, her irascible but loving father who can hurt or edify with just the choice of a word; Clarice, her not-entirely-of-this-world mother whose biggest decision each day is which one of her colorful umbrellas to choose, and the laconic but wise, Willie Belle, the family cook who has been with the van Wolkentens since Rusty's birth....
Rusty van Wolkenten, an artist in her late thirties living with her husband, Sam, in San Francisco, is returning home to a small plantation on an isla...
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82,11 zł |
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Kamikaze Girls
ISBN: 9781421513959 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Life in the boondocks of rural Ibaraki prefecture is anything but glamorous, and to escape her humdrum existence, Momoko, a "Lolita," fanaticizes about French rococo, dreams of living in the palace of Versailles, and decks herself out in the finest (and frilliest) of 18th century haute couture from an expensive Tokyo specialty store. Her dreams of an idyllic existence are rudely interrupted by the appearance of Ichigo, a tough-talking "Yanki" motorcycle-chick (on a tricked-out moped) who's part of a girls-only biker gang known as the Ponytails. Together, this unlikeliest of duos strikes out...
Life in the boondocks of rural Ibaraki prefecture is anything but glamorous, and to escape her humdrum existence, Momoko, a "Lolita," fanaticizes abou...
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41,01 zł |
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Andy Catlett: Early Travels
ISBN: 9781593761646 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Andy Catlett is the latest installment in Wendell Berry's Port William series, a distinct set of stories that Berry has been telling now for 50 years. Set during the Christmas of 1943, nine-year-old Andy Catlett sets off to visit his grandparents in Port William by bus, by himself for the first time. For Andy this is a rite of passage, his first step into manhood. His experiences on this solitary voyage become pivotal points in the entire Port William epic. The old ways are in retreat, modern life is crowding everything in its path, and as Andy looks back many years later, he...
Andy Catlett is the latest installment in Wendell Berry's Port William series, a distinct set of stories that Berry has been telling now...
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65,48 zł |
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La Vida Secreta de Las Abejas - audiobook
ISBN: 9781598870015 / Hiszpański / Compact Disc / 9 str. This New York Times bestseller is now available as a Spanish-language audio book. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees is the history of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped by her confused memory of her mother's death when Lily was just a small child. This is a notable novel about female power-divine and human-and a story that women will share and pass from mother to daughter for generations. Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La Vida Secreta De Las Abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su...
This New York Times bestseller is now available as a Spanish-language audio book. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees is the histor...
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151,69 zł |
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