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Poor Memory
ISBN: 9781452842424 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The old folks say Memory is quair. A young preacher boy discovers that the eccentric old woman is that and a whole lot more. Uncovering the mystery of Memory is the only way he will resolve his own crisis of calling. Praise for Poor Memory: Dear Stan, The best I can say is that your book reads like Will Cambell's-with its absurdities, its celebrations of the red-necks, and its exposure of organized religion. -G.McLeod Bryan, author Dear Stan, We drove to Asheville and I took five manuscripts to respond to, intending to skim each one. I began with yours and didn't skim. Read every word. . . It...
The old folks say Memory is quair. A young preacher boy discovers that the eccentric old woman is that and a whole lot more. Uncovering the mystery of...
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The Center of the Universe
ISBN: 9781448640560 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something is not right in your world. You are fairly certain it has nothing to do with your blindly up-beat existence. Instead, your twenty-four-year-old mind is convinced a conspiracy is afoot: a conspiracy that will lead you to a foreign land. You may uncover family secrets. You may thwart international terrorists. You will lose your hearing, discover love, misplace religion, and chance upon a chicken - all the while hoping to flush out the meaning of existence. It will require the help of your sisters and a possible spy, but you think these adventures will bring order to your life, and...
Something is not right in your world. You are fairly certain it has nothing to do with your blindly up-beat existence. Instead, your twenty-four-year-...
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Linked
ISBN: 9781450575164 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born from tragedy and possessing the ability to see memories and thoughts from those around him, Snowy has chosen Tommy as his companion. With these gifts, both seek to discover the world around them. Unfortunately, their journey takes a dark turn when a killer crosses their path and begins hunting for them... and will stop at nothing in order to possess both child and cat.
Born from tragedy and possessing the ability to see memories and thoughts from those around him, Snowy has chosen Tommy as his companion. With these g...
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Trivial Pursuits
ISBN: 9781453647035 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nostalgic teen romance set in a Gifted And Talented Education class in 1980's Kern County, California.
A nostalgic teen romance set in a Gifted And Talented Education class in 1980's Kern County, California.
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Summer at IITK: An intriguing tale spread across 75 days in IITK
ISBN: 9781453649428 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Summer at IITK is a story about friends. Friends who are a little brainy, a little stupid, a little obnoxious, a little bit out of the box and very innocent. The story is a journey of these friends across a summer semester in the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as they encounter one twist after another in their quest to redeem themselves of their failure in the spring semester. These friends are resilient but life ain't a free lunch for them as it throws love, betrayals, software watchdogs, heartbreaks at them at a breakneck pace. And all this happens in a summer. In Summer at IITK....
Summer at IITK is a story about friends. Friends who are a little brainy, a little stupid, a little obnoxious, a little bit out of the box and very in...
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Tadpole
ISBN: 9781453716168 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Fortunate One
ISBN: 9781449984007 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hannibal McGuane is about to get an education in film-making from the inside of a Hollywood studio. Han is the son of famous producer who's been given a golden opportunity to make a name for himself. But Han has a problem. After growing up as Hollywood royalty with his own private fast lane, Han is burnt out and cynical, incapable of connecting to the magic that Hollywood manufactures. That is, until a script emerges that changes everything for Han and for those around him ... This is the story of film-making from inside the Hollywood factory, from Hannibal McGuane's "first person, alienated"...
Hannibal McGuane is about to get an education in film-making from the inside of a Hollywood studio. Han is the son of famous producer who's been given...
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Little Darlin
ISBN: 9781440428326 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a heartwarming and gut wrenching adventure. It is a story of a sixteen year old girl, Jessica (Jessie) Mills, who is pregnant. She never knew her parents and recently lost her grandparents who raised her. She boards a bus in search of her only known relative. She had met her aunt once in her life and isn't sure, but she thinks she lives in Atlanta, Ga. You will laugh and cry as you join her and her new found friend, Shelby, in her search to belong somewhere.
This is a heartwarming and gut wrenching adventure. It is a story of a sixteen year old girl, Jessica (Jessie) Mills, who is pregnant. She never knew ...
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Five Golden Rings and a Diamond: Part 1 Ireland: Romance and Pain, the Curse of Cain
ISBN: 9781453745724 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the passionate romance novel Five Golden Rings and a Diamond Part 1] and focusses on Niamh's tough time in Ireland during 1968 - 1971 and her encounter and dazzling romance with a young farmer; her fateful marriage to a member of the tinker tribes; her chance encounter with an American sailor who opens his heart to hers; the brief and disasterous relationship with a young priest and her final transportation with her young child, a broken heart and an older man... The story is enhances by the inclusion of 17 original drawings by the author, Marie Seltenrych. Cover picture is also the...
This is the passionate romance novel Five Golden Rings and a Diamond Part 1] and focusses on Niamh's tough time in Ireland during 1968 - 1971 and her...
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80,62 |
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The Secret Sea
ISBN: 9781453811931 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward and Ethan Truman, father and son, have faced the void together, building boats and a new life together on the Atlantic coast. But Edward's meticulous plans didn't include the person he meets at the dock, his son's growing restlessness, or the lingering effects of their unbearable tragedy. His decision to build the perfect boat sends both on a turbulent journey toward redemption, through the secret seas raging within. LOOK FOR SPECIAL OFFERS on Amazon with "Higher"--the new novel by Evan Rice, coming 2012. Click Buy Both for BOTH Print Editions and make the free shipping. Support your...
Edward and Ethan Truman, father and son, have faced the void together, building boats and a new life together on the Atlantic coast. But Edward's meti...
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42,11 |
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Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
ISBN: 9781590514665 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2011 Costa First Novel Award
When their mother catches their father with another woman, twelve year-old Blessing and her fourteen-year-old brother, Ezikiel, are forced to leave their comfortable home in Lagos for a village in the Niger Delta, to live with their mother s family. Without running water or electricity, Warri is at first a nightmare for Blessing. Her mother is gone all day and works suspiciously late into the night to pay the children s school fees. Her brother, once a promising student, seems to be falling increasingly under the influence of the local... Winner of the 2011 Costa First Novel Award
When their mother catches their father with another woman, twelve year-old Blessing and her f... |
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Skinny
ISBN: 9780062020369 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Skinnywill be my go-to recommendation all year for anyone who wants smart, endearing, beautifully written women's fiction." --Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of TheOne That I Want and Time of My Life
"Spechler...transcends melodrama and clichewith striking sensitivity and delicate touch." --Boston Globe To escape thegrief she feels following her father's death, twenty-six year old Brooklynite Gray Lachmann becomesa counselor at a summer camp for overweight children, where she discovers shehas her own demons to... "Skinnywill be my go-to recommendation all year for anyone who wants smart, endearing, beautifully written women's fiction." --Allison Winn S...
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56,97 |
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Dreams of My Russian Summers
ISBN: 9781611450545 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales--watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own...
Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes,...
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The Ninth Wife
ISBN: 9780061851896 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -I love this book's deft, fresh take on male-female relationships.- -A vibrant, nuanced novel about marriage, identity, and the moment when we realize that the shimmer of fantasy pales next to the tumultuous reality of ordinary, everyday happiness.- In The Ninth Wife by Amy Stolls, Bess Gray has just learned that the man she loves, the man who asked for her hand in marriage, has been married eight times before.... -I love this book's deft, fresh take on male-female relationships.- |
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Confessions of a Teenage Pond Hopper
ISBN: 9780615389417 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For seventeen years, Charlotte Alexandra Williston has felt as if she's a supporting character in the ongoing play that is her life. She's been reading lines someone else wrote instead of saying what she really thinks, never stepping outside of the proverbial prim-and-proper box containing her well-bred life in Caulfield, Connecticut. But now, she's determined to create her own story - one in which she's the star. After graduating high school, she impulsively embarks on a jaunt across Europe with her best friend Molly. From London to Florence to Copenhagen and beyond, Charlotte explores...
For seventeen years, Charlotte Alexandra Williston has felt as if she's a supporting character in the ongoing play that is her life. She's been readin...
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The Whistling Song
ISBN: 9780393309492 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this electric on-the-road novel, orphan-hero Matt hitchhikes across the surreal landscape of America in the '80s. Searching for the lost bliss of childhood he falls in with--and longs for--the dangerously beautiful but amoral Jimmy, a fellow orphan. As they crisscross the country, encountering homeless rock stars, suicidal teenagers, Jesus freaks, and other souls on the edge, Matt moves toward adulthood and his own sexual identity. Stephen Beachy, awarded a James Michener Grant from the Iowa Writers Workshop, now lives in San Francisco and is at work on another novel.
In this electric on-the-road novel, orphan-hero Matt hitchhikes across the surreal landscape of America in the '80s. Searching for the lost bliss of c...
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110,04 |
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The Yummy Man
ISBN: 9781453814291 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theresa Walker meets the man of her dreams. Only she is just a girl. Their friendship is a secret because of their age difference. Therese tells no one about her crush on the 'Yummy Man'. He pedals ice cream down her street during the summer months. She will be starting high school in the Fall. Growing up Catholic in the 60s was a time of trust and rules. Therese couldn't tell anyone about her hidden joy. When tragedy struck, she couldn't share her personal pain either.
Theresa Walker meets the man of her dreams. Only she is just a girl. Their friendship is a secret because of their age difference. Therese tells no on...
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More Than 60 Minutes: When Earth Stands Still
ISBN: 9781439257913 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Color Edition: This book makes obsolete most of the fundamental theories about the working of planet Earth. It proves through cause-and-effect as well as basic physics what drives the planet to spin about its axis and what makes its spin speed to vary. The book explains the configuration of the magnetic fields that emanate from Earth's core and answers the true reasons behind the weakening of the magnetic field, global warming, climate exchange and reversal of the magnetic field force in Antarctica. Ancient texts and petroglyph enabled the establishment of a cycle of Earth changes of 3,562...
Color Edition: This book makes obsolete most of the fundamental theories about the working of planet Earth. It proves through cause-and-effect as well...
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123,61 |
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Homecoming: A Novella
ISBN: 9781456312725 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Homecoming" is the story of Caitlin Pearson, a college freshman on her first visit home who discovers, to her dismay, that "out of sight did not necessarily guarantee out of mind." Over the course of her visit, Caitlin endures an overly-controlling mother and her latest redecorating project - Caitlin's oversexed younger cousin, a humiliating stint as her former high school's returning Homecoming Queen, and an old-fashioned booze-and-jealousy spiked family Thanksgiving. These adventures force Caitlin to confront old wounds and new fears, as well as a future filled with uncertainty, promise,...
"Homecoming" is the story of Caitlin Pearson, a college freshman on her first visit home who discovers, to her dismay, that "out of sight did not nece...
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55,84 |
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Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead
ISBN: 9781453801901 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like "Esperanza Rising" and "Rules of Attraction," this coming-of-age novel, "Some Rivers End on The Day of the Dead" follows a Hispanic teen, Marisol. She and her mother are on the run from their home in Tijuana, Mexico. Her father, investigating the drug wars as a journalist, has been murdered. But Marisol's new home is a riverbed camp in a rich California suburb. A wildfire separates Marisol from her mother and her school. Cut off and alone, she challenges herself to find a way to reunite with her family and to celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico to honor her father with the proper...
Like "Esperanza Rising" and "Rules of Attraction," this coming-of-age novel, "Some Rivers End on The Day of the Dead" follows a Hispanic teen, Marisol...
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51,88 |
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