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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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52,17 |
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Forever Young
ISBN: 9781453774779 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forever Young is an intense story about a promising college student whose life is interrupted when he sent to prison for a crime that he didn't commit. Twenty three years into his sentence, and after many trials and tribulations, Darius Lovely is eventually found innocent of his crimes and is abruptly released from prison, unprepared and emotionally damaged. But sometimes good things do happen to good people, and Darius unlike many of his peers, leaves prison with wealth and a new world with new rules waiting for him. Understanding that new world, his newly found fame, and the family that he...
Forever Young is an intense story about a promising college student whose life is interrupted when he sent to prison for a crime that he didn't commit...
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40,13 |
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September Bugle
ISBN: 9781453719244 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. His father is dead. His mother won't let him practice building survival fires in her office. He has recently figured out that half the adult population of his small home town has boobs. His cousin is missing. Josh has many of the problems that face the typical adolescent male. Life in Small Town, Montana had gotten a lot more complicated than any of its inhabitants were accustomed to. Josh's problems would have been easier to face, if: a) he could figure out where to breast his gaze when talking to female people, 2) anyone knew what had happened to his cousin. Sometimes, losing a cousin means...
His father is dead. His mother won't let him practice building survival fires in her office. He has recently figured out that half the adult populatio...
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35,75 |
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The Bully in ME
ISBN: 9780982709801 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do the events in our lives have any influence on the type of person we become? For Daniel Vesta, a self-described bully who terrorizes his classmates, they do. Daniel delights in torturing and exploiting people that he sees as being weaker than himself-even those people that he considers to be his buddies. The only person that Daniel connects with is Randy, a guy he's known all his life and a guy who is not afraid to stand up to him. When a wilderness challenge goes fatally wrong, Daniel must face the death of his best friend and come to terms with the suspicions he has that Randy's death may...
Do the events in our lives have any influence on the type of person we become? For Daniel Vesta, a self-described bully who terrorizes his classmates,...
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60,00 |
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Prayers and Lies
ISBN: 9780758253248 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When seven-year-old Bethany meets her six-year-old cousin Reana Mae, it's the beginning of a kinship of misfits that saves both from a bone-deep loneliness. Every summer, Bethany and her family leave Indianapolis for West Virginia's Coal River Valley. For Bethany's mother, the trips are a reminder of the coalmines and grinding poverty of her childhood, of a place she'd hoped to escape. But her loving relatives, and Bethany's friendship with Reana Mae, keep them coming back.
But as Bethany grows older, she realizes that life in this small, close-knit community is not as simple as she once... When seven-year-old Bethany meets her six-year-old cousin Reana Mae, it's the beginning of a kinship of misfits that saves both from a bone-deep lonel...
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68,80 |
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Kiss the Candy Days Hello
ISBN: 9781453651094 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My head started spinning. I got up and dragged myself to the bathroom. The scale was out where I had left it and I got on. Two more pounds were gone. I turned toward the toilet and went for a real long time and then drank from the faucet avoiding my face in the mirror. The water felt good in my mouth---but not in my stomach. I was pretty sure I knew what was happening ... my father had put a curse on me by writing a book on diabetes.
My head started spinning. I got up and dragged myself to the bathroom. The scale was out where I had left it and I got on. Two more pounds were gone. ...
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39,93 |
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Alabama Swamp Ghosts
ISBN: 9781451581256 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in rural Alabama Seth Young's world is filled with bicycles, sunny afternoons and skinny dipping, until he and his friend, Frankie Parker, stumble onto an object that has been hidden for years in the depths of Boiling Springs. Seth and his "Bike Commandos" take on the mysteries surrounding the town of Clarksville and investigate the meanest man they ever knew, Constable Jake Marlowe. Their desires for Friday night football games and Sunday fried chicken dinners vanish when they uncover the secrets of Varner's Swamp. In his book, "Alabama Swamp Ghosts," Larson Edge explores the...
Growing up in rural Alabama Seth Young's world is filled with bicycles, sunny afternoons and skinny dipping, until he and his friend, Frankie Parker, ...
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40,13 |
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Cross Over Water
ISBN: 9780874178388 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,88 |
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The Peregrine
ISBN: 9780865348004 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When nine-year-old Roman Rodriguez learns that his father has suffered a life-threatening injury in Iraq, it changes his life forever. While his mother and little sister travel to Germany to be with Roman's father at a military hospital, he is sent to El Puerto, a small New Mexico village to stay with his grandparents. There he confronts doubt and regret about himself and his family. Roman grows angry when he discovers his mother and grandmother are keeping his father's true condition a secret. He turns to his grandfather for answers. Grandpa Joe explains that three constants in his life have...
When nine-year-old Roman Rodriguez learns that his father has suffered a life-threatening injury in Iraq, it changes his life forever. While his mothe...
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57,14 |
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Charlie No Face
ISBN: 9780984555284 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When eleven-year-old Jackie meets every kid's greatest nightmare-disfigured hermit Charlie No Face-his life is changed forever. Despite nagging questions about the death of his mother when he was an infant, the summer of 1959 is shaping up as the best vacation of Jackie's short life. He has friends, baseball, his father's unanticipated vacation from work, and the hunt for Charlie No Face to fill his days. But in a few short weeks, Jackie's life is turned upside down. He moves in with a distant relative whose shadowy boarder holds the key to Jackie's past and, perhaps, his future. Who is this...
When eleven-year-old Jackie meets every kid's greatest nightmare-disfigured hermit Charlie No Face-his life is changed forever. Despite nagging questi...
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68,02 |
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Whale Song
ISBN: 9780986631054 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHALE SONG with bonus content* Thirteen years ago, Sarah Richardson's life was shattered after the tragic death of her mother. The shocking event left a grief-stricken teen-aged Sarah with partial amnesia. Some things are easier to forget. But now a familiar voice from her childhood sends Sarah, a talented mid-twenties ad exec, back to her past. A past that she had thought was long buried. Some things are meant to be buried. Torn by nightmares and visions of a yellow-eyed wolf and aided by creatures of the Earth and killer whales that call to her in the night, Sarah must face her fears and...
WHALE SONG with bonus content* Thirteen years ago, Sarah Richardson's life was shattered after the tragic death of her mother. The shocking event left...
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52,13 |
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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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80,06 |
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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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40,09 |
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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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40,09 |
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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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40,09 |
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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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56,14 |
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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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60,15 |
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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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60,00 |
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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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60,00 |
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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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48,12 |
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