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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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70,25 |
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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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Brave New Home
ISBN: 9781456349578 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life of a young couple, Aaron and Camille, two idealistic kids fresh out of college takes an unexpected twist when Camille finds a letter belonging to one of her neighbors, an old woman who just passed away. Although it seems like there is no real mystery to be solved Camille is determined to get lost in this fabricated treasure hunt, forcing everyone around her to be involved as well. It will be the beginning of a series of discoveries that will have them reconsider their seemingly perfect goals, jobs and relationship, will help them find their own passions and take them on a journey...
The life of a young couple, Aaron and Camille, two idealistic kids fresh out of college takes an unexpected twist when Camille finds a letter belongin...
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Labeled
ISBN: 9781456340902 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Best of Me
ISBN: 9781455504107 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.
THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've...
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Special Truth
ISBN: 9780615397344 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Faith moves from the beautiful willow trees of Iowa to the dark and dirty streets of inner city Milwaukee, she has to deal with more than just a change of scenery. Her heart is still caught in those willows and the only one that seems to care is a sweet little puppy she finds in her backyard. When her mother wants to find the owner, Faith tries to keep her a secret along with her feelings about moving. Suddenly losing her Iowa friends and possibly her puppy is the least of her worries when the neighborhood clique attacks her and her father's church. Faith then has more secrets than she can...
As Faith moves from the beautiful willow trees of Iowa to the dark and dirty streets of inner city Milwaukee, she has to deal with more than just a ch...
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Herlong
ISBN: 9781451526066 / Angielski / Miękka / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jim Miller arrived at Herlong when he was twelve years old. Jim, his brother Davey, mother and new stepfather moved to the high desert town in northern California in the early summer of 1946. It was hot and dry and a place that Jim hated from the moment they arrived in their very old and tired 1934 Ford sedan. Unlike San Francisco, Dayton, Ohio, and other cities Jim had known, Herlong was a small town filled mostly with people who came from all over the United States to work there during and after World War Two. Herlong Elementary with its eight grades soon became the focus of Jim's early...
Jim Miller arrived at Herlong when he was twelve years old. Jim, his brother Davey, mother and new stepfather moved to the high desert town in norther...
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Boys Will Be Boys
ISBN: 9781456572808 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Boys' never had it easy and struggled to find a way to navigate in a world that seemed against them. Whether it was Joey, losing his family in a car accident or Jack, whose father abused him, the boys knew they had to stick together if they were to survive their adolescence. However, after Cindy and her brother Jimmy moved into the neighborhood, the boys learned that they could never go back to the way life was before Jack, the troubled rebel; Paul, the goofball; Mark, the overachiever; Andy, the brainiac; and Brad, the peacemaker make up Joey's best friends and the group they call 'the...
'The Boys' never had it easy and struggled to find a way to navigate in a world that seemed against them. Whether it was Joey, losing his family in a ...
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Unlimited Calling: (certain Restrictions Apply)
ISBN: 9781456560522 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 10th grader Amy Verdino has to adjust to her parents' divorce, fickle friends, a changing body, and -- to her everlasting horror -- the supposed importance of a math class taught by the geekiest teacher in North America. What happens in the spring of her sophomore year surprises everyone, as self-absorption is punctured by an unexpected source. The author of PERMISSION SLIPS offers a compassionately funny look at one adolescent's unconventional path to wholeness in his first young adult novel.
10th grader Amy Verdino has to adjust to her parents' divorce, fickle friends, a changing body, and -- to her everlasting horror -- the supposed impor...
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Kiss the Candy Days Good-bye
ISBN: 9781456468569 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass doors were in front of me. Through the glass I saw Harold. I pushed hard. "Help me," I wanted to say. But I couldn't say anything. "Oh Jimmy. A dark, curly-haired boy left this envelope for you. He said to tell you- My God My boy - what's wrong here? Somebody help me He's fainted The boy is sick Call Mr. James upstairs. Someone please There's something wrong with Jimmy."
The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass do...
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Ordinary Angels
ISBN: 9781453850503 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one saw what happened. No one will talk about it. But 2-year-old Hal is dead. Whose fault is it? Within a volatile and unpredictable family, May O'Mally, the oldest of six siblings, must come to terms with her own guilt, as well as the mysterious connection she forges with her deceased baby brother.
No one saw what happened. No one will talk about it. But 2-year-old Hal is dead. Whose fault is it? Within a volatile and unpredictable family, May O'...
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Lie of the Laughing Moon
ISBN: 9781453840177 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lie of the Laughing Moon follows the journey of Ashley, a young woman growing up in a small town in Northwest Indiana. Cursed by her own beauty and the circumstances of her youth, she looks for acceptance in the wrong places; only to find it after she's forced to expose the pain she has hidden from everyone, including herself.
Lie of the Laughing Moon follows the journey of Ashley, a young woman growing up in a small town in Northwest Indiana. Cursed by her own beauty and th...
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Mending Rainbows
ISBN: 9781453798874 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of family lost and family found, of love found, lost, and found again, a story of new beginnings. It is a story of growing up but retaining child-like qualities. Good guys are hurt but win. Bad guys cause damage but lose to frontier justice. Young love can be hilarious at times. As with all of his past and later books, Emery Walters loaded Mending Rainbows with his trademark humor, including the best public lovers spat ever written. You will laugh every time you remember it. Don't miss this memorable trip to Maui.
This is a story of family lost and family found, of love found, lost, and found again, a story of new beginnings. It is a story of growing up but reta...
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