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Tommie Loves Doggie
ISBN: 9781453752449 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SYNOPSIS: The 1960s was a tumultuous decade. Frequently it is characterized by the political and social upheavals that grabbed headlines during that ten year period. The decade also marked the coming of age of the first wave of baby boomers, which at that time could have been identified as the most privileged generation. In obscurity, many of these boomers attempted to understand their environment and how they fit in it. "Tommie Loves Doggie" is a tale of how several young people, under various circumstances, handled their personal development in a small town. The story focuses on a few weeks...
SYNOPSIS: The 1960s was a tumultuous decade. Frequently it is characterized by the political and social upheavals that grabbed headlines during that t...
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Unconditional
ISBN: 9781453746226 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A small town filled with prying eyes. A high school that tolerates bullying and violence. Parents who cannot handle news of their child being different. These are the three most volatile components of any teen struggling to find their way and when that child is a young lesbian struggling with her identity and how to keep it a secret, the mixture brews more trouble than most can imagine. Growing up different is hard enough, but with the pressures of life in a small town, it can be down right impossible. For Shane, surviving her junior high and high school years was made possible because she...
A small town filled with prying eyes. A high school that tolerates bullying and violence. Parents who cannot handle news of their child being differen...
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McClellan's Bluff
ISBN: 9781439220634 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leslie Cahill, now seventeen, falls in love with an "older" man, twenty-eight year old Sloan Stroh. She's flattered by the attention of this neighboring cowboy and is swept along by her strong emotions. Sloan dominates Leslie's every moment, in her mind at least. Leslie's father and brother strongly object to Leslie and Sloan's relationship not only because of the considerable age difference, but because they do not trust Sloan's intentions. Leslie learns Sloan's dark secret, which dates back many years to her mother's death. A fast-paced coming-of-age story, McClellan's Bluff is set in...
Leslie Cahill, now seventeen, falls in love with an "older" man, twenty-eight year old Sloan Stroh. She's flattered by the attention of this neighbori...
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Rosemount
ISBN: 9781439220528 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Leslie Cahill, a rancher's daughter, learns that her father plans to enroll her in Rosemount Academy, an exclusive girls' school in the city, she puts up every resistance she can muster. She doesn't understand the motivation behind his decision and feels rejected. Leslie loves her home, her life. Her greatest joy is riding her Appaloosa mare, Polly, over Eastern Washington's rolling hills. Leslie fails to change her father's mind and resorts to a more drastic plan. As a runaway, Leslie finds herself in Eastern Oregon's wilderness and its sprawling ranch country. She is unprepared for the...
When Leslie Cahill, a rancher's daughter, learns that her father plans to enroll her in Rosemount Academy, an exclusive girls' school in the city, she...
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63,82 |
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Route 66 Chapel
ISBN: 9781596300125 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the forces of progress threaten the foundation of small town life-a small church-five senior citizens, a mysterious newcomer, and one young couple band together in an unlikely campaign to save it. The embattled meeting point of old and new is Route 66 Chapel, a building curiously linked to America's "Mother Road."
When the forces of progress threaten the foundation of small town life-a small church-five senior citizens, a mysterious newcomer, and one young coupl...
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67,65 |
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Soul of a Prince
ISBN: 9780986783708 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tale of wisdom and enchantment tells of a young farm boy named Solomon, who embarks on a spiritual journey of self-discovery and spiritual insight. After meeting a traveling merchant, Solomon leaves his family in hopes of wealth in the city. Upon arrival, he discovers that he is lost and alone in an unknown land with only himself and the Higher Soul to depend on. He meets a fisherman who teaches him how to fish and so grows attached to the sea, whereupon his spiritual insight to the world begins. Soon enough, what began as a journey of material wealth, leads to a path of an unexpected...
This tale of wisdom and enchantment tells of a young farm boy named Solomon, who embarks on a spiritual journey of self-discovery and spiritual insigh...
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34,92 |
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Getting ME Back: The ME Series
ISBN: 9780982709856 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Linda. She seems to have it all: a supportive family, good friends, and a spot on the cheerleading squad. But when she starts dating Vic, a confident and popular football player, she finds that first love isn't exactly what she thought it would be. When Vic begins to control Linda's life and alienate her from her friends and family, it isn't long before she forgets who she used to be. Eventually, Linda must find the courage to define herself again. Will she become the girl who tells the truth or one who is running forever?
Meet Linda. She seems to have it all: a supportive family, good friends, and a spot on the cheerleading squad. But when she starts dating Vic, a confi...
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Homecoming
ISBN: 9781451616767 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From #1 international bestselling author Cathy Kelly comes a witty, warmhearted novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances. . . . Sometimes the only way forward . . . They say you can't go home again, and truth be told, Eleanor Levine never planned to. Yet here she is, back in Ireland after a lifetime in New York, moving her treasured possessions--including her mother's handwritten book of recipes for living--into a cozy Dublin apartment. With its picturesque Georgian villas, redbrick houses, and central garden, the Golden Square is just large enough for...
From #1 international bestselling author Cathy Kelly comes a witty, warmhearted novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances. . . . ...
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60,82 |
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Life in the Cathode Ray Glow
ISBN: 9781450561693 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life in the Cathode Ray Glow Throughout these works of fiction, Ray Sikes creates an engaging and vivid world with characters that are altogether believable and human. This collection starts off with a dozen stories about a boy growing up in the '60s and '70s. As a child, he colors with only a black crayon and lives a fantasy life as a space traveler. Later, he joins his brother in a sadistic war against invading 17-year locusts and impersonates daredevil Evel Knievel on a chopped spyder bicycle. He plays sports in the days when kids weren't handed trophies for merely showing up, gets into...
Life in the Cathode Ray Glow Throughout these works of fiction, Ray Sikes creates an engaging and vivid world with characters that are altogether beli...
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39,87 |
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Other Loves: Four Novellas
ISBN: 9781441401526 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sometimes, life just isn't like a story book.
Sometimes, life just isn't like a story book.
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51,68 |
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Nikolo Behind the Burning Bush
ISBN: 9781439244708 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nikolo Behind the Burning Bush by Rohan Roberts follows the story of a young boy living among the hyenas who is rescued and raised by the Dogon tribesmen of West Africa, who force him to come to terms with his humanity. As he matures, he makes psychedelic journeys around the world, exploring narcotics in England, falling in love in Russia, exploring the links between quantum mechanics and Eastern mysticism in India, and hob-knobbing with saints and sinners, as he struggles with the meaning of life. Roberts's masterful work tackles some thorny topics: art, creativity, the nature of rational...
Nikolo Behind the Burning Bush by Rohan Roberts follows the story of a young boy living among the hyenas who is rescued and raised by the Dogon tribes...
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95,75 |
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Rival
ISBN: 9781439225288 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been over 15 years since ...The Houghton Gremlins have beaten the Hancock Bulldogs in the Annual Copper Bowl. And Bulldog senior, captain Mickey Ford vows to keep it that way ... Or does he? Rival is an emotionally-charged story about the power of the human spirit ... forging ahead in the face of great personal tragedy ... developing friendships while surrounded by contempt ... remaining hopeful in spite of seemingly impossible odds. In the end, you will discover that when facing up to a rival ... to win you have to outscore them ... to triumph, you have to earn their respect.
It has been over 15 years since ...The Houghton Gremlins have beaten the Hancock Bulldogs in the Annual Copper Bowl. And Bulldog senior, captain Micke...
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71,64 |
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The "Be-bop-a-lula" Kid
ISBN: 9781439225073 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An American crow narrates the story, The "BE-BOP-A-LULA" Kid. Rueben is an American crow, American as rock 'n' roll, the 4th of July, and friendship, tried and true. In the small town of Cape Charles, Virginia in the summer of 1956, thirteen-year old Skeeter hears his piped piper, Gene Vincent, in a new music form called rock 'n' roll. He is determined to see his idol in person at the end of the summer. Jill, a tomboy, spitter, and cusser moves to town with her father and brothers. Through desperation and a lack of other kids in town, the two become friends. Best friends actually, they seal...
An American crow narrates the story, The "BE-BOP-A-LULA" Kid. Rueben is an American crow, American as rock 'n' roll, the 4th of July, and friendship, ...
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Waking in Nigeria
ISBN: 9781439215548 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the isolated materialism of suburban America, fair-skinned college students, Will and Jane, innocently follow their closest friend, Bosah Dolubasao, to assist with his powerful and feared father's various businesses in one of Nigeria's poorest, most mendacious and dangerous regions, the Port Harcourt area, where night robbers, kidnappers and venality are a way of life. The powerful and mysterious world of the Dolubasao family is revealed as Will becomes an aide-de-camp for Bosah and his father, Chief Sir Kaweire Dolubasao. From Port Harcourt to Lagos and Abuja, they are thrust into a...
From the isolated materialism of suburban America, fair-skinned college students, Will and Jane, innocently follow their closest friend, Bosah Dolubas...
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The Skye in June
ISBN: 9781419689666 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Skye in June" is a tale about the MacDonalds, a Scottish family and their youngest child, June, who has an uniqueness to attract unusual people. After a tragedy the family emigrate from Glasgow, Scotland to San Francisco, California for a chance of a new life. The family implodes when June is drawn into the world of mysticism and, along with her three sisters, comes of age during the colorful circa 1960's. It is a story of reconciliation and acceptance. Anyone who loves a good read of San Francisco's history during the 1950's and the radical changes in the early days of the '60's, will...
"The Skye in June" is a tale about the MacDonalds, a Scottish family and their youngest child, June, who has an uniqueness to attract unusual people. ...
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Farewell Bend
ISBN: 9781419687242 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Farewell Bend weaves fact and fiction into a story that takes readers back to the 1950s in a small Western town where the narrator's father runs the local paper as his own benevolent fiefdom. On one level, the novel is a coming of age story - a reminiscence by sixty-five year old Jack Kavanagh. On another level, it is a song of tribute to Jack's risk-taking friend Pete Sanger, and to his Japanese American classmates, as well as the family and the weekly newspaper that he longed to flee so that he could enter the adult world. But the town turns out to be the home Jack can never return to and...
Farewell Bend weaves fact and fiction into a story that takes readers back to the 1950s in a small Western town where the narrator's father runs the l...
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Barefoot
ISBN: 9781419652745 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opal is seven in 1963 when her mother is killed in a freak accident in Texas. Her father leaves her to be raised by her grandmother in the backwoods, mountain community of Pine Creek in northern California. Barefoot is a story of family, secrets, hard times, and forgiveness.
Opal is seven in 1963 when her mother is killed in a freak accident in Texas. Her father leaves her to be raised by her grandmother in the backwoods, ...
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Beach Week
ISBN: 9780312569228 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ah, Beach Week: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' high school grads flock to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauchery. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities to fret over some missing pills or random hookups. With the wit of Nora Ephron and the insight of Tom Perrotta, Susan Coll satirizes a teenage rite of... Ah, Beach Week: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' high school grads flock to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauchery. In... |
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91,18 |
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Minor Snobs
ISBN: 9780615444321 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Minor Snobs is a portrait of a new generation coming of age in the 21st century. Pulsating with the rhythms of contemporary America, it is the story of competing dreams colliding in a chronicle of youth. Set in Chicago, Minor Snobs introduces Tom Sanders, a handsome, conscientious, and astute young law graduate. Amid a vivid, fevered summer following graduation, the story follows Tom as he becomes a witness to obsession and tragedy, hate and love, violence and passion, and hope and despair.
Minor Snobs is a portrait of a new generation coming of age in the 21st century. Pulsating with the rhythms of contemporary America, it is the story o...
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The Metropolis Case
ISBN: 9780307463432 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human heart's yearning for connection. An unlikely quartet is bound together across centuries and continents by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagner's masterpiece opera Tristan and Isolde. Martin is a forty-year-old lawyer who, despite his success, feels disoriented and disconnected from his life in post-9/11 Manhattan. But even as he comes to terms with the missteps of his past, he questions whether his life...
From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the ...
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72,22 |
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