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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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72,62 |
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Growing Up on Route 66
ISBN: 9781888725315 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the children growing up there as the "Circle." That time and place are remembered by the novel's narrator as ideal, but closer scrutiny repeatedly--and often humorously--complicates this innocent picture. In growing up we continually confront things that do not make sense. Then, in sudden moments of inspiration the pieces come together. For those growing up in the 1950s, the biggest mystery of childhood was sex. And central characters in this story,...
Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the ch...
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68,02 |
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The First Time
ISBN: 9781453788653 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tommy, a twelve-year-old on a camping trip with his family, feels that nothing can make his vacation more perfect than fishing, swimming, and bike riding. Until Leah and her family arrive, that is. Leah is a beautiful young girl with a vibrancy and zest for living like no one Tommy has ever met. But Leah has a secret that she's not quite ready to let Tommy in on at first: she has cancer. The First Time follows Tommy and Leah as they spend the week falling for each other and coming to terms with Leah's condition. Think My Girl meets Stand By Me; this story set in the late 80s will have you...
Tommy, a twelve-year-old on a camping trip with his family, feels that nothing can make his vacation more perfect than fishing, swimming, and bike rid...
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28,06 |
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Donnyboy
ISBN: 9781456538675 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a small South Dakota town at the end of WWII, a fearless stray dog and a principled German Prisoner of War embolden Donald "Donnyboy" Cook, an insecure 13-year-old, to stand up against the bullies who terrorize him and the intolerance choking his community. Along the way, Donnyboy overcomes his loneliness and isolation by making friends with several colorful classmates and falling in love with Alice Cody, the smartest, prettiest, and most competitive girl in his grade.
In a small South Dakota town at the end of WWII, a fearless stray dog and a principled German Prisoner of War embolden Donald "Donnyboy" Cook, an inse...
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60,00 |
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A Bear Tale
ISBN: 9781456594343 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bear, a 25-year-old nursing student and her dog, and one autumn week that changes a small rural community in the Pacific Northwest. This novella is about love and death and a bear trap full of doughnuts. Diana O'Neil is the fierce heroine who wants to fall in love, but is trapped herself.
A bear, a 25-year-old nursing student and her dog, and one autumn week that changes a small rural community in the Pacific Northwest. This novella is ...
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24,48 |
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A Song Apart
ISBN: 9781456492922 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rising pop singer Shannon Kistler never expected to see college student Kevin Derow on a Manhattan street wearing her concert shirt. But she offers gratitude in her own way, leaving her biggest fan in shock. When the two teenagers meet again six days later, Shannon slips Kevin her phone number, and the unlikely romance begins. Soon they find they have several things in common: lonely childhoods, a passion for music, and making unpopular choices about their own lives. The public cannot take Shannon seriously as a teenaged recording artist, but she risks her sudden success by making some public...
Rising pop singer Shannon Kistler never expected to see college student Kevin Derow on a Manhattan street wearing her concert shirt. But she offers gr...
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60,15 |
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Plain Old Kirby Carson
ISBN: 9780615460260 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kirby Carson was not the most popular kid at school nor was he a standout in any way. In fact, very few people even noticed plain old Kirby Carson at all. Everything was about to change when Sue Andrews, Monika Randolph, and the class bully all came looking for Kirby in the same day. He knew that his old tattered jean jacket would not be enough to keep him hidden any longer. Plain Old Kirby Carson is the classic coming of ages story that has been modernized and updated to appeal to the average young adult. This humorous tale of told from the point of view of two seventh grade students who are...
Kirby Carson was not the most popular kid at school nor was he a standout in any way. In fact, very few people even noticed plain old Kirby Carson at ...
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40,09 |
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Cyr Myrddin: The Coming of Age of Merlin
ISBN: 9780982496800 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unique and poetic story of the early life of Merlin of King Arthur's court as he seeks his destiny in his younger years, creating history through awareness and inspiration. A coming of age story.
The unique and poetic story of the early life of Merlin of King Arthur's court as he seeks his destiny in his younger years, creating history through ...
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51,96 |
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On Fridays We Dance: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781453788127 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Besides motherhood, Catholic American girls in the fifties were shown one career path. It led to a shimmering goal that earned approval and prestige. What was it? To be a nun; to serve both God and man in the world while denying her own true self. But there was one flaw. a girl is made of flesh and blood. And beneath the clumsy shoes, long skirt and starched veil beats a heart that longs for something not found in the rule book. In this luminous new novel, On Fridays We Dance, you can follow young Chloe Polowski up the steep path and feel the power of faith, love, duty and guilt as they pull...
Besides motherhood, Catholic American girls in the fifties were shown one career path. It led to a shimmering goal that earned approval and prestige. ...
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64,17 |
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Lonesome Hobo
ISBN: 9781456553043 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Great Depression, Collie, a teen-ager, and his dad become hoboes. Collie accidentally kills a 'bo and his dad dies from injuries received. Taken in by a childless farm couple, Collie befriends a renegade Indian and turns hobo again as he seeks a lost love only to discover that they had both mistaken lust for love. His true love becomes the woman who saves his life and they discover that the Lord does indeed work in mysterious ways.
During the Great Depression, Collie, a teen-ager, and his dad become hoboes. Collie accidentally kills a 'bo and his dad dies from injuries received. ...
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51,96 |
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Liminoid Summer
ISBN: 9781460933015 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story about someone looking back on a period of their life and trying to understand it.
A story about someone looking back on a period of their life and trying to understand it.
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36,12 |
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Stonekicker
ISBN: 9781460950722 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stonekicker definition: A friendless child often seen in the playground, hands in pockets, kicking stones. In a 1980s boarding school for undesirables, the boys' nicknames defined them. Duped into believing that boarding school was a posh holiday camp where you come home at weekends and enjoy midnight feasts, the titular Stonekicker has a huge shock when he discovers it's anything but. He finds himself surrounded by sadistic teachers and even worse pupils with only one morally ambiguous teacher to turn to. Unable to return home, he soon realises that to survive amongst the monsters he may...
Stonekicker definition: A friendless child often seen in the playground, hands in pockets, kicking stones. In a 1980s boarding school for undesirables...
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38,89 |
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Eye of a Fly
ISBN: 9781460995105 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Short description: Raised by slum-dwelling alcoholics, an autistic teen struggles to complete college and woo a handicapped girl. Longer description: "Eye of a Fly" is a novel of tragedy and redemption with a cast of characters that includes: Ernest Wentworth, a profoundly introverted boy who inhabits a world of mathematics and music. Tiffany, his innocent younger sister whose friends teach her voodoo. Warren, Ernest's talented but troubled younger brother whose suicide triggers the novel's finale. Harry, Ernest's father. A former Hollywood screen writer, he has always dreamed of... Short description: Raised by slum-dwelling alcoholics, an autistic teen struggles to complete college and woo a handicapped girl. Longer descrip... |
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48,15 |
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Africa A Black Girl Lost
ISBN: 9781461008477 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel is about a young black girl named Africa, growing up without parents. Living in a group home for girls, she decided to runaway to live a more glamorous life. Instead she runs into a pimp, becomes addicted to drugs and money, every time she feels it can't get any worse it does. Being diagnosed with two months to live, her mother appears out of nowhere, but only to receive animosity from her daughter. Africa just wants a way out of life
This novel is about a young black girl named Africa, growing up without parents. Living in a group home for girls, she decided to runaway to live a mo...
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40,09 |
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Alumni Notes
ISBN: 9781932842456 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel, set in the turbulent colleges and cities of the American northeast, tells the story of a love shaped, thwarted and reborn in the dying and regenerating society of the 1960s. It is April 1973. Paul Seitz (Nott College 68, Einstein College of Medicine 72) hasn t seen Alicia Acheson (Wellsmith 69) in the six long years since he helped her brother Dickie, Paul s Nott College roommate, to leave the country and escape the draft and a life he didn t want. Now they are thrown together as intern and senior medical student on the team responsible for the Medicine wards and Intensive Care...
This novel, set in the turbulent colleges and cities of the American northeast, tells the story of a love shaped, thwarted and reborn in the dying and...
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140,26 |
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Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s
ISBN: 9780692520833 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aaron Saylor's acclaimed first novel "Sewerville" introduced the world to Seward County. Now, "Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s" takes a nostalgic journey into the shadowy corners at the other end of the county - the magical end. The end where the real monsters live. The Whistle Mill end, where young Grady Claremont and Jasper Bohanon forge a lifelong friendship while battling the ghosts and demons that haunt the woods around their tiny home town. Chock full of Reagan-era pop culture and already hailed as "pure joy for those who grew up with the likes of Stephen King, "Fangoria"...
Aaron Saylor's acclaimed first novel "Sewerville" introduced the world to Seward County. Now, "Adventures in Terror: Mostly the 1980s" takes a nostalg...
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48,12 |
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A Contemporary Voyage of Clouds and Kings: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9781460960288 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evan has just graduated high school and is about to embark on a ten day romp across the British Virgin Islands with his family. The voyage will test them all as they face the elements, themselves, and each other aboard a boat named No Worries. It's a sweeping novel, rich with emotion that captures what it means to be a young man finding his way and himself. Each member of the crew brings their own emotional baggage along the unique and often troubled sail. Unless the family can come together, they'll never stay afloat. After a chance meeting between Evan and his older brother, they are...
Evan has just graduated high school and is about to embark on a ten day romp across the British Virgin Islands with his family. The voyage will test t...
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64,21 |
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Light through the Cracks
ISBN: 9781460984192 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After surviving a horrific childhood, Lucy ends up on her own trying to find solid footing in her tumultuous life. Unfortunately, her early attempts at doing so leave her living in her car and knocked up by her drug dealer. Having a baby changes the way Lucy looks at herself and at life. It also allows her to redefine her concept of love. Light through the Cracks is a story of resilience, strength, and the ability to not only survive in a formidable world, but to find contentment and hope there, too.
After surviving a horrific childhood, Lucy ends up on her own trying to find solid footing in her tumultuous life. Unfortunately, her early attempts a...
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40,09 |
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Alumni Notes
ISBN: 9781932842449 / Angielski / Twarda / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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200,46 |
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The Panopticon
ISBN: 9780385347952 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named one of "Granta"'s Best of Young British Novelists
Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember what s happened, but across town a policewoman lies in a coma and Anais is covered in blood. Raised in foster care from birth and moved through twenty-three placements before she even turned seven, Anais has been let down by just about every adult she has ever met. Now a counterculture outlaw, she knows that she can only rely on herself. And yet despite the parade of horrors visited upon... Named one of "Granta"'s Best of Young British Novelists
Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon... |
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80,26 |
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