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Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
ISBN: 9781590514665 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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85,68 zł |
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Skinny
ISBN: 9780062020369 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "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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64,38 zł |
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Dreams of My Russian Summers
ISBN: 9781611450545 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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72,96 zł |
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The Ninth Wife
ISBN: 9780061851896 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) -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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64,38 zł |
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Confessions of a Teenage Pond Hopper
ISBN: 9780615389417 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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45,05 zł |
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The Whistling Song
ISBN: 9780393309492 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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124,33 zł |
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The Yummy Man
ISBN: 9781453814291 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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45,05 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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139,65 zł |
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Homecoming: A Novella
ISBN: 9781456312725 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "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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63,08 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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58,62 zł |
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Forever Young
ISBN: 9781453774779 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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45,10 zł |
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September Bugle
ISBN: 9781453719244 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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40,17 zł |
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The Bully in ME
ISBN: 9780982709801 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,41 zł |
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Prayers and Lies
ISBN: 9780758253248 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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77,30 zł |
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Kiss the Candy Days Hello
ISBN: 9781453651094 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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44,87 zł |
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Alabama Swamp Ghosts
ISBN: 9781451581256 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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45,10 zł |
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The Peregrine
ISBN: 9780865348004 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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64,21 zł |
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Charlie No Face
ISBN: 9780984555284 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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76,43 zł |
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Whale Song
ISBN: 9780986631054 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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58,58 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) " 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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89,96 zł |
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