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Nikolo Behind the Burning Bush
ISBN: 9781439244708 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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108,18 zł |
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Rival
ISBN: 9781439225288 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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80,94 zł |
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The "Be-bop-a-lula" Kid
ISBN: 9781439225073 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,59 zł |
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Waking in Nigeria
ISBN: 9781439215548 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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58,58 zł |
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The Skye in June
ISBN: 9781419689666 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "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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60,51 zł |
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Farewell Bend
ISBN: 9781419687242 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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39,01 zł |
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Barefoot
ISBN: 9781419652745 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,59 zł |
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Beach Week
ISBN: 9780312569228 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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77,30 zł |
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Minor Snobs
ISBN: 9780615444321 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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36,03 zł |
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The Metropolis Case
ISBN: 9780307463432 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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81,60 zł |
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Growing Up on Route 66
ISBN: 9781888725315 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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76,43 zł |
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The First Time
ISBN: 9781453788653 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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31,52 zł |
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Donnyboy
ISBN: 9781456538675 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,41 zł |
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A Bear Tale
ISBN: 9781456594343 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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27,51 zł |
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A Song Apart
ISBN: 9781456492922 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,59 zł |
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Plain Old Kirby Carson
ISBN: 9780615460260 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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45,05 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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58,39 zł |
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On Fridays We Dance: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781453788127 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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72,10 zł |
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Lonesome Hobo
ISBN: 9781456553043 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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58,39 zł |
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Liminoid Summer
ISBN: 9781460933015 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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40,58 zł |
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