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Solstice
ISBN: 9781460903285 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sean is going into his senior year: one last year of his burnt out family; of blistering, sweltering band rehearsals; of his seductive next-door neighbor tangling every hormone around her tiny, tanned fingers; of endlessly paddling out for one final wave. With a possible loan from his estranged father, and college recruitment pamphlets pouring into his mailbox, things couldn't be better. But with the ever-expanding suburbs devouring his hometown, Sean is beginning to understand that leaving for college means leaving home forever. Solstice is the beer, sun, and saltwater soaked debut novel...
Sean is going into his senior year: one last year of his burnt out family; of blistering, sweltering band rehearsals; of his seductive next-door neigh...
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45,10 zł |
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Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s
ISBN: 9780692013861 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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40,54 zł |
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Steplings : A Novel
ISBN: 9780875654379 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nineteen-year-old Jason is lost. The rush of graduation parties has subsided, the ubiquitous discussion of college departures dimmed to a dull roar. His former classmates have made elaborate plans, but the only date on Jason's calendar is a court appearance next Monday. Jason, who dropped out of high school just two months shy of graduation, finds himself stuck in the well-worn grooves of his hometown. But when his over-achieving girlfriend Lisa departs for UT Austin to study medicine, Jason finds Mesquite a place he can hardly recognize. Jason's family can offer him little direction. After...
Nineteen-year-old Jason is lost. The rush of graduation parties has subsided, the ubiquitous discussion of college departures dimmed to a dull roar. ...
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141,51 zł |
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A Ship of Pearl
ISBN: 9780997912418 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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67,59 zł |
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Gray
ISBN: 9780615476674 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Maggie Whitaker decides to forego college to work in her family-run jewelry shop. Ready to embrace her adult life, she becomes entangled with a mysterious John Doe. Through discovering him, she ultimately discovers herself.
Maggie Whitaker decides to forego college to work in her family-run jewelry shop. Ready to embrace her adult life, she becomes entangled with a myster...
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49,37 zł |
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Soldier Boys
ISBN: 9781439223994 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Soldier Boys by Tom Turner is about a young man, Whitaker Crewes, who, struggling to forge an identity, is leading dual lives, heterosexual and homosexual. When he joins the Army Reserve in 1962 he expects to find a bastion of machismo but discovers that training is filled with homoeroticism. While striving to build up his body, Crewes forges bonds with other men similarly conflicted. As he becomes stronger Crewes realizes just who he truly is.
Soldier Boys by Tom Turner is about a young man, Whitaker Crewes, who, struggling to forge an identity, is leading dual lives, heterosexual and homose...
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63,08 zł |
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The Finger Puppet
ISBN: 9781439249369 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Set in a winsomely evoked Tiruchirapalli of the sixties, The Finger Puppet, describes the special girlhood years - of jasmine and pinhead bindis, convent school and Carnatic music, temple idols and Raja Ravi Varma paintings - that eleven-year old Tara shares with her two sisters. It is a childhood enriched by her mother's gentleness, her vast store of mythological tales and her understanding of the Vedas; but made sordid by her Westernized father's arbitrariness and abuse. As her father's temper expresses itself in increasingly violent ways, Tara wants only to retreat further into her...
Set in a winsomely evoked Tiruchirapalli of the sixties, The Finger Puppet, describes the special girlhood years - of jasmine and pinhead bindis, conv...
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58,58 zł |
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My Mother Died Before I Could Murder Her
ISBN: 9780615445427 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) While sitting at his mother's deathbed, Josh Pandrey, the son of Jewish refugees, confronts the feelings he possesses for his mother as he traces his journey and right-of-passage as a child through the complicated teenage years occurring during the bitter times of apartheid South Africa.
While sitting at his mother's deathbed, Josh Pandrey, the son of Jewish refugees, confronts the feelings he possesses for his mother as he traces his ...
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63,13 zł |
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Chaplin & Company
ISBN: 9780871407443 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When eighteen-year-old Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she takes her small inheritance and leaves her sleepy hometown behind in search of a lifestyle better suited to her artistic temperament. She moves to London to pursue her single-minded dream of becoming, of all things, a great mime in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Marcel Marceau.
But like many a solitary wanderer before her, Odeline finds that the London of her imagination isn t quite consistent with the reality. To save money she moves onto a longboat, auspiciously named Chaplin and Company, in London s... When eighteen-year-old Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she takes her small inheritance and leaves her sleepy hometown behind in search of...
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115,05 zł |
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Of the World
ISBN: 9780985448158 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Of the World" is the second book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It follows "Journey," the first book of the trilogy, and the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review. At sixteen, licensed to drive, armed with his trumpet and a talented band, Shake Tauffler begins to slip the harness of his home and neighborhood to test himself in the raw world of the streets and nightclubs of Salt Lake and its outlying towns. His threatened parents intensify...
"Of the World" is the second book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the story of a boy growing up Mormon...
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80,94 zł |
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Love Among Pigeons
ISBN: 9780986957956 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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31,52 zł |
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Red Summer
ISBN: 9781460940358 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) After the constant hustle and bustle of city life in Philadelphia and coping with the death of her father, fourteen-year-old Miranda Sinclair quickly jumped at the chance to spend the summer down South with her grandparents when her mother suggested it. She loved how clean and fresh the air smelled and how big the sky seemed down South without the hinderance of smog and massive sky lines. Miranda imagined long lazy days of not waking up until noon, walking barefoot along grassy meadows and picking fresh flowers. She also secretly hoped to see Lance Miller again. She couldn't stop thinking...
After the constant hustle and bustle of city life in Philadelphia and coping with the death of her father, fourteen-year-old Miranda Sinclair quickly ...
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54,11 zł |
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Het Boek van Daniel: Nederlandse vertaling van de roman 'The Book of Daniel'
ISBN: 9781461196754 / Holenderski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Dit is de gereviseerde tweede editie van de nederlandse vertaling uit 2013 van 'Het Boek van Daniel' een roman, 2011 Dit is het opgroeiingsverhaal van een 21-jarige gay grafisch-ontwerp student, Daniel. De kunstenaar ontmoet de jongen bij de opening van de retrospectieve tentoonstelling 'DOUBLE TAKE," een overzicht van zijn fotografische werken, al meer dan dertig jaar gebruik makend van zijn schilderijen als een integraal deel van zijn fotowerken.(zie omslag) All deze werken hebben uiteindelijk iets te maken met dat eens-in-je-leven moment, van plotseling je realiseren dat je ineens...
Dit is de gereviseerde tweede editie van de nederlandse vertaling uit 2013 van 'Het Boek van Daniel' een roman, 2011 Dit is het opgroeiingsverhaal van...
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81,17 zł |
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Class Collision: Phoenix Rising
ISBN: 9780983610403 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the the exciting conclusion in the Class Collision series, love and loyalty are tested beyond measure, families threaten to rip apart, old relationships are confronted, and the strength of the human heart is pushed to the limit. 324 pp.
In the the exciting conclusion in the Class Collision series, love and loyalty are tested beyond measure, families threaten to rip apart, old relation...
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64,21 zł |
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Here, in my Head
ISBN: 9781449506438 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) At the age of sixteen, Sam has already found the answers to who she is, and takes pride in that. But when Alice walks into her world, and turns it upside down from day one, she starts to learn that things aren't always black and white. Together, they embark on a journey of self-discovery the likes of which Sam never dreamed imaginable.. The lessons that Alice teaches are not pleasant, though, and Sam will have to find a way to see past them, because she is to find out that disembarking is not the end, and it does not always promise happily-ever-after. Disembarking means the finality of one...
At the age of sixteen, Sam has already found the answers to who she is, and takes pride in that. But when Alice walks into her world, and turns it ups...
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58,58 zł |
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American Dervish
ISBN: 9780316204767 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. Mina is Hayat's mother's oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent, beautiful and intelligent, and arrives on the Shah's doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan disintegrates. Even Hayat's skeptical father can't deny the liveliness and happiness that...
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only...
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150,24 zł |
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Daughters: The Heartbreak of Human Trafficking
ISBN: 9781463533724 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Book 1 The Heartbreak of Human Trafficking Book 2 Emma Gets Payback Book 3 The Lure of Pornography Book 4 (Look for it in 2015) Eighteen-year-old Emma (A strong female lead in all books of the series.) In Book 1 she is raped, abducted, placed in prostitution. In Book 2 she has escaped, goes to college to pursue child psychology and criminal justice so that she can help other girls, but her past comes back to haunt her. In book 3 she goes undercover into the dark world of pornography. The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range...
Book 1 The Heartbreak of Human Trafficking Book 2 Emma Gets Payback Book 3 The Lure of Pornography Book 4 (Look for it in 2015) Eighteen-year-old Emma...
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45,10 zł |
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Ripped Off: Where Do You Turn When Your World Is Torn Apart
ISBN: 9781616384753 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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67,59 zł |
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Suburban Slumber
ISBN: 9781490538174 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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63,13 zł |
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I Wish You Enough
ISBN: 9781491229828 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) I Wish You Enough. Here is a wonderful opportunity to add a best selling novel to your collection before it becomes one and this special offer is compromised. This is an exciting story of a unique group of friends that passed the test of life and survived living in the Bronx, NY in the 50's. The vibrancy of the characters are so real there is a great possibility you will find yourself or someone you know within these pages. If you are a dog lover or not you'll love Foxy, a thirteen pound Cairn Terrier. They say that dogs have the mentality of a six year old child. Foxy is more like a high...
I Wish You Enough. Here is a wonderful opportunity to add a best selling novel to your collection before it becomes one and this special offer is comp...
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58,39 zł |
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