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Last Stop This Town
ISBN: 9781469902661 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The debut novel from "American Pie" series screenwriter David H. Steinberg. It's the last weekend before high school graduation, and as they prepare to go their separate ways, four life-long friends spend a wild and raucous night in New York City that forces them to face their fear of growing up... and growing apart. West Hartford, Connecticut. Growing up in the suburbs is a mind-numbingly boring experience for most teenagers, and high school seniors Dylan, Noah, Pike, and Walker are no exception. They spend their days racing in High Speed Tests of the local residential streets, bribing...
The debut novel from "American Pie" series screenwriter David H. Steinberg. It's the last weekend before high school graduation, and as they prepare t...
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64,63 zł |
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Cemetery Street
ISBN: 9781466475427 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world where dreams are possible and nightmares come true, can you romance a memory? James Morrison thinks so. In a snowy cemetery, James reenacts a childhood ritual unleashing an avalanche of memories. Laugh, cry and blush with James as he recounts a late 20th century American life.
In a world where dreams are possible and nightmares come true, can you romance a memory? James Morrison thinks so. In a snowy cemetery, James reenacts...
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69,06 zł |
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When The Storm Passes
ISBN: 9781470068264 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's May 22, 2011, in Joplin, Missouri, and thirteen-year-old Avalie Milner has just finished dinner. Within minutes, a mile-wide tornado will change her life. After being rescued from the rubble of her home, Avalie sets out on a mission: to find her loved ones, to restore her home, and to survive on her own in a world that will never be the same. In her debut novel, Joplin-area native Julie Jett chronicles the destruction of Joplin, the character and heart of its people, and the story of a young girl who finds her way home.
It's May 22, 2011, in Joplin, Missouri, and thirteen-year-old Avalie Milner has just finished dinner. Within minutes, a mile-wide tornado will change ...
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46,15 zł |
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Katelyn's Friendship
ISBN: 9781469981970 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Katelyn's best friend Leah faces an unplanned pregnancy, she is determined to manage it her own way. Katelyn's anger and frustration with her friend threaten a friendship that has been a lifeline to both of them.
When Katelyn's best friend Leah faces an unplanned pregnancy, she is determined to manage it her own way. Katelyn's anger and frustration with her fri...
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55,39 zł |
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Wrestling Within: gay coming-of-age wrestling
ISBN: 9781469953816 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raif Enders and Brett Martinez are undefeated wrestlers on the team at Crestpoint Wrestling Academy. They're also boyfriends. Raif's parents are fine with Raif's outing though Brett's father would not be. When a member on the rival team finds out he threatens to expose them and have them expelled from the team and the school. Theirs is a tale of love, strength and courage as two boys face middle school and societal prejudices.
Raif Enders and Brett Martinez are undefeated wrestlers on the team at Crestpoint Wrestling Academy. They're also boyfriends. Raif's parents are fine ...
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38,12 zł |
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My Son John
ISBN: 9781469913773 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Haneys are simple country folk--farmers, lumberjacks, veterans of Korea and Vietnam. But "simple" is a term used for lifestyle, not human complexity. The setting is the early 70's in Vermont. These folks are people you will learn to love, dislike, and remember. Nancy Bowles has lost her beloved brother in the Vietnam war and is inconsolable. Nineteen and living with her bereaved parents, she feels she needs a change of circumstance or go mad. The recent breakup with a boyfriend adds to her depression. When an airman, who she and a girlfriend befriended, asks her to marry him, she thinks...
The Haneys are simple country folk--farmers, lumberjacks, veterans of Korea and Vietnam. But "simple" is a term used for lifestyle, not human complexi...
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45,97 zł |
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Barracuda Beach
ISBN: 9781466283237 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sometimes, life has its ups and downs. At least, that's the way Magnolia Davis feels. While attending her best friend's wedding, she recollects her childhood, friendships, and journeys in northeast Florida. Her world opens up as friendships are made and passions bloom. She is calm, cool, and collected, as are most of the people in her world. But does she have what it takes to just sit back and let love find its way?
Sometimes, life has its ups and downs. At least, that's the way Magnolia Davis feels. While attending her best friend's wedding, she recollects her ch...
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46,15 zł |
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Beverly Hills Diary A Journey Through The Mind Of A Boy
ISBN: 9781463770617 / Angielski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When you can't find happiness at home, where can you go? Beverly Hills Diary: A Journey Through The Mind Of A Boy is the story of Julian, a boy growing up in Beverly Hills in the 60s. Growing up in a dysfunctional home, Julian's life is far from the idealized Beverly Hills perfection portrayed in the media. His only comfort comes from his three closest friends - the Beverly Hills version of a street gang - but he craves a love outside of his circle of friends. As a young child fed up with his life, Julian runs away from home to seek relief from his day-to-day anguish. While stowing away on a...
When you can't find happiness at home, where can you go? Beverly Hills Diary: A Journey Through The Mind Of A Boy is the story of Julian, a boy growin...
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87,68 zł |
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Watching the Tree Limbs
ISBN: 9780983436744 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Watching the tree limbs keeps resilient nine-year-old Mara Weatherall from the pain of General's daily attacks--attacks he warns her to keep secret, or else. In the small world of 1979 Burl, Texas, all Mara really has are the tree limbs, a lumbering Aunt Elma, her boyfriend Officer Gus, the bully General, and her new best friend Camilla who rhymes maddening snatches of truth. Mara needs to escape General's advances and find out who her real parents are before those who would want to destroy her succeed. Will she recognize redemption through Zady the Jesus-loving housekeeper, Denim the...
Watching the tree limbs keeps resilient nine-year-old Mara Weatherall from the pain of General's daily attacks--attacks he warns her to keep secret, o...
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64,63 zł |
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Candy Stores I Have Known: The Brooklyn of My Sweet Dreams
ISBN: 9781469931807 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ted Meyers grows up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn during the 1940's and 1950's. He enjoys many an hour in neighborhood candy stores with his friends, sipping egg creams, talking about his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers, and peeking into comic books and girlie magazines. These and other happy memories make up the Brooklyn of his sweet dreams. In high school Ted becomes a journalist, starting out as a reporter for the school newspaper. At Brooklyn College he has a fulfilling career as a reporter and editor of the campus newspaper, known as The Kingsman. While he becomes successful as a...
Ted Meyers grows up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn during the 1940's and 1950's. He enjoys many an hour in neighborhood candy stores with his ...
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69,29 zł |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
ISBN: 9781451696196 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture...
Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its gl...
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70,35 zł |
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The Jeeptown Sock Hop
ISBN: 9781470107635 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of four teens who seek to bridge the racial and class gaps that splinter their gritty 1950s industrial town. It is narrated by altar boy Charlie, who lives in a sea of chaos marked by an alcoholic father, a brother at war in Korea, a town fractured by a violent strike at his father's workplace, and a trusted adult who sexually abuses him. In this sea of chaos, his one island of tenderness is a black gospel singer, Clarice, with whom he develops a deep attachment. After they are spotted sharing a kiss, Charlie gets punched out by one of her other admirers and she gets a beating from...
The story of four teens who seek to bridge the racial and class gaps that splinter their gritty 1950s industrial town. It is narrated by altar boy Cha...
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59,82 zł |
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True Friends
ISBN: 9781470191351 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the fall of 1983. David Chalmers is a high school senior who hangs around with a group of fellow science-fiction fans, but feels few attachments to them. Alison Hughes runs with the popular crowd, but she's as smart as she is pretty, and wonders if they're becoming predictable. Over the course of a few weeks events will cause David and Alison to think about what it means to be friends. Are friends just people you spend time with? What does it mean when you're someone's friend? Why should any of that be important?
It's the fall of 1983. David Chalmers is a high school senior who hangs around with a group of fellow science-fiction fans, but feels few attachments ...
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46,15 zł |
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At the Earth's Core
ISBN: 9781542886178 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- An eccentric old inventor, Abner Perry, builds a giant "iron mole" vehicle which takes him and his friend David Innes on an unexpected expedition to the earth's unexplored core. They end up in an upside down world where time doesn't exist and the human inhabitants are the slaves and lab rats of a prehistoric race of pterosaurs. Humans are mercilessly stalked, captured, and herded by armies of ape-men. Dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts are around every corner. Land, sea, or air, no... Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- An eccentric old inventor, Abner Perry, builds a giant... |
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28,82 zł |
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Barf For Lunch
ISBN: 9780983199649 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just when Zack Meyers thought he was done being the bully's target, he discovers that Chas Winters is in some of his classes. As if that isn't depressing enough, his friend Jimmy is now dating his ex-girlfriend, Marcy, the one he still isn't over.
Just when Zack Meyers thought he was done being the bully's target, he discovers that Chas Winters is in some of his classes. As if that isn't depress...
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41,53 zł |
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The Sword of Senack
ISBN: 9781461180692 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this middle grade fantasy, Aliya Fisher knows nothing about her true heritage until a vindictive sorceress kidnaps her brother and sister. The young adventurer must take up her birthright, battle eerie creatures, and find the Sword of Senack if she hopes to best the witch. But even if Aliya finds the famed weapon and survives the perilous oceanic journey, the enchantress is far more than she appears. How does one defeat an immortal who lusts for revenge?
In this middle grade fantasy, Aliya Fisher knows nothing about her true heritage until a vindictive sorceress kidnaps her brother and sister. The youn...
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59,97 zł |
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Luano's Luckiest Day
ISBN: 9781468112887 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When two deadly spiders mysteriously appear in young Luano's room, the boy makes a dangerous decision to believe their promise - the promise of his mother's return. Luano's Luckiest Day is set in an isolated desert town, full of colorful characters. Luano lives with his uncle in their small grocery store. He is a normal nine-year-old boy who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman who abandoned him soon after he was born. The fulfillment of Luano's deepest wish takes him on a life-and-death journey that promises readers plenty of action and imagination, sadness and laughter. It...
When two deadly spiders mysteriously appear in young Luano's room, the boy makes a dangerous decision to believe their promise - the promise of his mo...
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50,77 zł |
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Sarah's Tomorrow
ISBN: 9781475073386 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah Norton's precious Nanny, and surrogate mother for most of her life, is dead. Now, at 15, Sarah must start again, leaving her school and best friends behind to move to the City to live with her father, and worse, his live-in girlfriend, Elaine. There she faces a lonely existence, and when the City school proves substandard, Sarah's father leaves it to Sarah to find a suitable alternative. But recognizing his fatherly failures and Sarah's increasing angst, he offers her a last-ditch opportunity to search for some happiness. Visits with distant family and friends in search of a real...
Sarah Norton's precious Nanny, and surrogate mother for most of her life, is dead. Now, at 15, Sarah must start again, leaving her school and best fri...
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45,97 zł |
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Seeking Heaven's Gate in L.A.
ISBN: 9781489570420 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeking Heaven's Gate in L.A. is a coming of age story of Roger, a young teenager, struggling with his Christian teaching at home and in church as he encounters the growing and dangerous influences of the Crips and Bloods gangs in the local South Central L.A. neighborhoods. Roger begins by explaining that he comes from a Christian home where his father and mother make sure the family attends church and Sunday School. As he is being taught the Christian faith and how to live, he is challenged by his friends who are beginning to enjoy the excitement of stealing. He decides to attend an...
Seeking Heaven's Gate in L.A. is a coming of age story of Roger, a young teenager, struggling with his Christian teaching at home and in church as he ...
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92,35 zł |
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The Broken World
ISBN: 9780615588469 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luke Citrine's grandfather is dying...and he and his family have come to the farm to help his grandmother and to keep vigil. Along with his older brother Stephen and cousin Simon, Luke spends his days seeking adventures in the farm's fields, caves, and lake, doing anything to avoid the aura of death that fills the house. His adventures take an unexpected and harrowing turn when a tragedy occurs that shakes the very foundations of his family and changes Luke forever. In this austere and meditative story, a young man grows to face the truth about himself and his family. The hope he finds as his...
Luke Citrine's grandfather is dying...and he and his family have come to the farm to help his grandmother and to keep vigil. Along with his older brot...
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45,97 zł |
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