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Buck's Rodeo
ISBN: 9780981973661 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four boys lounge around a campfire beside the lapping edge of Lake Inclement. They each are a perfect 12 years of age, at the stepping off point of their teenaged years, when diving in the lake with friends and gobbling hotdogs around the fireside is just about more important than anything else. The star-studded sky stretches out above them, and they talk about nothing much when suddenly a glow appears in the woods to the south. All of them-- Walt, Paxton, Carpenter, Zack, and his faithful beagle, Flash, wonder at the sight, but it is Grampa Clondyke, Carp's beloved grandfather that is there...
Four boys lounge around a campfire beside the lapping edge of Lake Inclement. They each are a perfect 12 years of age, at the stepping off point of th...
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76,22 zł |
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No Alternative
ISBN: 9780985188610 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NO ALTERNATIVE is a coming-of-age drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early 90's. Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band, an obsession that blinds him to what's either the mental collapse, or the eruption of musical genius, of his little sister, Bridget. Bridget boldly rejects her brother's music, and the music of an entire generation of slackers, by taking on the persona of an X-rated gangsta' rapper named "Bri Da B." No Alternative probes the lives of rebellious kids who transition into adulthood via the distortion pedals of...
NO ALTERNATIVE is a coming-of-age drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early 90's. Thomas Harrison is determi...
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55,39 zł |
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Sykosa, Part I: Junior Year
ISBN: 9780985424312 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sykosa (that's "sy"-as-in-"my" ko-sa) is a junior in high school. She belongs to an exclusive clique of girls called the "Queens." The leader is her best friend Niko. Their friendship has been strained lately because Tom-Sykosa's first boyfriend-has gotten all serious about making her his pretty Prom princess. That is if he ever gets around to asking her. Before Prom, there's a party at Niko's cottage where parental supervision will be nil. He wants to have sex. She doesn't. He sometimes acts like that doesn't matter. It matters. Sykosa has a secret she has never told anyone about. Although,...
Sykosa (that's "sy"-as-in-"my" ko-sa) is a junior in high school. She belongs to an exclusive clique of girls called the "Queens." The leader is her b...
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59,82 zł |
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The Jackass Alliance
ISBN: 9781466204256 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To save time and money, Heartland Ironworks hastily approves a plan to carve out a new factory access road through a stand of old growth oaks. Fourteen year old Madison Weber gets wind of the plan and enlists her fellow Girl Scouts in an effort to save the trees. As Autumn in Troop 822 offers, "What's the big deal? We scrounge our way to the park, rally to stop the oak killers, then lickety-split back to class." But all hell breaks loose: the truck heist, the weird bikers who thunder on in, the cops, and the ugliest bad-ass thunderstorm ever to hit Iowa. On the spot media coverage blows up...
To save time and money, Heartland Ironworks hastily approves a plan to carve out a new factory access road through a stand of old growth oaks. Fourtee...
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57,74 zł |
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The Sun is but a Morning Star
ISBN: 9781466251687 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eddy and Paul McCabe are twin brothers growing up in the sixties and seventies in Southern California. But they are total opposite and come to blows. Their confrontation sends them off into different worlds as far as the American Rockies and South Vietnam. Through pain and misunderstanding they learn about life, till that moment that they can perhaps meet again and maybe become brothers.
Eddy and Paul McCabe are twin brothers growing up in the sixties and seventies in Southern California. But they are total opposite and come to blows. ...
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69,29 zł |
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Drought, Rain: The Young Heroes Series
ISBN: 9781467975773 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In J. G. Herrera's beautifully written novella Drought, Rain, twelve-year-old boys Quay and Mabuto have never seen rain; like the others in their small African village, they long for the end of a devastating drought. After a village leader tells the people that waiting will not end the drought and that they need to take action and love again, Quay becomes determined to bring back the rain. While foreigners try to help them, and rebels fight for the soul of the nation, Quay persists with kindness, believing that rain comes from the heart. His friend Mabuto however, worried about becoming a man...
In J. G. Herrera's beautifully written novella Drought, Rain, twelve-year-old boys Quay and Mabuto have never seen rain; like the others in their smal...
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27,16 zł |
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Life Unscripted
ISBN: 9781470056933 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stacey Thompson is about to start her senior year of high school. On her first day, she encounters not one but two guys that keep demanding her attention. Brian, sweet, considerate, and star of the school play, asks her out. Mariusz, bookish and rebellious, keeps getting her stuck in detention. As Stacey navigates her way through the school year, she must make a decision about how she will deal with each of these boys. She also must deal with her most cunning adversary, herself. Between facing her fears, leaping off rooftops, and sabotaging the Prom, Stacey must come to terms with life,...
Stacey Thompson is about to start her senior year of high school. On her first day, she encounters not one but two guys that keep demanding her attent...
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77,33 zł |
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A Silk Robe
ISBN: 9781475018325 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To mark his passage to manhood, Clyde McAllister takes his son, John-Jo, hunting for a 12-point buck. They don't get a buck, another hunter shoots Clyde first. Before setting off to get help, John-Jo promises his father that he'll track down the shooter. Help arrives too late and John-Jo struggles to keep his family together as his alcoholic mother goes in and out of rehab and his young sister has trouble at school. The mission to keep his promise to find his father's killer becomes a constant background to his days. His search finally bears fruit, but the cost is high. He loses his family,...
To mark his passage to manhood, Clyde McAllister takes his son, John-Jo, hunting for a 12-point buck. They don't get a buck, another hunter shoots Cly...
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45,97 zł |
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The Pigeon Catcher
ISBN: 9781619550001 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kevin Conners climbs up a Gothic house at night to remove a pigeon nuisance. Peering in an attic window, he sees the dead body of a girl about his age, seventeen. Plus, there is a man dressed all in black brandishing a wicked knife. Pursued, Kevin falls two stories and that should be The End, but it is just the beginning.
Kevin Conners climbs up a Gothic house at night to remove a pigeon nuisance. Peering in an attic window, he sees the dead body of a girl about his age...
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55,20 zł |
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Chances Are
ISBN: 9781492112242 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alex had her whole life planned out and moving to the US wasn't in it. So leaving her family's American Dream behind, she moves back to the Philippines. But life has a few more twists and turns in store for her. Will she find the courage to chase her dreams and risk everything...or will she play it safe to not get hurt? Chances are the path to adulthood isn't as clear as she thinks it is... "What if?" The eternal question, lived out in this unique cultural love story. Chances Are is a beautiful love story set in the Philippines and Indochina, and is rich in snippets that allow the reader to...
Alex had her whole life planned out and moving to the US wasn't in it. So leaving her family's American Dream behind, she moves back to the Philippine...
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46,15 zł |
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Kiss the Sky
ISBN: 9781937698225 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. London in the heady nineties.... Claudia drops out of college to become an artist. It's snowing when she moves into a Victorian sweets factory in the East End of London and from this unheated warehouse studio her quest unfolds... Some books you just can't put down. This isn't one of them. You have to put it down from time to time, to absorb all the colours and fragrances and sounds you've just been reading. After a while you can go back for another toke. It's a powerful hit, a rush, a psychedelic life-sized pop-up book, a carnival ride through all that's good and bad about the city's...
London in the heady nineties.... Claudia drops out of college to become an artist. It's snowing when she moves into a Victorian sweets factory in the ...
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98,63 zł |
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The Mess Of Me
ISBN: 9781492178941 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone has one summer they will never forget. Lou Carling is 16 and obsessed with getting thinner. Joe is her best friend, and last night they found something they shouldn't have in Joe's older brothers wardrobe. Travis and Leon are shady figures, leading shadier lives, and during one summer Lou and Joe find themselves pulled into the drama, the confusion and the violence. Will Joe go to any lengths to impress his older brothers? Will Lou's obsession with losing weight spiral out of control? Is Marianne, her self-harming friend, really her friend, or an enemy in disguise? And will Lou and...
Everyone has one summer they will never forget. Lou Carling is 16 and obsessed with getting thinner. Joe is her best friend, and last night they found...
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74,05 zł |
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Hussy
ISBN: 9781492294153 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Eskimos may have over a hundred words for snow, but that doesn't even come close to how many words the English language has for "slut"-and Lindsey has been called them all. "Hussy" is Lindsey's personal favorite, given to her by her own grandmother, who likes to pat her on the hand and whisper, "Don't worry, dear-a hussy is just a woman with the morals of a man."
But Lindsey's not ashamed of her reputation. She knows she's earned it-and she's proud of it. After all, you only live once, right? In fact, she goes out of her way to make it known to every guy she comes in contact with,... The Eskimos may have over a hundred words for snow, but that doesn't even come close to how many words the English language has for "slut"-and Lindsey...
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60,01 zł |
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Yank
ISBN: 9781492294498 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just-graduated David has been brightening up his gray Surrey, England days with the porn collection hidden in his parents' shed, but when he finds that their American foreign exchange student, Dawn, has discovered his magazines, things really begin to heat up.
David's parents insist that he look for a job, but Dawn has the week off and is determined to work on her tan. Distracted David finds himself increasingly tempted by their seductive, older foreign exchange student, who makes it very clear what she wants. In spite of the Study Abroad program's policy that no "relations" are... Just-graduated David has been brightening up his gray Surrey, England days with the porn collection hidden in his parents' shed, but when he finds tha...
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55,39 zł |
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Forbidden Fruit
ISBN: 9781492295174 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leah and Erica have been best friends and have gone to the same Catholic school since just about forever. Leah spends so much time with the Nolans-just Erica and her handsome father now, since Erica's mother died-that she's practically part of the family.
When the girls find something naughty under Mr. Nolan's bed, their strict, repressive upbringing makes it all the more exciting as they begin their sexual experimentation. Leah's exploration presses deeper, and eventually she finds herself in love for the first time, torn between her best friend and her best friend's father.
Leah and Erica have been best friends and have gone to the same Catholic school since just about forever. Leah spends so much time with the Nolans-jus...
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55,39 zł |
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Pariag Alley
ISBN: 9781492306337 / Angielski / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pariag Alley takes you into a world of fear, evil spirits, violence, sex in its various forms, insanity, shredded dreams, greed, and death. These are some of the key elements through which the reader comes to understand the inner life of this society, its perils and its promise. This is not to say that there is an absence of hope, generosity, humor, or wisdom here, it's just that forces in this island drama, relentlessly push the opposite way. This story unfolds in the idyllic setting of Arena Island, a fictional Caribbean country. But the white sand, warm sun, palm lined beaches, and...
Pariag Alley takes you into a world of fear, evil spirits, violence, sex in its various forms, insanity, shredded dreams, greed, and death. These are ...
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81,90 zł |
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Before the Storm
ISBN: 9781492333982 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is not a simple story of first loves, this is an emotional yet touching look at life and how the smallest decisions can shape futures. What you think you know can change before your eyes. Fathers abuse, mothers deceive, best friends betray, sisters dismiss, love controls, and anger consumes. After graduating from high school, Easton Grace knows exactly what he wants and how to get it. His goal for the summer includes two things: avoiding his father's wrath and protecting his sister. His carefully laid plans are quickly changed when a girl comes to town causing him to lose his tight grasp...
This is not a simple story of first loves, this is an emotional yet touching look at life and how the smallest decisions can shape futures. What you t...
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55,39 zł |
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Waking in a Wide Land
ISBN: 9781469973531 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At 19, Truman Miller is married to the meanest girl in town. Truman falls for the wide-eyed, copper-coiffed charms of Velma Vickus, his best friend's sister, before he understands that life with the perpetually dissatisfied Velma will be filled with frustration and heartache. A lively assortment of friends, family, and neighbors who populate the dwindling town of Whitney, Texas, watch helplessly as Truman is subjected to one cuckolding after another. Velma carries on with Truman's boss, with a local banker, with anyone who offers to enliven what she sees as a hopelessly uneventful life with...
At 19, Truman Miller is married to the meanest girl in town. Truman falls for the wide-eyed, copper-coiffed charms of Velma Vickus, his best friend's ...
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69,25 zł |
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A Princess Broken
ISBN: 9781470053505 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah defines herself as many things: broken, damaged, addicted, and hopeless. Hurt at an early age by someone dear to her, she retaliates by living a life filled with destruction. Her past has finally caught up with her, and she's ready to call it quits. Her story unfolds when she meets a compassionate stranger who helps her realize past decisions don't define who she is, and what she thought was the end of her story is only the beginning. A life-changing decision is placed in front of her, and she's forced to face it head on. What will she choose, and where will that path lead her?
Sarah defines herself as many things: broken, damaged, addicted, and hopeless. Hurt at an early age by someone dear to her, she retaliates by living a...
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60,01 zł |
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Scissors & Tweed
ISBN: 9781475016307 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tweed is the ultimate slacker. He has zilch in the way of plans. But he's about to learn how fast zero can go negative. High school's out, summer's afoot, and Tweed's content to do the usual...hang-out with friends, drink beer, get stoned, and steady bomb the neighborhood with graffiti. Yeah, he's got nothing much else in the works and that's just the way he likes it. That lasts about half a day. Soon enough Tweed is upside down and in over his head. He's falling for Chloe, his best friend's girl. Hot though she may be, that one has a few issues of her own. And then there's some gang-bangers...
Tweed is the ultimate slacker. He has zilch in the way of plans. But he's about to learn how fast zero can go negative. High school's out, summer's af...
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70,21 zł |
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