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Dovetail Joint and other stories
ISBN: 9780993922305 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In DOVETAIL JOINT AND OTHER STORIES, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter Vanessa in six linked stories at five distinct and evocative moments in her life, as she moves through a series of beautifully drawn relationships and landscapes. Rowntree explores the value of both persistence and its opposite in the Cubist portrait of a complex woman who will linger in your mind.
In DOVETAIL JOINT AND OTHER STORIES, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter V...
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72,43 zł |
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Leaving it All Behind
ISBN: 9780993340932 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would you do if you knew you were going to die? Former General Practitioner Seymour and Teacher Harriet join forces to tick a few things off their bucket lists - like learning to fly a helicopter, parachute jumping, robbing a bank, getting the local Drug Squad to destroy the evidence, and so on. In addition there are the love-lives of their supposedly adult children to sort out, and Harriet's local 15-year-old cannabis dealer. Full of humour and humanity, this story tells the story of Norfolk's fifty-something Bonnie and Clyde (or Mack and Mabel) leading up to the day they expected to...
What would you do if you knew you were going to die? Former General Practitioner Seymour and Teacher Harriet join forces to tick a few things off thei...
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52,42 zł |
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An Industrious Woman: A Seaside Story
ISBN: 9780991501793 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a matter of two days the quiet lonely life of Hannah Jacobs makes a complete turnaround. She is stunned when she sees none other than Ezekiel Melancon along with his brother Budrow unloading a rental truck at the house next door. Patricia Melancon or Miss Mel as she is known to many in the City of Seaside, California, and her daughter Shantrell are Hannah's new neighbors. Hannah has a great deal of respect and admiration for Miss Mel and Zeke Melancon but little regard for Shantrell and the womanizing Budrow. The day following the arrival of Hannah's new neighbors, fate lays a cruel...
In a matter of two days the quiet lonely life of Hannah Jacobs makes a complete turnaround. She is stunned when she sees none other than Ezekiel Melan...
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44,34 zł |
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The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' the Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel
ISBN: 9780804141376 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her...
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daugh...
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92,23 zł |
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Players
ISBN: 9780345359377 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riotous #1 British bestseller about life and love in the glitzy world of television
They are four rich and famous rivals, four experts in the game of power, four fierce competitors and lovers vying for control of an empire. . . . Cameron Cook: Beautiful, sleek, and ambitious, she is an American network executive who d do anything to succeed no matter what the cost. Tony Baddingham: A vain and unscrupulous business tycoon, he makes Cameron the top producer at his ailing franchise very convenient, as she s also his mistress. Rupert Campbell-Black:... A riotous #1 British bestseller about life and love in the glitzy world of television
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88,39 zł |
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Open House
ISBN: 9780345435163 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.
Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely... In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her li...
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84,55 zł |
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The Ladies Auxiliary
ISBN: 9780345441263 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, religious freedom and personal revelation, honoring the past and facing...
When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies...
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69,17 zł |
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
ISBN: 9780345442826 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together--the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial "club" that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful years, there's Faith, a lonely mother of twins who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that with good posture and an attitude you can get away with...
The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue...
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69,17 zł |
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Distant Shores
ISBN: 9780345450722 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her remarkable New York Times bestseller, Summer Island, Kristin Hannah struck a chord in readers and critics alike with her portrayal of the bittersweet reunion between an errant mother and her unforgiving daughter. Now Hannah once again reveals the fragile ties that bind a family in transition, as two people choose to escape the limits of their ordinary lives and reach for the extraordinary promise that lies on Distant Shores. Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But...
In her remarkable New York Times bestseller, Summer Island, Kristin Hannah struck a chord in readers and critics alike with her portraya...
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38,39 zł |
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Beginner's Luck
ISBN: 9780345458308 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song."
The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she's just hit a losing streak. She's been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Hallie decides the time as come to cut her losses. Answering an ad in the local paper, she... "There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song."
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88,39 zł |
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The Lavender Hour
ISBN: 9780345460486 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Downsized from her teaching job, Jessie longs for a sense of renewal and decides to spend a year on Cape Cod, seeking to be cleansed by rushing ocean waters and comforted by the lavender hues of the setting sun. While there she volunteers with a local hospice program, where she meets Luke, a once proud fisherman whose life and body have been ravaged by cancer. Jessie's presence is a great help to Luke's mother, who has moved in to take care of her son. After initial misgivings Jessie and Luke forge a deep friendship, and the former teacher is surprised to find herself opening up about her...
Downsized from her teaching job, Jessie longs for a sense of renewal and decides to spend a year on Cape Cod, seeking to be cleansed by rushing ocean ...
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73,02 zł |
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The Things We Do for Love
ISBN: 9780345467515 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah "touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts" (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Love--a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always "the princess" of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High... New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah "touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts" (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Betwee...
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38,39 zł |
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Magic Hour
ISBN: 9780345467539 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deep in the Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest nearly one million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. Even in this modern age, much of it remains undiscovered and uncharted. From the heart of this old forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she can give no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. . . .
Until recently, Dr. Julia Cates was one of the preeminent child psychiatrists in the country, but a scandal shattered her confidence, ruined her career, and made her a media target. When she gets a desperate call from her estranged... Deep in the Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest nearly one million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. Even in this m...
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38,39 zł |
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The Hot Flash Club
ISBN: 9780345469168 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty "coming of age" novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, alive, and ready to face the best years of their lives. Meet Faye, Marilyn, Alice, and Shirley. Four women with skills, smarts, and secrets--all feeling over the hill and out of the race. But in a moment of delicious serendipity, they meet and realize they share more than raging hormones and lost dreams. Now as the Hot Flash Club, where...
From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty "coming o...
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76,86 zł |
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The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again
ISBN: 9780345469182 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors-as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for massages and seaweed wraps, each struggling to reconcile her secret dreams, biggest fears, and deepest feelings as topsy-turvy events shake up her life.
After eighteen years of trying to make peace with her husband's cold-as-ice mother, Polly vows to be the perfect mother-in-law:... The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa d...
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69,17 zł |
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The Journal of Mortifying Moments
ISBN: 9780345476272 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kerry Spence is unfulfilled by her soulless career in advertising, disappointed by her dysfunctional relationship, and horrified by the ever-increasing size of her ass. Ever since her gorgeous, self-absorbed boyfriend Sam demoted her to late night hook-up status, she has fortified herself with prime-time TV and blissful binges on cream cheese frosting, awaiting an epiphany that will reveal her next move.
Of course, everybody in her life is full of advice. Her free-spirited divorcee mother-when not necking furiously with her much younger boyfriend- sagely counsels her daughter to do... Kerry Spence is unfulfilled by her soulless career in advertising, disappointed by her dysfunctional relationship, and horrified by the ever-increasin...
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69,17 zł |
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Pride & Passion
ISBN: 9780345482891 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caught in a web of danger and desire . . . Marilyn Bannon ventured into the wilds of the lush Amazon to claim her father's rubber plantation. And while voyaging up the treacherous river, she met and became entranced with the exotic, charming, enigmatic Sebastian Rivera. As excitement with her new life consumed her, she found herself in the midst of a strange and troubling world, a world of opulence and leisure for some, and vile abuse and bondage for others. In the center of it all stood the Baron, who controlled the land and everyone on it and meant to have Marilyn for his own....
Caught in a web of danger and desire . . . Marilyn Bannon ventured into the wilds of the lush Amazon to claim her father's rubber plantatio...
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57,65 zł |
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In the Land of Second Chances
ISBN: 9780345484987 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ebb, Nebraska, things are pretty much as they were fifty years ago-aside from that coffee shop-and that's just the way folks like it. Plucky Wilma Porter is the proprietress of Ebb's only Bed and Breakfast, and she knows everything there is to know in town: the mental state of Clara Tucker Booth Yune, a rich recluse who says only two words at a time; the gossip at Loretta Parson's Bold Cut Beauty Salon; and the sad series of events that have led poor Calvin Millet to the edge of desperation. Calvin is the owner of Millet's Department Store, a village mainstay for generations, but many fear...
In Ebb, Nebraska, things are pretty much as they were fifty years ago-aside from that coffee shop-and that's just the way folks like it. Plucky Wilma ...
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73,02 zł |
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
ISBN: 9780345485601 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Fannie Flagg's high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she's "not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade." When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing "I won't come back until I'm somebody." But in our hearts she already is.
Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey through her formative years on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. There, at The End of the Road of the South, the family malt shop freezer holds... In Fannie Flagg's high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she's "not doing much except sitting around waiting...
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73,02 zł |
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Talk Before Sleep
ISBN: 9780345491251 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.-
They met at a party. It was hate at first sight. Ruth was far too beautiful, too flamboyant. Not at all Ann's kind of person. Until a chance encounter in the bathroom led to an alliance of souls. Soon they were sharing hankies during the late showing of -Sophie's Choice, - wolfing down sundaes sodden with whipped cream, telling truths of marriage, mortality, and love, secure in a kind of intimacy no man could ever know. Only best friends understand devil's food cake for... -Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.-
They met at a party. It was... |
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76,86 zł |