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Celtic Compass, Part I
ISBN: 9780982956328 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 21st Century "blended family" dynamics clash with Old World traditions. Irish Catholic Thomas and bohemian Paula from Colorado fall in love on Ireland's Puffin Island in the summer of 1968. Four decades later, they strive to rekindle their romance and create the family lost to them when they parted in the Sixties. Thomas is determined to produced the ideal blended family. He insists the Koyles join the O'Connells for Christmas in Dublin, 2008. When his five adult offspring encounter Paula's two, tempers flare, claws protract, sparks fly and new alliances are born as the children jockey for...
21st Century "blended family" dynamics clash with Old World traditions. Irish Catholic Thomas and bohemian Paula from Colorado fall in love on Ireland...
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39,87 |
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Lone Wolf
ISBN: 9781439102756 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A life hanging in the balance...a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION TELLS A PROVOCATIVE STORY ABOUT FAMILY SECRETS, LOVE, AND LETTING GO IN HER UNFORGETTABLE NEW TOUR DE FORCE. On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of...
A life hanging in the balance...a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about fami...
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72,18 |
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Life is Hell and Suburbia is a Lie: or the slow speed come-apart.
ISBN: 9780615479163 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The kids aren't all right, and it's all our fault. At every tragedy we ask "Why?" and "How did this happen?." Life is Hell and Suburbia is a Lie aims to help us understand what is going on in American culture, through the crumbling of the perfect world of an 18 year-old girl named Nicole O'Leary. Nicole's got great grades, is popular in school and successful in extracurricular activities. The day her parents tell her that they are separating, Nicole's life begins to unravel. She latches onto a new boyfriend, Jeremy Bloom. He's an unpopular kid, far beneath Nicole's caste. As he tries to...
The kids aren't all right, and it's all our fault. At every tragedy we ask "Why?" and "How did this happen?." Life is Hell and Suburbia is a Lie aims ...
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51,84 |
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Promised Land
ISBN: 9780615537412 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Promised Land" by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr. PROMISED LAND, the inspiring story of two cousins who married Filipino American U.S. Navy personnel to be able to migrate to the United States and help their relatives back home only to find out that the adventure was not as easy as they hoped it to be. As a piece of Filipino American experience, this story applies to the lives of all people. Excerpts from the book: "You must join the U.S. Navy so we can live abroad," Isabel often told her boyfriend Lando as they walked in the park, weaving dreams for their future together. He would just shrug his...
"Promised Land" by Simeon G. Silverio, Jr. PROMISED LAND, the inspiring story of two cousins who married Filipino American U.S. Navy personnel to be a...
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51,68 |
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Bijou Roy
ISBN: 9781250002167 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ronica Dhar's powerful debut, her title character, Bijou Roy, is blissfully experiencing the enchantments of first love, her father passes away, leaving her closed off and shaky. Her career and relationship in limbo, she travels to India to scatter his remains--a ritual traditionally performed by a son--in the river that runs through his native city. However, she doesn't find the peace she hoped to find in laying her father to rest. Instead, she meets Naveen, the son of her father's closest comrade and discovers the intimate details of his political past. Bijou is suddenly swept away in... In Ronica Dhar's powerful debut, her title character, Bijou Roy, is blissfully experiencing the enchantments of first love, her father passes away,... |
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75,98 |
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Sweet Bird of Prey
ISBN: 9780984228393 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirteen-year-old Shannon Bennet has a confusing and complex relationship with her brother, Phillip, who suffers from undiagnosed depression, and his subsequent suicide throws her into the midst of anger and guilt that suicide often brings on. "Sweet Bird of Prey" highlights such issues as bullying, loss, boyfriend drama, the relationship between mother and daughter, gossipy girls, drinking, social dilemmas, depression, suicide, and high school cliques.
Thirteen-year-old Shannon Bennet has a confusing and complex relationship with her brother, Phillip, who suffers from undiagnosed depression, and his ...
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67,65 |
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Apart From Love
ISBN: 9780984993208 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apart from Love contains volume I and II of the seriesStill Life with Memories, woven together around the same events in 1980, when Ben returns to meet his father, Lenny, and his new wife, Anita. It is then that he discovers a family secret. How will they find a path out of conflicts, out of isolation, from guilt to forgiveness? My Own Voice (volume I, "As told by Anita"): Ten years ago, when she was seventeen, Anita started an affair with Lenny, in spite of knowing that he was a married man. Now married to him and carrying his child, she finds herself condemned to compete with...
Apart from Love contains volume I and II of the seriesStill Life with Memories, woven together around the same events in 1980, when Ben returns to mee...
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cena:
79,78 |
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Distant Music, 6: Two Novels: The Gunnysack Castle and the Death of Mae Ramos
ISBN: 9780972256193 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two discretely shaped yet interdependent narratives creating a family saga from the viewpoints of both maternal and paternal lines (a difficult and rarely successful strategy for fiction) comprise this large and capacious novel. Distant Music begins in the nineteenth-century and extends well into the twentieth, a diptych retelling the story of the Woods and Ramos families and their descents in rough-and-tumble California. In crisp, succinct, and often elegant prose, rich in deftly selected detail, Julian Silva celebrates not only the resilience of men and women confronted with failure...
Two discretely shaped yet interdependent narratives creating a family saga from the viewpoints of both maternal and paternal lines (a difficult and ra...
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115,83 |
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Backroom Confessions
ISBN: 9780975363416 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Backroom Confessions is the compelling tale of five devoted social workers brought together to assist those in need. The fab five quickly realize that within the walls of the backroom lie infinite answers, plentiful problems and scandalous skeletons. Despite their affinity for helping others, each have their own struggles and demons to exorcise. Their often-candid backroom sessions commonly cause clash, ca¬maraderie, connivance, cheerfulness, curiosity and mass-confusion. As the lives of these office professionals intertwine, their journey together will take you on a thrilling expedition;...
Backroom Confessions is the compelling tale of five devoted social workers brought together to assist those in need. The fab five quickly realize that...
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56,83 |
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What Happened to Hannah
ISBN: 9780062084781 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Blending poignancy with humor, crafting characters as real and recognizable as your next-door neighbor, Mary Kay McComas weaves stories that brighten the heart." "I love Mary Kay McComas." What Happened to Hannah? is a novel of love, hate, loss, and redemption; of a life full of unfinished business. New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay McComas weaves an unforgettable tale of a loner who is called back by tragedy to the home she ran away from years earlier, and finds herself the sole responsible party for a... "Blending poignancy with humor, crafting characters as real and recognizable as your next-door neighbor, Mary Kay McComas weaves stories that brigh... |
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56,97 |
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The Thirteen
ISBN: 9780062117663 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Like a gonzo, mirror-universe, occult version of The Stepford Wives, with a dash of Stephen King thrown in....A compellingly uncanny narrative." "A creepy-fun read, with characters ready-made for a Hollywood casting call." Desperate Housewives meets The Witches of Eastwick in Susie Moloney's wonderfully creepy novel, The Thirteen. A paranormal thriller that blends contemporary suburban concerns and mores with the fiendishly supernatural, The Thirteen is the story of a woman... "Like a gonzo, mirror-universe, occult version of The Stepford Wives, with a dash of Stephen King thrown in....A compellingly uncanny narr... |
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56,97 |
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Porch Lights
ISBN: 9780062128355 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is back home in the Carolina lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmth, charm, heart, and humor that has become her trademark. Porch Lights is a stirring, emotionally rich multigenerational story--a poignant tale of life, love, and transformation--as a nurse, returning to Sullivans Island from the Afghanistan War, finds her life has been irrevocably altered by tragedy...and now must rediscover love and purpose with the help of her son and aging mother. An evocative visit to enchanting Sullivans... New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is back home in the Carolina lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmt... |
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102,59 |
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The Importance of Being Seven: 44 Scotland Street Series (6)
ISBN: 9780307739360 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 6
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy just ask his mother. The great city of Edinburgh is renowned for its impeccable restraint, so how, then, did the extended family of 44 Scotland Street come to be trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence? After seven years and five books, Bertie is finally about to turn seven. But one afternoon he mislays his... 44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 6
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these ... |
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72,22 |
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Cracks In The Sidewalk
ISBN: 9780983887928 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Bestselling Author of Spare Change, comes a powerful story that is a heart-wrenching reminder of how fragile relationships can be. Cracks in the Sidewalk is based on a true story. 2011 FPA President's Book Award Gold Medal 2009 Winner Royal Palm Literary Award Claire McDermott is a Wife, a Mother, a Grandmother... Her only daughter is gravely ill...Her son-in-law is resentful and angry...Her grandchildren are missing... After years of writing letters, hoping to find the children, hoping to bring them back, Claire receives a reply. A dog-eared gray envelope is stuffed into her...
From the Bestselling Author of Spare Change, comes a powerful story that is a heart-wrenching reminder of how fragile relationships can be. Cracks in ...
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55,87 |
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The Harbormaster's Daughter
ISBN: 9780451237873 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of a mother and daughter in an idyllic Cape Cod town...
On a freezing January night, LaRee Farnham answers a knock at her door to find a policewoman holding three-year-old Vita Gray, whose mother has just been murdered a few miles away. LaRee raises Vita with fierce love and attention, at the same time trying to shield her from the aftermath of the murder, which has deeply divided the histoiric village of Oyster Creek. Born out of wedlock, Vita is the product of the town's two very different cultures: the hard-working fishing families of Portuguese descent and the... The story of a mother and daughter in an idyllic Cape Cod town...
On a freezing January night, LaRee Farnham answers a knock at her door to find a... |
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83,62 |
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The Mermaid Collector
ISBN: 9780451237927 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than a century ago, lighthouse keeper Linus Harris left his beloved wife and waded into the ocean with three other men to reunite with their mermaid lovers. The mysterious Mermaid Mutiny of 1888 has become legend for the residents of Cradle Harbor, Maine, honored by the town's Mermaid Festival every August, when wind chimes are hung from seaside porches to drown out the alluring sound of mermaid song.
For thirty-five-year-old Tess Patterson, the legend is more than folklore; it's proof of life's magic. A hopeless romantic who is profoundly connected to the ocean in which she... More than a century ago, lighthouse keeper Linus Harris left his beloved wife and waded into the ocean with three other men to reunite with their m...
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83,62 |
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This Burns My Heart
ISBN: 9781439199626 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a society caught between ancient tradition and change. On the eve of her marriage, beautiful and strong-willed Soo-Ja Choi receives a passionate proposal from a young medical student. But caught up in her desire to pursue a career in Seoul, she turns him away, having impetuously chosen another man who she believes will let her fulfill her dreams. Instead, she finds herself tightly bound by tradition and trapped in a suffocating...
In this compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find lov...
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79,78 |
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Charlie the Great White Horse: And the Journey to Egypt
ISBN: 9781453758038 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the third book: "Charlie the Great White Horse and the Journey to Egypt," fate again has called on Louis to answer his destiny. With the help of his newfound friends from the first two books, and a few new strange and unforgettable characters from this newest adventure: Louis must once again thwart a new evil. It is an evil that is all, encompassing and threatens to take over, all the good in the world. As this story unfolds, it turns out that Mr. Beamer is indeed an "Ancient," not just an old farmer as he has been pretending to be. He is one of a great breeder of horses and a truly...
This is the third book: "Charlie the Great White Horse and the Journey to Egypt," fate again has called on Louis to answer his destiny. With the help ...
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57,59 |
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Whispers of Hope: A Journey to Success
ISBN: 9781453873793 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Whispers of Hope" is a dramatic story of a feuding family dealing with tragedy. In the midst of the ongoing ordeal, a young boy, Elijah, tries to escape the drama and finds himself on an adventurous journey that changed the course of his life. The lessons he learned along the way transformed his way of thinking and paved his way to a life of success.
"Whispers of Hope" is a dramatic story of a feuding family dealing with tragedy. In the midst of the ongoing ordeal, a young boy, Elijah, tries to esc...
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51,84 |
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The Family Album
ISBN: 9781459701595 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Cynthia ruminates on her changing circumstances, life forces her to take a look at those she calls family. A former literary notable, Cynthia Wilkes is looking down the barrel of an empty nest, an empty desk, and an endless supply of empty pages when an unlikely prot?g? comes calling, setting in motion a chain of events that will force Cynthia, and those closest to her, to redefine the idea of family and of self. This novel is a humorous look at the creation and reconstruction of family and the lingering hold of the people we keep close and those we try to let go ...... As Cynthia ruminates on her changing circumstances, life forces her to take a look at those she calls family. A former literary notabl... |
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75,98 |