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Bękart
ISBN: 9788389494429 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bękart to powieść-spowiedź życia tytułowego bohatera Mikołaja Brzeskiego, który za sprawą wielkich walorów fizycznych oraz podłych cech charakteru doszedł do znaczącej pozycji w miasteczku, które go wychowało. Bękart jest także historią Polski (opowieść o transformacji – od epoki PRL do nowej Polski) z perspektywy człowieka, u którego wypaczono potrzebę dawania i odbioru miłości. Aby dać czytelnikowi poczucie większej wiarygodności i prawdy, poczucie osobistej relacji świadka epoki, powieść jest napisana w pierwszej osobie. Słuchaczem jest tajemnicza pani...
Bękart to powieść-spowiedź życia tytułowego bohatera Mikołaja Brzeskiego, który za sprawą wielkich walorów fizycznych oraz podłych cech cha...
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Autumn Travels
ISBN: 9781442103146 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A tender story, humorous and heartbreaking, of Emma Block and her husband, farmers from northwestern Illinois and childhood sweethearts married for forty-three years, who vanish on their way to spend Thanksgiving at their younger daughter's Chicago condominium. What transpires is an adventure that takes this elderly farm couple on a Huck-Finn trip up and then down the Mississippi in their search for understanding and forgiveness of each other, their children, and the big river that caused the tragic death that has stained their lives for twenty-five years.
A tender story, humorous and heartbreaking, of Emma Block and her husband, farmers from northwestern Illinois and childhood sweethearts married for fo...
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Storycatcher (Original)
ISBN: 9781451692273 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the "wonderfully crafted" (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in the Depression-era South about two young women who form an unlikely alliance when the spirit of a dead woman takes up residence in their home. Shelly Parker never much liked Faith Dobbins, the uppity way that girl bossed her around. But they had more in common than she knew. Shelly tried to ignore the haints that warned her Faith's tyrannical father, Pastor Dobbins, was a devil in disguise. But when Faith started acting strange,...
From the author of the "wonderfully crafted" (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in...
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Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts
ISBN: 9781455528844 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite her name, Keats Sedlak is the sanest person in her large, nutty family of brilliant eccentrics. Her parents, both brainy academics, are barely capable of looking after themselves, let alone anyone else, and her two uber-intelligent siblings live on their own planets.
At least she can count on one person in her life, her devoted boyfriend Tom. Down-to-earth and loving, he's the one thing that's kept Keats grounded for the last decade. But when Keats's mother makes a surprise announcement, the entire family is sent into a tailspin. For the first time, Keats can't pick up the pieces... Despite her name, Keats Sedlak is the sanest person in her large, nutty family of brilliant eccentrics. Her parents, both brainy academics, are barely...
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Presence of Mind: 1st Series Edition
ISBN: 9781463608811 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alyssa Gideon is a young wife, who struggles to cope with the emotional impact and unpredictable timing of her husband's new diagnosis of epilepsy. How will she ever overcome the stresses and fears that fill her mind? Alyssa has always longed to live the life of the typical American dream. Marrying at the young age of nineteen has already stacked the odds against her. Now, she must set aside her own needs to attend to her husband and small children. When her husband loses his high paying job due to his seizures, she must find a meager paying job to support the family. After disobeying doctor...
Alyssa Gideon is a young wife, who struggles to cope with the emotional impact and unpredictable timing of her husband's new diagnosis of epilepsy. Ho...
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Texts from Bennett
ISBN: 9781476706870 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A family story for the twenty-first century, based on the phenomenally popular Texts from Bennett Tumblr blog, this epistolary novel chronicles the year that Bennett and the rest of his freeloading family moved into his cousin Mac's household. Hardworking Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal has a problem, and its name is Bennett. His wannabe gangsta cousin is seventeen, uses drugs and foul language, claims to be 13 percent black, and swears he speaks "da female language." (Strangely that last one sort of seems true.) But as different as they are, when Bennett and his mom lose their...
A family story for the twenty-first century, based on the phenomenally popular Texts from Bennett Tumblr blog, this epistolary novel chronicles the...
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Prisoner of Experience
ISBN: 9781481046473 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story of murder, adultery, illegal activities and mayhem wasn't what a college student expected when she interviewed one of the last survivors of the Women's Movement of the 1960's and 70's But that's what she heard as she learned about three generations of women trying to survive in a changing world. Immerse yourself in the story of a family that is similar in many ways to some you know today, maybe even your own...
A story of murder, adultery, illegal activities and mayhem wasn't what a college student expected when she interviewed one of the last survivors of th...
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The Conditions of Love
ISBN: 9781455519743 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dale M. Kushner's novel "The Conditions of Love" traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the backwaters of Wisconsin with her outrageously narcissistic mother, a "manicureeste" and movie star worshipper. Abandoned by her father as an infant, Eunice worries that she will become a misfit like her mother. When her mother's lover, the devoted Sam, moves in, Eunice imagines her life will finally...
Dale M. Kushner's novel "The Conditions of Love" traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment...
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119,68 |
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Lei Lei Conquers the Monsters
ISBN: 9781481013796 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lei Lei Conquers the Monsters is a story about a girl who views her family members as so-called "monsters." She is frightened by them because they are often mean and angry. Because of her fear, she spends much of her time hidden in her closet. Lei Lei has an imaginary friend, Dyimah, who encourages her and validates who she is as a person. Dyimah teaches Lei Lei about a special gift that everyone has access to: their imagination. But, Lei Lei has so much fear and skepticism, that she steers away from any attempts to use the power of her imagination until one day when her situation at home...
Lei Lei Conquers the Monsters is a story about a girl who views her family members as so-called "monsters." She is frightened by them because they are...
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Saving Grace
ISBN: 9780425267288 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is why I have had to come back now, traveling these dusty old back roads one more time. For I mean to tell my story, and I mean to tell the truth. I am a believer in the Word, and I am not going to flinch from telling it, not even the terrible things
Florida Grace Shepherd, eleventh child of the itinerant, snake-handling Reverend Virgil Shepherd, grew up traveling across the Appalachian South. In her heart, she raged against the constant hardships that her parents insisted were part of the Lord s plan. As she got older, she learned of her father s backsliding with other... This is why I have had to come back now, traveling these dusty old back roads one more time. For I mean to tell my story, and I mean to tell the tr...
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Babette's Pack: A Heartwarming and Inspirational Dog Story of a Spunky Little Shih Tzu with Uncanny Abilities
ISBN: 9781483680712 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Jessica's Perception
ISBN: 9781490982298 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jessica's Perception is a fiction story based on truths of her life. set in the 1950's as she grows up in a small country community. It is here she endures ill happenings from an elder Uncle and a father with a heavy hand and rough ways. Growing up on 'The Other Side of The Track' she has to acquire inner strengths of mind power to close out the bantering and chiding of children in her schools. There are also lessons to be learnt of life as she perceives them to be. Not knowing if all events were meant to be received as such, young Jessica grows through these hardships with the aid of her...
Jessica's Perception is a fiction story based on truths of her life. set in the 1950's as she grows up in a small country community. It is here she en...
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The Middlesteins
ISBN: 9781455507207 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.
When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle-- a... For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering...
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The Will Of My Grandfather
ISBN: 9781478197386 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of family, relationships, friendship, love, fortune, misfortune and some lucky events. In other words it is a story about life and the living of it. A 35 years old man is in a position in his life where he needs to make a lot of changes and he has the good fortune to inherit a beautiful ranch from a grandfather, with whom he hasn't had any contact with since he was a teenager almost 20 years ago, in a small rural town. Along with the inheritance of the ranch comes the responsibility of helping out a 17 year old boy with Down syndrome, the boy has lived with his grandfather for...
This is a story of family, relationships, friendship, love, fortune, misfortune and some lucky events. In other words it is a story about life and the...
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My Little Angel
ISBN: 9781481807227 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the touching story of family love between a father and daughter. Even though it is a fictional story, it is easing the pain of people who have lost loved ones, and is raising their awareness of what may really be. A loving family man in Newtown, Connecticut seeks answers for an unusual circumstance during the toughest challenge of his life.
It's the touching story of family love between a father and daughter. Even though it is a fictional story, it is easing the pain of people who have lo...
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Turn on No-Bridge Road
ISBN: 9781480171800 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Claire Sutton has no idea what she will do with 400 acres on the Rappahannock River, the early 1800s house named Woodbine by her ancestors, a barn, cabin and family cemetery-all an unexpected inheritance from her grandfather. Arriving to settle the estate she discovers Woodbine in desperate need of repair and taxes not paid. Soon three men-a friend of her grandfather, an architect from Northern Virginia, and her grandfather's attorney-present her with three conflicting options. Claire is quickly entangled in a web of uncertainty. As concealed relationships, a hidden journal, a family Bible,...
Claire Sutton has no idea what she will do with 400 acres on the Rappahannock River, the early 1800s house named Woodbine by her ancestors, a barn, ca...
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Half the World Away
ISBN: 9781482303780 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen-year old, Jamie Regina Napa comes to New Jersey to stay with her grandma who sent her to school in the Philippines. When school bullies cause her surgery, Jamie questions her courage and strength to realize her hope and dream of bringing her siblings and parents to America to be with her grandma. More conflicts arise when her sister Jackie learns of the recent Sandy Hook School murders killing innocent students as young as six and seven year olds, and as many as 26 victims. Jackie has to confront her own fears and decide if she would be able to be with Jamie who worked so hard to help...
Fifteen-year old, Jamie Regina Napa comes to New Jersey to stay with her grandma who sent her to school in the Philippines. When school bullies cause ...
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Georgia, A New York Story
ISBN: 9780988295728 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Georgia, A New York Story is a character-driven novel that takes the reader on a stimulating, suspenseful, journey filled with humor, sadness, friendship and affirmation. Its engaging stories and quirky characters come together to form an arresting emotional mosaic of survival. Georgia, a sixty-year-old professor of Musical theatre and Drama therapy, heads a colorful but complicated extended family in New York City during the latter half of 2001. Her Chelsea home is a haven for her ever-growing eclectic family of straight and gay friends, students, and neighbors who come and go at will....
Georgia, A New York Story is a character-driven novel that takes the reader on a stimulating, suspenseful, journey filled with humor, sadness, friends...
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A Visionary's Quest
ISBN: 9781481286169 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel begins in February 1986 about a young Romanian who lives in Bucharest. He loses his parents and is raised by his grandparents. He has a long-term relationship with a schoolmate he met at a young age. He has several dreams of becoming a talent scout, or so he thinks. He goes through school and gets a job as a waiter, along with some other odd jobs, but is not happy in his current situation. On his 21st birthday, he receives a letter that was written by his mother. After receiving the news in the letter, he begins his search, but his immediate focus is to find new talent, so he can...
This novel begins in February 1986 about a young Romanian who lives in Bucharest. He loses his parents and is raised by his grandparents. He has a lon...
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Between Two Brothers
ISBN: 9781481963053 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do two boys raised in the same house grow up to be such different men? Life's been very good to Brooklyn Raines: he lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful girlfriend, works his dream job for a major magazine, and doesn't have a care in the world. His older brother Derrick, on the other hand, has had to struggle with his small-town Florida life, where he has turned to selling drugs to support his live-in girlfriend and infant son. But everything breaks down when their parents die suddenly, and then Derrick's life of crime finally catches up to him, resulting in his being sent to prison....
How do two boys raised in the same house grow up to be such different men? Life's been very good to Brooklyn Raines: he lives in Los Angeles with his ...
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