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What Matters Most
ISBN: 9780989128902 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-Winning Story of friendship From bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby...What Matters Most. A heartwarming story of acceptance and coming to grips with reality. Royal Palm Literary Award Winner. Louise Palmer is a settled-down person. A woman who wants nothing more than to remain in the same house until the day she dies. So, when her husband, Clay, announces an intention to quit his job and move to Florida, her life is thrown into a turmoil of mixed emotions and strained loyalties. Torn between Clay's desire for "the good life" and the lifelong friendships of her quilting club, Louise...
Award-Winning Story of friendship From bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby...What Matters Most. A heartwarming story of acceptance and coming to grips...
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Commission of Child and Animal Protection
ISBN: 9781482715378 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short novel covers a span of five years, from 1924 to 1929, in the lives of the four motherless Hughes children, Evelyn, Floyd, Dale, and Vernon, who range in age from three to twelve years. They are left at the Wyoming State Orphanage in Cheyenne by their alcoholic father, Thomas. When he does not return for them, as he has promised to do, or pay forty dollars a month for their support, they become wards of the State Commission of Child and Animal Protection. The children have lived in poverty in a small broken-down house next to a railroad coaling station in Worland, Wyoming....
This short novel covers a span of five years, from 1924 to 1929, in the lives of the four motherless Hughes children, Evelyn, Floyd, Dale, and Vernon,...
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Stingray
ISBN: 9781564789594 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the... Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his ... |
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A Trick of Nature
ISBN: 9780393347524 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greg Goodman is a very ordinary guy a not-very-ambitious school teacher and football coach who takes his attractive wife, Patty, their twin adolescent daughters, and the comfortable ease of their suburban routine for granted. Until lightening strikes both literally and figuratively as Greg runs a pattern with his junior varsity team during a muggy August practice and fifteen-year-old Timothy Phelps is directly struck. This crisis threatens to unravel all the strands anchoring Greg to his normal habits of being. When Timothy's mother, a stripper and addict who abandoned Timothy as a child,...
Greg Goodman is a very ordinary guy a not-very-ambitious school teacher and football coach who takes his attractive wife, Patty, their twin adolescent...
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Tears and Laughter
ISBN: 9780982971642 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps because I fervently believe in Continuity opposed to fragmentation and Order opposed to isolation and chaos, I can accept without question John Donne's truth "No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main..." Thus I perceive in human experience, as in Alan's, both tears and laughter. We are one with nature-generation to generation-and so we share the grief and the happiness. Alan's gift was his three sons and their sons to keep the mystery alive, and his brief sojourn enhances our understanding of the enigma we call Life. So I drive...
Perhaps because I fervently believe in Continuity opposed to fragmentation and Order opposed to isolation and chaos, I can accept without question Joh...
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The Mystery of Things: Up Like Thunder
ISBN: 9781481062268 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Widow Redefined
ISBN: 9781482791938 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a cold Valentine's Day in Chicago, Amy White, a young widow who lost her husband to cancer, visits the cemetery and makes an unsettling discovery: a bouquet of fresh daffodils lying in front of her husband's grave. Curiosity grows into obsession as Amy searches for the stranger who left the flowers, while keeping her activities a secret from her live-in mother and seven-year-old son. The search leads to an unusual friendship that transforms her world and redefines her life.
On a cold Valentine's Day in Chicago, Amy White, a young widow who lost her husband to cancer, visits the cemetery and makes an unsettling discovery: ...
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Retribution: Never cross a skinhead
ISBN: 9781483998886 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A skinhead book about a youth who has a family and needs to get away from the poverty of the Manchester Council Estates. He finds work on a farm near Macclesfield and his life is complete, until tradgedy strikes.
A skinhead book about a youth who has a family and needs to get away from the poverty of the Manchester Council Estates. He finds work on a farm near ...
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Two Lives Crossing
ISBN: 9780991801718 / Angielski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sons of a Scottish immigrant and a Blackfoot cook are separated after their mother dies giving birth to the second son at a ranch near Calgary in May, 1939. The father is killed less than three years later defending the British Crown colony of Hong Kong. One brother is raised as a Blackfoot at an Indian reserve southwest of Calgary. The other is raised white in a middle-class neighborhood in Toronto. Bill Eagletail is taken to sweat lodges, sun dances, rodeos and pow wows. He is the first Indian to graduate from the University of Alberta, has a doctorate in Sociology from Berkeley, and is...
The sons of a Scottish immigrant and a Blackfoot cook are separated after their mother dies giving birth to the second son at a ranch near Calgary in ...
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Memories of Norway
ISBN: 9781479158959 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a true story - Arne and Trine Hansen lived on a small farm Birkevold in the Kjellsdal Municipality in southern Norway in the years before the Second World War. Arne made a living as a skilled sea captain, sailing loads of coal from England to Halifax, Nova Scotia while Trine remained at the farm to raise three small children until tragedy struck when Arne was never heard from again. Trine managed to raise the children on her own with the help from her mother-in-law, Lena, as the farm at Birkevold was sold and the family moved into a new home in town. During the Nazi occupation of...
Based on a true story - Arne and Trine Hansen lived on a small farm Birkevold in the Kjellsdal Municipality in southern Norway in the years before the...
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A Family Divided by Color
ISBN: 9780989131803 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Family Divided By Color is a heartfelt story about Abby Brenner who faces impossible struggles. She became a mother at fifteen. She was on welfare, lives in a run-down house, while raising two sons, Peter and Alex. Peter is the son of a white man that loves money over his son. Alex is the son of a black man, who has no desire to be a part of his life. Abby struggles to keep sanity in her life as well as her sons. While being faced with betrayal, poverty, and heartbreaks, she must keep going because her sons are everything to her. But, what happens to her when she feels as though she can't...
A Family Divided By Color is a heartfelt story about Abby Brenner who faces impossible struggles. She became a mother at fifteen. She was on welfare, ...
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In Violet's Wake
ISBN: 9781593765347 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Marshall VanDahmm's wife, Violet, married four times previously, informs him that she's divorcing him, he promptly falls apart. She refuses to offer a reason for the divorce, and Marshall is utterly confused. Out of anger and desperation, he decides to seek out one of Violet's exes, Costa Pavlos, with whom he's convinced she's been having an affair. Despite a rocky introduction, Marshall and Costa form a tentative friendship, and together they seek out Violet's other exes. It seems Marshall isn't the only one Violet left on ambiguous terms. Now Marshall and Costa, with Owen, Brian...
When Marshall VanDahmm's wife, Violet, married four times previously, informs him that she's divorcing him, he promptly falls apart. She refuses to of...
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Niehalo
ISBN: 9788308051160 / Polski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Niehalo…
…debiutancka powieść Karpowicza, z którą wszystko jest O.K. To doceniona przez krytyków opowieść o niezwykłym dniu zwykłego studenta z Piłsudskim, Popiełuszką i Zamenhoffem w tle. Wszystko utrzymane w ironicznym i kąśliwym stylu. Kim jest Maciek? Biernym życiowo oportunistą, czy tragicznym everymanem na miarę naszych czasów? Ten dylemat wymaga indywidualnego rozstrzygnięcia. Powieść nominowana do Paszportu POLITYKI ukazuje się w odmienionej szacie graficznej i w nowym opracowaniu. Już w „Niehalo” Karpowicz rozsadzał ramy tradycyjnej... Niehalo…
…debiutancka powieść Karpowicza, z którą wszystko jest O.K. To doceniona przez krytyków opowieść o niezwykłym dniu zwykł... |
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The Midnight Mouse
ISBN: 9781480062276 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food is disappearing out of the fridge at night. Who is stealing it? Can it be a mouse? Granny and the children set a trap to catch the food robber.
Food is disappearing out of the fridge at night. Who is stealing it? Can it be a mouse? Granny and the children set a trap to catch the food robber.
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Antek audiobook
ISBN: 5907465148238 / Polski / Plastikowa / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nowela napisana w 1880 roku pokazuje trudne życie na wsi polskiej w XIX wieku - zacofanie społeczeństwa, wykorzystywanie dzieci do ciężkich prac fizycznych oraz brak możliwości kształcenia i rozwijania ich talentów.
Lektura szkolna. Czyta: Joanna Lissner Nowela napisana w 1880 roku pokazuje trudne życie na wsi polskiej w XIX wieku - zacofanie społeczeństwa, wykorzystywanie dzieci do ciężkich prac ...
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Killer
ISBN: 9788363316204 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Killer Eugeniusza Sobola, to zbiór opowiadań, w którym autor ukazuje współczesne problemy Rosjan, Ukraińców oraz Polaków i dokonuje analizy przemian ustrojowych, zachodzących w opisywanych przez niego krajach. Czerpie przy tym zarówno ze swoich reporterskich jak i podróżniczych doświadczeń oraz z wiedzy czujnego obserwatora i znawcy współczesnej literatury, a także kultury rosyjskiej i ukraińskiej. Dzięki temu otrzymujemy niezwykle sugestywny, wielowymiarowy portret – portret, by tak rzec, odwrócony. Bo w opowiadaniach Eugeniusza Sobola to nie tyle Polacy patrzą na...
Killer Eugeniusza Sobola, to zbiór opowiadań, w którym autor ukazuje współczesne problemy Rosjan, Ukraińców oraz Polaków i dokonuje analizy pr...
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Evil in a Small Town
ISBN: 9780615795430 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why was the small town girl Samantha Wilds targeted for murder? Small towns hold very few secrets, and as Samantha's sister, Sarah, hones in on her instincts it becomes apparent a deadly plot is brewing. The question is who is behind the attack on Sarah's sister, and why? The aftermath of a brutal attack in a small town takes Sarah Wilds on a journey to learn the secrets that brought on this attack. Nearly run down by a speeding car, Sarah soon finds herself the newest target, and it becomes clear this secret is far too menacing to allow these sisters to live. To add to this mystery,...
Why was the small town girl Samantha Wilds targeted for murder? Small towns hold very few secrets, and as Samantha's sister, Sarah, hones in on her in...
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Emory's Gift
ISBN: 9780765331519 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture After 13-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into the silence of grief, Charlie finds himself drifting lost and alone through the brutal halls of junior high school. But Charlie Hall is not entirely friendless. In the woods behind his house, Charlie is saved from a mountain lion by a grizzly bear, thought to be extinct in northern Idaho. And this very unusual bear will change Charlie's... From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major ... |
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Looking Through the Water
ISBN: 9780983720867 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Co-opted
ISBN: 9781439256688 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francesca Wilson wants something big to happen, but when big things start happening, she is tested to her core. Along with the tests come big rewards.
Francesca Wilson wants something big to happen, but when big things start happening, she is tested to her core. Along with the tests come big rewards....
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