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Life with the Lid Off
ISBN: 9781409120025 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like many women after a divorce, Nicola Hodgkinson found herself facing a stark reality. With three young children to raise, a ramshackle cottage by the sea she had a choice: to wallow in self pity or pull herself together and get on with it. She chose the latter.
Like many women after a divorce, Nicola Hodgkinson found herself facing a stark reality. With three young children to raise, a ramshackle cottage by t...
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The One Good Thing
ISBN: 9781455510085 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For as long as Halley Steen has known her husband Nathan, he has carried a handful of stones in his pocket. Each day he uses those stones to remind him to follow the Golden Rule, moving a stone from one pocket to the other with each act of kindness. So it's not unusual that Nathan stops to help a stranger on the side of the highway while on his way to his son's football game one Friday evening. But that one act will change all of their lives forever, when a car hydroplanes off the road, killing Nathan instantly.
As Halley and her children Ty and Alice struggle with their grief, Nathan's... For as long as Halley Steen has known her husband Nathan, he has carried a handful of stones in his pocket. Each day he uses those stones to remind hi...
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The Conditions of Love
ISBN: 9781455519750 / Angielski / Twarda / 371 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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Promise of Happiness
ISBN: 9781847562012 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louise McNeill arrives home to the idyllic Irish town of Ballyfergus, hoping that it will provide the sanctury she desperately craves. But, will she and her three-year-old son Oli be able to build the life they dream of?
Louise McNeill arrives home to the idyllic Irish town of Ballyfergus, hoping that it will provide the sanctury she desperately craves. But, will she a...
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Being Emily
ISBN: 9781847671257 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interesting than Emily Bronte's. But tragedy is not confined to Victorian novels. And life for Fiona in this happy domestic setup is about to change forever. Following the devastating events of a single day, her family can never be the same. But perhaps, new relationships will develop - built on a solid foundation of love. Moving, funny and ultimately heart-warming, Being Emily is a... Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thin... |
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Two Plays: And Give Us the Shadows and Autumn and Winter
ISBN: 9781884092855 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to present plays by Sweden's greatest living playwright in English Lars Noren, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, had his first play produced in 1973 at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, when he was about 30. His breakthrough came in 1982 with Night Is Mother to the Day. Noren has since written about 75 plays that combine humor with powerful emotional impact and feature his dynamic search for new forms of expression. His work has been translated into several languages and regularly performed in Nordic and European countries. Two...
The first book to present plays by Sweden's greatest living playwright in English Lars Noren, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since ...
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Secrets
ISBN: 9781905494026 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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My Father's House
ISBN: 9781907593604 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robbie is a simple man who leads a simple life: he is a husband, a father, and a journalist, living and working in Dublin. However, his carefully crafted life has been interrupted by a phone call from his youngest sister, calling, after years of silence, to say his father is ill, and he should come home . And so Robbie returns to Dromore, Northern Ireland, and to Larkscroft Farm, the place where he grew up and the man he grew up with. In taking care of his father an often angry, and complex man Robbie allows the reader into his past, revealing himself as a child, teenager, and young adult,...
Robbie is a simple man who leads a simple life: he is a husband, a father, and a journalist, living and working in Dublin. However, his carefully craf...
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Past the Shallows
ISBN: 9781476754871 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coast of Tasmania--a stark, untamed landscape swathed by crystal blue waters. The rhythm of their days is dictated by the natural world, and by their father's moods. Like the ocean he battles daily to make a living as a fisherman, he is wild and volatile--a hard drinker warped by a...
"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Austr...
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Barely 17
ISBN: 9781478713739 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barely 17 is dedicated to the children born by chance, deserted by adults and left to sustain life on their own. This story traces the life of a young Mother, often the sole provider, through the birth of 5 children under l7 years. Through poverty and hardship, they prevailed. The bond between Mother and children is heartwarming and often brings a smile to our lips. Likewise, the trials and tragedies easily bring heartbreaking tears to overflow. Our home has been both shelter and emotional stability to several displaced children and teens throughout the years. This story draws from many of...
Barely 17 is dedicated to the children born by chance, deserted by adults and left to sustain life on their own. This story traces the life of a young...
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Delamore's Dreams
ISBN: 9781484942635 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delamore's Dreams is about the power of hope and forgiveness, the strength of family and the enduring bonds of friendship. The heart of the story is a wayward son and his estranged father striving for respect, reconciliation and the strength to prevail. The book explores serious social issues (e.g., drug use, racism, teen violence and gang behavior) that transformed many American communities in the 1960s. The obstacles that confront the Delamores reflect the passions of the turbulent decade in which they have settled in their adopted hometown of Barrington, an "oil and water" community of...
Delamore's Dreams is about the power of hope and forgiveness, the strength of family and the enduring bonds of friendship. The heart of the story is a...
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The Treasure
ISBN: 9781490410524 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Treasure is a whimsical tale about a young boy who follows -- and at times ignores -- his grandfather's advice about which path to take into the towering mountains.
The Treasure is a whimsical tale about a young boy who follows -- and at times ignores -- his grandfather's advice about which path to take into the t...
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Trudi and Simon
ISBN: 9781490452067 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trudi has survived nearly three years as a medical student in Paris. Simon, Comte de Beauvonne, her benefactor, is feeling insecure after his heart attack. His first wife of what was supposed to be a marriage of convenience, has died and there are questions to be answered. Trudi has demanded that her marriage remains secret out of respect for the deceased Catherine. While Simon recovers, Trudi has seized the reins of the Beauvonne empire and has set about running it efficiently.
Trudi has survived nearly three years as a medical student in Paris. Simon, Comte de Beauvonne, her benefactor, is feeling insecure after his heart at...
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A Good Year For The Roses: A Novel
ISBN: 9781401341916 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life hasn't been a bed of roses for Londoner Molly Taylor lately. Newly divorced and struggling to find a new home and a way to support her three boys, she's stunned when her beloved Aunt Helena dies and leaves her Harrington Hall, a three-hundred-year-old manor house on the Devon coast, where Molly grew up. But does Molly really want to run a bed-and-breakfast in an old house where the only thing that doesn't need urgent attention is Aunt Helena's beautiful rose garden? Or care for Uncle Bertie, an eccentric former navy officer with a cliff-top cannon? Or Betty, his rude parrot that bites...
Life hasn't been a bed of roses for Londoner Molly Taylor lately. Newly divorced and struggling to find a new home and a way to support her three boys...
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Sucha sierpniowa trawa
ISBN: 9788375366921 / Polski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wciągająca opowieść w duchu Służących i Sekretnego życia pszczół o przyjaźni między Mary, ciemnoskórą służącą, i Jubie, trzynastoletnią białą dziewczynką z szanowanej, zamożnej rodziny, która, jak się okazuje, skrywa wiele niewygodnych tajemnic… Poruszająca historia o potrzebie bliskości, szczerości, tolerancji, wyrozumiałości dla inności, niezgody na rasizm i zarazem pasjonujący obraz amerykańskiej rodziny i prowincji Południa Stanów w burzliwych i pełnych napięć latach pięćdziesiątych ubiegłego wieku.
Wciągająca opowieść w duchu Służących i Sekretnego życia pszczół o przyjaźni między Mary, ciemnoskórą służącą, i Jubie, trzynastolet...
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Kronika pewnego miasta
ISBN: 9788364169021 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełkami / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych
Gdy Pandelis Prevelakis opuszcza Rethimno, nie przypuszcza , że to kreteńskie miasteczko, zacznie wkrótce chylić się ku upadkowi. Wracając po kilku latach w rodzinne strony okazuje się , że czas dawnej świetności minął bezpowrotnie. Miejsce, które autor znał jako młodzieniec, istnieje już tylko w jego pamięci. Gdy Pandelis Prevelakis opuszcza Rethimno, nie przypuszcza , że to kreteńskie miasteczko, zacznie wkrótce chylić się ku upadkowi. Wrac... |
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Nietoperze
ISBN: 9788364169014 / Polski / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych "Nietoperze" to zbiór dwunastu historii o kondycji psychicznej współczesnego człowieka. Te małe narracje kryją w sobie intymną opowieść o walce z głęboko ukrytymi lękami i pragnieniami. Bohaterowie znajdują się w sytuacjach rodem z greckich tragedii, skazani na to, co konieczne i nieuniknione. Brudny realizm tej prozy wciąga jak narkotyk. Wdzierając się w myśli swoich bohaterów, Kitsopoulou poszukuje ukrytej prawdy o człowieku. Monolog matki oddającej dziecko Cyganom. Leżący na podłodze mężczyzna z... "Nietoperze" to zbiór dwunastu historii o kondycji psychicznej współczesnego człowieka. Te małe narracje kryją w s... |
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The Dark Road
ISBN: 9780143125402 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From one of world literature s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China s one-child policy
Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: normal parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. Written while Ma Jian traveled the rural backwaters of southwestern China, The Dark Road is the story of one such family, who makes the radical choice to defy the crackdown. A haunting and... From one of world literature s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China s one-child policy
Far away from the Chinese e... |
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The Lemon Orchard
ISBN: 9780143125563 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A heartrending, timely love story of two people from seemingly different worlds at once dramatic and romantic
Luanne Rice is the beloved author of twenty-two "New York Times" bestsellers. In "The Lemon Orchard," one of her most moving and accomplished works yet, Rice gives us an affirming story about the redemptive power of compassion, set in the sea- and citrus-scented air of the breathtaking Santa Monica Mountains. It s been five years since Julia s daughter died. When she arrives to housesit at her uncle s home in Malibu, she longs only for peace. But to her surprise, Julia becomes... A heartrending, timely love story of two people from seemingly different worlds at once dramatic and romantic
Luanne Rice is the beloved author of... |
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A Pinch of Ooh La La
ISBN: 9780451416650 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To get to happily ever after, sometimes you need to start from scratch....
Abbey Ross, who runs her own bakery in Oakland, California, is known for her visually stunning wedding cakes. But lately, Abbey's own love life has become stale. According to her best friend, Bendrix, Abbey's not the spontaneous young woman she was when they were teenagers listening to the Cure and creating attention-grabbing graffiti. Of course, her failed relationship with a womanizing art forger might have something to do with that. Nevertheless, it's time for Abbey to step out of the kitchen--and her... To get to happily ever after, sometimes you need to start from scratch....
Abbey Ross, who runs her own bakery in Oakland, California, is k... |
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