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Agrigento
ISBN: 9788364169045 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełkami / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych
Agrigento, dziś niewielkie miasto na południu Sycylii, to niegdyś potężne starożytne Akragas, miejsce bogate w wielowiekową historię najeźdźców, osadników, filozofów i tyranów. Splatają się w nim losy doktora Anchite – lekarza i zaangażowanego badacza lokalnej historii – i jego rodziny. Wyborom dokonywanym przez bohaterów, poszukujących prawdziwego szczęścia i samopoznania, towarzyszą niezmiennie słowa Empedoklesa, starożytnego filozofa urodzonego w Akragas. Agrigento, dziś niewielkie miasto na południu Sycylii, to niegdyś potężne starożytne Akragas, miejsce bogate w wielowiekową historię naje... |
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The Dancin' Man
ISBN: 9780988416499 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dancin' Man is a family saga for readers who love a multigenerational story. The backdrop is class and money in a rapidly changing south of the 1950s-1980s. It centers on the marriage of working class Ted and moneyed Virginia. Virginia's mother is the matriarch of the family as well as the head of textile company. Her death brings out the best and the worst of the generations and the traditions in transition. What and who will survive?
The Dancin' Man is a family saga for readers who love a multigenerational story. The backdrop is class and money in a rapidly changing south of the 19...
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In the Eye of...
ISBN: 9781494890162 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wife and mother Nadine Washington woke up that morning, hoping a wish she'd cherished for nearly twenty years might be finally realized. Later that day, she'd discover that her desire wasn't meant to be. Instead, she was facing a profound crisis in her life although one faced at some point by all women. Here first husband Johnnie had been killed in the war before he'd even known he would soon be a father. Johnnie's best friend Phillip was there to help her make it through those early times but he fell in love with Nadine. He was there at the hospital the night daughter Kelly was born and held...
Wife and mother Nadine Washington woke up that morning, hoping a wish she'd cherished for nearly twenty years might be finally realized. Later that da...
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Finding Karate
ISBN: 9781496106551 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finding Karate is about a boy who stumbles upon a great opportunity without realizing the true meaning of the opportunity until he is faced with day to day issues. The story is centered around a boy who has a name that has unfortunate rhyming possibilities. He is unlucky and attracts negative attention from being extremely shy and has a social inability to handle the classroom settings well. His social awkwardness and clumsiness make him a target for bullies. Finding Karate is a generational book that will educate the reader and teach them about values, manners, respect, self-discipline,...
Finding Karate is about a boy who stumbles upon a great opportunity without realizing the true meaning of the opportunity until he is faced with day t...
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Unique: A Unique World & A Unique Life
ISBN: 9780991564705 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unique is a little girl with physical and psychological disabilities. Born to a mother who is a drug-addicted prostitute, Unique struggles with low self-esteem that's exacerbated by siblings and other children who torment her because she was born different. After suffering a tragedy, Unique makes a promise only she could keep. As this pledge binds the rest of Unique's life, it unravels a series of life-changing events-not just for Unique but her entire family. Take this complex, exciting and emotional journey with Unique as she navigates her way through many difficult struggles in her life;...
Unique is a little girl with physical and psychological disabilities. Born to a mother who is a drug-addicted prostitute, Unique struggles with low se...
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Identity Misplaced
ISBN: 9781478730972 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A person was born in a country, where his parents migrated during their childhood from another country under British Empire. When he was born in this country, though his look resembled his parents, for all practical purpose he considered himself son of the soil of that country. He speaks local language, eats local foods, wears local style of clothing and above all he does not able to read, writes or understand the native language of his fore-fathers. Everything was fine with him. When he was in Class V or VI, suddenly one fine morning a dictator took-over the reign of elected government in a...
A person was born in a country, where his parents migrated during their childhood from another country under British Empire. When he was born in this ...
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The Daydreamer's Diary
ISBN: 9781491730096 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Behind the Clouds
ISBN: 9781495427923 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book holds the interest of readers and is one to which many people can relate, as it evokes feelings of sadness, happiness, concern and even anger. Shem and Saran live contentedly with their mother, Sara, on an island in the Caribbean, their father having disappeared from their home when Shem was six and Saran was two. The last thing anyone has heard about him is that he joined the United States Army. Six years on and having apparently adjusted to a life without a father, their world is shattered when their mother takes ill and subsequently dies. Shem's godmother offers to keep them, but...
This book holds the interest of readers and is one to which many people can relate, as it evokes feelings of sadness, happiness, concern and even ange...
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Forever Into The Sunset
ISBN: 9781497360549 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Life on the Plains - Part 2: The Story of Luke Henry
ISBN: 9781497452510 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second book in the Life on the Plains series continues to follow the life of Luke Henry. Luke remained at the Brewer Ranch following the death of John Brewer and tried to help the Brewer family cope with John's untimely death. Luke knew that if the Brewer family was going to stay on the ranch, that there would be much work to do, and the Brewers needed to work together as a family again. Luke and Barbara's relationship became stronger as they lived and worked side by side, and their love for each other intensified also into a relationship that they both hoped would last for many years....
The second book in the Life on the Plains series continues to follow the life of Luke Henry. Luke remained at the Brewer Ranch following the death of ...
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One Last Cruise: A Collection of Short Stories
ISBN: 9781910304006 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luke McEwen's debut publication of short stories reveals the passion, humour and anxiety in everyday life.
In this collection: - A married couple in their eighties take a risk, insistent on living their lives the way they have always done. - Brighton hosts a modern take on the Greek myth of Medusa, showing the consequences of living with injustice. - A university student displays her natural gift as a listener, essential skills to achieve her ambition as a counsellor. - A small token of little monetary value takes on great symbolic importance when a daughter loses her... Luke McEwen's debut publication of short stories reveals the passion, humour and anxiety in everyday life.
In this collection: - A married co... |
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Mimi Malloy, at Last!
ISBN: 9781250063779 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A love letter to sisterhood, Frank Sinatra, late-in-life romance, and the enduring ties of family. The book's narrator calls to mind a Boston-Irish Olive Kitteridge, as peppery as she is big-hearted."--Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz and The Late, Lamented Molly Marx "A love letter to sisterhood, Frank Sinatra, late-in-life romance, and the enduring ties of family. The book's narrator calls to mind a Boston-Iris... |
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Lady of the Manor
ISBN: 9781490416434 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The one woman who was supposed to love him was the one person who tried to destroy him. Richard Creek finally took a stand against his abusive mother, Rosemary, in the fall of 1929, leading to nearly three decades of her merciless tyranny. He has to decide how to protect his children from the omnipotent hand of the Lady of the Manor while they dwell beneath the same roof. Tensions overflow in this atypical home in Savannah, Georgia during the blazing summer of 1958. 71-year old Rosemary (Rosey) Isabella Creek is the cruel and ruthless matriarch of Creek Manor who carries out her malevolent...
The one woman who was supposed to love him was the one person who tried to destroy him. Richard Creek finally took a stand against his abusive mother,...
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Gamble Street
ISBN: 9781491722367 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten blocks long, Gamble Street is completely integrated and diverse. Charlotte Hayes's family was one of the first white families to move into the neighborhood, and Noah Piedmont's was the first African American family to arrive on Gamble Street. Now Charlotte and Noah, both twelve years old, are the best of friends, drawing on each other's strengths to make the most out of life. Noah, confined to a wheelchair since an accident years ago, and Charlotte play an integral role in their bustling neighborhood?from the annual Gamble Street picnic to the summer block party. As with most close-knit...
Ten blocks long, Gamble Street is completely integrated and diverse. Charlotte Hayes's family was one of the first white families to move into the nei...
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Gamble Street
ISBN: 9781491722374 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten blocks long, Gamble Street is completely integrated and diverse. Charlotte Hayes's family was one of the first white families to move into the neighborhood, and Noah Piedmont's was the first African American family to arrive on Gamble Street. Now Charlotte and Noah, both twelve years old, are the best of friends, drawing on each other's strengths to make the most out of life. Noah, confined to a wheelchair since an accident years ago, and Charlotte play an integral role in their bustling neighborhood?from the annual Gamble Street picnic to the summer block party. As with most close-knit...
Ten blocks long, Gamble Street is completely integrated and diverse. Charlotte Hayes's family was one of the first white families to move into the nei...
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The Hills of Happiness
ISBN: 9781495971532 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India in the late days of the Raj, England in the great slump of the 1930's; these are the settings of this story of family interaction and decline. James and Dorothy Martinmas appear to inhabit a sort of Garden of Eden in the green hills of souther India. But there are serpents: in the past and in the present. Dorothy's early childhood loss of her father, James's early childhood exile from both parents, have left their inevitable distortions creating tensions which threaten the happiness of their marriage and their idyllic situation. And there is a human serpent too, an embittered and...
India in the late days of the Raj, England in the great slump of the 1930's; these are the settings of this story of family interaction and decline. J...
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All Kinds of Crazy
ISBN: 9781496902429 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pearls & Puzzle Pieces
ISBN: 9781497487833 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marisol Rivera finds out from a doctor's visit that she has inoperable stomach cancer and will soon be nearing the end of her life. She must decide on what course is best for her to deal with this anguish. As she embarks on the journey, she must also come to terms with her own mortality and question the hostility she has developed toward her sister. Tanya Rivera (Marisol's sister) has been dating Frank Townsend, a really wonderful man that she's glad to have in her life for some time now. Although he wants to marry her (and she him) the grief that she feels when she learns of her sister's...
Marisol Rivera finds out from a doctor's visit that she has inoperable stomach cancer and will soon be nearing the end of her life. She must decide on...
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Life on the Plains - Part 3: The Story of Luke Henry
ISBN: 9781497542723 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third book in the Life on the Plains series continues to follow the life of Luke Henry. Luke, Barbara, and their new family returned from the big city of Kansas City after spending time there with Helen and her family. They all had a wonderful time in the big city, but were happy to be back home. Everyone had come to the train depot to meet them and welcome them home. Lucas had a surprise for them, but the family had been sworn to secrecy until the all arrived back at the ranch. Tragedy would touch the Henry family and their neighbors also, but as they always did, they joined together to...
The third book in the Life on the Plains series continues to follow the life of Luke Henry. Luke, Barbara, and their new family returned from the big ...
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After the Death of the Ice Cream Man
ISBN: 9780984366163 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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