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Whiteoaks of Jalna
ISBN: 9781894852241 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published as Whiteoaks in 1929, in Whiteoaks of Jalna, the saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs. The colourful matriarch Adeline Whiteoak dies at 101. Each book is a complete and satisfying story in its own right, but the Jalna series has proven itself to be addictive to generations of readers around the world. This is book 8 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Finch's Fortune. First published as Whiteoaks in 1929, in Whiteoaks of Jalna, the saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled ... |
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101,91 zł |
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The Master of Jalna
ISBN: 9781894852289 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1933, The Master of Jalna is Renny Whiteoak, who owns the old house and property. After the death of Grandmother Adeline, Renny attempts to carry on the family tradition. He and his wife Alayne have a daughter named Adeline, who has inherited her namesake s red hair, strong will, and fierce temper. While Alayne is preoccupied trying to tame this wild, red-headed child, Renny has a love affair with Claire, the widow of his best friend. The whole Whiteoak family is back at Jalna, and Renny looks after everyone, including Claire and her daughter. He faces a financial... First published in 1933, The Master of Jalna is Renny Whiteoak, who owns the old house and property. After the death of Grandmother Adeline,... |
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101,91 zł |
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Into the Mosaic
ISBN: 9781847481849 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In mid-nineteenth century India, the Sepoy Mutiny and subsequent massacre of Indian soldiers by the British led to the devastating displacement of thousands of families. Ackbar Khan, the son of a slain Sepoy, is looking for a new beginning for his young family and, with harshly limited opportunities in his homeland, is forced to consider a new life in the Caribbean as an indentured laborer. Sacrificing his heritage and ties to his beloved homeland, Ackbar risks everything he holds dear and uproots his family on a voyage to Trinidad, hoping for a better future than the poverty and degradation...
In mid-nineteenth century India, the Sepoy Mutiny and subsequent massacre of Indian soldiers by the British led to the devastating displacement of tho...
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73,15 zł |
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Broken
ISBN: 9780061561047 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a normal geeky teen-ager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the side-walk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again. Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the... Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a n... |
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69,44 zł |
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Another Mother's Life
ISBN: 9781416583028 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can you ever mend a shattered friendship? From Rowan Coleman, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Accidental Mother, comes a deeply moving novel for every woman who was ever a teenager in love, a mother, or made a heartbreaking decision. For wealthy Alison James, moving with her family to her hometown of Farmington presents more than a case of relocation jitters. Fifteen years ago, she fled town, eloping with her best friend's boyfriend. Now, blessed with three children, but uneasy in her marriage, she wonders if that decision led her... Can you ever mend a shattered friendship? From Rowan Coleman, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Accidental Mo... |
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102,07 zł |
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Second Time Around
ISBN: 9780312306663 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this latest early novel from bestselling author Marcia Willett, Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her home to three unknown relatives: twenty-two-year-old Tessa, who misses her dead parents and brother but has learned to live alone; Will, a widower, who is drawn to Mathilda's housekeeper, Isobel; and Beatrice, a retired prep-school matron who thinks the idea of living with her cousins is preposterous. Deeply moving and utterly real, Second Time Around features the shining honesty that Willett's fans have come to love. In this latest early novel from bestselling author Marcia Willett, Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her home to three unknown relatives: twenty-two-year... |
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85,73 zł |
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When Will There Be Good News?
ISBN: 9780316037549 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency... These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply... On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...
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196,06 zł |
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Muslim Teens in Pitfalls and Pranks
ISBN: 9780979357732 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine...that you are an average fifteen-year old boy in an American public high school. You study hard, play soccer, and look forward to getting your driver's license next year along with your first job. One typical day, a popular cheerleader approaches you at school and wants to go on a date. Everyone's dream, right? Except suddenly you realize that you're not an average boy--you're a Muslim and you're not allowed to date. But all around you--in high school, in books, on television--everyone is dating. So who do you turn to as an example? At the same time, Nur becomes convinced that her...
Imagine...that you are an average fifteen-year old boy in an American public high school. You study hard, play soccer, and look forward to getting you...
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80,36 zł |
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The Wooden Nickel
ISBN: 9780316089746 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucky Lunt is a third-lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather. But the world is changing faster than Lucky can fathom and he is soon embroiled in a turf war that forces him to abandon what he should hold most dear: family, health, solvency and even the rules of the sea.
Lucky Lunt is a third-lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather. But the world is changing faster than Lucky can fathom...
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89,82 zł |
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Sudanese Tales: First Tale
ISBN: 9781517202354 / Arabski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This group of tales is a glimpse of a bitter, painful, and cruel reality that many people in different homes breathe on a daily basis in some form or another. I wrote it firstly as a blog and then I decided to group it into a book. You can consider it more as a chat in our Arabic Sudanese, the language which I do and love writing in.
This group of tales is a glimpse of a bitter, painful, and cruel reality that many people in different homes breathe on a daily basis in some form or ...
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47,18 zł |
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Has Anyone Here Seen Larry?
ISBN: 9781902602707 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Larry is an 87-year-old widow. She lives with her daughters, Martha and Mary. Though old and frail, she remembers the time when she was golden-haired Larissa, as if it were yesterday, growing up in the Liberties of Dublin.
Larry is an 87-year-old widow. She lives with her daughters, Martha and Mary. Though old and frail, she remembers the time when she was golden-haired ...
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29,94 zł |
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Homing Instinct
ISBN: 9780552998215 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carrie Adams, successful television producer, mother and wife, is about to return to work. Carrie is desperate to reinvent herself from housewife to svelte career womanbecause this is what today's women do, don't they? But she isn't happy, the children aren't happy, and her husband Mike is becoming more and more detached from family life. She begins to think that perhaps this isn't the right choice for her."
Carrie Adams, successful television producer, mother and wife, is about to return to work. Carrie is desperate to reinvent herself from housewife to s...
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84,62 zł |
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The Dream Bucket
ISBN: 9781517095369 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Dream Bucket, Trudy Cameron, lives in an elaborate Mississippi home with her hypocritical father William, withdrawn mother Zoe, and mischievous older brother Billy Jack. It is the spring of 1909. The last session ever at Gravel Hill School comes to a close, as Trudy looks forward to her tenth birthday. She adores Papa until she hears him slap her mother for asking him where he hides his cash. Soon afterwards, Billy Jack tells Trudy that Papa ridicules her behind her back. On the last day of school, Papa gives the schoolmarm a noisy smack of a kiss, overheard by all the pupils in the...
In The Dream Bucket, Trudy Cameron, lives in an elaborate Mississippi home with her hypocritical father William, withdrawn mother Zoe, and mischievous...
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68,58 zł |
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The Family
ISBN: 9781517038465 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a novel. This book is not based on a true story. The characters in this book are all fictional. This story will capture your attention from beginning to end. I invite you to open the book and dive into this pool of fun.
This is a novel. This book is not based on a true story. The characters in this book are all fictional. This story will capture your attention from be...
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42,84 zł |
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Letter from Chicago
ISBN: 9781902602691 / Angielski / Miękka / 81 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elsie & Maisie are sisters. One lives in Ireland, the other in America. When a letter arrives from Chicago saying that Maisie's granddaughter is coming over to stay with her Irish family, Elsie must face the truth about what she has told Maisie.
Elsie & Maisie are sisters. One lives in Ireland, the other in America. When a letter arrives from Chicago saying that Maisie's granddaughter is comin...
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29,94 zł |
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The Position
ISBN: 9780099485056 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holly, Michael, Dashiell and Claudia read the book which their liberal parents Paul and Roz Mellow have written, a book that features illustrations of their parents' lovemaking. 30 years later, when the book may be reissued, we catch up with their complica
Holly, Michael, Dashiell and Claudia read the book which their liberal parents Paul and Roz Mellow have written, a book that features illustrations of...
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49,93 zł |
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John Burnet of Barns
ISBN: 9781846970733 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the Scottish Borders in 1678, this novel tells the story of two young noblemen - John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns, and his cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, a dashing but ruthless soldier and adventurer.
Set in the Scottish Borders in 1678, this novel tells the story of two young noblemen - John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns, and his cousi...
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44,93 zł |
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A Modern Instance
ISBN: 9780486468877 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most influential authors of the late nineteenth century, and a former editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's Magazine, " William Dean Howells wrote more than fifty novels, as well as plays, memoirs, and poetry collections. Opposed to the sentimentalism, contrived heroism, and theatrical endings in fiction, he developed a literary style based on unvarnished realism. This unique genre is brilliantly depicted in "A Modern Instance, " a novel that helped Howells' career skyrocket and is considered to be his masterpiece.
A cornerstone of American realism, it contrasts old and... One of the most influential authors of the late nineteenth century, and a former editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's Magazine, " William De...
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42,41 zł |
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Disturbing the Peace
ISBN: 9789956558841 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,25 zł |
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The Only True Genius in the Family
ISBN: 9780425225752 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity.
Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father, and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off, Claire has carved out a practical existence as a commercial photographer. Her pictures may not be the stuff of genius, but they've paid for a good life. But when her father dies, Claire loses faith in the work she has devoted her life to-and worse, begins to feel jealous of her daughter's success. Then, as she helps prepare a... From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow a portrait of a family-in all its heartbreaking complexity.
Though she lives in the shad... |
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89,86 zł |