The Present Moment
ISBN: 9781558612488 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, this group of old women is divided by ethnicity, language, class, and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age home they share in Nairobi, they uncover the hidden personal histories that connect them as women: stories of their struggles for self-determination; of conflict, violence, and loss, but also of survival. Each woman has found her way to the Refuge because of a devastating life...
This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history...
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85,97 zł |
David's Story
ISBN: 9781558613980 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1987 publication of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town won Zoe Wicomb an international readership and wide critical acclaim. As richly imagined and stylistically innovative as Wicomb's debut work, David's Story is a mesmerizing novel, multilayered and multivoiced, at times elegiac, wry, and expansive. Unfolding in South Africa at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1991, the novel explores the life and vision of David Dirkse, part of the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement--a world seldom revealed to outsiders....
The 1987 publication of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town won Zoe Wicomb an international readership and wide critical acclaim. As richly imagine...
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91,39 zł |
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
ISBN: 9781573223782 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick.
Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and... Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick.
Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drin... |
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72,95 zł |
Six Days in January: A Novel
ISBN: 9781593090173 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Manhattan man spends six day reevaluating the events and relationships that contributed to his present downward spiral and is forced to confront buried memories and feelings that have transformed his natural sensitivity into cynicism. A first novel. Original.
A Manhattan man spends six day reevaluating the events and relationships that contributed to his present downward spiral and is forced to confront bur...
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88,97 zł |
God in the Image of Woman
ISBN: 9781593090197 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the future, people lose the ability to have daughters; and as women begin to disappear from a world already gripped by chaos, some people begin to think that a 10-year-old black girl will be the next Messiah. Seven years after the onset of this genetic apocalypse, all women have disappeared from cities like New York. Civilization, itself, seems to have ground to a halt as men, numbed by the holographic pleasures of their technological age, wait for the inevitable death of their species. It is then that a powerful military force, known simply as The Horde, begins a systematic offensive...
In the future, people lose the ability to have daughters; and as women begin to disappear from a world already gripped by chaos, some people begin to ...
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170,03 zł |
Superwoman's Child: Son of a Single Mother
ISBN: 9781593090593 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a young author who has lived through what he writes about, Superwoman's Child is an eye-opening novel chronicling one teenage son's struggle with his trouble-filled life. Growing up the only male in a house full of women is no easy task. Sometimes the women can be "as sweet as pie," while other days they turn into something he wouldn't dare say out loud. So is the life of Sean Morris, a teenager with an absent father and troubles many would recognize. Even though his father's been practically missing in action for a while, Sean still wonders if his father will ever be...
From a young author who has lived through what he writes about, Superwoman's Child is an eye-opening novel chronicling one teenage son's strugg...
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72,91 zł |
Tales of the Out & the Gone
ISBN: 9781933354125 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century--most of which has never been published--"Tales of the Out & the Gone" reflects the astounding evolution of America's most provocative literary anti-hero. The first section of the book, "War Stories," offers six stories enmeshed in the vola-tile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, "Tales of the Out & the Gone," reveals Amiri Baraka's increasing literary adventurousness, combining an unpredictable language play with a passion for abstraction and psychological exploration. Throughout, Baraka's... Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century--most of which has never been published--"Tales of the Out & the Gone" r... |
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80,86 zł |
Eight Men
ISBN: 9780061450181 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in Eight Men focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in our society and his fascination with what he called -the struggle of the individual in America.- These poignant, gripping stories will captivate all those who loved Black Boy and Native Son. Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in Eight Men |
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81,02 zł |
Nuestra Senora de la Noche: Novela
ISBN: 9780061626739 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nuestra Senora de la Noche es la historia de una de las mujeres mas sensuales, complejas y tragicas de Puerto Rico, quien logro transformarse en la mujer mas poderosa, temida y respetada de la isla. Pobre y abandonada por su madre, la nina Isabel se vio obligada a vivir una vida servil y ardura, llena de trabajos y constates luchas. Pero ahora armada con una belleza despampanante y una parcela de tierra obsequiada por su turbio amor, el licenciado corso Fernando Fornaris, la nina se esfuma y aparece en su lugar Dona Isabel "La Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer: una mujer de negocios, implacable,...
Nuestra Senora de la Noche es la historia de una de las mujeres mas sensuales, complejas y tragicas de Puerto Rico, quien logro transformarse en la mu...
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60,75 zł |
The Valley of Decision
ISBN: 9781605971728 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wharton's first full-length novel is set in 18th-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the anti-religious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltaire against the orthodox leaders of the day.
Wharton's first full-length novel is set in 18th-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the anti-religious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltai...
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117,80 zł |
The Valley of Decision
ISBN: 9781426415555 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wharton's first full-length novel is set in 18th-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the anti-religious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltaire against the orthodox leaders of the day.
Wharton's first full-length novel is set in 18th-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the anti-religious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltai...
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140,85 zł |
A Lost Lady
ISBN: 9781438503578 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels, O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography about the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker Eddy. A Lost Lady is written in the third person. Niel Herbert is a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester for whom he feels very deeply. Cather portrays the moral disintegration of a lovable woman as seen through the eyes of a boy....
Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels, O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather be...
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90,56 zł |
Dying for Revenge
ISBN: 9780451227539 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The next installment in the bold and sexy series by the fearless New York Times bestselling author. Sleeping with Strangers and Waking with Enemies " left] Dickey fans wanting more"(Ebony). Now, with Dying for Revenge, he returns to that adrenaline- fueled underworld. Gideon, a professional assassin, is convinced that an old score with a former client from Detroit was settled a long time ago. But the lady from Detroit has never forgotten-or forgiven-Gideon, and with a crack team of hit-men, she's not letting him out of her sight. Now,...
The next installment in the bold and sexy series by the fearless New York Times bestselling author. Sleeping with Strangers a...
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89,17 zł |
The Blue Orchard
ISBN: 9781416592945 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties, and as Verna matures, it seems as if each man she meets is worse than the last. Through sheer force of will and a few chance encounters, she manages to teach herself to read and becomes a nurse. But Verna's new life falls to pieces when she is arrested for assisting a black doctor with "illegal surgeries." As the media firestorm rages, Verna reflects on her life while awaiting trial....
On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help suppor...
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76,97 zł |
A Lost Lady
ISBN: 9781438508771 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography about the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker Eddy. A Lost Lady is written in the third person. Niel Herbert is a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester for whom he feels very deeply. Cather portrays the moral disintegration of a lovable woman as seen through the eyes of a boy....
Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels; O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather be...
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95,10 zł |
A Lost Lady
ISBN: 9781438527901 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels, O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather became the managing editor of McClure's magazine. As a muckraker journalist Cather co-authored a scathing biography about the head of the Christian Science church, Mary Baker Eddy. A Lost Lady is written in the third person. Niel Herbert is a young man who grows up in Sweet Water and witnesses the decline of Mrs. Forrester for whom he feels very deeply. Cather portrays the moral disintegration of a lovable woman as seen through the eyes of a boy....
Willa Cather was an early 20th century author best known for her novels, O Pioneers, My Antonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. In 1906 Cather be...
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90,56 zł |
The Mpire Chronicles of the Haulm Boys
ISBN: 9780982447543 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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32,22 zł |
Goodbye, Africa...
ISBN: 9781609111496 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Spenser was born in 1940s South Africa, when it was forbidden to treat a Black citizen as an equal member of society. This intolerance sets the stage for Raymond's enlightening and inspiring global adventure. As a child, Raymond had extraordinary dreams: to become a magician, actor, and director. In addition, he aspired to experience the "real Africa." After several decades of traveling through Southern Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia, Raymond achieves his professional goal: TV production in Johannesburg. Racial politics impels Raymond and his family to reach the Australian...
Raymond Spenser was born in 1940s South Africa, when it was forbidden to treat a Black citizen as an equal member of society. This intolerance sets th...
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72,75 zł |
The Vampire and the Vegan, Book I: Food
ISBN: 9780615404202 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pearl, a vampire living in Washington, D.C., discovers that the blood of her victim, Salaam, lacks that certain something she craves--necromantic energy that comes from eating meat. Yet he may offer her something that she needs even more, in this exploration of the complex relationship between a carnivore and her food.
Pearl, a vampire living in Washington, D.C., discovers that the blood of her victim, Salaam, lacks that certain something she craves--necromantic ener...
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52,69 zł |
Separate But Equal
ISBN: 9780971819146 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A tragic incident has a rippling effect on a community of friends: a famous, well-respected artist changes his views on race; another goes in search of his own artistic voice; and the gulf widens between two women who pledged sisterhood for life.
A tragic incident has a rippling effect on a community of friends: a famous, well-respected artist changes his views on race; another goes in search o...
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72,35 zł |