Black Like Us
ISBN: 9781573447140 / Angielski / Miękka / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthology Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and writers whom readers may be surprised to learn were "in the life," Black Like Us is the most comprehensive collection of fiction by African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers ever published. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Migration of the Depression era, from the postwar civil rights, feminist, and gay liberation movements, to the unabashedly complex sexual explorations of the present day, Black... Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthology Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Au... |
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117,34 zł |
The Diary of the Secret Wife
ISBN: 9781456508050 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,62 zł |
Open City
ISBN: 9780812980097 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book - One of the ten top novels of the year --Time and NPR A New York Times Notable Book - One of the ten top novels of the year --Time and NPR |
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68,90 zł |
Miscellaneous Blues
ISBN: 9780983769903 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,70 zł |
Between Sisters: A Wiggins Family Saga
ISBN: 9780982722312 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet the Wiggins Sisters: Six women most would hate to identify with.. Brought up in Washington, DC, the sisters include Shawnee, Harmony, Sandy, Elaine, Kelly and Charise. Their professional lives took them in different directions, but after the death of their mother, the sisters make a pact to bond and become closer. But, the lack of boundaries threatens to tear them apart. In this steamy tale of betrayal these professional women are willing to do whatever it takes to get whatever they want and will step on anyone to have it, including each other. Their relationship leaves little room for...
Meet the Wiggins Sisters: Six women most would hate to identify with.. Brought up in Washington, DC, the sisters include Shawnee, Harmony, Sandy, Elai...
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60,80 zł |
Crossbones
ISBN: 9780143122531 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review)
A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his... A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Book Review)
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89,17 zł |
Dreams Thrown Away
ISBN: 9780983906100 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Loved to Death What would you do if the man you love wants to love you to death? Beautiful, naive and young, Kali has already overcome one of the worst tragedies in anyone's life. When she meets the man of her dreams, she is hopeful that her past has been put to rest and only happiness lies before her. Little does she know, his obsessive ideas of the ideal family may mirror deadly secrets hidden by his powerful, tumultuous family."
Loved to Death What would you do if the man you love wants to love you to death? Beautiful, naive and young, Kali has already overcome one of the wors...
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63,62 zł |
Split Images
ISBN: 9780983906117 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mirrors Tell No Lies Ashton Taylor Sperling looks in the mirror and wonders what has happened to his wonderful, happy life. But, mirrors never lie: he is what happened to it. As hard as he tried, letting go of the past was never an option. Consumed by vengeance, he triggers a series of events that will change the lives of his perfect family forever. The only thing left for him to do now is to settle the score, finally, and then live with the consequences -- or die. This dark and sensual suspense novel is the roller coaster ride follow-up in the series entitled The Sperling Chronicles. The...
Mirrors Tell No Lies Ashton Taylor Sperling looks in the mirror and wonders what has happened to his wonderful, happy life. But, mirrors never lie: he...
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55,11 zł |
Half-Blood Blues
ISBN: 9781250012708 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris cafe. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a... Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 |
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77,01 zł |
Daddy's Maybe
ISBN: 9781593094041 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ultimate daddy by default--stuck paying child support for a kid who isn't his--is now an advocate for fathers who are being victimized by the system. The ultimate daddy by default--stuck paying child support for a kid who isn't his--is now an advocate for fathers who are being victimized by the system. It's been five years since Parker Redman's life changed dramatically. Now he's making a name for himself across the country as an outspoken advocate for father's rights. After his horrific experience of being forced to pay child support for a child he never created, he...
The ultimate daddy by default--stuck paying child support for a kid who isn't his--is now an advocate for fathers who are being victimized by the s...
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85,07 zł |
Purple Hibiscus
ISBN: 9781616202415 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home a home that is silent and suffocating. Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family,... |
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76,97 zł |
Once Upon a Time in Afrika
ISBN: 9780980084238 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,54 zł |
The Thirsty Earth
ISBN: 9781593094614 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young Caribbean boy must learn to survive by himself after the death of his grandmother and disappearance of his mother, while trying to stay one step ahead of corrupt police. A twelve-year-old Caribbean boy wakes up to discover his grandmother, his only relative on the island, has died during the night. On his way into town to tell the authorities--and call his mother in America--he becomes the lone witness of a police execution. Worse, when he calls his mother's phone number, he gets a message saying the number has been disconnected. As he struggles to survive on his own, the...
A young Caribbean boy must learn to survive by himself after the death of his grandmother and disappearance of his mother, while trying to stay one...
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85,07 zł |
The Summer We Got Free
ISBN: 9780988628601 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At one time a wild young girl and a brilliant artist, Ava Delaney changes dramatically after a violent event that rocks her entire family. Once loved and respected in their community and in their church, they are ostracized by their neighbors, led by their church leader, and a seventeen-year feud between the Delaneys and the church ensues. Ava and her family are displaced from the community even as they continue to live within it, trapped inside their creaky, shadowy old house. When a mysterious woman arrives unexpectedly for a visit, her presence stirs up the past and ghosts and other...
At one time a wild young girl and a brilliant artist, Ava Delaney changes dramatically after a violent event that rocks her entire family. Once loved ...
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63,55 zł |
Her Own Place
ISBN: 9781611172447 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Her Own Place traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, an African American woman from rural South Carolina. The novel begins with Mae Lee's life as a teenager in the 1940s and follows her eventual marriage to her boyfriend, Jeff Barnes, who proposes before going off to fight in World War II. While Jeff is in the army, Mae Lee works rotating shifts at a local munitions plant and saves every penny she can to purchase a small farm. When Jeff returns from the war, he alternates between spending time on the farm and going to find work in the city, and eventually the family decides to start a...
Her Own Place traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, an African American woman from rural South Carolina. The novel begins with Mae Lee's life a...
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92,01 zł |
Alamo Dawn
ISBN: 9781934947708 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An already volatile eastside community becomes entrenched in community activism after the unwarranted murder of an African American youth. The youth-a standout athlete-is shot down in the streets under dubious circumstances by an officers questionable judgment, sparking civil unrest in the urban African American communities.
An already volatile eastside community becomes entrenched in community activism after the unwarranted murder of an African American youth. The youth-a...
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113,83 zł |
Between More Sisters: A Wiggins Family Saga
ISBN: 9789780982720 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Their relationship with one another leaves little room for enemies, but that doesn't stop them from trying to infiltrate the family. The Wiggins Sisters are back and matrimony is in the air along with new threats to the family. These sisters can't be outdone by anyone and woe to the ones that try. Elaine takes her "Boutiques" on the road to get away from it all only to face one unpleasant surprise after another. Love's finally in the air for level-headed Kelly, but is it too good to be true? Shawnee will stop at nothing to have all that she wants. No new threat or the past will tear her away...
Their relationship with one another leaves little room for enemies, but that doesn't stop them from trying to infiltrate the family. The Wiggins Siste...
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60,80 zł |
The Night of the Rambler
ISBN: 9781617751813 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman's fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that echo Marquez...readers...will be rewarded with the little-known tale of how the underdog country demanded its own place in the 20th century."
--"Publishers Weekly" Best Book of 2013 Selection, The Airship/Black Balloon Publishing "With tremendous humanity and humor, the novel articulates these themes through the power of the relationships and the urgency each character demonstrates in this quest for self-determination." --"The Caribbean Writer" "This is a... "Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman's fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that echo Marquez...readers...wil...
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84,90 zł |
The Valley of Decision
ISBN: 9783842455429 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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188,61 zł |
Tell This to My Mother: A Novel Based on the True Story of Coco Ramazani, a War Rape Victim
ISBN: 9781622126705 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tell This to My Mother is the story of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of rape used as a weapon of war, and of the hope embodied by a tough young woman who refuses to go silently into the night. It is told by Coco Ramazani, an orphan who was tricked into the rebellion and left to die in a military camp filled with thousands of drugged foreign soldiers. She escaped to America, where she is now fighting for her life. "A tragic African story told by an African by way of African storytelling techniques. This story reminds us of the movies such as 'Blood Diamond' and books such...
Tell This to My Mother is the story of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of rape used as a weapon of war, and of the hope embodied b...
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68,90 zł |