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The Nectar of Passion
ISBN: 9781481925969 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Nectar of Passion" describes the challenges of Gunel, who is a first-year university student from Azerbaijan. She considers her first day as a special day; however, the first day of the semester begins with an intense and emotional rivalry with Sheila. Nevertheless, she also has a powerful support from Adir, a Jewish boy wearing a kippah. If they will fall in love, how their families will react? Will their love survive obstacles of religion and culture?
"The Nectar of Passion" describes the challenges of Gunel, who is a first-year university student from Azerbaijan. She considers her first day as a sp...
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The One Thousand and Second Night: An Anthology of Classic Urdu Short Stories
ISBN: 9781906628383 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short anthology contains a selection of short stories originally written in Urdu in the Indo-Pak sub-continent, translated into English by Khalid Sayyed. These stories are taken from some of the best-known names of Urdu literature, including Munshi Prem Chand, Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishen Chandra, Ghulam Abbas, Rajindra Singh Bedi, Asmat Chughtai, Intezaar Hussain, Qurrat al Ain Haider and Ahmed Nadeem Qasemi. Each writer is unique in his or her style, but all of them are bound by a common history, since they were all born in British India in the early part of the 20th century, and...
This short anthology contains a selection of short stories originally written in Urdu in the Indo-Pak sub-continent, translated into English by Khalid...
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Viva!
ISBN: 9780988153608 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Viva is the story of four generations of a Portuguese family set against the backdrop of political and social turmoil. In 1890 Edmundo Cacador migrates to Brazil in search of a better world. Years later, his descendants will settle in the Azores, Angola, Lisbon, and Canada. The family endures through love, loss, family upheaval, political repression, religious contention, revolution, and dreams and finds itself at the end of the tumults of the 20th century facing the dawn of the 21st."
Viva is the story of four generations of a Portuguese family set against the backdrop of political and social turmoil. In 1890 Edmundo Cacador migrat...
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A Flowering in Palestine
ISBN: 9781482304329 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hero's journey of a Jewish-American growing up in the last half of the 20th century who learns to see things from a Palestinian perspective and flowers into becoming a citizen of the world.
A hero's journey of a Jewish-American growing up in the last half of the 20th century who learns to see things from a Palestinian perspective and flow...
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Cell Phone
ISBN: 9780983659938 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular TV host Yan Shouyi has it all: A great job, a loyal wife and a beautiful young lover. It all begins to unravel when he accidently leaves his cellphone at home one fateful day. Cell Phone is part comedy, part romance and part social commentary on the changing nature of Chinese society and the impact of technology on relationships. Beginning in 1968 in the protagonist's childhood rural hometown, Liu's fast-paced, contemporary tale takes us into the complicated family and social relationships of Yan Shouyi, telling a tale of friendship, love and betrayal. The cellphone becomes the...
Popular TV host Yan Shouyi has it all: A great job, a loyal wife and a beautiful young lover. It all begins to unravel when he accidently leaves his c...
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The Moon Daughter
ISBN: 9780984571635 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rana is certain that her third child will be a boy. She has two daughters, yet a husband who demands a son. When she gives birth to another girl, Yalda, the impact on her marriage is immediate. In 1970s Iran, living within a culture where marital rights and gender roles are maintained with tradition and fervor, Rana is pushed to make the hardest decision of her life, and begins to set in motion a chain of events that will ripple through the next generation.
A family saga, The Moon Daughter explores the universal dynamics of mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and the struggles that... Rana is certain that her third child will be a boy. She has two daughters, yet a husband who demands a son. When she gives birth to another girl, Yald...
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A Trio of Irish Tales
ISBN: 9781482738537 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Ireland's legendary "Man of the Mists," experience the life of one woman through a sacred oak tree, or delight in the old-world vs new-world clash between an annoyed pooka and a digitally savvy teenager. In this first volume of the "Trio Tales" series, author Judith Cullen celebrates her heritage inspired by family and friends, and she even invites the fairies out to dance.
Meet Ireland's legendary "Man of the Mists," experience the life of one woman through a sacred oak tree, or delight in the old-world vs new-world clas...
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Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
ISBN: 9781480417816 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country s surfaceIn Troy Blacklaws s ambitious novel, the lives of two African men run parallel, exposing the tensions that rumble at South Africa s post-apartheid core. Jerusalem is a young poet and student whose stubborn father will no longer pay for his rambling studies. Half Jewish, half Muslim, Jerusalem is forced from Cape Town to a distant harbor village by his father, who believes a stint selling curios to tourists will right his...
Two characters navigate the post-apartheid South African landscape in this haunting story of the injustice that still simmers below the country s s...
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The Lion of The Tribe of Bayuk
ISBN: 9781482756838 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fascinating scenes unfolded in the mind of Duncan Fitch, reporter for a Boston newspaper, about people who possess a quiet rage, a strong spirit and a good will that could be likened to none; people who bear grief and trust reason. There seems to be good and evil, new and old, truth and lies all calling out to a wise man of vision to meet his maker or his taker in the heartland. Come and see us as we are. Tell our stories from your heart. He became convinced that the Cajun yell ringing in his ears wasn't just noise. Mr. Duncan began to wonder, why shouldn't his dream of being his own boss...
Fascinating scenes unfolded in the mind of Duncan Fitch, reporter for a Boston newspaper, about people who possess a quiet rage, a strong spirit and a...
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Route 66 Dreamer
ISBN: 9781596300835 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Route 66 Dreamer is Michael Lund's tenth novel set in the historical background of Route 66, the Nation's "Mother Road." Earlier novels depicted life as it was in the Midwest during the early golden ages of interstate highways and experiences of related characters in "Growing Up on Route 66." The current 5-volume series, headlined At Home and Away, chronicles an American family during times of peace and war from 1915 to 2015. The first book, Route 66 Sweetheart (2011), is set mostly in and around Rutherford, New Jersey, during the 1930s. Route 66 Dreamer (2012) features the son of a Swedish...
Route 66 Dreamer is Michael Lund's tenth novel set in the historical background of Route 66, the Nation's "Mother Road." Earlier novels depicted life ...
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Dying Voice
ISBN: 9789966992536 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of cattle-raids carried out by various nomadic communities on their counterparts is a subject of interest, intrigue and misinterpretation. What was the original purpose of cattle-raids in the concerned nomadic communities? How exactly were the raids carried out? What were the norms and taboos governing cattle-raids and wars in the traditional tribal folklore? Is cattle-raising compatible with modern society? Is it acceptable for perpetrators of modern cattle-raiding to hide behind "tradition" and justify their criminal activities. The above are some of the questions that inspired...
The subject of cattle-raids carried out by various nomadic communities on their counterparts is a subject of interest, intrigue and misinterpretation....
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Release from Cibola
ISBN: 9780865349513 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reyes Cordova is a young boy tired of being poor and feeling hopeless. He is a descendant of religious and starry-eyed settlers from Spain that came to Cibola seeking a fortune but found nothing but an inhospitable climate and an unstable relationship with Pueblo Indians. A stubborn lot, the settlers worked hard to make a living out of farming and ranching in a Rio del Norte valley in what is now Northern New Mexico. Now three hundred and fifty years later, and nearly a century after becoming part of the United States, Reyes' Spanish-speaking, impoverished culture has made little inroads to...
Reyes Cordova is a young boy tired of being poor and feeling hopeless. He is a descendant of religious and starry-eyed settlers from Spain that came t...
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Between the Acts
ISBN: 9781447479109 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virginia Woolf is undoubtedly one of the finest authors of the 20th century and this is her final novel, published after her suicide. Written on the eve of the Second World War, this is a story laden with hidden meaning and allusion to the fear and confusion of war.
Virginia Woolf is undoubtedly one of the finest authors of the 20th century and this is her final novel, published after her suicide. Written on the e...
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Monday or Tuesday
ISBN: 9781447479208 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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An Unwritten Novel: With the Essay 'How Should One Read a Book?'
ISBN: 9781447479239 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A stunning short story about perspective and reality compared to the power of imagination and the ease of losing yourself in your own thoughts.
A stunning short story about perspective and reality compared to the power of imagination and the ease of losing yourself in your own thoughts.
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Lost River Bridge
ISBN: 9781479256341 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With trembling hands and shattered nerves, Elijah Taber, the alter-ego of the author, returns from infantry combat in Europe having escaped death by a miracle. He finds solace among his relations in Lost River Bridge, an isolated community in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Expecting to visit for two weeks, he spends the entire summer of 1946, finding himself rejuvenated and ready to face his future. He returns to Canada, completes his engineering degree and has a successful career as a construction manager. Forty-two years after his first visit, offering no reason for his choice, he returns...
With trembling hands and shattered nerves, Elijah Taber, the alter-ego of the author, returns from infantry combat in Europe having escaped death by a...
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The Blind Man's Garden
ISBN: 9780345802859 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Publishers Weekly andKirkus Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly andKirkus Best Book of the Year |
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Inez - How She Made Clear the Way
ISBN: 9781480146181 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lovely short story written in 1904 gives us a snapshot of life in a Norwegian immigrant community. The protagonist, like the author, is a first-generation American; the scene is a small settlement in Minnesota. The story reflects the young author's attachment to his heritage as he and his peers help to define the ideals of the new generation-the Norwegian Americans. This edition includes the unabridged story which was first published in St. Olaf College's literary magazine, "The Manitou Messenger." It also includes a short biography of the author which recounts his family's move to... This lovely short story written in 1904 gives us a snapshot of life in a Norwegian immigrant community. The protagonist, like the author, is a firs... |
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Seeds of Plenty
ISBN: 9781482790399 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sylvia Soong, a young Chinese woman, finds herself in a rusty-tin roof town of West Africa, where the jungle meets the savannah and spirits live in baobab trees. In 1972, she marries Winston Soong, an aid worker on his way to Africa. But life in Africa is not the adventure she imagined. Instead, Sylvia spends her days in their white tiled house trapped behind compound walls. Even though she longs for companionship, it arrives in an unwelcome form. She soon discovers she is not alone: spirit children prey on her newborn's life, and when her daughter is bitten by a snake, she meets Ayo, an...
Sylvia Soong, a young Chinese woman, finds herself in a rusty-tin roof town of West Africa, where the jungle meets the savannah and spirits live in ba...
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The Dead Walker: A Tale of Día de los Muertos
ISBN: 9781489583659 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is the year 1850. Santos Vega, a hard working mayor, is left murdered, hanging on a tree on the eve of All Saints' Day by a sadistic cult leader known as "The Coyote." The Coyote and his evil Witch sister, along with their followers have been killing and enslaving people across the New Mexico territories. With Santos dead, and the madman in control, the cult makes plans for more converts using the dark magic of The Witch to aid their sinister cause during the town's celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Death itself however has plans for this recently deceased mayor. The Lady of Shadows,...
It is the year 1850. Santos Vega, a hard working mayor, is left murdered, hanging on a tree on the eve of All Saints' Day by a sadistic cult leader kn...
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