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The Golden Son
ISBN: 9780062442116 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood friends--a young doctor and a newly married bride--must balance the expectations of their culture and their families with the desires of their own hearts. The first of his family to go to college, Anil Patel, the golden son, carries the weight of tradition and his family's expectations when he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical residency in Dallas,... The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, re... |
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Granddaddy Joe: Links In The Chain Of My Life
ISBN: 9781512309621 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I was thinking back to that day when I was at Seminary Ridge. I can still remember it clearly to this day. The bullets were flying all around me. Cannonballs were swooping past. I saw my cousin, George, killed right before my eyes. I ran with all my might, constantly firing. I followed Armistead over the wall. ..... The Federals were coming from everywhere. It was chaos. It was so loud from the bullets and cannons, but I think I was in shock because it seemed silent; everyone was running around, smoke was everywhere. Yet, I seemed numb, and then I fell to the ground. I felt a pain in my leg...
"I was thinking back to that day when I was at Seminary Ridge. I can still remember it clearly to this day. The bullets were flying all around me. Can...
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The Children of the Gods: The Hurricane's Brothers
ISBN: 9781927308318 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latou was persuaded by his daughter Langi to take them on a trip to the land of the Gods. Latou was afraid because it is dangerous, then he remembered the Seer and his brothers the Giant Fish and the Hurricane. They can help them reach the land of the Gods safely. He took the family to find Sacred Island and the Seer only to be carried there by the Giant Fish
Latou was persuaded by his daughter Langi to take them on a trip to the land of the Gods. Latou was afraid because it is dangerous, then he remembered...
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To Caroline-Love, Auntie
ISBN: 9781480819382 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scientist and engineer Lauren Giulio knows she cannot ignore her inner voice anymore. Determined to unravel the mystery surrounding her deceased father's childhood and uncover the events that lured both her father and her down a path contrary to cultural and social attitudes, Lauren ignores her husband's concerns about her emotional well-being and travels to her father's home in Panni, Italy, with the hope of finding answers. After Lauren's plane lands in Rome, her husband's fears become a reality when a cab driver shares intimate details of his family that disconcertingly mirrored... Scientist and engineer Lauren Giulio knows she cannot ignore her inner voice anymore. Determined to unravel the mystery surrounding her deceased fa... |
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Dos Santos - Novela
ISBN: 9781514283738 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DOS SANTOS - PREMIADO CON EL SEGUNDO LUGAR EN LA CATEGORIA DE NOVELAS HISTORICAS DEL INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD (ILBA) DE 2013 La trama de Dos Santos toma lugar en los primeros dias de la conquista espanola de la isla caribena hoy llamada Puerto Rico. En la epoca cuando el pueblo taino llamaba a su isla hogar Boriken, los espanoles se referian a ella como la isla de San Juan Bautista. Alli, dos culturas muy diferentes se enfrentaron en una lucha que ayudo a definir a un nuevo pueblo. En medio de esa lucha, un hombre se dispuso a crear una vida para si mismo. Tomando riesgos para cambiar...
DOS SANTOS - PREMIADO CON EL SEGUNDO LUGAR EN LA CATEGORIA DE NOVELAS HISTORICAS DEL INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD (ILBA) DE 2013 La trama de Dos Sa...
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That Other Me
ISBN: 9780062391384 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish, Maha Gargash's second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members--an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and a vulnerable niece--of a prominent Emirati family. Majed, the head of the eminent Naseemy family, is proud to have risen into the upper echelons of Emirati society. As one of the richest businessmen in Dubai, he's used to being catered to and respected--never mind that he acquired his wealth by cheating his brother... From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish, Maha Gargash's second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tell... |
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Celtic Tree Wisdom and Magick: (B & W Edition)
ISBN: 9781494859237 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trees are common archetypes among all cultures around the world. In fact, Sacred Trees are found not only in the Celtic one but also in the Norse, Hindu, and Egyptian, to name a few... Even on Christian traditions we can certainly trace the questionable (so called) "pagan" origins of the Christmas tree, a symbolism in unison with the evergreen trees of the eternal life. Celts had a strong worship of nature sprites, and trees were primarily believed to be the residence of these regent spirits or divinities. Being in fact, a Celtic religion belief accepted nowadays as relatively certain, such...
Trees are common archetypes among all cultures around the world. In fact, Sacred Trees are found not only in the Celtic one but also in the Norse, Hin...
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Varela's Man
ISBN: 9781508715474 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Narrator discovers some 8 millimeter footage of a military debacle which he has tried, unsuccessfully, to forget. From the recollections of a Cuban childhood in a world of sugar plantations, horseback rides, and his new friendship with Armando Perez, who even at a young age possesses the integrity and bravery the Narrator desires within himself are darkened by the political turn their country is about to take. In the capital, studying law at the University of La Habana, the political conscience of the two childhood friends develops when they join an organization established by Padre Raul...
The Narrator discovers some 8 millimeter footage of a military debacle which he has tried, unsuccessfully, to forget. From the recollections of a Cuba...
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A Strange Detached Fragment
ISBN: 9781514396186 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mississippi Delta is both a real and a mythical place. This story of a boy's childhood is set in that strange and remarkable part of the world that is home to some of the richest farmland and some of the poorest people in America. A disproportionally large share of America's art, literature and music has come from the Mississippi Delta. Those who have never been there cannot imagine the place, and those who have lived there cannot forget it.
The Mississippi Delta is both a real and a mythical place. This story of a boy's childhood is set in that strange and remarkable part of the world tha...
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Big Redd and Her Girl: Introducing Lucianna
ISBN: 9781515100447 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big Redd, a beautiful Plott Hound, Red Bone mix breed champion hunting dog becomes friends with a little Appalachian girl. Together they roam the mountains of Western North Carolina and find adventure, humor, and a large dose of culture.
Big Redd, a beautiful Plott Hound, Red Bone mix breed champion hunting dog becomes friends with a little Appalachian girl. Together they roam the moun...
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Barrio Writers
ISBN: 9781622881499 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "BarrioWriters" brings an impressive breadth and depth of emotion and cultural insights which can t be overstated. These readings are extraordinary because, together, the prose and poetry collected here by these bright young writers capture, almost all at once, what their lives are truly about, how their lives have been challenged, and yet, most importantly, how these youth almost always manage to triumph, through the very act of writing. The tough insights into their lives these writings bring come to us because of the profound understanding these youth have of how precious and fragile their...
"BarrioWriters" brings an impressive breadth and depth of emotion and cultural insights which can t be overstated. These readings are extraordinary be...
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Niki's Honor
ISBN: 9781634179140 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Niki's Honor" is a tragic and powerful story about an innocent victim of "honor killing" practices and the family she seeks to protect. Based on actual events still occurring in many parts of the world, this book reveals the realities of these unspeakable acts committed against girls and women, and usually carried out by their own family members. In a Soviet occupied country, Niki, a beautiful young rural Pashtun village girl, becomes entangled in a series of events that brings an end to her fairy tale dreams. She becomes a casualty of a culture where a family's honor and pride is more...
"Niki's Honor" is a tragic and powerful story about an innocent victim of "honor killing" practices and the family she seeks to protect. Based on actu...
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The Kingdom of Chen: Text Version!!!
ISBN: 9781515316893 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My name is Chinie Chin Chen. I am the Emperor of the Kingdom of Chen. We're a small kingdom, recently founded. I am the first emperor I would like to share with you the story of how we founded the Kingdom of Chen and how I became its Emperor. It is a story about faith, humility, courage, wisdom, leadership, strategy, ingenuity, and love...about choosing between life and death...about respecting your opponent and understanding his deception...about divine intervention and awesome power...and about eternal salvation. In it, we tell the tale of how the Kingdom of Chen battled evil and emerged...
My name is Chinie Chin Chen. I am the Emperor of the Kingdom of Chen. We're a small kingdom, recently founded. I am the first emperor I would like ...
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Twisted Tales
ISBN: 9781478760122 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fictional tales are surprisingly powerful, but only those with real eyes, realize, real lies. As an amateur writer, my goal in putting this publication together was to build the reader's interest up thinking one way and close it out with a sudden twist in a different direction. The beautiful lies of novels, movies, and TV stories can have that effect. I hope these short tales were thought provoking for you. For me, I used this as a way of exploring new approaches to this age old craft as I shared these twisted tales of life's stories Tony Carnegie.
Fictional tales are surprisingly powerful, but only those with real eyes, realize, real lies. As an amateur writer, my goal in putting this publicatio...
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Memoirs of a Misfit
ISBN: 9781491762967 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Papa's Obsession
ISBN: 9781939930507 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Journey of the Bell - The Beginning (Large Font): The Ari Cohen Series
ISBN: 9781516915187 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two hundred years ago, America's founding fathers created not only a new government, but a secret society meant to safeguard the ideals of the nation's hard-won freedom. This is their story; the beginning of the Eyes of Athena.
Two hundred years ago, America's founding fathers created not only a new government, but a secret society meant to safeguard the ideals of the nation'...
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From Death to Life: and other stories
ISBN: 9781516859924 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the darkness you can only go so fast before you smash into something. Or someone. And nearly kill them...does it make you a murderer then? That's what haunted Ron for years until he finally he meets the very man again. And he faces for the first time in his life a Death to Life experience. A book of exciting, dramatic stories that will give you a gut ache--and tears in your eyes. A must read
In the darkness you can only go so fast before you smash into something. Or someone. And nearly kill them...does it make you a murderer then? That's w...
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The Bucktail Cap in the Trunk: More Secrets of Marienstadt
ISBN: 9781514856659 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Return to the fictional town of Marienstadt, a Pennsylvania Dutch community in the Allegheny Highlands that readers fell in love with in The Whiskey Bottle in the Wall: Secrets of Marienstadt and The Christmas Daughter: A Marienstadt Story. In these thirteen stories you will once again walk the streets of Marienstadt where Chief of Police Henry Werner keeps things safe -- and interesting. Visit Lola's Strudel Shop, Gretchen's Calico Cuckoo Quilting Fabrics and Supplies, The Wilde Hotel and Tavern, and Opelt's Wood. This time the citizens of Marienstadt make discoveries that lead them into...
Return to the fictional town of Marienstadt, a Pennsylvania Dutch community in the Allegheny Highlands that readers fell in love with in The Whiskey B...
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Odysseus Abroad
ISBN: 9781101971451 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri charts a day in the life of two Indian men a twenty-two-year-old student trying (and failing) at being a poet and his bachelor uncle, who has been living in genteel poverty for nearly three decades as they explore London, the city they now call home.
A wistful and beguiling work of fiction, the novel follows nephew and uncle on one of their weekly forays about town, as they ruminate on their situations, the art of living, and each other. Marked by the same sensual richness that is a hallmark of all of Chaudhuri s work, here is a charming yet... In Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri charts a day in the life of two Indian men a twenty-two-year-old student trying (and failing) at being a po...
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