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Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry
ISBN: 9781608622832 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains includes several short stories based on the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains. Before the time of cell-phones, computers and television, family members would gather on the front porch and offer up stories through simple oral traditions. These stories were to provide simple forms of entertainment to their children. With each generation, the stories become more elaborate and creative. These yarns became known as Appalachian folklore. Mountain people have always led a difficult life; but how they dealt with their struggles is a unique perspective on...
Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains includes several short stories based on the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains. Before the time of cell-ph...
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53,45 zł |
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Zero and Other Fictions
ISBN: 9780231157407 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's attention. After decades of innovative work, he is now one of Asia's most celebrated authors, crucial to understanding the development of Taiwanese literature over the past fifty years. The first collection of Huang Fan's work to appear in English, this anthology includes Zero, a prize-winning dystopian novella echoing George Orwell's chilling 1984. Set in a postapocalyptic world, Zero features Xi De, a young man raised in an elite...
Huang Fan burst onto Taiwan's literary scene in the 1980s, publishing pointed urban portraits and political satires that captured the reading public's...
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120,35 zł |
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The World Through the Eyes of Angels
ISBN: 9780815609919 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up. Burdened with chores from an early age, and afflicted with an older brother who persecutes him with mindless sadism, the child finds happiness only in stolen moments with his beloved older sister and with friends in the streets. Closest to his heart are three girls, encountered by chance: a Muslim, a...
Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ...
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78,21 zł |
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Diddle
ISBN: 9781908011183 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "American Dream" mythos. Somehow each story typifies the experience of life for outsiders in the US, coupled with the impossibility of absolute acculturation. The book comprises a dozen short stories, each generated out of a line from the old nursery rhyme, laced with double entendres, multiple meanings and overlaps. These tales, written by a poet with a rich touch of language, question the very notion of identity and belonging, instead presenting the...
Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "America...
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73,21 zł |
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Renny
ISBN: 9781478701729 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,00 zł |
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Skin Deep
ISBN: 9780976098805 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biracial but white-looking, Nina Moore is the daughter of a rich and famous black musician and a deceased white woman no one in the family will talk about. Burdened with secrets her father refuses to divulge, Nina finds that living as a black woman in white skin, she's attracting the wrong men, receiving privileges she didn't earn and running from a past she didn't create. After dumping her colorstruck fiance, Nina falls for Ahmad Jefferson, a sexy and intriguing ex-convict and single father who has no love for white folks and won't give her the time of day. While Ahmad focuses on raising his...
Biracial but white-looking, Nina Moore is the daughter of a rich and famous black musician and a deceased white woman no one in the family will talk a...
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59,43 zł |
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Storyteller
ISBN: 9780143121282 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now back in print--a classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that she heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time,... Now back in print--a classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko's groundbre... |
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113,30 zł |
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Only a Girl
ISBN: 9780983627371 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three generations of Chinese women struggle for identity against a political backdrop of the World Depression, World War II, and the Indonesian Revolution. The unique ways in which Nanna, Carolien, and Jenny face their own challenges reveal the complex tale of Chinese society in Indonesia between 1930 and 1952. 298 pp.
Three generations of Chinese women struggle for identity against a political backdrop of the World Depression, World War II, and the Indonesian Revolu...
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99,13 zł |
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Le Point de non Retour (The Point of No Return )
ISBN: 9781466281295 / Angielski / Miękka / 804 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine leaving all you know behind for good to head for a land so far away and different that it is beyond your wildest dreams? That is what the Hebert family did. In fact, they had a very profitable business in running an apothecary in downtown Paris and all was perfect. That is for anyone else, but them. Yet their dreams pushed and drove them to run for the unfathomable new world so far across the ocean. In those days, Canada was a vast wilderness filled with mystery and promise .Untouched and raw. Anything could happen. Louis Hebert went ahead to the new world to see what it was all about...
Imagine leaving all you know behind for good to head for a land so far away and different that it is beyond your wildest dreams? That is what the Hebe...
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128,02 zł |
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Tender Years
ISBN: 9781612046587 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tender Years is the touching story of a boy named Eumu, who was born to a Korean family in Osaka, Japan, during World War II. When his mother dies of TB when he is less than three years old, his grandmother abducts him, taking him to a remote Korean village. His grandmother's unconditional love helps Eumu live without a mother or father, but ten years later, he is returned to his father in Tokyo. Eumu feels as though he is waking up from a dream never ending, and entering into another dream. The little boy Eumu is in fact a mystery, even to the author. The mystery has to do with the...
Tender Years is the touching story of a boy named Eumu, who was born to a Korean family in Osaka, Japan, during World War II. When his mother dies of ...
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54,47 zł |
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Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense: Two Novellas
ISBN: 9780857425010 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the wake of the Pakistani army's attacks on Bengali people. Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, two novellas by Bangladeshi writer Syed Shamsul Haq, bear bleak witness to the mindless violence and death of that period. Blue Venom tells of a middle-aged middle manager who is arrested and taken to a cell, where he is slowly tortured to death for being a namesake of a rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Forbidden Incense, meanwhile,...
Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the wak...
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82,01 zł |
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Strip the Willow
ISBN: 9781618971876 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the summer of 1911 in the vast outer reaches of the Ukraine, a place where few people live, a wild eighteen-year-old Gypsy girl named Natasha is allowed to run free. She meets Nick Rostov, a Russian boy, and falls in love with him in the simmering summer heat. He is two years her senior, but still just a boy. Running wild together, they become intimate during their summer of love. It isn't long before Natasha becomes pregnant and marries Nick. Natasha is forced to leave Russia and her own family behind when Nick's family decides to immigrate to America for a better life. They walk to...
Over the summer of 1911 in the vast outer reaches of the Ukraine, a place where few people live, a wild eighteen-year-old Gypsy girl named Natasha is ...
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111,12 zł |
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Cousin Henry: a novel. By: Anthony Trollope: The story deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an
ISBN: 9781542895460 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,91 zł |
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Lost in the City - 20th Anniversary Edition: Stories
ISBN: 9780062193216 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers." "These 14 stories of African-American life...affirm humanity as only good literature can." A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. Jones to national attention. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors... "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers." "... |
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69,68 zł |
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Ben's Last Amnesty
ISBN: 9781470088712 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martha's life in the city wasn't going as she had planned. When her family learns of the sudden passing of their emotionally distant father in the deteriorating little town of Amnesty, their former hometown, they designate Martha to go back and "clean up the mess Dad left behind. Someone's got to do it " She reluctantly agrees to go. Deciding to use this as an opportunity to re-examine her life she soon finds that old friends, some unexpected family members and the Green People are working together to keep her in Amnesty far longer than she ever intended.
Martha's life in the city wasn't going as she had planned. When her family learns of the sudden passing of their emotionally distant father in the det...
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41,13 zł |
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Home in the Morning
ISBN: 9781453258156 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Glickman's debut novel--available now as an ebook A powerful debut from a new literary talent, this novel tells the story of a Jewish family confronting the tumult of the 1960s--and the secrets that bind its members together Jackson Sassaport is a man who often finds himself in the middle. Whether torn between Stella, his beloved and opinionated Yankee wife, and Katherine Marie, the African American girl who first stole his teenage heart; or between standing up for his beliefs and acquiescing to his prominent Jewish family's imperative to not stand out in the segregated...
Glickman's debut novel--available now as an ebook A powerful debut from a new literary talent, this novel tells the story of a Jewish...
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82,75 zł |
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One More River
ISBN: 9781453258163 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of Home in the Morning comes this National Jewish Book Award Finalist: the sweeping story of a father and son, and of the loves that transform them amid the turbulence of the American South
Bernard Levy was always a mystery to the community of Guilford, Mississippi. He was even more of a mystery to his son, Mickey Moe, who was just four years old when his father died in World War II. Now it s 1962 and Mickey Moe is a grown man, who must prove his pedigree to the disapproving parents of his girlfriend, Laura Anne Needleman, to win her hand in marriage. With... From the author of Home in the Morning comes this National Jewish Book Award Finalist: the sweeping story of a father and son, and of the lo...
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87,11 zł |
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Benches: Yetta
ISBN: 9781475032888 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1940s, while her sons served in the war, my grandmother, Yetta, sat on the benches in the Bronx, New York, almost every day. Everywhere in the world, people sit together and share ideas, hopes, joy and sorrow. This book presents some events-as I remember them-as if in the minds and out of the mouths of people I knew.
In the 1940s, while her sons served in the war, my grandmother, Yetta, sat on the benches in the Bronx, New York, almost every day. Everywhere in the ...
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82,36 zł |
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Ripple
ISBN: 9781491224229 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ripple is a town which was born on a rocky hillside in North Carolina over 250 years ago. Goldie is your guide who takes you down the trail of time in this intriguing and truthful, sometimes humorous, sometimes horrid, tale of a few of the very unforgettable characters who have lived and now live in Ripple. You will witness the ascension of Ripple and then its collapse as Goldie, now quite older, recalls growing up in Ripple and what life was like being of mixed heritage. She describes the woeful collapse of Ripple and the astonishing characters who brought it about. You will never forget...
Ripple is a town which was born on a rocky hillside in North Carolina over 250 years ago. Goldie is your guide who takes you down the trail of time in...
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31,98 zł |
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Master Davey and The Magic Tea House: Legend of the Blue Tiger
ISBN: 9781492263319 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The precious Blue Tiger tea is about to be lost to the world forever. Only Master Davey, the magical tea master, and his apprentice, Hopper Smith, can save it... but will Hopper have the courage and the power to unlock the tea's story and save the tea? Across the Himalays, through ancient tea forests and trecherous monsoons, Hopper must discover the secret of the Blue Tiger Tea and face the ferocious Blue Tiger to achieve his mission. A book for the whole family to enjoy. Get the Gift with the Blue Tiger Tea: http:...
The precious Blue Tiger tea is about to be lost to the world forever. Only Master Davey, the magical tea master, and his apprentice, Hopper Smith, can...
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50,10 zł |
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