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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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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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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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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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Lantern Jack: The Adventure Begins
ISBN: 9780955597107 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,43 |
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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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96,93 |
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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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36,56 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thee Needs Killing Marly
ISBN: 9781475094572 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Thee Needs Killing Marly' Driving to work, skilled, San Jose Internist and Addiction Specialist, Richard Drinkwater is ambushed and shot in the shoulder by a masked man; fortunately, one with poor aim. Police are stymied. The doc soon suspects one of his patients, Marly Doan, a successful but cocaine-addicted and paranoid defense attorney who thinks his doc gave confidential, medical information to a legal panel resulting in disbarment and criminal charges. In addition to pain, terror and rage over this event, Drinkwater is already enduring a significant episodic depression . After a bungled...
'Thee Needs Killing Marly' Driving to work, skilled, San Jose Internist and Addiction Specialist, Richard Drinkwater is ambushed and shot in the shoul...
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Melina: A Departure From Tradition
ISBN: 9781456456924 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MELINA, a young Greek woman, who after she is engaged to Antonio, a Canadian of Italian descent, becomes a victim of her future father-in-law's obsession with upholding the traditions of his ancestors. She is a remarkable young woman who, after the loss of her memory in an accident, adapts to change and courageously struggles to discover who she really is.
MELINA, a young Greek woman, who after she is engaged to Antonio, a Canadian of Italian descent, becomes a victim of her future father-in-law's obsess...
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Forgotten Country
ISBN: 9781594486524 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick
A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one. Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild The night before Janie s sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, and Janie is told to keep Hannah safe. Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie goes to find her.Thus begins a journey thatwill force her to confront... A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick
A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me ... |
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Disunity
ISBN: 9781782671060 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant's life in Germany. The chapters of this multi-layered novel form a narrative mosaic of episodes set in both real and surreal worlds. The novel deals with problems of self-identification, national identity and the crises of the generation of "new Europeans." In the second novel, A Parade of Mirrors and Reflection, the writer turns his attention to human cloning, an issue very much at the...
The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes ...
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The Legends: The Story of Fergus (American Edition)
ISBN: 9781475217001 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over three thousand years ago, the legendary Celtic champion Cuchulainn was killed by order of the evil Queen Meadhbh. His wife, who had just given birth to twin boys, died of grief and a broken heart. To protect the orphaned twins from the wrath of the queen, one child, Ferdia, was sent to live with his grandfather in Tir na nOg, the land of eternal youth. Fergus, the second boy could not make the journey, and so the twins were separated. Ultimately the two boys grow up in the same land...but in very different times. While the first book in the Legends series is the story of Ferdia as he...
Over three thousand years ago, the legendary Celtic champion Cuchulainn was killed by order of the evil Queen Meadhbh. His wife, who had just given bi...
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The Legends: The Story of Fergus (Irish edition)
ISBN: 9781475216981 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over three thousand years ago, the legendary Celtic champion Cuchulainn was killed by order of the evil Queen Meadhbh. His wife, who had just given birth to twin boys, died of grief and a broken heart. To protect the orphaned twins from the wrath of the queen, one child, Ferdia, was sent to live with his grandfather in Tir na nOg, the land of eternal youth. Fergus, the second boy could not make the journey, and so the twins were separated. Ultimately the two boys grow up in the same land...but in very different times. This is the story of Fergus, the boy who remained in Celtic Ireland. Fergus...
Over three thousand years ago, the legendary Celtic champion Cuchulainn was killed by order of the evil Queen Meadhbh. His wife, who had just given bi...
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