Hiding Among the Palmettos / Escondiendo Entre Los Pamettos
ISBN: 9781588980021 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'I wonder why no one ever left Charleston.' Is the town really an elite club for the privileged, or a prison for those trapped in a self-deceptive lifestyle? A tour of the Holy City's underbelly through the eyes of an amoral character lured by the seductive nature of the city's well-heeled establishment, who must choose between the pleasure of the moment and a more meaningful kind of relationship...'
'I wonder why no one ever left Charleston.' Is the town really an elite club for the privileged, or a prison for those trapped in a self-deceptive lif...
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40,34 zł |
Mademoiselle Chanel: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062356437 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel--the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman's daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her siblings are sent to orphanage after their mother's death. The sisters nurture Gabrielle's exceptional sewing skills, a talent that will propel the... For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines t... |
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68,33 zł |
The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9780804172899 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot
-Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.- --NPR -This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . . to imagine the unimaginable.- --The Guardian (London) -A tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound... A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune,...
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76,92 zł |
A Bad Character
ISBN: 9780804171335 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our narrator is twenty and untouched when her mother dies. Sent by her absentee father to live with a relative in a modest New Delhi apartment, she is ill-equipped to resist the allure of the rich and rebellious young man who approaches her one day at a cafe. He is a few years older, and from a different social class, but they both yearn to break free of tradition. As they drive around Delhi eating, making love, falling apart he introduces her to an India that she never knew existed, and will never be able to forget. Our narrator is twenty and untouched when her mother dies. Sent by her absentee father to live with a relative in a modest New Delhi apartment, she... |
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72,65 zł |
No Safeguards: Volume 113
ISBN: 9781550719840 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,84 zł |
The Underground
ISBN: 9781632060440 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named one of "the best Russian novels of the 21st Century," The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union's collapse. "I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town." So begins the story of Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and BBC journalist Hamid Ismailov. Born to a Siberian woman and an African athlete who came to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo must navigate the...
Named one of "the best Russian novels of the 21st Century," The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy naviga...
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72,61 zł |
The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 9781482530988 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro and Batman.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolu...
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40,16 zł |
Sins of a Mulatto Outcast: An 18-Hole Wayward Identity Quest
ISBN: 9781491756546 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homer grows up knowing he looks different than most kids in his neighborhood. Although both his parents are African American, his appearance more closely resembles a Caucasian. As he struggles to fit in with others in his African American race, Homer faces prejudice and bullying by those who brand him "the white kid," until he decides to fight back, transforming himself and his attitude forever. On his wayward journey to removing himself from his surroundings, Homer feels his looks are a curse which sets off a series of horrific events that test all his emotions. To others it seems as... Homer grows up knowing he looks different than most kids in his neighborhood. Although both his parents are African American, his appearance more c... |
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68,17 zł |
Mosaic: Caribbean Short Story Collection
ISBN: 9781421837291 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection by Jamaican-born writer, Barbara Paul-Emile, presents stories that focus on the vicissitudes of daily life as experienced by people in small towns and rural districts in the Caribbean islands. These tales deal with personal dilemmas, psychic crossroads, and social issues as shaped by the legacy of slavery, colonialism and national sovereignty, the complex heritage of the region. Set in the lush landscape of the tropical islands, individuals struggle to find personal fulfillment, advancement and validation in relationships and in society. Mosaic captures the important...
This collection by Jamaican-born writer, Barbara Paul-Emile, presents stories that focus on the vicissitudes of daily life as experienced by people in...
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71,56 zł |
The Moon in the Palace
ISBN: 9781492613565 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A RITA Award Winner There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's attention. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw... A RITA Award Winner |
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68,33 zł |
The Pickwick Papers
ISBN: 9781511792318 / Angielski / Miękka / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Pickwick Papers" from Charles Dickens. English writer and social critic (1812-1870).
"The Pickwick Papers" from Charles Dickens. English writer and social critic (1812-1870).
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Love, Death and Revolution
ISBN: 9780983627357 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Secret agent Sadeli, undercover merchant Umar Yunus, and ex-journalist Ali Nurdin experience love, loss, and sacrifice during Indonesia s revolution to overthrow Dutch colonialism. Early 1947: In a world still reeling from World War II, Indonesians revolt against Dutch attempts to recolonize their country. Major Sadeli of the Indonesian Army Intelligence travels to Singapore disguised as a sugar merchant, tasked with establishing naval and air routes to Sumatra and Java and securing weapons and radio equipment vital to the Indonesian revolution. His desire for Indonesia to be prosperously...
Secret agent Sadeli, undercover merchant Umar Yunus, and ex-journalist Ali Nurdin experience love, loss, and sacrifice during Indonesia s revolution t...
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97,22 zł |
Old Christmas
ISBN: 9781511856027 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Belonging
ISBN: 9781908434746 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Umi Sinha s unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland and of belonging - See more at: http: //myriadeditions.com/books/belonging/#sthash.CKAzTgEv.AUmi Sinha s unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland and of belonging - See more at: http: //myriadeditions.com/books/belonging/#sthash.CKAzTgEv.dpufUmi Sinha s unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland and...
Umi Sinha s unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland and of belongin...
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46,20 zł |
Reluctant Cassandra
ISBN: 9780996199902 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nothing much changes in historic Eagle Valley, Virginia. That's a good thing for Arden McCrae. It's easier to manage her visions of the future when there isn't much to see. Arden would rather stay buried in the certainty that comes with stories of the past. Fortunately, running the local antique store and keeping up with the Eagle Valley Historical Society gives her plenty of history to hide behind. When her aging parents are forced to sell their farm to pay for medical care, Arden sees big changes ahead. The sale threatens the historic status of Eagle Valley, and Arden's own store is in...
Nothing much changes in historic Eagle Valley, Virginia. That's a good thing for Arden McCrae. It's easier to manage her visions of the future when th...
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The Vegetarian
ISBN: 9780553448184 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Publisher's Weekly - Buzzfeed - Entertainment Weekly - Time - Wall Street Journal - Bustle - Elle - The Economist - Slate - The Huffington Post - The St. Louis Dispatch - Electric Literature A beautiful,... Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - P... |
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The Pickwick Papers
ISBN: 9781512084641 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.
The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public ca...
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47,07 zł |
Rendezvous with Destiny
ISBN: 9781508938651 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A well paced story about Destiny, discrimination, love, murder, revenge and the ultimate understanding between people in small town America. Houlton, Maine, doesn't afford many opportunities to members of the Maliseet tribe of Native Americans-including young Padgett Harvey, who is half Maliseet, half white. After her parents are murdered and her grandparents die in a fire, twelve-year-old Padgett is unceremoniously thrust into the foster care system. But despite her rough beginnings, she excels in school, goes to college, and enjoys a meteoric rise through the world of finance in New... A well paced story about Destiny, discrimination, love, murder, revenge and the ultimate understanding between people in small town America. Hoult... |
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67,26 zł |
The Fifth String
ISBN: 9781512164855 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Fifth String" from John Philip Sousa. American composer and conductor (1854-1932).
"The Fifth String" from John Philip Sousa. American composer and conductor (1854-1932).
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This House Is Not for Sale
ISBN: 9780061990908 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The award-winning author of Voice of America paints a vivid, fully imagined portrait of an extraordinary African family and the house that holds them together. A powerful tale of family and community, This House Is Not for Sale brings to life an African neighborhood and one remarkable house, seen through the eyes of a young member of the household. The house lies in a town seemingly lost in time, full of colorful, larger-than-life characters; at the narrative's heart are Grandpa, the family patriarch whose occasional cruelty is balanced by his willingness to open... The award-winning author of Voice of America paints a vivid, fully imagined portrait of an extraordinary African family and the house that... |
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64,06 zł |