The Violet Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford
ISBN: 9781473335332 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Violet Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford' forms part of Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books series -- a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own colour, and all in all, 437 tales from a wide array of cultures and countries are presented. Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist and literary critic, with a passion for folkloric story telling. Most of his volumes (including this, 'The Violet Fairy Book') were beautifully illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860 - 1941), an inordinately talented artist...
'The Violet Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford' forms part of Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books series -- a series of twelve collections of fai...
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287,13 zł |
Retrato En Sepia / Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia - Spanish-Language Edition
ISBN: 9780525433521 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En el Chile del siglo XIX, Aurora del Valle sufre un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco anos de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, libre de muchas de las limitaciones que oprimen a las mujeres de su epoca, pero atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traicion del hombre al que ama y la soledad, Aurora decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.
En el Chile del siglo XIX, Aurora del Valle sufre un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco anos de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa a...
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68,38 zł |
La Casa de Los Espiritus / The House of the Spirits
ISBN: 9780525433477 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La casa de los espiritus narra la saga familiar de los Trueba, desde principios del siglo XX hasta nuestra epoca. Magistralmente ambientada en algun lugar de America Latina, la novela sigue paso a paso el dramatico y extravagante destino de unos personajes atrapados en un entorno sorprendente y exotico. Una novela de impecable pulso estilistico y aguda lucidez historica y social.
La casa de los espiritus narra la saga familiar de los Trueba, desde principios del siglo XX hasta nuestra epoca. Magistralmente ambientada en ...
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80,99 zł |
Eva Luna (Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9780525433491 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su pais a traves de la memoria y la imaginacion. La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nostalgico alter ego de la autora, que se llama a si misma "ladrona de historias" precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo. Novela de hondo perfil humano, Eva Luna funde el destino individual con el colectivo mediante una fulgurante prosa de caracter epico. Sin duda, una de las mejores obras de la literatura latinoamericana de los ultimos anos.
En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su pais a traves de la memoria y la imaginacion. La cautivadora protagonista de esta hi...
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76,71 zł |
The Yellow Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford
ISBN: 9781473332713 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Yellow Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford forms part of Andrew Langs Coloured Fairy Books series - a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own colour, and all in all, 437 tales from a wide array of cultures and countries are presented. Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist and literary critic, with a passion for folkloric story telling.
Most of his volumes (including this, The Yellow Fairy Book) were beautifully illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860 - 1941), an inordinately talented artist who... The Yellow Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford forms part of Andrew Langs Coloured Fairy Books series - a series of twelve collections of fairy ta...
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153,11 zł |
Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo
ISBN: 9780062384379 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with "a devil in her head" about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life. Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex is his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son, Max--adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex's view that "adopted children are second-class." At once a salvation and a mystery to... Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with "a devil in her head" about becoming a chef instead of a me... |
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81,15 zł |
Secrets of Worry Dolls
ISBN: 9781942545651 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you--therefore, it follows that Worry Dolls are the keepers of a great many secrets . . . On the eve of the end of the world--according to the Mayan calendar--Mari Guarez Roselli's secrets are being unraveled by her daughter, Lu. Lu's worry dolls are at-capacity as she tries to outrun the ghosts from her past--including loved ones stolen on 9/11--by traveling through her mother's homeland of Guatemala, to discover the painful reasons behind her own dysfunctional... According to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you--therefore, it follows that... |
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71,56 zł |
Little Wagons, The – The Traumatic Birth of Sicily`s Cosa Nostra
ISBN: 9781785355288 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cosa Nostra was born a bastard. This book relates the atrocities of the adolescent child.
Cosa Nostra was born a bastard. This book relates the atrocities of the adolescent child.
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74,33 zł |
Mahuldiha Days
ISBN: 9789385932175 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, Mahuldiha Days is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional life. Anita Agnihotri paints a vivid picture in this novel of life in a rural Indian setting that is quickly vanishing. Agnihotri's narrator retraces her childhood and early adulthood, and her intense, visual memories--including the neighborhood park that was her favorite refuge as a lonely child and the river in a tribal zone of hills and forests where she was posted for her first job as a civil servant--are recalled here in evocative...
Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, Mahuldiha Days is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional li...
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79,70 zł |
Story of a Hippie: Coming of Age in an Era of Change
ISBN: 9781944781392 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was it like to be 'coming of age' in such a wild and radical era of change? People say ... "I wish I'd grown up in the Sixties" ... or they ask, "I wonder what it was like to have been a hippie?" Most people don't realize how close America came to having yet another armed revolution at the end of the 1960's. Now, discover what it was really like being a hippie during this miraculous time. This is a fictional novel, based upon historical events, about those who made it all happen. It wasn't only about drugs, sex and music, ... and the new Peace & Love crusade wasn't always so peaceful.... What was it like to be 'coming of age' in such a wild and radical era of change? People say ... "I wish I'd grown up in the Sixties" ... or they as... |
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62,17 zł |
La Suma de Los Días / The Sum of Our Days: Spanish-Language Edition of the Sum of Our Days
ISBN: 9780525433613 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En La suma de los dias, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un espiritu; hijas perdidas, nietos y libros que nacen, exitos y dolores, un viaje al mundo de las adicciones y otros a lugares remotos del mundo en busca de inspiracion, junto a divorcios, encuentros, amores, separaciones, crisis de pareja y reconciliaciones.
Tambien es una historia de amor entre un hombre y una mujer maduros, que han salvado muchos escollos sin perder ni la... En La suma de los dias, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abiert...
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76,71 zł |
de Amor Y de Sombra / Of Love and Shadows: Spanish-Language Edition of of Love and Shadows
ISBN: 9780525433576 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvandose asi de una existencia vulgar. Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dramaticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de America Latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza. Un conmovedor testimonio en el cual la autora no pretende denunciar lo ya sabido, sino mediante un exquisito arte de novelista ahondar en el sentido de todo lo que pasa y hacerlo mas humano.
Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvandose asi de una existencia vulgar. Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, ...
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68,38 zł |
Paula(spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9780525433507 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paula es el libro mas conmovedor, mas personal y mas intimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que agonizaba su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribio la historia de su familia y de si misma con el proposito de regalarsela a Paula cuando esta superara el dramatico trance. El resultado se convirtio en un autorretrato de insolita emotividad y en una exquisita recreacion de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra epoca.
Paula es el libro mas conmovedor, mas personal y mas intimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que agonizaba su hija Paula, la gran narradora...
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72,44 zł |
A Fugitive in Walden Woods
ISBN: 9781942658221 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Fugitive in Walden Woods manages that special magic of making Thoreau's time in Walden Woods seem fresh and surprising and necessary right now. Norman Lock tells the story of Samuel Long, an escaped slave who encounters Thoreau, with insight and some welcome humor. This is a patient and perceptive novel, a pleasure to read even as it grapples with issues that affect the United States to this day."--Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Changeling "Portraying the traumatic psychological aftershock not of war but of slavery provides a...
"A Fugitive in Walden Woods manages that special magic of making Thoreau's time in Walden Woods seem fresh and surprising and necessary right n...
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72,61 zł |
Mother East, Daughter West
ISBN: 9781532005411 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-year-old Monique has grown up in Boston, the daughter of a Lebanese mother and an American father who never wanted her. Now after being absent for nearly her entire life, Dennis is traveling from the Middle East to visit his wife, Marcelle, and Monica. But returning to his family will not be as easy as he thinks. Monique, a virgin who has witnessed her mother clinging to a dead marriage for years, resents him.
As Monique learns secrets from her father’s past and attempts to move past her bitterness, Dennis makes an effort to heal their relationship by... Twenty-year-old Monique has grown up in Boston, the daughter of a Lebanese mother and an American father who never wanted her. Now after being abse... |
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59,79 zł |
A House Divided
ISBN: 9781496707918 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal--or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs we do for the right reasons, and the ways we struggle to reconcile the truth. Journalist Zoie Crawford had to leave New Orleans to finally make her own life. Her grandmother, Claudia, inspired her to follow her dreams--just as her mother, Rose, held on too tight. But with Claudia's passing, Zoie reluctantly returns home, where the past is written in the lonely corners of the bayou and the New South's supercharged corridors of power....
Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal--or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs...
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72,65 zł |
A Suitcase Full of Dried Fish and Other Stories
ISBN: 9789991054445 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Distinctively and splendidly adventurous, romantic, historical, and funny, ranging from the harrowing slum of Katakoumbay to the comforts of the developed world, this collection of stories investigates the complexities of human relationships. The language is contemporary and often unrelenting. The book is a timely expose on the joys and disillusionment of post-independence Africa and the Caribbean. "A Suitcase Full of Dried Fish and other stories" is written from the viewpoint of characters replete with emotion and stinging dialogue. We read about the secrets of online dating; the trial of a...
Distinctively and splendidly adventurous, romantic, historical, and funny, ranging from the harrowing slum of Katakoumbay to the comforts of the devel...
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53,84 zł |
River of the Stick Wavers
ISBN: 9781460289358 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. Always a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, the widow is unmoored by her loneliness, fearing the slightest rapid will sweep her away. Grace travels to the French River in Northern Ontario, to grieve her loss and draw strength from the wild landscape. There she forms friendships with two fiercely independent women who challenge her to carve her own path in the world. As Grace begins to heal, her faith and courage are tested in unexpected ways.... Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. A... |
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138,76 zł |
River of the Stick Wavers
ISBN: 9781460289365 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. Always a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, the widow is unmoored by her loneliness, fearing the slightest rapid will sweep her away. Grace travels to the French River in Northern Ontario, to grieve her loss and draw strength from the wild landscape. There she forms friendships with two fiercely independent women who challenge her to carve her own path in the world. As Grace begins to heal, her faith and courage are tested in unexpected ways.... Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. A... |
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105,25 zł |
The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
ISBN: 9781473334670 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of J taka Tales. However, the author confesses to 'ruthlessly' altering them for the amusement of children and occasionally borrowing a 'phrase or a versicle'.
This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of J taka Tales. However, the author confesses to 'ruthlessly' alte... |
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95,68 zł |