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The Women on the Island
ISBN: 9780295996332 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, "the women on the island" are prisoners of the power of the place, the power of the past, the power of desire and constraint. Yet like the jungle of jackfruit trees and bamboo itself, desire is a force that cannot be subdued. This novel illuminates the plight of a generation of men and women in post-war Vietnam. It explores issues of family and gender and charts Vietnam's effort to redefine its relationship to its past... Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptati... |
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478,37 zł |
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Characters Like Me- Chyna's Doll: Chyna And Luna
ISBN: 9780692529812 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Characters Like Me-Chyna's Doll is about a little girl named Chyna. Chyna is a biracial five year old girl with a father of African American descent and a mother of Asian American descent. It isn't until Chyna goes to show and tell at school with her favorite doll Luna that she begins questioning her racial identity. All around the classroom, the other girls bring dolls in looking like them. Chyna thinks about this and decides that because of her skin tone and features that she no longer fits in anywhere. When Chyna goes home, none of her dolls look just like her no matter how many African...
Characters Like Me-Chyna's Doll is about a little girl named Chyna. Chyna is a biracial five year old girl with a father of African American descent a...
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50,53 zł |
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The Code Rush
ISBN: 9781516817542 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel creates vivid images of Chinese engineer immigrants in Silicon Valley, and weaved with series funny and touching stories of their loves, lives, and adventures. Originally the first part of this novel was posted on a popular Chinese blog web site and has received over a million views, which motivated the author to complete the whole book. This novel is its own unique feast of delights and beloved by many readers.
This novel creates vivid images of Chinese engineer immigrants in Silicon Valley, and weaved with series funny and touching stories of their loves, li...
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73,51 zł |
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Her Asian Billionaire: A BWAM Pregnancy Love Story
ISBN: 9781517729318 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete story, brought to you by Mary Peart of BWWM Club. If you had to choose between love and a billion dollar fortune, which would you go with? That's the exact situation billionaire John is facing. Having fallen hard for Rosa, an African American woman 'from the wrong side of town', he now faces his disapproving parents cutting him off from the family fortune. But Rosa is a smart and attractive woman who's worked hard and now successfully manages a restaurant. What's more, she's also pregnant with John's child. When all is said and done, will he choose the woman and family he's come to...
A complete story, brought to you by Mary Peart of BWWM Club. If you had to choose between love and a billion dollar fortune, which would you go with? ...
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55,13 zł |
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GEN San Francisco II
ISBN: 9780996693530 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matthew Kim and Scarlet Love finish their humble Kickstarter campaign with two unexpected supporters. Perhaps the rest of the world will laugh at their business scale. Perhaps their classmates will quickly raise millions from highly-networked investors. Unfazed by deterrents, Scarlet and Matthew continue pushing to apply their 3D-printing and bio-material ideas to their new venture: GEN SF. One night, Matthew walks into a seemingly ordinary restaurant, but finds an extraordinary dining experience with Scarlet instead. Everything is cooked and presented perfectly, while their conversation...
Matthew Kim and Scarlet Love finish their humble Kickstarter campaign with two unexpected supporters. Perhaps the rest of the world will laugh at thei...
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45,93 zł |
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Fear The Living: A No Sin Mystery
ISBN: 9781499283471 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eager to repent for his wealth, society detective, Zephyr Davies, agrees to assist an old friend when she asks him to look into the baffling death of her husband, one of five men found dead under very unusual circumstances in a crowded speakeasy. Assisted by his twenty-one year old Chinese friend, No Sin, Davies' investigation takes him across America in the early days of the Great Depression Though new to the United States, and still learning English, No Sin is far from a fawning sidekick. Temperamental, with a keen intellect, he is full of pride and has a biting sense of humor. Despite a...
Eager to repent for his wealth, society detective, Zephyr Davies, agrees to assist an old friend when she asks him to look into the baffling death of ...
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85,05 zł |
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The Tea Set
ISBN: 9781517700201 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in 1930s China during the Japanese occupation, The Tea Set is the story of Siu-mui, a young Chinese woman with a powerful and controlling Warlord father. She rejects her father's attempts to marry her off into the proper family. She rejects the idea of marriage as well and ends up instead pursuing her education in Shanghai. Here she falls in love with her young professor who is not only the son of her father's political adversary but also involved in the early communist uprising. War throws them together, but family and Chinese tradition tear them apart. Their only hope to continue their...
Set in 1930s China during the Japanese occupation, The Tea Set is the story of Siu-mui, a young Chinese woman with a powerful and controlling Warlord ...
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68,96 zł |
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The Joy Luck Club
ISBN: 9780143129493 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps,... Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a ...
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78,81 zł |
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Marrying Her Asian Billionaire: A BWAM Marriage Of Convenience Romance For Adults
ISBN: 9781519729194 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,53 zł |
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Her Asians Billionaire's Baby: A BWAM Pregnancy Romance For Adults
ISBN: 9781522956648 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,53 zł |
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The Melting Season
ISBN: 9780996485029 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anne Panning: In his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.
Anne Panning: In his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclu...
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83,32 zł |
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China Rich Girlfriend
ISBN: 9780804172066 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan) comes a deliciously fun story of family, fortune, and fame in Mainland China. It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiance willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be...
From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and ...
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64,84 zł |
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Lotus
ISBN: 9780692450420 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young Chinese woman arrives in America on the verge of becoming a mother. In a new land with no family other than her husband to help her, she is faced with losing her own dreams and her child as nature and evil threaten her world. When her new friends cannot saver her, she must learn than she will go to any length, including giving up herself and her own dreams to save her child and stop evil from spreading. Set in San Francisco during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
A young Chinese woman arrives in America on the verge of becoming a mother. In a new land with no family other than her husband to help her, she is fa...
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64,13 zł |
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602 Brigade: If Honda Betrayed Japan
ISBN: 9781530703753 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,93 zł |
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The Art of Confidence
ISBN: 9781617734892 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years longer than I had lived in my homeland that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit.
Liu Qingwu doesn t set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative commission he receives from a Chelsea art dealer is more complicated than he initially realizes. Liu has been hired to create not... I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years longer than I had lived in my homeland that I had been here in America....
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70,06 zł |
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Can Nha Sau Cua Bien: Can Nha Sau Cua Bien
ISBN: 9781530239306 / Wietnamski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,95 zł |
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Temporary People
ISBN: 9781632061423 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.... The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation."...
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identiti...
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72,56 zł |
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
ISBN: 9781501154829 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller,...
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been a...
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131,36 zł |
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Marrying Her Rich Asian Widower: A BWAM Marriage Romance For Adults
ISBN: 9781534643239 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,13 zł |
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Dragonfly Dreams
ISBN: 9781533218476 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,33 zł |
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