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Dancing with Butterflies
ISBN: 9781439109069 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their Mexican heritage and a dance company called Alegria. Yesenia, who founded Alegria with her husband, Eduardo, sabotages her own efforts to remain a vital, vibrant woman when she travels back and forth across the Mexican border for cheap plastic surgery. Elena, grief stricken by the death of her only child and the end of her marriage, finds herself falling dangerously in love with one of her underage students. Elena's sister, Adriana, wears the...
Dancing with Butterflies uses the alternating voices of four very different women whose lives interconnect through a common passion for their M...
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77,03 zł |
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Cuentos de Amor, de Locura y de Muerte
ISBN: 9788498973204 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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156,02 zł |
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Amigoland
ISBN: 9780316018838 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino's good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather's kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it's never too late for a new beginning....
In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they ...
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121,34 zł |
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The Peter Pan Princess
ISBN: 9780991453474 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mimi Bennis was a happy girl living a sheltered life of privilege in 1950-1960'a Cuba. But her life was quickly turned upside down when Castro's regime comes calling and ceases her family's Tobacco Plantation. In order to protect her from the impending danger, her grandparents make arrangements to put her on one of the "Peter Pan" flights to Miami. Before she realized what was happening, the life she once knew had disappeared. She finds herself living in a group camp in Hialeah, Florida, without any survival skills and unable to take care of herself. Shunned by her American father, she's left...
Mimi Bennis was a happy girl living a sheltered life of privilege in 1950-1960'a Cuba. But her life was quickly turned upside down when Castro's regim...
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36,41 zł |
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El vigía de los dioses
ISBN: 9781490387888 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En El vigia de los dioses, nada escapa a los vigias, son los ojos de Dios en este plano de vida. Un espantoso suceso desencadena la decision de enviar a un ente a la Cuba de los Castro. La Ira Divina es canalizada a traves de este hombrecillo, que decide en persona enfrentar al dictador. La Cuba de los anos 90 retratada por una ficcion sacada de la mas punzante realidad, el absurdo y rociada por lo divino.
En El vigia de los dioses, nada escapa a los vigias, son los ojos de Dios en este plano de vida. Un espantoso suceso desencadena la decision de enviar...
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52,40 zł |
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El otro lado del rio
ISBN: 9781491231777 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El otro lado del rio es una novela que narra las circunstancias que orillan a un joven mexicano a buscar refugio en los Estados Unidos despues que un inesperado vuelco del destino le juega una mala pasada. Su vida cambia de manera extraordinaria, sin embargo la necesidad de regresar a su patria a buscar reivindicacion es un sentimiento siempre presente contra el cual pelea a diario. Escrita en un estilo accesible, pero con capitulos que se suceden a paso vertiginoso, el lector quedara atrapado por la intrigante sucesion de eventos y carismaticos personajes que pueblan esta dinamica...
El otro lado del rio es una novela que narra las circunstancias que orillan a un joven mexicano a buscar refugio en los Estados Unidos despues que un ...
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44,51 zł |
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House Divided
ISBN: 9780446507769 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once they had a country, a culture, a future. Today, upheaval and betrayal have turned their world upside down. And for one family-a U.S. war hero, his deeply religious wife, and their impressionable fourteen-year-old son-a new struggle has just begun.
Mano Suarez made a choice to fight against injustice, and his wife can only pray for his deliverance. Now their son, Pedro, takes up his father's cause . . . disappearing into the ranks of a cult-like organization and leaving his family far behind. To rescue him, Mano must face the consequences of his past deeds. But how can he convince his... Once they had a country, a culture, a future. Today, upheaval and betrayal have turned their world upside down. And for one family-a U.S. war hero, hi...
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106,77 zł |
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Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte
ISBN: 9781619491786 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair, exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the selection. Held to be among the greatest writers of short-fiction, Horacio Quiroga has been compared to Kipling and Poe.
This collection of stories includes tales about illness, despair, exile, and human brutality. The author himself compiled the selection. Held to be am...
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36,37 zł |
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Habana Madrid
ISBN: 9781475217247 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Habana - Madrid es la historia de un amor pasional entre un hombre que ha vivido durante anos sin compartir con nadie sus dudas y desilusiones sociales por simple instinto de conservacion y una muchacha sincera y apasionada que lo cuestiona todo. Con palabras, el le reconstruye las calles, edificios, fachadas y otros irresucitables fantasmas de su Habana. Ella, por tal de defender sus ideas, se quema las alas en el sol. Habana - Madrid es un homenaje a dos ciudades con mucho en comun y una reflexion sobre la conducta humana ante la imprecisa exaltacion del amor."
Habana - Madrid es la historia de un amor pasional entre un hombre que ha vivido durante anos sin compartir con nadie sus dudas y desilusiones sociale...
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76,67 zł |
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Block Captain's Daughter
ISBN: 9780806142913 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe s dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom.
In this highly imaginative work of fiction by the acclaimed author of Mother Tongue, Demetria Martinez weaves a portrait of six unforgettable characters,... Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in...
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56,54 zł |
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Sin ti no soy yo
ISBN: 9781475137750 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Segunda edicion revisada. El hecho de que una novela comience con una elegia la hace sospechosa; mucho mas cuando se trata de un homenaje a unas tias abuelas que en vida se dedicaban a resolver las complicaciones diarias con el poder del cannabis. Si anadimos a este dato, exotico por demas, que el resto de la familia era devota al espiritismo y con regularidad se reunia en la sala del abuelo para evocar las almas, obtenemos la receta perfecta para la construccion de quimeras. La satira, el erotismo y el humor se entrelazan con el asunto politico y social, asi como con las emociones mas...
Segunda edicion revisada. El hecho de que una novela comience con una elegia la hace sospechosa; mucho mas cuando se trata de un homenaje a unas tias ...
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40,47 zł |
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Rehenes del Odio
ISBN: 9780976207030 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalism works of the autor from 2000 to 2005.
Journalism works of the autor from 2000 to 2005.
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40,26 zł |
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The Hidden Light of Mexico City
ISBN: 9781475200799 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luz de Maria's dreams have been reduced to a notebook of newspaper clippings about famous artists and museum exhibits. She keeps it under the bed in the room she shares with the other maid who works for the wealthy Vega family in Mexico City. When Luz's father died years ago, she became the family breadwinner. The job in Mexico City gives her every other weekend off and enough money to make ends meet at home, a 4 hour bus ride away. The thought of what might have been still hurts. As a maid, Luz is trapped on the lowest rung of Mexico's social ladder. An untouchable. Dressed in her employer's...
Luz de Maria's dreams have been reduced to a notebook of newspaper clippings about famous artists and museum exhibits. She keeps it under the bed in t...
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64,70 zł |
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Mi Amigo Y Yo
ISBN: 9781479235551 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story follows the lives of two college friends in Cuba who have opposite fortunes after school ends. Each ends up emigrating to America to start a new life.
This story follows the lives of two college friends in Cuba who have opposite fortunes after school ends. Each ends up emigrating to America to start ...
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50,58 zł |
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El Libro de Los Americanos Desconocidos / The Book of Unknown Americans = The Book of the Unknown Americans
ISBN: 9780345806413 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dos familias cuyas esperanzas chocan con el destino. Y una extraordinaria novela que nos ofrece una poderosa y nueva definicion de lo que significa ser americano.
Arturo y Alma Rivera han vivido toda la vida en Mexico. Un dia, Maribel, la hija a la que tanto quieren, sufre un grave accidente y la probabilidad de que se recupere completamente es poca. Dejando todo atras, los Rivera emigran a los Estados Unidos con un solo sueno: que en este pais de tantos recursos y oportunidades, Maribel se recupere. Cuando Mayor Toro, cuya familia es de Panama, ve a Maribel en un Dollar Tree, es amor a... Dos familias cuyas esperanzas chocan con el destino. Y una extraordinaria novela que nos ofrece una poderosa y nueva definicion de lo que significa se...
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65,32 zł |
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City of Sorrows
ISBN: 9780615604701 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CITY OF SORROWS is an emotionally intense story about how relationships can get complicated, and how life is not always the way we want it to be . . . Under normal circumstances, they never would have met. Rajiv is an Indian immigrant, Andres a wealthy Spaniard, and Diego a poor Gypsy from the Southside of Seville. Just turned nineteen, Diego is recently married, madly in love, expecting his first child, and completely unaware that his life is about to come crashing down around him. On a dark road beside a sweetly-scented orange grove, Diego's life takes a tragic turn. He loses the woman he...
CITY OF SORROWS is an emotionally intense story about how relationships can get complicated, and how life is not always the way we want it to be . . ....
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48,51 zł |
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Ensalada de las Frutas: en la cocina de Abuela Rosa
ISBN: 9781530868766 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,65 zł |
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Mañana Means Heaven
ISBN: 9780816533930 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac's "The Mexican Girl." Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Manana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an aspiring young writer traveling across the United States. When they meet, Franco is a migrant farmworker with two children and a failing...
In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind...
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76,88 zł |
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Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul
ISBN: 9780816532759 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two brothers bury a statue of Saint Jude for their grieving nana. A Griffith Park astronomer makes his own discovery at an East L.A. wedding. A young man springs his Cherokee-obsessed grandfather from the confines of senility. The common thread? Each is weaving their way through the challenging field of play that is living and loving in Los Angeles. In Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul, Bryan Allen Fierro brings to life the people and places that form the fragile heart of the East Los Angeles community. In the title story, a father's love of Dodger baseball is matched only by the...
Two brothers bury a statue of Saint Jude for their grieving nana. A Griffith Park astronomer makes his own discovery at an East L.A. wedding. A young ...
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68,38 zł |
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Los Amantes de Julia
ISBN: 9780615773957 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cuantas personas se cruzan en la vida de uno durante un dia cualquiera? Que sucederia si una de esas personas resulta ser aquella que esta destinada a compartir su vida entera con la nuestra? Como se le reconoce? Ha de tratarse acaso de un encuentro extraordinario envuelto en circunstancias inesperadas, o sera quizas un evento cotidiano que no perturba en absoluto la rutina diaria? Como saber? Quizas sea una de esas caras que se nos han hecho familiares en el tren de las cinco, o quizas sea aquel hombre solo que bebe un trago sin quitar la mirada de la pantalla del televisor en la barra del...
Cuantas personas se cruzan en la vida de uno durante un dia cualquiera? Que sucederia si una de esas personas resulta ser aquella que esta destinada a...
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52,56 zł |
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