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I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, Ad 79 (I Survived #10): Volume 10
ISBN: 9780545459396 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beast beneath the mountain is restless...
No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii? The beast beneath the mountain is restless...
No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The bea... |
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23,08 |
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Life Behind the Wall: Candy Bombers, Beetle Bunker, and Smuggler's Treasure
ISBN: 9780310742654 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cut off by the Iron Curtain This epic tale extends across generations and unfolds against the backdrop of a dangerous Cold War Berlin. This historically accurate, action-packed, three-books-in-one edition features three generations of resourceful teens living in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. Titles include: Candy Bombers In spring 1948, teenage cousins Erich and Katarina are simply trying to survive in war-ravaged Berlin when the Soviets blockade the east side of the city, isolating its citizens--and starving them--behind the Iron... Cut off by the Iron Curtain This epic tale extends across generations and unfolds against the backdrop of a dangerous Cold ... |
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57,76 |
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The Foreshadowing
ISBN: 9781444011067 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1915. Seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and worse still, what will happen to Edgar and Tom. Like the prophetess Cassandra, who foretold the tragedies of Troy, Sasha is trapped by power. No one will believe her. Her family have lost faith in her. She is determined to win them back, whatever the price. And it is a...
It is 1915. Seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her...
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50,28 |
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The Rescued
ISBN: 9781497385207 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brian's cover shows why Benedic needs rescue. You may also notice that he is from the middle ages. In fact, he lives in a fictional medieval kingdom. That is because Benedic's life is saved at the cost of the life of a young prince. Fearing he will lose it to the prince's father, Benedic flees. He homeless and alone in the task of figuring out what happened. Upper-grades students, teen, and adults will find this novel easy to read and yet thought provoking.
Brian's cover shows why Benedic needs rescue. You may also notice that he is from the middle ages. In fact, he lives in a fictional medieval kingdom. ...
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32,37 |
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The Queen Alone
ISBN: 9781848870567 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The final installment in the extraordinary time-traveling adventures of Katie-Berger-Jones-Burg Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is a lonely New York teenager. It's Christmas, and with her pop-star mother away on a whirlwind tour, all is not well with Katie. She is having visions, and she realized she is needed in another time. In 1860 it's Christmas too. Princess Alice is helping her father Prince Albert with his endless stream of work while the rest of the family--including Queen Victoria--is enjoying the wonderful snow. But the merry royal family is under a shadow. There is a plot--both... The final installment in the extraordinary time-traveling adventures of Katie-Berger-Jones-Burg Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is a lonely New York teen... |
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41,19 |
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The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet (WWI Centenary Series)
ISBN: 9781473313354 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Our young heroes little expected to be favored with so rare an experience as a trip under the sea in one of the great submarines. In this book the author accurately describes the submarine in action, and the many interesting features of this remarkable fighting craft are made clear to the reader by a series of splendid line drawings.""
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the worlds bloodiest wars,... ""Our young heroes little expected to be favored with so rare an experience as a trip under the sea in one of the great submarines. In this book the a...
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90,59 |
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The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army (WWI Centenary Series)
ISBN: 9781473313408 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army is part of a series of youth fiction books by American author Margaret Vandercook. It is set during the First World War and follows the experiences of the brave girls in the Red Cross as they tend to the sick and wounded. First published in 1916, this is not only an entertaining read, but also gives an insight into how the Great War was depicted in contemporary literature.
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a... The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army is part of a series of youth fiction books by American author Margaret Vandercook. It is set during the Firs...
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94,91 |
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A Patriotic Schoolgirl (WWI Centenary Series)
ISBN: 9781473313477 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Patriotic Schoolgirl is a work of juvenile fiction by Angela Brazil. The story is set during the First World War and tells of the intricacies of living in a girls school in the early part of the 20th century. There are also German prisoners of war, spies, and misunderstandings, all thrown in for good measure. Originally published in 1918, this is not only an entertaining read, but also gives a valuable insight into how the Great War was depicted in contemporary literature.
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of... A Patriotic Schoolgirl is a work of juvenile fiction by Angela Brazil. The story is set during the First World War and tells of the intricacies of liv...
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125,12 |
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Waterwings
ISBN: 9780991955688 / Angielski / Twarda / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author, Edith Gelin was born along the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. She traces her family tree back through four centuries in Holland, Noord Brabant and Flanders. She left the Netherlands as a young child and has lived in Vancouver, Canada for the past thirty-five years, where she is a graphic designer and illustrator. This book is based on her Dutch background and on her wanderings along the Dutch canals in a 1908 skutsje named Zonder Zorg. The story was written to introduce her four-year-old granddaughter, Annelies to her family heritage and to hint at the rich history, culture...
The author, Edith Gelin was born along the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. She traces her family tree back through four centuries in Holland, Noor...
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105,74 |
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Plunder
ISBN: 9781630268930 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. England, 1713--The height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill, on the morning after his sixteenth birthday in possession of a mysterious three-lock box left to him by his father. The contents of the box could change Charlie's life forever, but there's a catch--the box is booby-trapped, and he doesn't have the keys. Aboard the Churchill, young Charlie must earn the respect of a skeptical captain and a disreputable crew who will do anything for a single gold coin while searching for clues to... England, 1713--The height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill... |
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65,32 |
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Charles Augustus Fenton
ISBN: 9780987609601 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Augustus Fenton is born at Fenton Manor into wealth and assured future prosperity. His protected and indulged childhood could only be described as charmed. At home, the servants of Fenton Manor are deferential towards their employers, but in the outside world, the Chartists are rebelling against the vast inequities of the early Victorian class system. Cossetted by his upbringing and unaware of working class troubles, Charles is more interested in wiles of the womanly kind. He undergoes a torrid sexual awakening, with huge repercussions. A shocking event interrupts the calm, the...
Charles Augustus Fenton is born at Fenton Manor into wealth and assured future prosperity. His protected and indulged childhood could only be describe...
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172,59 |
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The Hill of the Red Fox
ISBN: 9781782502067 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is the time of the Cold War. Soviet spies are feared, and secrets are traded. People disappear. Thirteen-year-old Alasdair, living in London, knows nothing of this world. He can't wait to start his long summer holiday on the Isle of Skye, away from his mother and aunt. But things don't go quite as planned. On the journey, a stranger gives him a mysterious note before jumping from the train. Worse still, he instantly mistrusts sinister Murdo Beaton, with whom he's staying. Gradually adjusting to crofting life, Alasdair is not prepared for the web of danger and espionage that unfolds around...
It is the time of the Cold War. Soviet spies are feared, and secrets are traded. People disappear. Thirteen-year-old Alasdair, living in London, knows...
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40,22 |
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The Silver-Handled Knife
ISBN: 9781781324134 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electra is eagerly looking forward to her father Agamemnon's triumphant return to Mycenae after the long war in Troy. But his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus have other plans - Clytemnestra cannot forgive her husband for the sacrifice of her eldest daughter Iphigenia at the start of the war, and Aegisthus covets the kingship. Instead of celebrating his return, they murder him horribly; and suddenly Mycenae isn't a safe place for Electra or her brother Orestes. Orestes goes into exile, and Electra has to submit to a humiliating fate. When Orestes eventually returns, there is only one...
Electra is eagerly looking forward to her father Agamemnon's triumphant return to Mycenae after the long war in Troy. But his wife Clytemnestra and he...
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77,65 |
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Plunder
ISBN: 9781681623733 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. England, 1713--The height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill, on the morning after his sixteenth birthday in possession of a mysterious three-lock box left to him by his father. The contents of the box could change Charlie's life forever, but there's a catch--the box is booby-trapped, and he doesn't have the keys. Aboard the Churchill, young Charlie must earn the respect of a skeptical captain and a disreputable crew who will do anything for a single gold coin while searching for clues to... England, 1713--The height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill... |
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123,12 |
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Thérèse Makes a Tapestry
ISBN: 9781606064733 / Angielski / Twarda / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Step back in time to seventeenth-century Paris with Therese, a talented young girl who lives and works at the Gobelins Manufactory, where Europe's greatest artisans make tapestries and luxury objects for King Louis XIV.
Step back in time to seventeenth-century Paris with Therese, a talented young girl who lives and works at the Gobelins Manufactory, where Europe's gre...
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87,59 |
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Is Underground
ISBN: 9781504027618 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The children of London are disappearing-can Is solve the mystery before she vanishes too? Is Twite, younger sister of the daring Dido, is on a desperate mission. An uncle she never knew just showed up at the cottage she shares with her sister Penny. He is being pursued by ravening wolves, and before he dies, the uncle begs her to find his missing son-Is's cousin, Arun. The quest takes Is to London-a city mysteriously devoid of children, including the king's only son and heir. Is soon finds herself aboard the Playland Express, a secret midnight train that leaves town once a month, just before...
The children of London are disappearing-can Is solve the mystery before she vanishes too? Is Twite, younger sister of the daring Dido, is on a despera...
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77,03 |
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Cold Shoulder Road
ISBN: 9781504027632 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, use their telepathic gifts to find Arun's missing mother in this gripping adventure set in an alternate British kingdom When Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, return to Cold Shoulder Road in Folkestone after their astonishing adventures in the North, the town is deserted and Arun's mother is missing. Some say she took off with the sect Arun was raised in before he ran away. Known as the Silent Folk, members of the group are not allowed to talk and must communicate through sign language. But there are others who insist that Ruth Twite is a witch. To make matters...
Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, use their telepathic gifts to find Arun's missing mother in this gripping adventure set in an alternate British kingdom...
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77,03 |
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Dangerous Games
ISBN: 9781504027656 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dido Twite, with the help of some sacred shaman healers, must foil a sinister plot to overthrow the king of a remote South Sea island healers Sailing the high seas in pursuit of Lord Herodsfoot, roving ambassador to the ageing King James III, Dido Twite's search has led her to the remote South Sea island of Aratu. She arrives with a new friend she made en route, the enigmatic Dr. Talisman, who is returning to the isle after many years. Soon they discover that there's something even more dangerous in the ancient rain forest than its poisonous pearl snakes, sting monkeys, and 30-foot-long...
Dido Twite, with the help of some sacred shaman healers, must foil a sinister plot to overthrow the king of a remote South Sea island healers Sailing ...
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73,17 |
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The Case of the Vanishing Emerald: The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins Book 2
ISBN: 9780544668515 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Isnt it a bit strange that all these horrible things are happening to Miss Massey now... Just in time to make her think that the curse is working.- Sarah Massey, talented lead actress in Circus Sweethearts, is a mess. She should be dancing on air--after all, her boyfriend just proposed. But she has lost his gift: a beautiful emerald necklace with a storied history. Rumor has it whoever loses the necklace will be cursed, and now everything around Miss Massey is falling apart. She turns to Maisie Hitchins and her dog, Eddie, for help. But when Maisie shows up at the London... -Isnt it a bit strange that all these horrible things are happening to Miss Massey now... Just in time to make her think that the curse is worki... |
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26,93 |
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The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1)
ISBN: 9780996480192 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NY Times & USA Today bestselling author E.G. Foley presents The Gryphon Chronicles, a new series of historical fantasy adventures that's as much fun for grownups as it is for kids Strange new talents... Jake is a scrappy orphaned pickpocket living by his wits on the streets of Victorian London. Lately he's started seeing ghosts, and discovers he can move solid objects with his mind He has no idea why. Next thing he knows, a Sinister Gentleman and his minions come hunting him. On the run for his life, Jake is plunged headlong into a mysterious world full of... NY Times & USA Today bestselling author E.G. Foley presents The Gryphon Chronicles, a new series of historical fantasy adventures that's as... |
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107,86 |
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