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Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction
ISBN: 9780375757167 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on two centuries of important literary and historical writings, Rebecca Shannonhouse has shaped a remarkable collection of works that are, in turn, tragic, compelling, hilarious, and enlightening. Together, these selections comprise a profound and truthful portrait of the life experience known as addiction. Under the Influence offers classic selections from fiction, memoirs, and essays by authors such as Tolstoy, Cheever, Parker, and Poe. Also included are topical gems by writers who illuminate the causes, dangers, pleasures, and public perceptions surrounding people...
Drawing on two centuries of important literary and historical writings, Rebecca Shannonhouse has shaped a remarkable collection of works that are, in ...
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Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciation
ISBN: 9781408620854 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage volume contains a detailed catalogue of female fiction writers who lived during the Victorian era. This book will appeal to those with an interest in Victorian authors, and includes a wealth of interesting and insightful biographical information, analyses of writing and styles, information on popularity and critical reception, and much more. The chapters of this book include: The Sisters Bronte, George Elliot, Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs. Crowe, Mrs. Archer Clive, Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, Mrs. Stretton, Anne Manning, Dinah Mulock, Julia Kavanagh, Amelia Blandford Adwards,...
This vintage volume contains a detailed catalogue of female fiction writers who lived during the Victorian era. This book will appeal to those with an...
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83,97 |
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imagine words
ISBN: 9781468190281 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Words are how we express ourselves everyday. They can make us look smart, or they can take us down a notch. Whether you're a writer working on a book, or just a note taker, a jotter of ideas, a true wordsmith, you will find inspiration in this novel little book to keep you moving in the right direction. We use words everyday. Some more than others. We use them wisely, cautiously, carelessly, without regret, without remorse, and sometimes without thinking them through first. We use them to express ourselves, our thoughts, our emotions, and our ideas. We use them to create stories that take us...
Words are how we express ourselves everyday. They can make us look smart, or they can take us down a notch. Whether you're a writer working on a book,...
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33,12 |
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The Mom Egg 10: The Body Vol. 10 - 2012
ISBN: 9780615596440 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mom Egg, in its tenth annual issue, grapples with "The Body." The subject is viewed from diverse perspectives-body image, sexuality, bodies of loved ones, and our own, the mind-body, the body politic, bodies of work and of water. The body in crisis-reproductive issues, illness, aging. Celebration of the body, its beauty and functionality. The insights, sensitivity, wisdom, and humor of this issue are profound, moving, thrilling. The Mom Egg is an annual collection of sharp, articulate, and inventive poetry, fiction, creative prose and art by mothers about everything, and by everyone about...
The Mom Egg, in its tenth annual issue, grapples with "The Body." The subject is viewed from diverse perspectives-body image, sexuality, bodies of lov...
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74,61 |
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In The Company Of Women: An Anthology Of Wit & Wisdom, Sass & Class
ISBN: 9780578102481 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Company of Women is an enthusiastic look at the heartfelt dynamics of relationships between women presented in varying forms of poetry, memoir, commentary, quotes and artwork. From laughter to tears, In the Company of Women is a book born of life histories and the journeys taken and navigated by women of wit and wisdom, sass and class. Authors include; Alicia Winski, Amanda LaPera, Annie Brodrick, Annie Hilerio, April Michelle Bratten, Apryl Skies, Barbara Moore, Bina Gupta, Camille Solari, Candice James, Carol Knepper, Carol McAdoo Rehme, Catharine Grasty, Cristina Umpfenbach-Smyth,...
In The Company of Women is an enthusiastic look at the heartfelt dynamics of relationships between women presented in varying forms of poetry, memoir,...
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74,57 |
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Acceptance
ISBN: 9781475097658 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ACCEPTANCE is a story within a story, starring Samantha Strom, an independent realist who has isolated herself from all interpersonal complications. She's the woman who looks 'good enough' at age forty-two, who only 'borrows' a lover when she wants one, has chosen to have zero friends, and likes herself completely for who she is and the choices she's made. Then her attorney, whom she despises fully, and who harbors secret feelings for her, summons her to his office to advise her about a lawsuit that threatens her inheritance. Samantha learns that the lawsuit is filed by a brother she didn't...
ACCEPTANCE is a story within a story, starring Samantha Strom, an independent realist who has isolated herself from all interpersonal complications. S...
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37,26 |
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Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging
ISBN: 9780983828969 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 29 women artists and writers explore aging through art, comics, poetry, photography, and essays. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes sublime, each entry adds insight into the many ways we learn to be women.
29 women artists and writers explore aging through art, comics, poetry, photography, and essays. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes sublime, each entry ad...
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49,75 |
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Le Choc: Contes initiatiques
ISBN: 9781475295276 / Francuski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La vie est un long chemin tortueux et retors, mais elle nous laisse le choix, soit de couler, soit de grandir et de nous epanouir dans la resilience. Au fil du temps, le regard se dessille sur les evenements qui forgent notre existence. Une certaine clarte tombe sur le chemin que la destinee nous fait emprunter et nous en saisissons mieux le sens. Il s'agit d'un recueil de vingt-deux nouvelles illustrant ce periple, sous forme de contes initiatiques. Leur architecture retrace les episodes marquants d'une vie et son cheminement interieur. Il convient donc de les aborder dans l'ordre, car...
La vie est un long chemin tortueux et retors, mais elle nous laisse le choix, soit de couler, soit de grandir et de nous epanouir dans la resilience. ...
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49,75 |
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Beauty From Ashes: The HerShe Girls Speak Out
ISBN: 9781478234593 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories and poetry by foster youth written by girls in the HerShe Group Foster Girl Mentoring Program.
A collection of short stories and poetry by foster youth written by girls in the HerShe Group Foster Girl Mentoring Program.
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41,45 |
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Graye
ISBN: 9780615705934 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disrupting what should have been a joyous family celebration, Graye McAdams celebrates his mother's birthday by shooting his best friend Tate Butler. Killing his wife Angelette had been next on his list, but fate had other plans for Angelette McAdams, a desperate young woman searching for her own worth and value. Graye's mother, Miss Jen Pearl has lived Angelette's desperation, having walked in the girl's shoes with Graye's father, Otis McAdams. Miss Jen Pearl has answers learned from her own mistakes and as she reflects on what she didn't do, she's able to guide Angelette in a better...
Disrupting what should have been a joyous family celebration, Graye McAdams celebrates his mother's birthday by shooting his best friend Tate Butler. ...
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53,84 |
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Calliope 2012: the 19th Anthology
ISBN: 9780988367302 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poems and prose of Calliope explore universal themes with grace, evocative imagery, poignancy, and humor. In "Waitress," an overqualified young woman feels out of place in the restaurant where her mother worked for several summers. A grade-school foe displays her invincibility in "Playground: 1965." In "A Lesson from Picasso," tourists are transfixed by Guernica, and pulled into war's horror. A family buries their beloved mother in "As If We Were Ancient Egyptians." In a humorous piece, "The Pharmacy,"a quick tour of the drugstore reveals products for all of life's ages and stages. A...
The poems and prose of Calliope explore universal themes with grace, evocative imagery, poignancy, and humor. In "Waitress," an overqualified young wo...
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Chasing the Green Sun: Quick Fictions, Seasonal Rhythms, Personal Echoes
ISBN: 9781456587857 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Where is the green sun?" "Catch a glimpse of it through a little boy's eyes under a chilly January Kentucky sky. Name it and claim it again from a ranch house rooftop in Texas summertime heat." Unthinkable confrontations and familiar deal breakers spotlight danger and opportunity through this literary mix in calendar format. Flash fiction bites bring emotion, humor, and surprise endings early in each chapter. A bride gets embarrassed; a teacher gets exposed. Marilyn Brandt Smith is not content with limits on perception, imagination, and experimentation. She aligns differing literary forms,...
"Where is the green sun?" "Catch a glimpse of it through a little boy's eyes under a chilly January Kentucky sky. Name it and claim it again from a ra...
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41,24 |
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Once Upon A Life In Time, In Spirit, And Flesh
ISBN: 9781470117696 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Once upon a Life in Time, in Spirit, and Flesh" is LuCretia Crump's inspirational and heartfelt offering to those of us on the ever-evolving and challenging journey of life. Writing from her own struggles, experiences, and insights, Crump has compiled a beautiful and evocative collection of verse for those struggling with life, love, loss, and self-worth. These pieces are eloquently woven together in an honest and full-color story of the human experience-a story of triumph by way of positive transformation, self-healing, patience, and understanding. It's a beacon in the night for... "Once upon a Life in Time, in Spirit, and Flesh" is LuCretia Crump's inspirational and heartfelt offering to those of us on the ever-evolving and c... |
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53,89 |
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In Pursuit of Smile - Vietnamese Love Stories
ISBN: 9781480202603 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dear readers, In Pursuit of Smile - Vietnamese Love Stories (published by Thegioi Publishers in Vietnam in 2011, and reedited in 2012) is a compilation of short stories by Vietnamese famous writers who have won specific awards in literature and film; for instance, Tu Ngoc Nguyen who won the ASIAN LITERATURE AWARD 2008 with the work THE BOUNDLESS FIELD and Minh Nguyet Suong, who won the title "GOLDEN WRITER" of the Police Magazine Literature 1998-2011 and others with the story 13 LANDING POSTS which was filmed and won the award of GOLDEN LOTUS in the 16th National Film Festival 2009... Nine...
Dear readers, In Pursuit of Smile - Vietnamese Love Stories (published by Thegioi Publishers in Vietnam in 2011, and reedited in 2012) is a compilatio...
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43,52 |
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Airspeed Oxford: the adventures of Joan Yu
ISBN: 9781480283633 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Airspeed Oxford" is a novel about a translator for the secret service, Joan Yu, a young woman of Chinese, English and French descent, raised in England and educated at Oxford. After her father's death, Joan receives a memory box that includes an early formula for invisibility and buried plans for a secret aircraft, designed during WWII. This novel follows Joan's journey quest to develop a patent for invisibility and a new Airspeed Oxford, with the help of a few friends: a professor, a co-agent and a scientist living in the desert. Along the way, Joan meets a long lost aunt, confronts death,...
"Airspeed Oxford" is a novel about a translator for the secret service, Joan Yu, a young woman of Chinese, English and French descent, raised in Engla...
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Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
ISBN: 9780295993195 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Third place in the Association for Borderlands Studies Best Book Award Pairing image and text, Troubling Borders showcases creative writing and visual artworks by sixty-one women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. The collection features compelling storytelling that troubles the borders of categorization and reflects the multilayered experience of Southeast Asian women. The diverse voices featured here have been shaped by colonization, wars, globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the margins of the margin, crafting and... Third place in the Association for Borderlands Studies Best Book Award Pairing image and text, Troubling Borders showcases creative wr... |
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395,23 |
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Statesmen and Sages: Great Men and Famous Women Part 3
ISBN: 9780766145078 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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123,59 |
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Slants Of Light: Stories and Poems From the Women's Writing Circle
ISBN: 9781482344509 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of stories and poems represents a unique and collective writing journey from a diverse group of women writers. The settings of their verses and narratives vary. From a moment's realization on the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk when a woman admits her marriage is over - to a Sunday afternoon's meditation on life's choices and missed opportunities - to the beauty in a passing snowflake - to a humorous instance of Internet dating while searching for one last chance at romance - this anthology will inspire, delight and amuse. "The Women's Writing Circle has delivered a stunning...
This collection of stories and poems represents a unique and collective writing journey from a diverse group of women writers. The settings of their v...
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53,69 |
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Maude by Christina Rossetti, on Sisterhoods and a Woman's Thoughts about Women by Dinah Mulock Craik
ISBN: 9781851960279 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah Mulock Craik advocates the encouragement of Anglican sisterhoods.
"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute th...
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263,97 |
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Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the '60s & '70s
ISBN: 9781938314049 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,92 |
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