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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45,63 zł |
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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59,62 zł |
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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48,15 zł |
The Invisible Thread: True Stories of Synchronicity
ISBN: 9780692690246 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,99 zł |
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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38,89 zł |
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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323,45 zł |
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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136,73 zł |
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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59,40 zł |
Women's Works: 900-1550
ISBN: 9780988282001 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "WOMEN'S WORKS ... manages to make immensely difficult labor look like the most natural outgrowth of intellectual engagement with a problem - not easy but the product of worthwhile effort. In addition to providing the basic documents of a virtually unknown canon, the typescript of this anthology incorporates some of the most useful innovations I've ever seen in the publication of medieval and Renaissance literary texts....Foster has a fine ear, and his edition repeatedly encourages its readers to hear the poems. He builds into his edition many devices to heighten a reader's awareness of the...
"WOMEN'S WORKS ... manages to make immensely difficult labor look like the most natural outgrowth of intellectual engagement with a problem - not easy...
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137,36 zł |
Women's Works: 1625-1650
ISBN: 9780988282094 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 4. "This collection is a revelation, even to those of us who have long been interested in women's writing. From now on, it will be an indispensable resource." -Phyllis Rackin, Professor of English emerita and past president of the Shakespeare Association No single library on the planet can stand besides this unique collection of writings by and about extraordinary women of the British Isles. WOMEN'S WORKS, Volume 1, gathers the best in women's literature from the Celts and Anglo Saxons through the six wives of Henry VIII; with astonishing glimpses into the private lives of queens,...
Volume 4. "This collection is a revelation, even to those of us who have long been interested in women's writing. From now on, it will be an indispens...
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137,36 zł |
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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208,62 zł |
Women's Works: 1603-1625
ISBN: 9780988282063 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Happy Birthday, J.
ISBN: 9781530570355 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I don't know why you'd have any interest in this if you weren't J. Only I guess if you also like little short story collections, about lions and mammoths and blowing up cities. It's good for that too.
I don't know why you'd have any interest in this if you weren't J. Only I guess if you also like little short story collections, about lions and mammo...
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45,86 zł |
Taking Down the Moon
ISBN: 9780996661614 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Taking Down the Moon, Lisa Muir has gathered an eccentric cast of characters - animals, beauty queens and community college teachers just to name a few - and placed them in such far flung places as Nevada's Fire Valley, New Zealand and the western mountains of North Carolina.
At first, the stories appear to be straightforward, but we quickly learn nothing in Muir's world is ever as it seems. With What Remains, a grieving widow finds closure in her husband's secret life, taking a familiar plot to an altogether different territory. You Can't Collect Time tells the unusual tale of a... In Taking Down the Moon, Lisa Muir has gathered an eccentric cast of characters - animals, beauty queens and community college teachers just to name a...
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45,82 zł |
The Yellow Wallpaper
ISBN: 9781532723377 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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25,00 zł |
Mistress Mine Large Print Part 2
ISBN: 9781530851652 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,21 zł |
Mistress Mine large print part 1: part 1
ISBN: 9781530851041 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mistress Mine
ISBN: 9781530834327 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1876, Louise St Quentin was sixteen. She was an orphan and the rich owner of a huge estate. Her future seemed all mapped out; a marriage of convenience would be arranged for her so that she would have someone to help her manage her estate. But Louise had the rather unfortunate tendency of listening to her heart rather than her reason. The end of the nineteenth century was terribly exciting, and Louise wanted to discover everything - the adventure lying at the end of the railway track, romantic music, the modern cuisine in the new Parisian restaurants, and impressionist painting. Was her...
In 1876, Louise St Quentin was sixteen. She was an orphan and the rich owner of a huge estate. Her future seemed all mapped out; a marriage of conveni...
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89,44 zł |
Dandyland Diaries: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781492759898 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,99 zł |
G.R.I.T.S. - Girls Raised in the South: An Anthology of Southern Queer Womyns' Voices and Their Allies
ISBN: 9781490473307 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. G.R.I.T.S. - A MARVELOUS AND DIVERSE COLLECTION OF WRITINGS AND WRITERS This cutting-edge anthology G.R.I.T.S: Girls Raised In The South- An Anthology of Southern Queer Womyns' Voices and Their Allies, edited by Poet On Watch & Amber N. Williams, can be compared to the pioneering anthology Home Girls which featured writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. G.R.I.T.S. is a critical self-analysis and celebration with multicultural queer women voices and their allies through essays, short stories, poetry, photo stories and healing comfort recipes....
G.R.I.T.S. - A MARVELOUS AND DIVERSE COLLECTION OF WRITINGS AND WRITERS This cutting-edge anthology G.R.I.T.S: Girls Raised In The South- An Antholog...
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91,50 zł |