ilość książek w kategorii: 109
Explosion in a Cathedral
ISBN: 9780816638086 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean at the time of the French Revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the English at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In Carpentier's telling, this piratical character walks into the lives of the wealthy orphans Esteban and Sofia and casts them abruptly into the midst of the immense changes sweeping the world outside their Havana mansion.
A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean at the time of the French Revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure...
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95,84 zł |
Sirena Selena
ISBN: 9780312263928 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children. Silena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child,... Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the lis... |
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79,40 zł |
The Autobiography of My Mother
ISBN: 9780374531874 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Powerful, disturb... |
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75,22 zł |
See Now Then
ISBN: 9780374534363 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid--her first in ten years--a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters--a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England--as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future... In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid--her first in ten years--a marriage is revealed in all its joys ... |
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66,86 zł |
Gloria
ISBN: 9781408843369 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jamaica, 1938. Gloria is 16 years old when violence changes her life forever. She and her sister flee to forge a new life in Kingston. As the city convulses with political change, Gloria's desperation leads her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a racketeer whose destiny becomes bound with her own.
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria is 16 years old when violence changes her life forever. She and her sister flee to forge a new life in Kingston. As the city con...
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79,64 zł |
The Hero of Fern Gully and Other Jamaican Short Stories (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781735306940 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,77 zł |
The Hero of Fern Gully and Other Jamaican Short Stories (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781735306957 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,20 zł |
She Likes Sugar
ISBN: 9781937143527 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,18 zł |
The Ghost of Caura
ISBN: 9789768250018 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,74 zł |
Three Paws to the Rescue
ISBN: 9781662432071 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,65 zł |
Three Paws to the Rescue
ISBN: 9781662432095 / Angielski / Twarda / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,15 zł |
The Islands: Stories
ISBN: 9781646220663 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,83 zł |
Suite as Sugar: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9781459750715 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,54 zł |
When Trees Fall
ISBN: 9781735908359 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,15 zł |
When Trees Fall
ISBN: 9781735908342 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,18 zł |
Explosion in a Cathedral
ISBN: 9780143133889 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Latin America's greatest historical novels deals with the impact of the French Revolution on the Caribbean When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and desire for bloodshed. Landing at the Havana doorstep of three wealthy Creole adolescent orphans, he leads them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, into the midst of the immense changes sweeping the world outside their life in Havana. As Victor's ideals begin to warp and change...
One of Latin America's greatest historical novels deals with the impact of the French Revolution on the Caribbean When he arrives in Cuba at the clos...
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71,27 zł |
Conan the Barbarian: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation
ISBN: 9781803365251 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two of the most famous contributors to the Conan legend write the official novel of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the seminal fantasy film by John Milius. The official adaptation of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the seminal film written by John Milius and Oliver Stone, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones. In the novel by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, the Cimmerian youth Conan witnesses the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom, a priest of Set. Enslaved, he is trained as a gladiator. Gaining his freedom he allies with Subotai, a Hyrkanian archer, and a skilled swordswoman thief...
Two of the most famous contributors to the Conan legend write the official novel of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the seminal fantasy film by John Milius. The...
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45,78 zł |
When We Were Birds: A Novel
ISBN: 9780593313619 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,04 zł |