SOWA OPAC : Ursynoteka

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City of the Beasts / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - Wydanie 2. - London : Flamingo, 2003. - [2], 406 stron ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque -- one of the world's greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story which will appeal to all ages Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate -- a fearless reporter with blue eyes 'as sharp as daggers' points'. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team -- including a local guide and his daughter Nadia, with her wild, curly hair and skin the colour of honey -- in search of a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding creature known to locals only as 'the Beast', only to find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants. In a novel rich in adventure, magic and spirit, internationally-celebrated novelist Isabel Allende takes readers of all ages on a voyage of discovery and wonder, deep into the heart of the Amazon.

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Daughter of Fortune / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - Wydanie 3. - London : Flamingo, 2000. - [4], 399 stron : mapa ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Chile

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Tytuł oryginału: La Hija de la fortuna.

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of `The House of the Spirits'. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, and the promise of riches that rumours of gold strikes have brought him, she can but follow after him...

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Portrait in Sepia / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - London : Flamingo, 2002. - [4], 304 strony : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Portrait in Sepia' is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from 'Daughter of Fortune' and 'The House of the Spirits', two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life. Richly detailed, epic in scope, this engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.

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Interpreter of Maladies : Stories / Jhumpa Lahiri. - Wydanie 3. - London : Flamingo, 2000. - 198 stron ; 20 cm.

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Lahiri, Jhumpa (1967- ).

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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.

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African Laughter : Four Visits to Zimbabwe / Doris Lessing. - London : Flamingo, 1993. - [6], XII, [4], 442 strony : mapy ; 20 cm.

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Lessing, Doris May (1919-2013).

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In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a successful communal enterprise created by rural blacks, and notes the kind of changes that can only be appreciated by one who has lived there before.

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Mara and Dann : An Adventure / Doris Lessing. - London : Flamingo, 1999. - [2], VIII, 407 stron : mapa ; 20 cm.

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Lessing, Doris May (1919-2013).

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Rodzeństwo Ucieczki Zmiany klimatyczne Klęski elementarne Wyprawy i ekspedycje Podróże

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Powieść Fantastyka Science fiction Dystopia

At the southern end of all large land mass called Ifrik, two children, Mara and Dann, are victims of a palace coup and forced to flee from their home and family in the middle of the night. They are brought up in a poor rural village, surviving the hardships of a life threatened as much by drought and wild animals as by the hostile Rock People, who hate them. They join the great human migration northward, away from the southern lands that are turning to dust. Mara and Dann encounter all kinds of people, survive many dangers. This brother and sister love each other, save each other's lives a hundred times, traveling north – but what is North; what will they find there? Mara, who sustains a compassionate loving nature despite the cruelty all around her, is one of Doris Lessing's most appealing heroines. And Dann is as brave a hero as you'll find in any old tale. A compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we only dimly perceive and scarcely know how to value.

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Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 / Doris Lessing. - London : Flamingo, 1998. - [6], 369 stron : fotografie ; 20 cm.

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Lessing, Doris May (1919-2013).

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The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ‘Walking in the Shade’ begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel. With humour and clear-sightedness, she records her battles of the next decade: her involvement with communism, her love affairs, her struggle with poverty, the difficulties she faced as a young single mother. But as well there is the success of that first novel, ‘The Grass Is Singing’, and meetings with personalities and opinion-makers – Kenneth Tynan, John Osborne, Bertrand Russell and others.Describing, too, the genesis of ‘The Golden Notebook’, this book sees Lessing emerge as one of the most exciting, and groundbreaking, novelists of the post-war generation, and one of the twentieth century’s great writers.

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Homestead / Rosina Lippi. - Wyd. 3. - London : Flamingo, 2001. - XII, 206 s. ; 20 cm.

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Lippi, Rosina.

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The setting for this poignant novel is Rosenau, an isolated Austrian Village, and the story encompasses generations of villagers and their intimate lives. The magic of the novel lies in the author's ability to make the faraway seem familiar, even when it is tragic or brutal. Structured as short stories told from the viewpoints of different members of the village, the novel follows their intertwined lives from 1909 through 1977, layering story upon story to develop the village and the characters. Lippi's characters are nothing short of wonderful. There is, for example, Johanna, whose heart is torn between her love for Francesco--a soldier hiding in the Austrian Alps--and her sister Angelika, who hides her dependence upon Johanna behind not-so-subtle reminders of familial duty. And there is Katharina, whose impulsiveness causes her to betray her two half-brothers for a ride in a Nazi motorcar, and Stante, who proves his worth not only in the Wainwright's workshop but also by his courage withstanding the Nazis. The character portrayals are based upon Lippi's own experiences living in Austria for four years. You'll hate for these stories to end.

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'Tis : A Memoir / Frank McCourt. - Wyd. 2. - London : Flamingo, 2000. - 247 s. ; 20 cm.

(Angela's Ashes / Frank McCourt ; 2)

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McCourt, Frank (1931-2009). McCourt, Frank (1931-2009). Angela's Ashes (ang.).

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From the author of the million-selling Angela's Ashes -- the most keenly anticipated sequel of the decade Angela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Award amongst others, and rapidly became a word-of-mouth bestseller topping all charts worldwide for over two years. It left readers and critics alike eager to hear more about Frank McCourt's incredible, poignant life. 'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University -- which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma -- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today. And 'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as Angela's Ashes. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself.

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Galápagos / Kurt Vonnegut. - Wydanie 4. - London : Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. - 237 stron ; 20 cm.

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Vonnegut, Kurt (1922-2007).

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The human survivors of the nature cruise of the century, are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of Slaughterhouse 5.

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