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Polish
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Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything...
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"In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel's Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political...
125) Krawcowa z Paryża
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Polish
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W 1943 roku Rosa musi zmierzyć się ze zdradą najbliższej jej osoby. 15-latka nie może dłużej pozostać w Oberfals - decyduje się wyruszyć z niewielkim bagażem, by odkryć swoje miejsce na świecie. Rosa ze zdziwieniem odkrywa, że to w niezwykłym świecie mody czuje się jak ryba w wodzie. Kobieta rozpoczyna swoją nową przygodę, stając się krawcową tworzącą unikalne kreacje, które zachwycą niejednego krytyka. Spotyka również...
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"Centers on a story of lost love between Cuban writer Luis Vargas and a famous dancer named Isabella Munoz. The trajectory of Luis' life unfolds against the backdrop of modern Cuban history, from his roots in an idyllic countryside town to his current urban existence in Havana"--Container.
127) Black bottom saints
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A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee, and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books to reflect on his encounters with Black artists in Detroit's legendary Black Bottom neighborhood, from the Great Depression through the post-World War II years.
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Literatura w Spódnicy volume 5
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Polish
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It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thrities ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder....
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Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher.
Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit.
Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story.
131) DreamChild
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A fantasy based on the true life visit of 80 year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland," to New York to celebrate the centennial of Lewis Carroll's birth. As Alice observes the developing romance between her traveling companion, Lucy, and a New York reporter, she reflects on her friendship with Lewis Carroll and finds herself haunted by the characters he created that amused her when she was a child.
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After his wife's death, retired professor Sam Zelinsky reluctantly returns to the Kentucky hills where he hopes to finally find peace in Canaan land by reaching out to the troubled granddaughter of a childhood friend who, after they both witnessed a terrible event, led a tragic life. --From Novelist.
137) The lost diary
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"Germany, 1945. As the ground shakes and the air raid sirens wail, Katja holds her tiny baby to her chest. She pictures Karl's handsome face and kind blue eyes, her breath catching at the thought of him heading back to the front. She must never tell anyone about the letters she delivered for him, or the other secret she is hiding... London, present day. In the midst of a divorce and with her mother Katja recovering from major surgery, Jo is heartbroken...
138) La modista de París
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Español
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"Tengo que contarte una historia, ma chére. Mi historia. Rosa Kusstatscher ha construido un imperio de la moda gracias a su capacidad de encontrar el conjunto perfecto para cada ocasión. Pero esta noche, mientras se prepara para el encuentro más importante de su vida, esa seguridad que la caracteriza flaquea. ¿Qué acontecimientos la han llevado a este momento? Mientras se esfuerza por seleccionar un vestido y elegir el tono correcto de pintalabios,...
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