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41) Manhattan Beach
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Language
Polish
Description
"Jest rok 1943, dziewiętnastoletnia Anna Kerrigan nurkuje w okolicach Staten Island. Do tej pory, jako jedyna kobieta nurek, schodziła pod wodę, by naprawiać zniszczone statki, które walczyły na Pacyfiku. Teraz nurkuje w poszukiwaniu ciała swojego ojca. Kilka lat wcześniej Anna towarzyszyła ojcu podczas wizyty w posiadłości Dextera Stylesa, szemranego biznesmena, który dorobił się na czarnym rynku w czasach prohibicji. Spotkanie na Manhattan...
42) Camanchaca
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Language
English
Description
"A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family-a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death-occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. Camanchaca is the discretion that makes a lifelong grief possible. Sometimes, the silences are what...
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Language
Español
Description
"Life as Augusta Rockwell knows it changes once she unearths a box of old letters written by her estranged husband, Nick Flemming, the love of her life and the father her children have never known. She's told her daughters that their absent father was actually a spy, which is why he couldn't be part of their lives. But the letters reveal that Nick has secretly been keeping tabs on his family all these years from afar -- a discovery that while shocking,...
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