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Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. - London : 4th ESTATE, 2017. - 477, [8] stron ; 20 cm.

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Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi (1977- ) Autor

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Literatura nigeryjska

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Blogerzy Nigeryjczycy Tożsamość narodowa Londyn (Wielka Brytania) Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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4th Estate

Shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

"A delicious important novel" - The Times.

"Alert, alive and gripping" - Independent.

"Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. American does both" - Guardian.

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Notes on Grief / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. - London : 4th Estate, 2021. - 88 stron ; 18 cm.

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Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi (1977- ) Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura nigeryjska

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Adichie, James Nwoye (1932-2020 ) Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977- ) Ojcowie i córki Śmierć Poczucie straty COVID-19

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Wspomnienie pośmiertne Esej Biografia

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Rodzina, relacje międzyludzkie

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...is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020.

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.

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Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion. - London : 4th Estate, 2017. - 238 stron ; 20 cm.

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Didion Joan (1934-2021) Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Didion, Joan (1934-2021) Społeczeństwo Pisarze Kontrkultura Podróże Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Antologia Esej Reportaż

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Socjologia i społeczeństwo

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4th Estate

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.

It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.

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The White Album / Joan Didion. - London : 4th Estate, 2017. - 222, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Didion Joan (1934-2021) Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Didion, Joan (1934-2021) Cywilizacja Podróże Społeczeństwo Zmiana społeczna Artyści Pisarze Kontrkultura Kalifornia (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan) Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Antologia Esej Reportaż

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Socjologia i społeczeństwo

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First published in 1979, Joan Didion's "The White Album" records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.

Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.

Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, "The White Album" is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

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All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel / Anthony Doerr. - London : 4th Estate, 2015. - 531 stron ; 20 cm.

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Doerr Anthony (1973- ). Autor

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II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Niewidomi Francuzi Niemcy (naród) Dziecko niewidome Dzieci Przyjaźń Francja Saint-Malo (Francja) Niemcy

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4th Estate

Winner of the Pulitzer proze for Fiction

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II...

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If I survive you / Jonathan Escoffery. - London : 4th Estate, 2022. - 260 stron ; 20 cm.

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Escoffery Jonathan Autor

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Rodzina Trudne sytuacje życiowe Imigranci Rasizm Bezdomność Jamajczycy Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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4th Estate

The Booker Prize 2023 Longlisted

n the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land.

Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay.

Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery's "If I Survive You" center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck.

Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin, Cukie, looks for a father who doesn't want to be found.

As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net.

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Everyone knows your mother is a witch / Rivka Galchen. - London : 4th Estate, 2021. - 275 ; 20 cm.

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Galchen Rivka (1976- ) Autor

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Literatura amerykańska Literatura kanadyjska

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Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) Procesy o czary Kobieta Uzdrowiciele Medycyna ludowa Matematycy Tortury Matki i synowie Wdowieństwo Wirtembergia (Niemcy ; kraina historyczna)

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The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg.

Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion.

When the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble.

Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets.

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Treacle Walker / Alan Garner. - London : 4th Estate, 2022. - 152 strony ; 20 cm.

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Garner Alan Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Chłopcy Przyjaźń Folklor Oko Choroby ludzi Rzeczywistość alternatywna

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Opowiadania i nowele Fantasy

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4th Estate

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022.

Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers.

When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined.

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Freedom / Sebastian Junger. - London : 4th Estate, 2022. - 147 stron ; 20 cm.

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Junger Sebastian (1962- ) Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Wolność Podróże Trudne sytuacje życiowe Filozofia Stany Zjednoczone (USA) Pensylwania (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Esej Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

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Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa Filozofia i etyka Psychologia Socjologia i społeczeństwo Podróże i turystyka

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4th Estate

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom...

In Freedom , Junger weaves his account of this journey together with primatology and boxing strategy, the history of labor strikes and Apache raiders, the role of women in resistance movements, and the brutal reality of life on the Pennsylvania frontier. Written in exquisite, razor-sharp prose, the result is a powerful examination of the primary desire that defines us.

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Cleopatra & Frankenstein / Coco Mellors. - London : 4th Estate, 2023. - 370 stron ; 20 cm.

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Mellors Coco Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Artyści Pracoholicy Problemy małżeńskie Przyjaźń Różnica wieku w związku Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone)

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4th Estate

Nominee for Best Fiction (2022) ; Nominee for Best Debut Novel (2022)

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank.

Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks.

He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card.

But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted...

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Blue Sisters / Coco Mellors. - London : 4th Estate, 2024. - 342 strony ; 23 cm.

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Mellors Coco (1989- ) Autor

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Żałoba Rodzina, relacje międzyludzkie Sekrety rodzinne Siostry Macierzyństwo Uzależnienie (nałóg) Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone)

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4th Estate

The three Blue sisters are exceptional — and exceptionally different.

Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways.

They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling.

A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

But coming home is never as easy as it seems.

As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.

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The Sport of Kings / C. E. Morgan. - London : 4th Estate, 2017. - 545, [1] strona : mapa ; 20 cm.

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Morgan C. E. (1976- ) Autor

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Rodzina Klacz Zawody jeździeckie Majątki ziemskie Trudne sytuacje życiowe Ojcowie i córki Solidarność (postawa) Byli więźniowie

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Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

Hellsmouth, a wilful thoroughbred filly, has the legacy of a family riding on her.

The Forges: one of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky; descended from the first settlers to brave the Wilderness Road; as mythic as the history of the South itself - and now, first-time horse breeders.

Through an act of naked ambition, Henry Forge is attempting to blaze this new path on the family's crop farm. His daughter, Henrietta, becomes his partner in the endeavour but has desires of her own. When Allmon Shaughnessy, an African American man fresh from prison, comes to work in the stables, the ugliness of the farm's history rears its head. Together through sheer will, the three stubbornly try to create a new future - one that isn't determined by Kentucky's bloody past - while they mould Hellsmouth into a champion.

The "Sport of Kings" has the force of an epic. A majestic story of speed and hunger, racism and justice, this novel is an astonishment from start to finish.

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Netherland / Joseph O'Neill. - London : Fourth Estate, 2009. - 340, [1] strona, 13 vstron ; 20 cm.

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O'Neill Joseph (1964- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka

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Mężczyzna Krykiet Imigranci Przyjaźń Zabójstwo Bankierzy

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4th Estate

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.

Alone and untethered he stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.

Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck’s particular brand of naivete and chutzpah - by his ability to hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.

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Breathe / Joyce Carol Oates. - London : 4th Estate, 2021. - 363, [1] strona ; 24 cm.

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Oates Joyce Carol (1938- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

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Rodzina Choroby ludzi Śmierć małżonka Nowy Meksyk (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Na górze okładki: "America's pre-eminent fiction writer" New Yorker.

Part intimately detailed love story, part horror story rooted in real life, BREATHE is an exploration of hauntedness rooted in the domesticity of marital love, as well as our determination both to be faithful to the beloved and to survive the trauma of loss.

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Barkskins / Annie Proulx. - London : : 4th Estate, 2017. - 717, [4] strony ; 20 cm.

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Proulx Annie (1935- ) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

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Robotnicy leśni Środowisko przyrodnicze Las Drzewa Rodzina Indianie Ekologia Zemsta

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Powieść obyczajowa Saga rodzinna

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4th Estate

This ambitious saga about the destruction of the world’s forests follows two colonial dynasties across continents and centuries

It tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants.

It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming.

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The Shipping news / Annie E. Proulx. - London : Fourth Estate, 2002. - IX-X, 397 stron ; 18 cm.

Author

Proulx Annie (1935- )

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

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Dziennikarze i dziennikarki Rodzina Sekrety rodzinne Samobójstwo Porty morskie Rybacy Wdowieństwo Nowa Fundlandia (Kanada ; wyspa)

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The story revolves around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland.

Quoyle's distant parents have recently committed suicide, and his estranged wife, Petal has died in a car accident with another man.

As a result Quoyle decides to relocate his two young girls to their ancestral home in Newfoundland.

Over time, he learns deep and disturbing secrets about his ancestors that emerge in strange ways.

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How to be sad : the key to a happier life / Helen Russell. - London : 4th Estate, 2022. - 362 strony ; 20 cm.

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Russell Helen (1980- ) Autor

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Książki Poradniki i przewodniki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura angielska

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Russell, Helen (1980- ) Szczęście Jakość życia Życie codzienne Optymizm Świat

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Poradnik Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

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Rozwój osobisty Styl życia, moda i uroda Psychologia Socjologia i społeczeństwo

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In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. Learning how to be sad is a natural first step in how to be happier.

"In How to Be Sad" she combines her powerful personal story with surprising research and warm advice to reveal the secret of finding allowing sadness to enrich your life and relationships.

Timely and essential, this book is about how we can better look after ourselves and each other, simply by getting smarter about sadness.

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