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4) O pioneers!
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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman, writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father's patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business. A gripping saga...
5) My Ántonia
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"Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia details of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska. Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of...
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A New York Times Notable Book: Sour parents, a sleazy ex, '70s radicalism, and murder spoil a California lawyer's homecoming in this mystery by the author of Hidden Agenda.
Working in the LA office of a Wall Street law firm, attorney Willa Jansson was drowning in bankruptcy codes and mourning the loss of her love life. But now, after almost a year in that purgatory of dull men in thousand-dollar suits, she's landed a new position clerking for a federal...
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Que serait Montréal sans la souveraineté de ses arbres ?
L'arbre est politique. Bertrand Laverdure sait parler aux arbres. Sans eux, les femmes et les hommes perdraient leur chemin et leur cœur. Une musique infinie, un vertige, un piano, ou une danse projette sa lumière sur la ville. Que serait Montréal sans ce peuple vertical qui enseigne la douceur, l'espoir et l'humilité.
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« Écrire aux arbres, c'est écrire...
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A plucky lawyer's out of her element when she investigates a suspicious death that's out of this world in this mystery by the author of Last Chants.
Overworked San Francisco attorney Willa Jansson's ready to go on her three-week vacation and relax on the beach in Mexico. But before she can leave the office, she gets a phone call from a friend whom she owes a favor ...
Willa heads to Santa Cruz to take on what at first sounds like a vehicular manslaughter...
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A California lawyer finds herself on the trail of a murderer while searching for her missing mother in Cuba in the final entry of this mystery series.
Attorney Willa Jansson's mother is a lifelong activist. So, it's no surprise when she and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom disregard federal regulations and head to Cuba for a goodwill tour. The real shock occurs when the group returns ... with one less member.
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Willa Pennington PI mystery volume 1
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Ex-cop Willa Pennington is asked to help a friend's daughter move out from her abusive boyfriend's apartment. This simple favor soon is complicated by a dead body (the boyfriend) and a missing person (the friend's daughter). Now Willa is drawn into a battle of wits with an old friend who has dangerous secrets. Secrets that lead into a labyrinth of lies and deception in the shadows of Washington, D.C.
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Willa pod Kasztanem volume 2
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W willi pod kasztanem pachnie drożdżowym ciastem, mrugają woskowe świece. Kalina wstaje o poranku, by ugościć wszystkich, których kocha. Ma pełne ręce roboty, bo życie nie rozpieszcza jej bliskich. Magda musi wrócić do pracy, gdzie będzie spotykać swojego dawnego ukochanego z jego nową narzeczoną, a jej szefową. Antek poszuka nowego zajęcia. Bianka wróci do Warszawy, do swojego dawnego życia. Michał i Bartek znajdą się nagle...
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In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
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Willa pod Kasztanem volume 3
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"Majowy ogród rozkwita, a wraz z nim miłość i związki. I wszystko byłoby dobrze, gdyby nie stare krzywdy, niewyjaśnione tajemnice i zadawnione urazy. W pełną ciepła atmosferę pachnącej ciastem drożdżowym kuchni babci Kaliny wkracza niespodziewany gość, nazywana Królową Śniegu, matka Antka. Nie ma ona żadnych skrupułów w walce o swoje racje. Mocno zetrą się dwie skonfliktowane kobiety: żona i kochanka. Która z nich wygra?...
16) Światło gwiazd
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Willa pod Kasztanem volume 4
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"W wielkim ogrodzie jest jak zawsze pięknie, ale w życiu mieszkańców pojawi się wiele zawirowań. Pewien mężczyzna, który częściej niż pod nogi spogląda w gwiazdy - z zawodu jest bowiem astrofizykiem - wprowadzi sporo zamieszania w życie jednej z kobiet. Bartek w swoim polowaniu na miłość będzie przekraczał kolejne granice, a dwie synowe pod jednym dachem mocno dadzą się we znaki spokojnej z natury babci Kalinie. Zapach szarlotki...
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Willa of the Wood volume 2
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"Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, she is helpless to stop them ... When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures, she comes to realize that it contains a terrifying force that seems...