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Lucy Gayheart – ebook
Willa Cather
Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other people’s lives and people’s expectations changed...Data dostępności:
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Seven Faces – ebook
Max Brand
Rival police detectives Angus Campbell and Patrick O’Rourke find themselves working together to locate the millionaire who disappeared while under their protection on a train bound for Chicago. Manhattan millionaire John Cobb has been receiving threatening letters, and so leaves for Chicago, hoping that by hopping the night-train he’ll escape from his anonymous ill-wisher. Assigned as guards, Campbell...Data dostępności:
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The Song of the Lark – ebook
Willa Cather
Young and ambitious Thea Kronborg leaves Moonstone, a fictional city in Colorado, for Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a pianist. The music teacher hears her voice and realizes that the girl has a gift for singing. He encourages her to continue studying vocals instead of piano.Data dostępności:
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Rodeo – ebook
B.M. Bower
Claude „Kid” Bennett is a young man starting to carve a place for himself in the world. His mom wants him to go to college and earn his M. D., but his dad thinks he could turn the boy into a useful man if he’d stay on the Montana ranch, and learn to work hard. Kid gets a thorn under his saddle and sets out with his three horses to a six day rodeo in Chicago. Along the way he meets J.N. Harlan, and...Data dostępności:
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An American Girl in London – ebook
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Mamie Vick from Chicago, USA travels alone to London to do some sightseeing, with the full approval of her family. Mamie does all the typical American tourist stuff; she visits Madame Tussauds, London Zoo, Epsom Derby, boat races in Oxford. The protagonist is full of little unexpected insights and surprises.Data dostępności:
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A Son of His Father – ebook
Harold Bell Wright
When in 1925 his first novel „The Son of His Father” was published at the Chicago publishing house, then its circulation took twenty-seven freight cars. The „Son of His Father” was made near the Oracle, and his first show was in Tucson. A great adventure in the desert and mountain world of Arizona and the Mexican border. Adventure lovers will amuse by this novel.Data dostępności:
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Klauzura. Wstęp wzbroniony – ebook
Consilia Maria Lakotta
Kiedy znana gwiazda Hollywood zamyka się za drzwiami klauzurowego klasztoru o ostrej regule, wywołuje to poruszenie w całej Ameryce. Wszyscy zastanawiają się nad motywami decyzji aktorki. Reporterka jednego z najpoczytniejszych dzienników z Chicago dostaje zlecenie od szefa - ma incognito przeniknąć do klasztoru jako nowicjuszka i starać się dowiedzieć wszystkiego o decyzji gwiazdy i jej obecnym życiu....Data dostępności:
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Święta tradycja, własny głos – ebook
Piotr Jagielski
Dziennikarz Piotr Jagielski prowadzi nas przez niezwykłą historię amerykańskiej muzyki jazzowej. Od roztańczonego Nowego Orleanu przez loftowy Nowy Jork po bezpretensjonalne Chicago – opisuje losy i dokonania najważniejszych reprezentantów muzycznego panteonu. Niczym pełen entuzjazmu kustosz oprowadza nas po muzeum jazzu, nie kryjąc przy tym własnych fascynacji i zaangażowania. Rozmawia z muzykami,...Data dostępności:
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Seibert of the Island – ebook
Gordon Young
South Seas Adventure Novel, written in 1925 by Gordon Ray Young (1886-1948) a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. During his time in Los Angeles, Young befriended the writer Paul Jordan-Smith and the painter Edward Middleton Manigault. As such, this book was dedicated to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault who...Data dostępności:
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Jimgrim – ebook
Talbot Mundy
There is a good belief that journalists can do exactly as they like and whenever they like. The fun with purple eyes was in Chicago. My passport describes me as a journalist. My employer said, „Go to Jerusalem,” and I went, it was in 1920. I was there several times before the start of World War II, when the Turks were in control. Therefore, I knew about the bugs and the stench of the citadel moose;...Data dostępności:
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