wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Mordseegrab
ISBN: 9783986372620 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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822,42 zł |
Mr. Heathcliff's Fortune and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9781482391930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stunning set of short stories that play on established themes from multiple perspectives, perception of realities and the melding of realities and fictions. Mister Heathcliff's Fortune, establishes how Heathcliff acquired his fortune during the three years he was gone from Wuthering Heights. Set in the New Orleans of the 1770's it is told from the perspectives of two women, a black slave and a card player, both involved with Heathcliff. Lush and atmospheric prose sets the tone. The Affair are stories within stories chronicling the impact of a brief love affair by a writer whose style and...
A stunning set of short stories that play on established themes from multiple perspectives, perception of realities and the melding of realities and f...
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54,38 zł |
The God of Rock and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781497314979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The God of Rock is novella composed of interlocking short stories, in which the destinies of a rock guitarist and a fledgling painter become intertwined. Brought together initially by desire, they are parted by life's circumstance. Through dreams, memories and a long process whereby the ego unravels and allows the soul to lead, the two are eventually reunited many years later. This collection also includes The Burial, six tales of the Sarmations, the great horsemen of the steppe, which span from 500 BCE TO 1400 CE. The merger of historiography and archaeology produce a fictional...
The God of Rock is novella composed of interlocking short stories, in which the destinies of a rock guitarist and a fledgling painter become intertwin...
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49,84 zł |
Meridian
ISBN: 9781467926201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A former WWI nurse married to a wealthy and dangerous man embarks on a reckless love affair with a social outcast. During their time together she reveals the truth about herself as she never has before. A beautifully written meditation on sexual obsession, religious mania, power and betrayal, Meridian follows one woman as she overcomes her blighted family history to experience spiritual redemption and ultimate forgiveness.
A former WWI nurse married to a wealthy and dangerous man embarks on a reckless love affair with a social outcast. During their time together she reve...
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40,78 zł |
Children of the Sun and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781470082857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eight thematically linked stories of multi-culturalism, immigration and globalism from The Conquest of the New World to the wars in the Middle East today. The first grouping follows seven women in succession, each story building upon its predecessor. Unexpected Arrival introduces an unnamed narrator as she suffers the loss of her childhood homeland and is thrown into the turbulence of the United States during the 1960's. Chains is a poignant and hilarious tale of an eccentric and unappreciated creative artist. In Rare Earth, the protagonist is healed by the land itself, following a...
Eight thematically linked stories of multi-culturalism, immigration and globalism from The Conquest of the New World to the wars in the Middle East to...
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45,32 zł |
Throw Granny off the Balcony and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9781477489703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A humorous collection of real life short stories with a crazy cast of characters from a father who has a habit of crashing every new car he buys; a mother who throws the dishes in the dumpster rather than washing them; a sister who attributes her troubles to psychological boogers and a ninety-five year old granny who who thinks everyone is trying to drive her crazy, along with amorous peacocks, madwomen on the roof, flying horses, alligator loving Mafiosi, gypsies, jaguars and food, always more food.
A humorous collection of real life short stories with a crazy cast of characters from a father who has a habit of crashing every new car he buys; a mo...
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45,32 zł |
End Game: A Legal Injustice
ISBN: 9781482391664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An innocent man is falsely accused of crimes against humanity. Chased cross country by bounty hunters, he is arrested at brought to a politically motivated world court to be tried. During the course of his incarceration and trial, he struggles to find the true meaning of justice, honor and liberty.
An innocent man is falsely accused of crimes against humanity. Chased cross country by bounty hunters, he is arrested at brought to a politically moti...
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72,50 zł |
Death of an Activist
ISBN: 9781466407916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When beautiful and iconoclastic activist Rose Smith is abducted and brutally murdered in the Amazon, where she is working to prevent big oil from drilling on Indian lands, her former lover, investigative writer Ulyce Robideaux, sets out on a trans-continental journey to uncover the mystery behind her death. Unbeknown to him, he will be drawn into a web of international intrigue at the highest levels, endangering his own life. Complicating matters is Marianne Popovich, who hoping to win Robideaux's love sets out on an odyssey of her own into Rose's past, which will not only reveal the true...
When beautiful and iconoclastic activist Rose Smith is abducted and brutally murdered in the Amazon, where she is working to prevent big oil from dril...
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67,97 zł |
The Lens of Desire
ISBN: 9780578768625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,86 zł |
Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels: Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot
ISBN: 9780820333755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. European literary history teems with prejudices. Nowhere perhaps is bias more evident than in the field of Anglo-French relations of the eighteenth century. In England looms the formidable figure of Samuel Johnson, while the French-speaking world is dominated by Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot. Samuel Johnson thought little of Voltaire and never mentioned Diderot. That he wanted to banish Rousseau to the American colonies is well known. All three men were, in Johnson's mind, infidels to the Christian order of society. In "Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels," Mark Temmer reevaluates... European literary history teems with prejudices. Nowhere perhaps is bias more evident than in the field of Anglo-French relations of the eighteenth... |
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168,29 zł |