ilość książek w kategorii: 44596
Deception
ISBN: 9780316058575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Things like this don't happen to people like us. That's what Lachlan Harriot thinks as he watches his wife, Susie, led to jail in handcuffs. Yes, Susie, a psychologist, was found covered in blood near the spot where one of her clients appears to have been murdered. But Susie is not a killer, Lachlan thinks. She's my wife. She's our child's mother. Secrets lurk behind closed doors, however, a dark truth made chillingly clear as Lachlan's efforts to prove Susie's innocence uncover an entire secret history--illicit affairs, false identities, unimaginable deception--and this brilliantly...
Things like this don't happen to people like us. That's what Lachlan Harriot thinks as he watches his wife, Susie, led to jail in handcuffs. Yes, Susi...
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94,44 zł |
Lifeguard
ISBN: 9780316106955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The danger isn't in the water.
Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way - except that she is used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. She is a guest at the luxurious hotel - he lives above a garage. So when Ned's cousin offers to cut him in on a rich deal he's been commissioned to execute, Ned can't turn him down. The plan is simple, just a fast break-and-enter. The risk is high, and the reward is even greater--$5 million. But on the night of... The danger isn't in the water.
Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his drea... |
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180,37 zł |
Talking to the Dead: A Novel Tag: Winner of the Orange Prize
ISBN: 9780316196451 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic for its elegant and sensuous prose, "Talking to the Dead" tells the story of two sisters whose lives are bound by the hidden and surprising truth about the long-ago death of their infant brother.
Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic for its elegant and sensuous prose, "Talking to the Dead" tells the story of two sisters whose lives ...
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94,44 zł |
Pop Goes the Weasel
ISBN: 9780316693288 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Detective Alex Cross is in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C., murders with a pattern so twisted, it leaves investigators reeling. Cross's ingenious pursuit of the killer produces a suspect-a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving that Shafer is the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task. As the diplomat engages in a brilliant series of surprising countermoves, in and out of the courtroom, Alex and his fiancee become hopelessly entangled with the most memorable nemesis Alex Cross has ever faced. Pop Goes the...
Detective Alex Cross is in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C., murders with a pattern s...
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128,84 zł |
In the Hand of Dante
ISBN: 9780316735643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback--the Tosches masterpiece--a life-or-death thriller based on the life of Dante and a thief named Nick Tosches.
Now in paperback--the Tosches masterpiece--a life-or-death thriller based on the life of Dante and a thief named Nick Tosches.
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107,32 zł |
The Seas Come Still
ISBN: 9780996699686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A sweeping historical novel of mystic discovery. Two stories woven across three thousand years, from the fall of Minoan Atlantis to the dawn of the Age of Reason. Can history as we know it be only part of the human story? Have sacred teachings survived the ashes of natural cataclysm and persecution to reemerge, more relevant now than ever before? Meticulously researched, sumptuously styled, The Seas Come Still invites you into the hearts and minds of a closely guarded sisterhood, separated by millennia, but linked by a code of love and service older than faith itself. The ignorant have called...
A sweeping historical novel of mystic discovery. Two stories woven across three thousand years, from the fall of Minoan Atlantis to the dawn of the Ag...
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67,59 zł |
Pages in the Wind
ISBN: 9780996527606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After the brutal murder of her father, Emily Quinn finds herself detained at the San Francisco County Jail, charged with first-degree murder for a crime she cannot remember. Emily's mother, a wealthy socialite, quickly distances herself from her troubled daughter, but in an attempt to salvage the family name, hires world-renowned psychiatrist, Daniel Lieberman, to assist in Emily's defense. The famed doctor, an aging, lonely psychiatrist with an addiction to sugar, caffeine, and understanding the human mind, quickly becomes sympathetic to Emily and her tortured childhood. ...After the brutal murder of her father, Emily Quinn finds herself detained at the San Francisco County Jail, charged with first-degree murder for a ... |
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67,59 zł |
Dovetail Joint and other stories
ISBN: 9780993922305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In DOVETAIL JOINT AND OTHER STORIES, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter Vanessa in six linked stories at five distinct and evocative moments in her life, as she moves through a series of beautifully drawn relationships and landscapes. Rowntree explores the value of both persistence and its opposite in the Cubist portrait of a complex woman who will linger in your mind.
In DOVETAIL JOINT AND OTHER STORIES, Lenore Rowntree portrays the subtle deceits of intimacy that arise when an expectation is not met. We encounter V...
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80,94 zł |
Leaving it All Behind
ISBN: 9780993340932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What would you do if you knew you were going to die? Former General Practitioner Seymour and Teacher Harriet join forces to tick a few things off their bucket lists - like learning to fly a helicopter, parachute jumping, robbing a bank, getting the local Drug Squad to destroy the evidence, and so on. In addition there are the love-lives of their supposedly adult children to sort out, and Harriet's local 15-year-old cannabis dealer. Full of humour and humanity, this story tells the story of Norfolk's fifty-something Bonnie and Clyde (or Mack and Mabel) leading up to the day they expected to...
What would you do if you knew you were going to die? Former General Practitioner Seymour and Teacher Harriet join forces to tick a few things off thei...
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58,58 zł |
An Industrious Woman: A Seaside Story
ISBN: 9780991501793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a matter of two days the quiet lonely life of Hannah Jacobs makes a complete turnaround. She is stunned when she sees none other than Ezekiel Melancon along with his brother Budrow unloading a rental truck at the house next door. Patricia Melancon or Miss Mel as she is known to many in the City of Seaside, California, and her daughter Shantrell are Hannah's new neighbors. Hannah has a great deal of respect and admiration for Miss Mel and Zeke Melancon but little regard for Shantrell and the womanizing Budrow. The day following the arrival of Hannah's new neighbors, fate lays a cruel...
In a matter of two days the quiet lonely life of Hannah Jacobs makes a complete turnaround. She is stunned when she sees none other than Ezekiel Melan...
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49,56 zł |
Tender
ISBN: 9780345419033 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest rock legend of his time. In Tender, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Leroy Kirby, makes his meteoric rise to stardom, from the poverty-stricken child of an overprotective mother and absent father, to an icon who stands for everything American--a role that will ultimately consume him. After reading Tender, you will never think about the...
East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest r...
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115,95 zł |
Criminal Intent
ISBN: 9780345441751 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2003 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there's bound to be controversy--and consequences. But murder crosses the line between committing a sin and committing a crime, turning a battle over faith into a battle for justice. And smack in the middle of the explosive case is Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid.
Kincaid rescued Father Daniel Beale once before. When the priest's renegade views and violent temper nearly cost him his position as rector of St. Benedict's Church, Ben intervened and saved the day. Now... When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there's bound to be c...
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34,31 zł |
Listen for the Whisperer
ISBN: 9780345466228 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Leigh Hollins was determined to find her mother--the famous Hollywood actress Laura Worth. She found her all right, but it was not a happy reunion. For Laura was being haunted by the murderer who had killed the director of one of her movies twenty years earlier. Laura was being stalked, harrassed, and frightened near to death. And because Leigh was her daughter, someone would try to kill her too....
"From the Paperback edition."
Leigh Hollins was determined to find her mother--the famous Hollywood actress Laura Worth. She found her all right, but it was not a happy reunion. Fo...
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81,60 zł |
Christmas in the Hood: Stories
ISBN: 9780345497802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season.
Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth "Soul Man" Ferranti-all writing gritty tales that reveal what the holidays bring for the naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street. In "Secret Santa," after her children's Christmas presents are stolen, a woman has to decide what she's willing to sacrifice to give them the holiday they deserve; in... The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban storie...
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61,76 zł |
The Cave
ISBN: 9780374529161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stunning psychological thriller about friship, drugs, and murder from the author of The Vanishing. Egon Wagter and Axel van de Graaf met when they were both fourteen and on vacation in Belgium. Axel is fascinating, filled with an amoral energy by which the more prudent, less adventurous Egon is both mesmerized and repelled. Even as a teen, Axel has a strange power over those around him. He defies authority, seduces women, breaks the law. Axel chooses Egon as a friend, a friendship that somehow ures over time and ends up determining Egon's fate. During his... A stunning psychological thriller about friship, drugs, and murder from the author of The Vanishing. Egon Wagter and Axel van d... |
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124,54 zł |
Bringing Out the Dead
ISBN: 9780375700293 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes from deep within the experience, and the result is a debut novel of extraordinary power and intensity.
In Frank Pierce, a brash EMS medic working the streets of Hell's Kitchen, Connelly gives us a man who is being destroyed by the act of saving people. Addicted to the thrill ("the best drug in the world") and the mission of the job, Frank... Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as rive...
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81,60 zł |
One Across, Two Down
ISBN: 9780375704949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,71 zł |
The Emperor of Ocean Park
ISBN: 9780375712920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord--families who summer at Martha's Vineyard--and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. Talcott Garland is a successful law professor, devoted father, and husband of a beautiful and ambitious woman, whose future desires may threaten the family he holds so dear. When Talcott's father, Judge Oliver Garland, a disgraced...
In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The E...
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77,30 zł |
Samaritan
ISBN: 9780375725135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence. Set against the intensely realized backdrop of urban America, the cat and mouse game that unfolds is both morally complex and utterly gripping.
Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives o...
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73,01 zł |
The Three Miss Margarets
ISBN: 9780375760884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Miss Peggy, Dr. Maggie, and Miss Li'l Bit, friends and confidantes for nearly a lifetime, find it funny and bewildering that they have become icons in Charles Valley, Georgia. Little does the rest of the town know that beneath the irreproachable faades of its three doyennes lies an explosive decades-old secret that is about to be revealed.
Thirty-odd years ago the three Miss Margarets did something extraordinary, clandestine, and very illegal. Although their lives are haunted by the night that changed their lives, they believe that their crime was simply a matter of righting an egregious... Miss Peggy, Dr. Maggie, and Miss Li'l Bit, friends and confidantes for nearly a lifetime, find it funny and bewildering that they have become icons in...
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68,71 zł |