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The Illuminations
ISBN: 9781250094681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize Anne Quirk's life is built on stories--the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to survive. Nobody remembers Anne now, but in her youth she was an artistic pioneer, a creator... Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize |
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79,20 zł |
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Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller
ISBN: 9780571381357 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
'An utter joy to read.' Monica Ali 'A barnstorming novel.' Observer'A masterpiece.' John Lanchester From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. 'An utter joy to read.' Monica Ali 'A barnstorming novel.' Observer'A masterpiece.' John Lanchester From the author of Ma... |
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102,30 zł |
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Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
ISBN: 9780571273713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.
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51,10 zł |
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Leuchten über Blackpool : Roman
ISBN: 9783100024183 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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100,02 zł |
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Personality
ISBN: 9780156029674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Growing up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, Maria Tambini is a young girl with dreams of escape from her Italian immigrant family. When her amazing singing voice wins her a talent show at the tender age of thirteen, she is whisked off to London and instant stardom.
But even as Maria is celebrating her greatest success, she is waging a hidden battle against her own body, and becoming in the process a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity. Can she be saved by love? Or will she be consumed by an obsessive celebrity culture, family lies, and by her number-one fan? This stunning... Growing up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, Maria Tambini is a young girl with dreams of escape from her Italian immigrant family. When her amazing singi...
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83,16 zł |
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The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
ISBN: 9781250192790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,86 zł |
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Naši otcové
ISBN: 9788086515472 / Czeski / 2004 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Andrew O’Hagan v knize, která byla mj. nominována na prestižní Booker Prize, zobrazuje srážku mezi generacemi, mezi starým a novým Skotskem, mezi životem v ideálech a důsledky takového idealismu. Je to příběh tří mužů ze tří generací, kteří každý po svém hledají svou Utopii, příběh pýchy a klamu, víry a alkoholu, národnostní hrdosti a konce starých časů. Autor vynikajícím způsobem nastínil otázku vztahu lidí k historii, kde se vždy mísí pohled ryze osobní s pohledem celospolečenským.
Andrew O’Hagan v knize, která byla mj. nominována na prestižní Booker Prize, zobrazuje srážku mezi generacemi, mezi starým a novým Skotskem,...
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52,78 zł |
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Be Near Me
ISBN: 9780156033961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Always trust a stranger," said David s mother when he returned from Rome. "It s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents...
"Always trust a stranger," said David s mother when he returned from Rome. "It s the people you know who let you down." Half a life later, David i...
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87,33 zł |
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Our Fathers
ISBN: 9780156012027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now, as he lies dying in one of his own buildings, his grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him. It is Jamie who tells the story of his family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of political idealism. It is a tale of darkness amidst the search for Utopia. A poignant and very powerful reclamation of the past, Our Fathers is also a clearsighted and beautifully crafted look at public and...
Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now, as he lies ...
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95,67 zł |
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Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America
ISBN: 9780151013784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A brilliant essayist, O'Hagan] constructs sentences that pierce like pinpricks. Publishers Weekly, starred review
For more than two decades, Andrew O Hagan has been publishing celebrated essays on both sides of the Atlantic. The Atlantic Ocean highlights the best of his clear-eyed, brilliant work, including his first published essay, a reminiscence of his working-class Scottish upbringing; an extraordinary piece about the lives of two soldiers, one English, one American, both of whom died in Iraq on May 2, 2005; and a piercing examination of the life of William Styron. O... "A brilliant essayist, O'Hagan] constructs sentences that pierce like pinpricks. Publishers Weekly, starred review
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95,67 zł |
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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
ISBN: 9780547520285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. He had an instinct for celebrity. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. For Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits. Maf was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life, first in New York, where she mixed with everyone who was anyone the art dealer Leo Castelli, Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio crowd, Upper West Side emigres then back to Los Angeles. She took him to meet President Kennedy and to Hollywood restaurants,... In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. He had an instinct for celebrity. For politi... |
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70,82 zł |
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Mayflies
ISBN: 9780771068119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,86 zł |
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Chwile
ISBN: 9788324067886 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Powieść Andrew OHagana, trzykrotnie nominowanego do Nagrody Bookera, którego Granta umieściła na prestiżowej liście najbardziej obiecujących brytyjskich autorów. Poza OHaganem w gronie wyróżnionych znaleźli się dotychczas m.in. Zadie Smith, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro i Julian Barnes.NAJBARDZIEJ PORUSZAJĄCA HISTORIA PRZYJAŹNI, JAKĄ MOŻESZ PODAROWAĆ SOBIE I SWOIM BLISKIM.Nie ma na tym świecie rzeczy, której Tully Dawson nie zrobiłby dla przyjaciół. To dzięki niemu James nigdy nie czuł się samotny. I to z nim przeżył najbardziej magiczny weekend w swoim życiu....
Powieść Andrew OHagana, trzykrotnie nominowanego do Nagrody Bookera, którego Granta umieściła na prestiżowej liście najbardziej obiecujących b...
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52,24 zł |
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Enhanced Learning Environments: Technology and Innovation
ISBN: 9781527587700 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Representing a diverse range of academic perspectives from various disciplines to provoke original thinking, engage critical analysis, and fuel the desire to improve education, this book is for those readers with a genuine interest in quality education and supporting technology. One often hears the words "Enhanced", "Learning Environments", "Technology", and "Innovation" liberally applied in conversations with an assumption that their inclusion automatically improves the quality of education. This book looks beyond mere buzzwords for the ground truth in how education, technology, and...
Representing a diverse range of academic perspectives from various disciplines to provoke original thinking, engage critical analysis, and fuel the de...
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349,27 zł |
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LOOK UP--Gaining Insight and Direction Through Experiential Learning For Your Personal, Professional and Civic Life
ISBN: 9781524974534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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263,67 zł |
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Overcome Anxiety in Relationships: How to Eliminate Negative Thinking, Jealousy, Attachment, and Couple Conflicts-Insecurity and Fear of Abandonment O
ISBN: 9781800761032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,48 zł |
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Moonfall
ISBN: 9798741949191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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48,10 zł |
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Where You Live
ISBN: 9781938126437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The California of Where You Live might have sun, surf, and sand, but it s more densely populated with cracking marriages, accidental pregnancies, and shitty jobs. Andrew Roe s Californians face sharp points of change: Stay or go? Love or leave? Run or get stuck? Their choices, like our own, reveal life s stark limitations and its wide-open vistas all at once. Full of lush prose and unforgettable imagery, the stories in Where You Live shine an unforgiving yet shimmering light on longing, loss, and the everyday catastrophes of life. "The California of Where You Live might have sun, surf, and sand, but it s more densely populated with cracking marriages, accidental pregnan... |
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69,79 zł |
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Martians Under Siege
ISBN: 9781508814894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story happened a thousand earth years after the Singularity(Artificial Intelligence) had conquered earth, it considers itself the Messenger of God, the Last Prophet. With those believes it hammered the human population into Medieval life peasantry of the New Dark Age, from there it drafts its crusading army. Mars was the only place where Free Human still lives freely, except there was this Martian Singularity war that happened every 15 to 17 earth years when Mars and Earth were at their closest, it happened as exact and stubborn as 0 and 1. Martians are the descendants of Human settlers,...
The story happened a thousand earth years after the Singularity(Artificial Intelligence) had conquered earth, it considers itself the Messenger of God...
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43,29 zł |
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Birds of Paradise Lost
ISBN: 9781597092685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. *Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they... *Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they ch... |
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66,49 zł |