wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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The Forgers
ISBN: 9781611854602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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The Prague Sonata
ISBN: 9781611855036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A literary quest reaching from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript
A literary quest reaching from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an ei...
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45,24 |
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The Almanac Branch
ISBN: 9781451672442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family.
Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visions, which reveal buried memories, leading her inexorably on the path to discovering secrets that could send her family's business empire into ruin. As Grace grows into adulthood, her quest for personal freedom collides with the mysteries of her past, making of her story an almanac of the perplexing nature of truth itself. Bradford Morrow maps the... A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family.
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64,58 |
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Pražská sonáta
ISBN: 9788025729076 / Czeski / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Meta Tavernerová žijící v New Yorku se nemůže věnovat kariéře pianistky, ale jednoho dne se jí dostane do rukou notový zápis hudebního díla z konce 18. století. Je to pouze fragment, třetina sonáty od evidentně geniálního skladatele. Metě se podaří spojit se starou dámou jménem Otylie Bartošová, jejíž rodině kdysi sonáta patřila. Když v předvečer okupace prchala z Prahy, rozdělila rodina dílo na tři části, aby se nedostalo nacistům do rukou celé, kdyby se snad útěk nezdařil. Meta se pokusí dát všecky části zase dohromady a vydává se do...
Meta Tavernerová žijící v New Yorku se nemůže věnovat kariéře pianistky, ale jednoho dne se jí dostane do rukou notový zápis hudebního d...
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The Forger's Daughter
ISBN: 9781611854596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A brilliant and thrilling exploration of the passion that drives rare-book collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality.
A brilliant and thrilling exploration of the passion that drives rare-book collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality.
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45,24 |
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The Diviner's Tale
ISBN: 9780547758657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) " A] splendidly written mystery . . . a compelling story. Grade: A" Cleveland Plain Dealer " A] splendidly written mystery . . . a compelling story. Grade: A" Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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64,58 |
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The Forgers
ISBN: 9780802124272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow comes a richly told literary thriller about the dark side of the rare book world. The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive rare book collector is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. In the weeks following the victim s death, his sister, Meghan, and her lovera sometime literary forger whose specialty is the handwriting of Sir Arthur Conan Doylestruggle to come to terms with the murder. The police fail to identify a...
From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow comes a richly told literary thriller about the dark side of the rare book world. The bibliophile c...
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68,42 |
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Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
ISBN: 9780393339369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS...
Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloqu...
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91,04 |