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Tales Of The Syrian Night: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781453826171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here we have a collection of fictional tales written from the perspective of a Syrian-American. The stories put a human edge to the immigrant's struggles in a new country and deals with the Arab heritage left behind. The resulting stories show the lives these immigrants and children of immigrants as they struggle to adjust in a new country. The situations in which they find themselves are sometimes sad, sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always relevant.
Here we have a collection of fictional tales written from the perspective of a Syrian-American. The stories put a human edge to the immigrant's strugg...
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26,73 |
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FREEZONED HIGH SCHOOL: Destruction Within 21st Century, American Education
ISBN: 9780557077076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The stories in the collection concern a typical suburban, public high school. Typical is the operative word. Tax money poured in by the local community for extraordinary services provided to all school-age children. Money spent everywhere: acclaimed educators hired, spectacular facilities built, resources like computers and laboratory equipment acquired, extra-curricular activities created, yet the outcome? Academic failure, violence, drugs, gangs, and, drop-out rates approaching fifty percent. There is the result! Why? Where has the money gone? The resources gone? The stories provide a...
The stories in the collection concern a typical suburban, public high school. Typical is the operative word. Tax money poured in by the local communit...
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59,28 |
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Flushed Diamonds Lost
ISBN: 9781257004010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The novel opens with the thoughts of our main character, one isolated American man. "Sitting here, not so bad, the last white man in Flushing, not so bad. Being here, in this apartment, not so bad. Noise, yes, but can live with that, I think. Not so bad. But, probably, cause I keep saying, not so bad, you really think it is, bad that is. Maybe I should say something like it's tolerable. That's right, tolerable in Flushing, the last white male living, a foreigner in my own neighborhood, isolated from all. Flushing tolerable, historical, established in the seventeenth century by the Dutch Never...
The novel opens with the thoughts of our main character, one isolated American man. "Sitting here, not so bad, the last white man in Flushing, not so ...
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Tales Of Modern Judea: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781456518608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here are stories written so long ago that I cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from a sojourn through graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with the thoughts of greatness; I would become famous and leave the dust of a childhood growing up in Flushing, Queens, New York behind. I would conquer the world In other words, I was living in a world from which there was only one direction to go and that was down. Then, I came back from Canada and my historical studies in the great North, back as a writer of fiction filled with dreams. Returning, I was forced...
Here are stories written so long ago that I cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from a sojourn through graduate school and adventures in a forei...
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32,90 |
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Brothers Of The Four Corners
ISBN: 9798344471587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,69 |
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Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon
ISBN: 9780557199709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Constantine Vlacmose was anything, but weird. How could a weird man hold down a responsible job like his, a job that called for the utmost stability, mental clarity, intestinal fortitude, fearlessness, well, you get the idea now. You don't think being a cabby in New York City is easy, do you! You try dealing with the crowded streets, the thousands of cars, buses, and trucks, two million on-rushing pedestrians, blaring noise, accidents, cops, firefighters, and assorted other distractions. Easy, are you joking! From: Are You An Ass, A Fool, Or A You-Know-What? So begins one of Elias Sassoon's...
Constantine Vlacmose was anything, but weird. How could a weird man hold down a responsible job like his, a job that called for the utmost stability, ...
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46,70 |
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Tales Of The Syrian Night
ISBN: 9780557684670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here we have a collection of fictional tales written from the perspective of a Syrian-American. The stories put a human edge to the immigrant's struggles in a new country and deals with the Arab heritage left behind. The resulting stories show the lives these immigrants and children of immigrants as they struggle to adjust in a new country. The situations in which they find themselves are sometimes sad, sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always relevant.
Here we have a collection of fictional tales written from the perspective of a Syrian-American. The stories put a human edge to the immigrant's strugg...
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41,95 |
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Costume Parade: The Novel
ISBN: 9781449998554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Memoirs of Steinfink, composed in the darkness of hell. Everything stripped; all pretense. Doomed to death by calendar. Simplifies things the way violence simplifies things when uncontrolled. Me, Steinfink revealed in this dungeon of collective intolerance. Who and what am I? Questions upon brittle lips. Don't want questions. Instead, bow down before me, the prince of all men, the Lord of the Universe. My name's George Steinfink, at least, how I'm addressed at this penal institution of ill repute. The name was sent down for me by that divine angel Gabriel, for me, the one who spreads the...
Memoirs of Steinfink, composed in the darkness of hell. Everything stripped; all pretense. Doomed to death by calendar. Simplifies things the way viol...
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37,01 |
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The Individual In Ataturk's Revolution
ISBN: 9781505221480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mustapha Kemal Ataturk ('Father of the Turk'), is the myth that was a man that was claimed as a visionary who became a warrior, leader and statesmen. The West knew him first as the commanding Ottoman officer in World War I's Battle of Gallipoli - a defeat for the Allies, and the Ottoman's greatest victory. We meet him next in 1919 as the Commander thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish portion of the Ottoman Empire. He defeated them, removed the last Sultan, secured the territory of the Turkish national state, and became its first president in 1923. During his...
Mustapha Kemal Ataturk ('Father of the Turk'), is the myth that was a man that was claimed as a visionary who became a warrior, leader and statesmen. ...
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Explosions In The First Person: More Of Sassoon's Short Stories
ISBN: 9781452862286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 3 story openings, 3 first person accounts from 3 individuals: I am a wife and a mother and I think I do both jobs well. I provide for all the needs of my husband and that includes the sexual thing, and all the needs of my two year old son. So why am I bitching like this? Well wouldn't you if you suddenly find a couple of dirty books in one of my husband's dresser drawers. They're not just dirty but disgusting pornographic filth. From DIRTY BOOKS POLISHED CLEAN......."Why is it mom, you don't talk to any of your sisters?" my thirty-three year old, single daughter Brenda asks one day. It's a...
3 story openings, 3 first person accounts from 3 individuals: I am a wife and a mother and I think I do both jobs well. I provide for all the needs of...
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41,13 |
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The Burning Cauldron & Working Towards Death
ISBN: 9781105836848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What's this book about? Not into judgment. Anyway, not sure what anything is or is supposed to be. The book, a string of words that seek to instruct, to lead, to influence and reveal the galaxy of illusions. The moral of the story, the need to define leads us only to confine. ....What do I care about appearances? At my age, it doesn't matter. It's all passing. You die. I die. Appearances die. Simple. ....Defining self. Long winded. Oblivious. Unaware of the outside world of adults. Me, aware of sensation only, relating only to what I can touch and feel; biological all. ....Love the concept of...
What's this book about? Not into judgment. Anyway, not sure what anything is or is supposed to be. The book, a string of words that seek to instruct, ...
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13 Months Of Sassoon: A Diary Of Time
ISBN: 9780557318391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Could be aging process. Times when the mind is clear. Other times, it's a blur. Curious. Other thoughts. Wonder if I'm revealing too much in conversations? Thoughts unending. Useful? Strange, contorted thoughts. Good? Can be. Thinking is free as long as you keep it inside. However, moment you reveal thoughts, the world pounces; you are on the outside looking in. Inner thoughts, wrapped in a cloak of amiability. The way to go. Time passing at work. Depressed. Why? Hard to unearth. The mind hides. Mind and body not...
THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Could be aging process. Times when the mind is clear. Other times, it'...
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61,85 |
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The Brilliant Idiot's Club
ISBN: 9780557654222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a guys' novel about guys, four of them to be exact, three who are single and the other married with kids. All are desperately seeking a place in the world; all think too much, worry too much, examine every aspect of their lives too much. Then, one day, one of these brilliant idiots puts his foot down and makes the others take charge of their lives. They hit the road searching for something, anything that might take them away from their humdrum lives. In the process, there's self-discovery. That leaves us with a novel that is vibrant, funny, touching and ultimately sad. You wind up...
This is a guys' novel about guys, four of them to be exact, three who are single and the other married with kids. All are desperately seeking a place ...
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48,94 |
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The Bookseller's Bathtub: (4) Stories
ISBN: 9781545181522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,01 |
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Tales Of Modern Judea: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781458353856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Stories written long ago; cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with the thoughts of greatness, and leaving a childhood in Flushing, New York behind to conquer the world Then, I came back home, back as a writer of fiction, back to the same apartment in which I'd grown up. My father, an angry, out-of-work factory worker, was still the asshole, roared, drank, punched and ridiculed. While listening, I wrote, locked in a room, pounding keys of an old Olivetti. Soon, finished with a novel and story collection, I sent...
Stories written long ago; cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with ...
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55,92 |
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Explosions In The First Person: More of Sassoon's Short Stories
ISBN: 9780557490714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 3 story openings, 3 first person story accounts. ... I am a wife and a mother. Think I do both well. I provide for all the needs of my husband and that includes the sexual thing. Why am I bitching? Wouldn't you if you suddenly find dirty books in my husband's dresser drawer. They're not just dirty but disgusting. From DIRTY BOOKS POLISHED CLEAN..."Why is it mom, you don't talk to your sisters?" my single daughter asks. A natural question, one she's asked before. Sure she'd be curious. I have five sisters and don't speak to any of them. From: SISTERS IN ANGER AND INDIFFERENCE.... Don't think I...
3 story openings, 3 first person story accounts. ... I am a wife and a mother. Think I do both well. I provide for all the needs of my husband and tha...
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68,55 |
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Flushed Diamonds Lost
ISBN: 9781460929162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The novel opens with the thoughts of our main character, one isolated American man. "Sitting here, not so bad, the last white man in Flushing, not so bad. Being here, in this apartment, not so bad. Noise, yes, but can live with that, I think. Not so bad. But, probably, cause I keep saying, not so bad, you really think it is, bad that is. Maybe I should say something like it's tolerable. That's right, tolerable in Flushing, the last white male living, a foreigner in my own neighborhood, isolated from all. Flushing tolerable, historical, established in the seventeenth century by the Dutch Never...
The novel opens with the thoughts of our main character, one isolated American man. "Sitting here, not so bad, the last white man in Flushing, not so ...
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30,84 |
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Sassoon's Friends: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781449589622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. She was tall, dark and one hell of a handsome, sexy woman, an Italian stallion still roaring to go even in her late forties. She bounced through the bar wearing her tight pink sweater, tight black leather pants and high-heeled, high-rising black boots. Her nails were long like a cat and red. Her eyes burned with desire. There, a man of good build, wide chest, and small and tight rump, stood; overall, not a bad face, not too hard, not too soft. Yes, he might do. From: Swing A Soft Stick... Yah know it wasn't gosh-darn fair It was a tragedy of the gravest proportions and wa happening to Mickey...
She was tall, dark and one hell of a handsome, sexy woman, an Italian stallion still roaring to go even in her late forties. She bounced through the b...
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43,18 |
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Blackened Nights
ISBN: 9781105874758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. He's a nihilist with pretensions. He commits abominations, and leaves the reader wondering. Listen to John Nat ramble: "Hazy and cloudy, or maybe shadowy and dark, the blackness of black. Do you see it, the basic premises of good and evil. What is the universe composed of except putrid pieces of rotting crud thrown together by the empty ones who seek only suppression of what could be a beautiful cosmos? I see all these mothers, the walking bones; I can see them because...
John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. He's a nihilist with pre...
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31,85 |
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Jewish Days
ISBN: 9781496005168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Our protagonist is Artie Shamash. The story explores his conflicted persona. How did that persona, his role identity develop? What is the mechanism involved that shapes each of us? The novel seeks to understand by through Artie Shamash's life. On its face, the book's a study of a man born into a world of secular Judaism and its assimilationist trend in America; we see the stress this creates. On another level, the theme is more universal, how each of our identities, our roles such as Christian, Jew, Muslim, American, Russian, German, etc., are nurtured. The novel spins counter-clockwise. It...
Our protagonist is Artie Shamash. The story explores his conflicted persona. How did that persona, his role identity develop? What is the mechanism in...
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28,79 |
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