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Pig's Court America: Paperback Edition
ISBN: 9780557212354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The novel follows Bernard (Bernie) Courtman, an obese glutton who is also a shyster, fool, sociopath, and philosopher. A remarkable egotist, Bernie's the ultimate salesman who peddles the world's inconsequential on street corners everywhere. When not doing that, he's manipulating our bankruptcy laws and credit regulations to fill his coffers and finance his other schemes. Utilizing assumed names, using forged signatures, stolen credit card and social security numbers, he changes identities as he swindles across America. Constantly in flight from the authorities, he still has time for romantic...
The novel follows Bernard (Bernie) Courtman, an obese glutton who is also a shyster, fool, sociopath, and philosopher. A remarkable egotist, Bernie's ...
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Blackened Nights
ISBN: 9781477684931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. John Nat is more than a fascist or anarchist; he's a nihilist with pretensions. That separates him from the others, and makes him more dangerous. He commits abominations while leaving the reader wondering why. A wild teen whose behavior may be a roadmap to the inconsistencies of the twenty-first century, he's best understood by quoting John Nat's own words. "Hazy and cloudy, or maybe shadowy and dark, the blackness of black which is akin to the whiteness of white....
John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. John Nat is more than a ...
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The Sassoon Society: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781449916336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "Mister, you come, mister, gems, sell, European, mister, sell to you," the Arab boy calls to the foreigner wearing the tan safari suit and hat. "Mister, good deal, you." The foreigner hesitates, then, follows the boy down the darkened steps of the Suq. From: SYRIANS AND OTHER ABNORMAL GENTLEFOLK.. "Yep, had lot of jobs before I went into the retail trade," Charley Rashidi tells it. "I was in the Merchant Marines out of New York Harbor during the world war where I was in charge of purchasing much of the supplies for our boys overseas. Really ran the day-to-day operations of the base. Got to...
"Mister, you come, mister, gems, sell, European, mister, sell to you," the Arab boy calls to the foreigner wearing the tan safari suit and hat. "Miste...
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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25,95 |
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The American God: A*NOVEL*Tale
ISBN: 9781105572586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A technocrat blessed by city virgins for profundity of wit, business acumen, adventurousness, and superiority of mind, yes, honored by society that rewards those who look to the future with an eye towards profitable accumulation of capital. The man is Robert Baydah. Married; powerful wife; one flawless child; owns penthouses and other properties on diverse continents populated by penniless natives. Everywhere powerful friends and more powerful allies. Baydah is a space-age gentleman, a product of the sophisticated science of computers in all their manifestations over centuries. Head of a...
A technocrat blessed by city virgins for profundity of wit, business acumen, adventurousness, and superiority of mind, yes, honored by society that re...
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Sassoon's Sketches: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780557181445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) I begin. There is nothing. There are no thoughts, no actions. The blank page stares back at me. I wonder where the ideas will come from? Battling through the fears and self doubts. I doubt myself. I don't know why! I have always been the shy, scared clown? Why! Could my childhood, filled with put-downs and empty of praises, hold the key? That's too easy. In truth, my nature is spun from my father's, and his sense of inferiority and dissatisfaction. Does this help me as I sit here amidst skyscraper avenue attempting to formulate these sketches. Wait! My pen is quivering. The words are forming...
I begin. There is nothing. There are no thoughts, no actions. The blank page stares back at me. I wonder where the ideas will come from? Battling thro...
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Sassoon's Friends
ISBN: 9780557191307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) She was tall, dark and one hell of a handsome, sexy woman, 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 tight rump, stood. Not a bad face, she thought. Yes, he might do. From: Swing A Soft Stick. So begins one of Elias Sassoon's often humorous, thoughtful, and entertaining stories in Sassoon's Friends.
She was tall, dark and one hell of a handsome, sexy woman, still roaring to go even in her late forties. She bounced through the bar wearing her tight...
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Tales Of The Syrian Night
ISBN: 9780557684670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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40,71 |
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Flushed Diamonds Lost
ISBN: 9781257004010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Freezoned High School: Destructin Within 21St Century, American Education
ISBN: 9781449574925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The stories concern a typical suburban, public high school. Typical is the operative word. Tax money poured into it, extraordinary services provided, acclaimed educators hired, spectacular facilities produced, 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. Why? The author of these stories worked as a Substitute Teacher in suburban schools like Freezoned High School for years. In that capacity, I dealt with everyone from office staff to...
The stories concern a typical suburban, public high school. Typical is the operative word. Tax money poured into it, extraordinary services provided, ...
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Brothers Of The Four Corners
ISBN: 9798344471587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Costume Parade
ISBN: 9780557255641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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 men, the Lord of the Universe. Name's George Steinfink, at least, how I'm addressed at this penal institution of ill repute. Name was sent down for me by that divine angel Gabriel, for me, the one who spreads the truth that you...
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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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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FREEZONED HIGH SCHOOL: Destruction Within 21st Century, American Education
ISBN: 9780557077076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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The Individual In Ataturk's Revolution
ISBN: 9781505221480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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The Brilliant Idiot's Club
ISBN: 9780557654222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon
ISBN: 9780557199709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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13 Months Of Sassoon: A Diary Of Time
ISBN: 9780557318391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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