wyszukanych pozycji: 18
Penfield Prep: A Satirical Novel
ISBN: 9781439215333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hypatia Hogan is driven to New Hampshire by her father, Mick, in his broken-down Rambler for a job interview at Penfield Prep, almost convinced that she will not get the position because her father had just told her that he had mailed a newspaper clipping with her resume describing a near riot recently when she was chosen Miss Hudson County over some local favorites. Little did she know that the headmaster and English Department Chair had their fingers crossed that she won't turn down the job as 47 others had after they learned that the opening had been created because the last teacher was...
Hypatia Hogan is driven to New Hampshire by her father, Mick, in his broken-down Rambler for a job interview at Penfield Prep, almost convinced that s...
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49,92 zł |
Penfield Prep: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781439229767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume Two continues the adventures, mishaps and indiscretions of the world of Penfield Prep from which Headmaster Wellington escapes with his mischievous wife until the heat dies down. She had been arrested as a hooker after being found half-naked on a busy street while researching material for a novel. He leaves the campus in charge of his assistant, Dr. Seymour Snipe, erudite and generally competent except for one peculiar habit: his fetish for stealing little girls' underthings from the village laundromat. This provides an opportunity for ambitious Dr. Yang Sun, the peripatetic teacher...
Volume Two continues the adventures, mishaps and indiscretions of the world of Penfield Prep from which Headmaster Wellington escapes with his mischie...
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78,35 zł |
From Flaubert with Love
ISBN: 9781456328986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Flaubert with Love is actually four books in one. The first part, beginning with the story of a faithful and loving golden retriever (Flaubert) is a series of seven stories and ending with a novella (If the Shoe Fits, Steal It), each about the adventures of dogs and their human companions. The second and longest section (11 stories) is devoted to humor and satire from the hilarious "A Little Lust for the Elderly" in which a sometimes coquettish and most of the time kinky octogenarian KO's a mobster, to an examination of the law in Utah where a woman could actually be given the death...
From Flaubert with Love is actually four books in one. The first part, beginning with the story of a faithful and loving golden retriever (Flaubert) i...
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54,51 zł |
Boyd To Malachy to Chance
ISBN: 9781439270547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Readers who seek a vivid and memorable picture of urban boyhood in the first half of the 20th century need look no further. Boyd to Malachy to Chance describes the world of a young boy during the Great Depression (Boyd) through a scholarship to a Prep school (Malachy) to army service in Europe during World War II (Chance) We see the inhibited advances of the youth to his first love when he leaves for the army, where his horizons broaden as he meets young men from other parts of the country. Then the shipping of his unit to Britain, to the beaches of France and to the frozen woods around...
Readers who seek a vivid and memorable picture of urban boyhood in the first half of the 20th century need look no further. Boyd to Malachy to Chance ...
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84,03 zł |
The Love Chateau and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781456328993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Love Chateau is the story of a Shangri-La for lovers. It is preceded by seven different kinds of love stories, not easy to categorize because most of the principal characters are not usually thought of as lovers, although the warmth we associate with love is there, wearing different clothes. Here the reader will also find stories of social comment, mystery, magical realism, and, most of all, humor. One finds humor in the tale of the Irishman who did not believe in baths but used Vicks VapoRub instead of soap, the adventures of the inventors of sperm necklaces and the locksmith who...
The Love Chateau is the story of a Shangri-La for lovers. It is preceded by seven different kinds of love stories, not easy to categorize because most...
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52,24 zł |
Bathtub Magic In Cherry Blossom Village: Where Thinking Begins
ISBN: 9781523822874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,38 zł |
Counterfeit Nun and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9781439240274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Short Description of The Counterfeit Nun and Three Mysteries The Counterfeit Nun is a story of two lovers, Luke and Jennifer, who have a difficult time getting together because she is a student at a conservative women's college Jennifer, who works part-time in the office of the Mother Superior, intercepts a letter from Sister Mary Terese, a nun-scholar about to visit the college and, forging her boss's name, writes to Sister Mary asking her to delay her visit for a couple of months. Then she dresses Luke in a nun's outfit and passes him off as Sister Mary. Fortunately no one at Marydale...
Short Description of The Counterfeit Nun and Three Mysteries The Counterfeit Nun is a story of two lovers, Luke and Jennifer, who have a difficult tim...
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68,09 zł |
It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City
ISBN: 9781419621239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City" by Eugene C. Flinn is a collection of 21 short stories that include an actress whose strict mother does not know she is going on stage naked, a kid who has words with Santa Claus, an elderly woman who advises the manager of the New York Giants, a mobster who buys a fashionable magazine to impress his girl friends, school children who steal Montcalm's head, a nun who gives the finger to a rude truck driver, a wedding guest who finds himself at the "Reject Table," horse players who unknowingly stumble on two genuine Monet paintings...
"It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City" by Eugene C. Flinn is a collection of 21 short stories that include an actress whose st...
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40,66 zł |
Trixie Triphammer's Magical Christmas
ISBN: 9781466238749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Trixie Triphammer's Magical Christmas: the plot Alone in her bedroom at night while her parents were Christmas shopping, little Laura Brown had a strange visitor: a female midget in a St. Louis Cardinal baseball uniform who entered her locked window without breaking the glass. She introduced herself as Trixie Triphammer and said she was here to enlist Laura's aid in saving all the turkeys from the ovens of Noddington, the little town where Laura lived. By a robust swing of her tiny bat Trixie was able to draw the frozen turkeys from freezers throughout the houses and stores of the village and...
Trixie Triphammer's Magical Christmas: the plot Alone in her bedroom at night while her parents were Christmas shopping, little Laura Brown had a stra...
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27,21 zł |
The Inn of the Seventy-Seven Clocks
ISBN: 9781419686511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Inn of the Seventy-Seven Clocks combines mystery and comedy, featuring a notorious underworld figure who writes stories for little children and a Jewish billionaire with designs on being Pope.
The Inn of the Seventy-Seven Clocks combines mystery and comedy, featuring a notorious underworld figure who writes stories for little children and a ...
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45,38 zł |
The Metamorphosis of a Hedge Fund Manager: A Short Novel and Six Novellas
ISBN: 9781505526950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A sacked hedge fund manager has no trouble in making the transition to holding up banks in the short novel that opens this collection. It is followed by novellas about vanishing people in a hospital, a disappearing priest in a church, mad inventors who solve obesity and fuel problems at the same time, two crooks and a cat in a haunted house, a Texan who brings new insights into northern politics, and a man who finds a vital piece of his anatomy atop the hat of a striking blond entering St. Patrick's Cathedral to see the Pope.
A sacked hedge fund manager has no trouble in making the transition to holding up banks in the short novel that opens this collection. It is followed ...
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42,02 zł |
Trapped in the English Department: A Comic Mystery
ISBN: 9781439241707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Members of the English Department of Zarathustra College in northern New England are moderately weird colleagues in fair weather, but when a mid-December blizzard traps them in the English Department's windowless office without electricity or heat, they become strange bedfellows indeed. Wandering about with only the light of a few candles, they trip over what appears to be a body of one of their colleagues. They cannot be sure, however, because this particular body has no head. The president of the college, who bought his Ph.D. from a place called Ersatz University for $24,995, has a head,...
Members of the English Department of Zarathustra College in northern New England are moderately weird colleagues in fair weather, but when a mid-Decem...
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58,82 zł |
One More for the Road: 40 Tales from Ireland, Hoboken, and Other Faraway Places
ISBN: 9781419648397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One More for the Road: 40 Tales of Ireland, Hoboken and Other Faraway Places is a collection of short stories that mixes comedy, satire, sex, love, and stories of World War II.
One More for the Road: 40 Tales of Ireland, Hoboken and Other Faraway Places is a collection of short stories that mixes comedy, satire, sex, love, an...
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68,13 zł |
The 1774 House and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781439276389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The 37 stories in The 1774 House and Other Stories are almost as diverse as human experience itself. Here we have tales of eighteen century houses, one rich with the grandeur of the past and another equally historic, but mysterious at the same time. And scarcely a page away is a brief but telling story of twenty-first century dwellings. ("A Tale of Two Condos.") There are stories of parents and their children, of the joy of sex and of gossip about sex in unconventional places like a church confessional, of unexpected encounters in an old country store, of music, magic, Chaucer, travel, food,...
The 37 stories in The 1774 House and Other Stories are almost as diverse as human experience itself. Here we have tales of eighteen century houses, on...
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68,09 zł |
The Spring Lake Murders
ISBN: 9781544190310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,29 zł |
The Krazy Katz of Thone: And Other Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781548000875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The seventy-plus poems and songs in this eclectic collection range in style and tone from playful and whimsical to tender, nostalgic and romantic. Golden Retrievers, crazy cats, love, old age, marriage, cities at night, changing seasons, loneliness, baseball, the shifting face of nature, the elusiveness of time, and the pain of loss and death are some of its many diverse and unconventional subjects. Vivid images and concise lyrical description bring to life an old woman on A Porch in Mendham, New Jersey, and in the poem Winter Sky we see the last of the sun frolicking with azure-tinted clouds...
The seventy-plus poems and songs in this eclectic collection range in style and tone from playful and whimsical to tender, nostalgic and romantic. Gol...
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38,61 zł |
Skytrain Over Lake Winnipesaukee: A Novel of Magical Realism
ISBN: 9781439264713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. If, as you are going through your mail on a late autumn afternoon, you open a parcel with a slide and photographs of what appears to be a beautiful silver train soaring above the clouds high over a majestic lake without any visible means of support, and in the same envelope there is verification from the United States Air Force that this slide is authentic, not having been doctored in any way according to extensive tests, what would you do? Lisa and Paul O'Donnell, two high school teachers who received the parcel, sought to mail it to Bergen Townsend, the man whose name and address they found...
If, as you are going through your mail on a late autumn afternoon, you open a parcel with a slide and photographs of what appears to be a beautiful si...
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58,82 zł |
The Accidental Tea Room
ISBN: 9781469911359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. All roads lead to the Accidental Tea Room, bringing together a college professor, a T.V. crew, a dart player who bites ears, and a trio out to retrieve a cathouse by the light of an August moon. The stories in this collection are centered on campus life, city scenes, and self-discovery, but the prevailing theme for most of them is humor with a little satire thrown in.
All roads lead to the Accidental Tea Room, bringing together a college professor, a T.V. crew, a dart player who bites ears, and a trio out to retriev...
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72,68 zł |