wyszukanych pozycji: 93
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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed
ISBN: 9780552995733 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Featuring six stories from John Irving, 'Trying to Save Piggy Sneed' also includes a piece from the author explaining why he became a writer.
Featuring six stories from John Irving, 'Trying to Save Piggy Sneed' also includes a piece from the author explaining why he became a writer.
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69,02 zł |
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A Son Of The Circus
ISBN: 9780552996051 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, 20 years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer. This is the latest novel from the acclaimed author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Once, 20 years ago, Dr. Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, 20 years later, the doctor will be reacquainted with ...
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69,02 zł |
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In One Person
ISBN: 9780552778442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A tale of desire, secrecy and sexual identity, 'In One Person' is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences.
A tale of desire, secrecy and sexual identity, 'In One Person' is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned e...
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76,32 zł |
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Małżeństwo wagi półśredniej
ISBN: 9788381231947 / Polski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Intrygująca, niejednoznaczna powieść, stawiająca pytanie o sens przekraczania ustalonych norm moralnych, a zarazem niepozbawiona charakterystycznego Irvingowskiego humoru. Wbrew temu, co zdaje się sugerować tytuł, nie jest to książka o jednym, ale o dwóch małżeństwach, których wzajemne relacje, zrazu niewinne i czysto przyjacielskie, przeradzają się z czasem w związek o znacznie intymniejszym i bardziej złożonym charakterze. Nowa sytuacja, oparta na rytuale zamiany partnerów, przynosi uczestnikom tego osobliwego procederu poczucie wyzwolenia i euforii, by już wkrótce...
Intrygująca, niejednoznaczna powieść, stawiająca pytanie o sens przekraczania ustalonych norm moralnych, a zarazem niepozbawiona charakterystyczne...
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38,00 zł |
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The Navigation of Small Yachts
ISBN: 9781447411185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is a detailed and profusely illustrated guide to navigating small yachts, with information on reading tides and tidal streams, navigating at night, correcting bearings, and many other related aspects. The Navigation of Small Yachts has been carefully selected for a modern readership, and will be of considerable utility to novice yachtsmen. Contents include: Position, Direction and Distance, The Chart, Elementary Chart Work, Selecting the Safe Track to Follow, The Magnetic Compass, Variation, Deviation, and the Correction of Courses and Bearings, Leeway and Current, The Compass...
This book is a detailed and profusely illustrated guide to navigating small yachts, with information on reading tides and tidal streams, navigating at...
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141,40 zł |
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Avenue of Mysteries
ISBN: 9780552778640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead? This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past.
Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his...
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69,02 zł |
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A Widow For One Year
ISBN: 9780552997966 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving presents a new novel about a family marked by tragedy. Both ribald and erotic, A Widow for One Year follows the fortunes of Ruth Cole at three important points in her life.
Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving presents a new novel about a family marked by tragedy. Both ribald and erotic, A Widow for...
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69,02 zł |
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Setting Free The Bears
ISBN: 9780552992060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Irving's novel concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
John Irving's novel concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
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58,39 zł |
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Until I Find You
ISBN: 9780345479723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead - has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or "scratcher." Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated... Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
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73,33 zł |
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The Fourth Hand
ISBN: 9780552771092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As emotionally charged as ever, Irving's new novel offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances. His previous novels include The World According to Garp and A Widow for One Year.
As emotionally charged as ever, Irving's new novel offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances. His previous novels include The World Acc...
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69,02 zł |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062205575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 1152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest personI ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother'sdeath, but because he is the reason I believe in God;I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills theother boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe inaccidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument.... I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest personI ever knew, or even because... |
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136,84 zł |
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How to conquer a mountain: Kilimanjaro lessons
ISBN: 9781502719201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sometimes the mountains we have to climb are different from the mountain we expected to climb. This is just one of many life lessons John and Sue learned when they were climbing Kilimanjaro via the Lemosho route. The travel memoir is told from both the point of view of the sporty, adventurous husband and his cautious, but determined wife. Accompany them on a physical, emotional and spiritual journey to the Roof of Africa. This is a book for all those who have already attempted to climb Kili, are still preparing for the climb or are facing a mountain not of their choosing. All proceeds from...
Sometimes the mountains we have to climb are different from the mountain we expected to climb. This is just one of many life lessons John and Sue lear...
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38,46 zł |
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Jednoroczna wdowa
ISBN: 9788380694781 / Polski / Miękka / 2016 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Ruth Cole, opuszczona w wieku czterech lat przez matkę, robi zawrotną karierę literacką. Jej sukcesy zawodowe nie idą jednak w parze ze szczęściem osobistym. Kolejne nieudane związki potęgują tylko uczucie goryczy i samotności, towarzyszące wziętej autorce od wczesnego dzieciństwa. Wybawienie może przynieść tylko książę z bajki, zdolny zatriumfować nad przeszłością...
Powieść Irvinga to przede wszystkim pełna śmiałej erotyki i brawurowego komizmu historia miłosna, po raz pierwszy u tego pisarza opowiedziana głównie z perspektywy kobiety. To również... Ruth Cole, opuszczona w wieku czterech lat przez matkę, robi zawrotną karierę literacką. Jej sukcesy zawodowe nie idą jednak w parze ze szczęśc...
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48,00 zł |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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112,23 zł |
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The 158-Pound Marriage
ISBN: 9780552992084 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife.
Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Vienne...
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58,39 zł |
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The Hotel New Hampshire
ISBN: 9780552992091 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success, in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna.
The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he...
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61,06 zł |
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Last Night in Twisted River
ISBN: 9780552776578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the 12-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston to southern Vermont to Toronto, pursued by the implacable constable.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's gir...
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66,14 zł |
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Świat według Garpa
ISBN: 9788383521459 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Opisując z pozoru nieprawdopodobne perypetie swoich niezapomnianych bohaterów, John Irving piętrzy i ujmuje w karykaturalnym skrócie problemy, lęki i zagrożenia obecne we współczesnym świecie. Z wyrozumiałością, choć w krzywym zwierciadle, ukazuje nasze – zwykle żałosne – próby zapanowania nad żywiołem, który nas przerasta: życiem.
John Irving(ur. 1942) – jeden z najwybitniejszych amerykańskich pisarzy. Debiutował w 1968 roku powieścią „Uwolnić niedźwiedzie”. Jego czwarta książka, „Świat według Garpa”, przyniosła mu rozgłos na skalę światową,... Opisując z pozoru nieprawdopodobne perypetie swoich niezapomnianych bohaterów, John Irving piętrzy i ujmuje w karykaturalnym skrócie problemy, lę...
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55,00 zł |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179112 / Miękka / 2023 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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64,71 zł |
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The Last Chairlift - audiobook
ISBN: 9781797111223 / Angielski / Compact Disc / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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325,88 zł |