wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Valley Boy
ISBN: 9781603811453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ricky Edwards lives, works, and plays in Centerville, a small California town in the middle of the Valley. Ricky has a gift for music but he'd rather fight, drink beer, chase girls, and debeak turkeys. He debeaks turkeys because he wants a Lifters Car Club jacket with red lettering on the back. He fights because his long-time pal, Linard Polk, teaches him about violence, fast cars, and guns-which drives Teresa, Ricky's hyper-religious mother, nuts. She wants Ricky to escape the legacy of his daddy, an Okie skirt chaser who abandoned the family for a honky-tonk preacher's daughter gone bad. If...
Ricky Edwards lives, works, and plays in Centerville, a small California town in the middle of the Valley. Ricky has a gift for music but he'd rather ...
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66,49 zł |
Throwback and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780615508757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The stories in Throwback open a window on characters living calm everyday lives but underneath that calm there's a violent, bloody, painful, suicidal world and a savage god waiting for them to make a mistake. The hurt oozes up driving each of these people to find a way out-- The kid with a heart murmur wants to be a Marine. A guy finds his lost sister but doesn't know how to handle a fallen angel. A woman with a fatal disease loses all her hair and doesn't want to live without it. Looking for love, a writer finds a demon muse who rips his heart out. A traveling salesman falls in love with a...
The stories in Throwback open a window on characters living calm everyday lives but underneath that calm there's a violent, bloody, painful, suicidal ...
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36,07 zł |
What Do I Know?: Wisdom Essays
ISBN: 9780991425884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,03 zł |
Trio of Lost Souls
ISBN: 9781603811880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bill Vincent is a killer, but in the name of justice. Not that the law would see it that way. With one murderous act of retribution for terrible violence inflicted on his wife, he leaves behind a respectable calling as a prize-winning investigative journalist and hits the road. On the run he ekes out a living in Californias Central Valley as a box-maker, a turkey debeaker, a truck drivers assistant, and finally a field hand. In this last job he meets Jim Garret, a like-minded spirit whose thirst for justice equals his own. They join together to beat the corrupt bossmen at their own political...
Bill Vincent is a killer, but in the name of justice. Not that the law would see it that way. With one murderous act of retribution for terrible viole...
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58,15 zł |
The Deification
ISBN: 9781603811347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To be a writer in America, you have to bleed. Eddie Iturbi, a young car-thief obsessed with the dark magic of Beat culture in a mythic San Francisco, sets off on a spaced-out crusade to connect with the Beat gods. En route Eddie links up with living legend Leo Franchetti, the last of the Beat poets. Leo sends Eddie to the Buzzard Cult, where a mysterious mentor reveals the writers ritual of blood and words. Changed and invigorated and back in the City, Eddie falls in love with a snake dancer at the Feathered Serpent. She cant save him from Scarred Wanda, jealous bad-girl of literature, whose...
To be a writer in America, you have to bleed. Eddie Iturbi, a young car-thief obsessed with the dark magic of Beat culture in a mythic San Francisco, ...
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78,99 zł |
Doubles in a Game of Chance
ISBN: 9781507551745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After the Waning of Government and the collapse of the Bureau of Entitlement, which was a degenerate form of Kapitalism that amalgamated all corporations into a single ruling class whose sole purpose was its own enrichment, the logical development is the Sixth Phase of Civilization. In its early days, the Sixth Phase will open the door to Utopia.
After the Waning of Government and the collapse of the Bureau of Entitlement, which was a degenerate form of Kapitalism that amalgamated all corporati...
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49,19 zł |
Gabriela and the Widow
ISBN: 9781603811477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Widow (La Viuda) is ninety-two years old. She lives in a house filled with photos and coins, jewels and a sable coat. Aware that her memory is failing but burning with desire to record the story of her life on paper, she hires Gabriela, a nineteen-year-old Mixteca from Mexico. Gabriela is one of the few survivors of a massacre and treacherous journey to El Norte. Gabriela and the Widow is a story of chaos, revenge, and change: death and love, love and sex, and sex and death. Gabriela seeks revenge for the destruction of her village. The Widow craves balance for the betrayals in her life....
The Widow (La Viuda) is ninety-two years old. She lives in a house filled with photos and coins, jewels and a sable coat. Aware that her memory is fai...
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70,65 zł |
What Do I Know?: Wisdom Essays
ISBN: 9780991425891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,14 zł |
Falcon
ISBN: 9781489576095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A dying poker king with one more game to play. A love-sick mechanic with Jesus issues. A mysterious black woman wearing gold chains. Money and sex, love and death and a showdown in the Sierra Nevada.
A dying poker king with one more game to play. A love-sick mechanic with Jesus issues. A mysterious black woman wearing gold chains. Money and sex, lo...
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38,29 zł |
Black Madonna in Blue
ISBN: 9781466202917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Black Madonna in Blue: In a film noir world of back-street hotels and suitcases full of money, two men duke it out for love but only one of them can win. Kress, the mechanic with magic hands falls for Falcon, a black Madonna looking for a knight. Grace Regis, the gambler, is a sick man who plays poker for body parts and blood and he won't let Falcon go. Then the ax falls...
Black Madonna in Blue: In a film noir world of back-street hotels and suitcases full of money, two men duke it out for love but only one of them can w...
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36,25 zł |
No Century for Apologies
ISBN: 9780991425860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,80 zł |
Satori
ISBN: 9781603811965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jack Remick is a writer and teacher. As a young man, he worked as a tunnel rat, a bus driver, a house painter, a social worker, a retail clerk, and waited tables at the UC Berkeley Men's Faculty Club where he rubbed shoulders with Nobel Laureates, scoundrels of all stripes, and international students from a dozen countries who taught him about cultural relativism. Remick learned to write poetry from J.S. Moodey in Centerville, California, and from Thom Gunn at UC Berkeley. When he was young and idealistic, he dropped out of Cal-Berkeley and spent time chasing rainbows in South America. When...
Jack Remick is a writer and teacher. As a young man, he worked as a tunnel rat, a bus driver, a house painter, a social worker, a retail clerk, and wa...
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49,81 zł |
Pacific Coast Highway
ISBN: 9780984049349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pacific Coast Highway - A BMW Mechanic. A troubled heiress. A red Ferrari. Murder. The City of Angels-Today. A neo-noir story about a love triangle getting very ugly. Jonny's trip to the dark side of love hits a bump when Bea's jealousy derails his career...
Pacific Coast Highway - A BMW Mechanic. A troubled heiress. A red Ferrari. Murder. The City of Angels-Today. A neo-noir story about a love triangle ge...
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44,65 zł |
Josie Delgado: A Poem of the Central Valley
ISBN: 9781463778866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In California's Central Valley an epic love story plays out between Ricky, a seventeen year old Anglo boy and his Chicana girlfriend, Josie Delgado. Driven by social class mores to hide their love, Ricky and Josie are caught between two cultures: Josie's brother distrusts all Anglos, while Ricky's mother forbids him to cross the racial barrier. But the lovers don't listen. Josie will do anything for the boy she loves and loving Josie drives Ricky crazy. When her brother discovers Josie's involvement with Ricky, he sends her away, breaking Ricky's heart. Separated, the two teen-age lovers know...
In California's Central Valley an epic love story plays out between Ricky, a seventeen year old Anglo boy and his Chicana girlfriend, Josie Delgado. D...
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31,69 zł |
Citadel
ISBN: 9780991425822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,20 zł |
Blood
ISBN: 9781603818049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ex-mercenary Hank Mitchell is doing five years hard time for stealing a tubful of women's underwear. In prison Mitch falls like a bear for his young cellmate. In the prison library Mitch discovers the novels of Genet and the Marquis de Sade and is inspired to write his own story-a saga of family deception, sexual obsession, and contract killing-to atone for all the blood he's spilled. But now his family wants him out and back in the killing game, a game where the rules are about to change ...
Ex-mercenary Hank Mitchell is doing five years hard time for stealing a tubful of women's underwear. In prison Mitch falls like a bear for his young c...
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74,82 zł |
S.B. VpmR
ISBN: 9781718876361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,69 zł |
The Book of Changes
ISBN: 9781603811866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Beast" is a pure innocent with one simple goal-to become an expert on the Middle Ages. He comes to Berkeley, the Cathedral of Learning, in 1971, a time of political upheaval, hallucinogenic drugs, group sex, and electric, acid, psychedelic, mind-bending rock and roll. On his quest for meaning he hangs out with a Harley-riding dwarf, a raven-haired Gothic artists' model, a sorority girl turned nymphomaniac, and the heir to a family of French aristocrats with a bloody history dating back to before Joan of Arc. Beast soon discovers that he can't live in the past but has to embrace the present,...
"Beast" is a pure innocent with one simple goal-to become an expert on the Middle Ages. He comes to Berkeley, the Cathedral of Learning, in 1971, a ti...
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74,82 zł |
Lemon Custard: The Novella and Screenplay Adaptation
ISBN: 9780615512556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A woman stands on a windmill tower in Kansas, ready to jump. The woman is married, two kids. The farm is driving her crazy. She can escape by jumping or she can escape to the city. Olive needs to say goodbye to the kids. Saying goodbye, she changes her mind. She drops the kids with grandparents, steals her husband's car, and heads for Wichita. Three women guide Olive on her journey from farm girl to city woman: Janey, a waitress shows her the sexy, seamy side of night life. Eileen, a transgendered former basketball player teaches Olive how to dress. Rose, a psychiatrist opens Olive's dreams...
A woman stands on a windmill tower in Kansas, ready to jump. The woman is married, two kids. The farm is driving her crazy. She can escape by jumping ...
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53,57 zł |
Maxine
ISBN: 9780991425877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,07 zł |