wyszukanych pozycji: 52
Caliban's Children
ISBN: 9781514629444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,24 zł |
Opting Out and Other Departures: Stories
ISBN: 9781500596163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A homeless man fleeing confiscation of the van he lives in stumbles upon a seemingly paradisiacal haven. A housewife enters a mysterious portal to another world. A coma victim, wide awake in a world of the mind, finds that the struggle between light and shadow in his dream is a life and death battle for the real world he left behind. A man who feels redundant and forsaken is offered a one-way ticket for a fresh start on an alien planet. Those who embark upon a hero's journey are often not heroes when they begin. The choices they make and the deeds they do make them heroes as they encounter...
A homeless man fleeing confiscation of the van he lives in stumbles upon a seemingly paradisiacal haven. A housewife enters a mysterious portal to ano...
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67,76 zł |
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
ISBN: 9781537492889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Four science fiction thrillers in one volume The One Thousand: Book 1 It is the late 1960s... What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers? So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities which he intends to share around with the other inmates before unleashing hell on Earth in the form of a murderous rampage. Only William Stafford, a Vietnam War veteran unjustly convicted of killing a girlfriend, can stop him. But to do so he has to break back into the prison he has just escaped from... The One Thousand: Book 2: Team of Seven A team composed of countercultural humans...
Four science fiction thrillers in one volume The One Thousand: Book 1 It is the late 1960s... What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic ki...
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81,32 zł |
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen
ISBN: 9781477472910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sarah Tabitha Jones, a twenty-year-old fascinated by the youth culture of the late 1960s, leaves her middle-class home and wanders to a wilderness commune and then to the Haight/Ashbury in search of truth. On the way she encounters many strange characters: bikers, draft dodgers, Vietnam War veterans, peyote worshippers, heroin dealers, Jesus people, feminists, violent anarchists, Black Panthers, and science fiction fans. She experiments with drugs and sex, but at the same time helps out those she can; though often disillusioned, she believes that hippies should unite to create a better world....
Sarah Tabitha Jones, a twenty-year-old fascinated by the youth culture of the late 1960s, leaves her middle-class home and wanders to a wilderness com...
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67,76 zł |
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781095936115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,24 zł |
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
ISBN: 9781537712192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the early 1970s... Their hunt for a group of alien-possessed psychopaths intent on igniting a rampage of mass murder leads the Team of Seven, composed of counterculture humans and benevolent aliens, to a prison in Turkey, war-ravaged Vietnam, a luxurious nuclear fallout shelter, and finally to direct confrontation with their enemies.
It is the early 1970s... Their hunt for a group of alien-possessed psychopaths intent on igniting a rampage of mass murder leads the Team of Seven, co...
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40,64 zł |
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
ISBN: 9781512345803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,64 zł |
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
ISBN: 9781481251976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1976 John Walters left the United States in search of adventure and literary inspiration. He lived for many years in India, Bangladesh, Italy, and Greece. He married and had five sons. Finally, faced with the economic catastrophe in Greece and the lack of opportunities for his sons, he returned to the land of his birth. Without home, without job, without resources, he confronted his own country as if for the first time. This is a memoir of someone who, late in life, was forced to leave everything behind and start fresh in what for him had become a new land. It will appeal to those who are...
In 1976 John Walters left the United States in search of adventure and literary inspiration. He lived for many years in India, Bangladesh, Italy, and ...
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58,72 zł |
World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
ISBN: 9781461177722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1970s, after the Altamont Rock Festival, the Manson Family cult murders, and the fiasco of the Vietnam War many young people, disillusioned by the hippy movement, began to leave their homelands and travel to the far places of the world. Hoping to find drugs, sex, freedom and excitement, they more often were confronted with destitution, despair, disease, loneliness, and culture shock. As a young writer wishing to break out of the familiar rut in which he was stagnating, Walters hit the road during this time, first to Europe, then onward to the Indian Subcontinent. He sampled Buddhism...
In the 1970s, after the Altamont Rock Festival, the Manson Family cult murders, and the fiasco of the Vietnam War many young people, disillusioned by ...
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54,20 zł |
After the Fireflood
ISBN: 9781518782732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the Fourth World War, the entire Earth is engulfed in a torrent of fire, transforming the landscape and obliterating all life. Using terraforming, time travel, and other expediencies, human survivors from Moonbase and the outer colonies attempt to cope with their devastating loss, reconstruct the Earth's surface, and reorganize Earth sociologically to ensure lasting peace, while others plot to claim the pristine reconstituted planet for their own purposes.
During the Fourth World War, the entire Earth is engulfed in a torrent of fire, transforming the landscape and obliterating all life. Using terraformi...
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63,24 zł |
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
ISBN: 9781537712079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author's introduction: "For me, writing is metaphysical because it is inseparable from who I am and my conception of the universe and my place in it. My interpretation of writing goes far beyond the definitions of hobby, job, or career - it is rather in the nature of a calling. It is something that blossoms from within me and, though invisible to instrumentation, is as integrally a part of me as my flesh, bones, and internal organs. How this transpired and how it manifests itself is the subject of this book. This is not a how-to book on writing, although in its course I offer many...
From the author's introduction: "For me, writing is metaphysical because it is inseparable from who I am and my conception of the universe and my plac...
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58,72 zł |
The Fantasy Book Murders
ISBN: 9781511893442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After a famous fantasy writer is murdered in his castle-like mansion, two unlikely investigators discover a pattern of similar murders suggesting a serial killer. They begin to research the killings, starting with the most recent and working backwards into the past. Danger mounts as they uncover the backgrounds of the victims and the truth begins to resemble the fantasy writer's most bizarre and horrific fiction.
After a famous fantasy writer is murdered in his castle-like mansion, two unlikely investigators discover a pattern of similar murders suggesting a se...
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63,24 zł |
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781456407674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. High in the Himalayas a young woman receives an extraordinary gift. Beneath the streets of Calcutta a man discovers a terrifying presence. In a palace full of sybaritic pleasures a demigod incurs terrible retribution. On a far desert planet teeming with venomous creatures a woman searches for ultimate truth. In these and other strange and wondrous tales John Walters explores the ramifications of human/alien encounter.
High in the Himalayas a young woman receives an extraordinary gift. Beneath the streets of Calcutta a man discovers a terrifying presence. In a palace...
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54,20 zł |
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
ISBN: 9781481814492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A teenage girl climbing Mount Olympus with friends becomes possessed by an ancient Greek god who uses her as an instrument of vengeance. A young artist pursued by her abusive stepfather is recruited to join a society of people linked together by telepathy which exists completely outside the awareness of the present world system. Paranoia overwhelms a young college student as reality and fantasy merge in the midst of a drug trip that he realizes a dark power may be controlling. During the British Raj an American reporter discovers a hidden valley in the foothills of the Himalaya ruled by a...
A teenage girl climbing Mount Olympus with friends becomes possessed by an ancient Greek god who uses her as an instrument of vengeance. A young artis...
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67,76 zł |
Cry For Me
ISBN: 9781326484538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,48 zł |
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
ISBN: 9781475009071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When it malfunctions, a teacher discovers a microchip implanted within her forehead which was designed to eradicate her free will. She determines to rescue the orphaned children in her care from a similar fate. In the aftermath of a conflict in which all adults were killed or driven away by their progeny, children and teens roam the streets of a ruined city. When they near the age of 21 they must play the ultimate game, snuff sport, to prevent themselves from becoming hated adults. A lone grown-up who re-enters the city on a mission of reconciliation is captured and put on trial for his life....
When it malfunctions, a teacher discovers a microchip implanted within her forehead which was designed to eradicate her free will. She determines to r...
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58,72 zł |
The One Thousand: A Novella
ISBN: 9781481047715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the late 1960s... What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers? So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities which he intends to share around with the other inmates before unleashing hell on Earth in the form of a murderous rampage. Only William Stafford, a Vietnam War veteran unjustly convicted of killing a girlfriend, can stop him. But to do so he has to break back into the prison he has just escaped from...
It is the late 1960s... What better place than prison to recruit psychopathic killers? So thinks Benny, possessed by a thousand alien entities which h...
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31,59 zł |
Painsharing and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781466410756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After nuclear war, a survivor of the monster-populated ruins of Oakland California joins the crew of a clipper ship sailing the waters of the Pacific; a typhoon shipwrecks him on a tropical island whose inhabitants share a bizarre secret. An unlikely team investigating the deaths of the crew of an interstellar spaceship near Pluto are confronted with a life-or-death conundrum stranger than anything they could have imagined. On a distant planet the ultimate civil punishment is to be genetically deformed into an abhorrent beast and forced to live in the forbidden compound called Purgatory as...
After nuclear war, a survivor of the monster-populated ruins of Oakland California joins the crew of a clipper ship sailing the waters of the Pacific;...
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58,72 zł |
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
ISBN: 9781499208726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author's introduction: The books have always been there. They have added nuance, depth, and richness to my life. When I speak of reading I am not talking about an expediency but a glorious adventure. The reading to which I refer is like a drug rush, a phenomenon. Reading is a much more vital experience than watching films or playing video games. The author's words ignite your psyche and create a multidimensional, multisensory experience which can be totally fulfilling, totally absorbing. Because I cannot imagine a life without books, book reviews are an essential part of radiating...
From the author's introduction: The books have always been there. They have added nuance, depth, and richness to my life. When I speak of reading I am...
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67,76 zł |
Hooligan Hearts: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781948011877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |