wyszukanych pozycji: 111
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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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65,84 |
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Avenue of Mysteries
ISBN: 9781451664171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about...
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. ...
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76,86 |
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Setting Free The Bears
ISBN: 9780552992060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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55,70 |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
111,71 |
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How to conquer a mountain: Kilimanjaro lessons
ISBN: 9781502719201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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cena:
27,04 |
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A Prayer For Owen Meany: a ‘genius’ modern American classic
ISBN: 9780552993692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother....
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55,70 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062204097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, 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 the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; 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 person I ever knew, or even becaus... |
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76,82 |
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Queen Esther: A Novel
ISBN: 9781501189449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
115,29 |
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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed
ISBN: 9780552995733 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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cena:
75,98 |
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The Cider House Rules
ISBN: 9780345417947 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch-saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of D...
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cena:
84,55 |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,84 |
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Setting Free the Bears
ISBN: 9780345417985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller. From the Paperback edition.
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both c...
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cena:
76,86 |
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Straße der Wunder : Roman
ISBN: 9783257244120 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
72,07 |
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In One Person
ISBN: 9781451664133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary Award A New York Times bestselling novel 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. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978...
"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Litera...
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cena:
73,02 |
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Queen Esther
ISBN: 9781471179129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
111,49 |
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Modlitba za Owena Meanyho
ISBN: 8594169485676 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Každodenní vzpomínka na něj je způsob, jak přežít smůle navzdory. Životní poustevník John Wheelwright odříkává barvitou litanii za spolužáka, jenž mu byl v telecích letech rádcem, vzorem neokázalých ctností a hlavně nerozlučným parťákem, tolikrát zasahujícím do jeho příběhu i do událostí v rodném Gravesendu. Sami posuďte, jaké ohromné věci v zastydlém novoanglickém maloměstě v 50. letech vykonal podměrečný mesiáš Owen Meany. Ačkoli strašidelně piští a v psaných debatách se prosazuje zásadně velkými písmeny, vyplatí se ho...
Každodenní vzpomínka na něj je způsob, jak přežít smůle navzdory. Životní poustevník John Wheelwright odříkává barvitou litanii za spo...
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cena:
117,05 |
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My Movie Business: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780345441300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Rules, at last made it to the big screen. Here is the author's account of the novel-to-film process. Anecdotal, affectionate, and delightfully candid, My Movie Business dazzles with Irving's incomparable wit and style.
After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Ru...
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cena:
73,02 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062284853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. 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... |
cena:
72,98 |
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Until I Find You
ISBN: 9780552773126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast.
Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund...
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cena:
75,98 |
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The Cider House Rules
ISBN: 9780552992046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in the rural town of Maine, this tale follows the bizarre story of Homer Wells, from his apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his relationship with the wife of his closest friend.
Set in the rural town of Maine, this tale follows the bizarre story of Homer Wells, from his apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to his adult lif...
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cena:
65,84 |