wyszukanych pozycji: 108
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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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55,31 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062299567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A deluxe collector's edition of John Irving's beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany--a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye. 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... A deluxe collector's edition of John Irving's beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany--a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished Am... |
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119,95 |
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The Water-Method Man
ISBN: 9780345418005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first....
"Three or four times as funny as most novels." THE NEW YORKER From the Paperback edition. The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his ...
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74,97 |
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Das Hotel New Hampshire
ISBN: 9783257211948 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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80,51 |
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Queen Esther: A Novel
ISBN: 9781501189449 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
112,46 |
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Until I Find You
ISBN: 9780345479723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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67,47 |
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The World According To Garp
ISBN: 9781474614405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author 'BRILLIANT' Cosmpolitan; 'ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY' L A Times
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author 'BRILLIANT' Cosmpolitan;...
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55,31 |
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Queen Esther
ISBN: 9781471179136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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75,44 |
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Owen Meany: German Language Ed
ISBN: 9783257224917 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. John Irvings Auseinandersetzung mit einem halben Jahrhundert amerikanischer Geschichte, mit der Frage nach dem Glauben in einer chaotischen Welt: die bewegende Geschichte der einzigartigen Freundschaft zwischen Owen Meany und John Wheelwright. Man schreibt den Sommer 1953, die beiden elfjhrigen Freunde Owen und John spielen Baseball, als ein frchterliches Unglck passiert...
John Irvings Auseinandersetzung mit einem halben Jahrhundert amerikanischer Geschichte, mit der Frage nach dem Glauben in einer chaotischen Welt: die ...
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80,51 |
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Der letzte Sessellift
ISBN: 9783257072228 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1088 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in ihre Heimat New Hampshire zurückkehrt. Ihr Sohn Adam wächst in einer unkonventionellen Familie auf, die allen Fragen über die bewegte Vergangenheit ausweicht. Jahre später macht er sich deshalb auf die Suche nach Antworten in Aspen. Im Hotel Jerome, in dem er gezeugt wurde, trifft Adam auf einige Geister. Doch werden sie weder die ersten noch die letzten sein, die er sieht.
1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in...
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161,03 |
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The 158-Pound Marriage
ISBN: 9780552992084 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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55,31 |
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Letzte Nacht in Twisted River : Roman
ISBN: 9783257240993 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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62,17 |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781471179082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
110,93 |
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The Hotel New Hampshire
ISBN: 9780345417954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by... "The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive... |
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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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65,37 |
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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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60,34 |
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Der letzte Sessellift
ISBN: 9783257247565 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2025 / 1088 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in ihre Heimat New Hampshire zurückkehrt. Ihr Sohn Adam wächst in einer unkonventionellen Familie auf, die allen Fragen über die bewegte Vergangenheit ausweicht. Jahre später macht er sich deshalb auf die Suche nach Antworten in Aspen. Im Hotel Jerome, in dem er gezeugt wurde, trifft Adam auf einige Geister. Doch werden sie weder die ersten noch die letzten sein, die er sieht.
1941 in Aspen, Colorado. Die 18-jährige Rachel tritt bei den Skimeisterschaften an. Eine Medaille gibt es nicht, dafür ist sie schwanger, als sie in...
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89,46 |
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Mongol Rally - Three weeks into the unknown
ISBN: 9781445259307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It was a gruelling adventure and an epic challenge. On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was going to be a lot less simple than it had first appeared. We had minimal planning, bought a horribly underpowered car that was fit for scrap, had no external support, no prior expedition experience or survival knowledge and decided to do it all in the name of charity. We only allowed ourselves three weeks to complete the adventure. I hadn't even heard of half of the countries we were intending to cross and certainly didn't speak the languages but...
It was a gruelling adventure and an epic challenge. On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was goi...
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87,96 |
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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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26,37 |