wyszukanych pozycji: 40
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Big Brother
ISBN: 9780007271108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were children. Now she revels in the anonymity of her suburban Iowa life, while her brother basks in the limelight as a New York jazz musician. But when Edison arrives in Iowa, suddenly in need of a place to stay, Pandora literally doesn't recognize him. The once slim, hip pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Soon Edison's appalling diet and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her husband Fletcher insane. And it's only a...
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Pandora has looked up to her older brother Edison since they were c...
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51,46 zł |
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So Much for That
ISBN: 9780061458590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her. Yet Glynis has some news of her own: she's deathly ill. Shep numbly puts his dream aside, while his nest egg is steadily devastated by staggering bills that their health insurance only partially covers. Astonishingly, illness not only strains their marriage but saves it. From... Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wi... |
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63,90 zł |
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Game Control
ISBN: 9780061239502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition. Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa--a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort--Lionel Shriver's Game... Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself fa... |
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85,22 zł |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 9780062180827 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,69 zł |
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Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
ISBN: 9780063094291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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115,06 zł |
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Should We Stay or Should We Go
ISBN: 9780063118904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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136,37 zł |
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Property: Stories Between Two Novellas
ISBN: 9780062697943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,22 zł |
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We Need To Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 9781846687341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Who is to blame for teenage atrocity? Narrator Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and the much-loved teacher who tried to befriend him. This novel is an examination of the effect tragedy has on a town, a marriage and a family.
Who is to blame for teenage atrocity? Narrator Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
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51,46 zł |
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The New Republic
ISBN: 9780062107190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture--probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of personality, explores what makes certain people so magnetic, and reveals the deep frustrations of feeling overshadowed by a life-of-the-party who may not even be present.
"Shriver is a master of the misanthrope. . . .... Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid...
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115,06 zł |
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Checker and the Derailleurs
ISBN: 9780061711374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Beautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ever heard. When he plays, conundrums seem to solve themselves, brilliant thoughts spring to mind, and couples fall in love. The members of his band, The Derailleurs, are passionately devoted to their guiding spirit, as are all who fall under Checker's spell. But when another drummer, Eaton Striker, hears the prodigy play, he is pulled inexorably into Checker's orbit by a powerful combination of envy and admiration. Soon The Derailleurs, too,... Beautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ... |
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59,64 zł |
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We Need to Talk about Kevin
ISBN: 9780061124297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understandher teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver's charged and incisive laternovels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin isa piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, familyties, and...
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest ...
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80,96 zł |
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Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
ISBN: 9780008458652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,46 zł |
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Should We Stay or Should We Go
ISBN: 9780008458560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "The Cassandra of American letters."-New York Times
"The Cassandra of American letters."-New York Times
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83,78 zł |
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The Motion of the Body Through Space
ISBN: 9780007560813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,32 zł |
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The Mandibles LP
ISBN: 9780062467140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction. In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global... With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default o... |
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119,32 zł |
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The New Republic
ISBN: 9780062103338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture--probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of personality, explores what makes certain people so magnetic, and reveals the deep frustrations of feeling overshadowed by a life-of-the-party who may not even be present.
"Shriver is a master of the misanthrope. . . .... Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid...
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68,17 zł |
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So Much for That
ISBN: 9780061946134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters... A highly engrossing novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the obscene cost of medical care in modern America. "Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters... A highly engrossing novel." -- San Francisco Chronicle From |
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128,87 zł |
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Lass uns doch noch etwas bleiben
ISBN: 9783492059336 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Von der Anomalie namens Leben Bei einem verhängnisvollen Sherry beschließen Cyril und Kay Wilkinson, mit achtzig Jahren aus dem Leben zu scheiden. Krankheit, Siechtum und Leid: Die beiden wissen, danach geht es bergab. Dem Paar bleiben noch dreißig Jahre, die sie in vollen Zügen genießen wollen. Doch was, wenn einer der Ehepartner den letzten Akt nicht über sich bringt? Wenn sie die neue Freiheit des Alters so sehr schätzen, dass ihr Plan aus dem Blick gerät? Oder sich der Tod schließlich überwinden lässt? Scharfsinnig, überbordend und... Von der Anomalie namens Leben Bei einem verhängnisvollen Sherry beschließen Cyril und Kay Wilkinson, mit achtzig Jahren au... |
cena:
109,87 zł |
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A Perfectly Good Family
ISBN: 9780061239496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a... Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, wille... |
cena:
85,22 zł |