wyszukanych pozycji: 154
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
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Babysitter
ISBN: 9780593535172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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153,45 zł |
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Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
ISBN: 9781801102940 / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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47,86 zł |
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My Heart Laid Bare
ISBN: 9780062269256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists--a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims,... Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists--... |
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62,17 zł |
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
ISBN: 9780452272316 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Foxfire is Joyce Carol Oates s strongest and most unsparing novel yet an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean,...
The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, powe...
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91,25 zł |
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Blondynka
ISBN: 9788366863347 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Odważna i bezkompromisowa powieść o Normie Jeane Baker, kobiecie, z której kultura Hollywood zrobiła produkt. Historia narodzin i upadku najbardziej błyskotliwej kariery w kinematografii światowej.
W jednym ze swoich najbardziej ambitnych dzieł Joyce Carol Oates odważnie przedstawia wewnętrzne, poetyckie i duchowe życie Normy Jeane Baker – dziecka, kobiety, nieszczęśliwej celebrytki i idealizowanej blondynki, którą świat poznał jako Marilyn Monroe. Jej życie było naznaczone dramatami, smutkiem i żalem. Oraz ogromną tęsknotą za uczuciem. Lgnęła do mężczyzn,... Odważna i bezkompromisowa powieść o Normie Jeane Baker, kobiecie, z której kultura Hollywood zrobiła produkt. Historia narodzin i upadku najbardz...
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56,31 zł |
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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
ISBN: 9781837932788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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81,80 zł |
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We Were the Mulvaneys
ISBN: 9781841156996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the community of Mt Ephraim, New York, where they are respected and liked by everybody. Yet something happens on Valentine's Day 1976. An incident involving Marianne Mulvaney, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter, is hushed up in the town and never discussed within the family. The impact of this event reverberates throughout the lives of the characters. As told by Judd, years later, in an attempt to make sense of his own past reveals the unspoken...
The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the c...
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66,45 zł |
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Das Unerwartete
ISBN: 9783753000671 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine etablierte Schriftstellerin kehrt in ihren Heimatort zurück und fragt sich, was hätte sein können, wenn sie nie gegangen wäre. Eine Attentäterin denkt über die Schwere ihrer Tat nach. Eine Professorin fühlt eine starke Verbindung zu ihrer Studentin und löst in ihr weitreichende Veränderungen aus. »Das Unerwartete« ist eine prägnante Vision alternativer Realitäten, eine Sammlung, die über die Zwänge nachdenkt, denen wir alle aufgrund der Umstände unserer Geburt und unseres Temperaments ausgesetzt sind, und die den konkurrierenden Druck und die Erwartungen... Eine etablierte Schriftstellerin kehrt in ihren Heimatort zurück und fragt sich, was hätte sein können, wenn sie nie gegangen wäre. Eine Attent... |
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109,12 zł |
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A Bloodsmoor Romance
ISBN: 9780062269195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose nineteenth-century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture When their sister is plucked from the shores of the Bloodsmoor River by an eerie black-silk hot air balloon that sails in through a clear blue sky, the lives of the already extraordinary Zinn sisters are radically altered. The monstrous tragedy splinters the family, who must not only grapple with the... Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the ... |
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82,95 zł |
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
ISBN: 9780061236839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace--on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly "American" triumph. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeane... |
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83,57 zł |
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Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
ISBN: 9781788543705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Six feverishly unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.
This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing - and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves. Six feverishly unsettling works. Six feverishly unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.
This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violenc... |
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51,10 zł |
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Little Bird of Heaven
ISBN: 9780061885945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prize--one of the world's most prestigious literary awards--is as powerful and unforgettable as Joyce Carol Oates's previous acclaimed novels The...
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, ...
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120,73 zł |
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The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares
ISBN: 9780802155085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors. She finally calls the police, who want to know why she left her young daughter alone until 8:00 o'clock. Suspicion falls on a computer teacher at her school with no alibi for the time of the abduction. Obvious clues--perhaps too obvious--point directly to him. Unsuspected is Judah (born Judith), an older girl from the same...
The Corn Maiden is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk...
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74,66 zł |
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Beautiful Days: Stories
ISBN: 9780062795793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,91 zł |
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Babysitter: A novel
ISBN: 9781524712365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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92,06 zł |
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The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
ISBN: 9780060565541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman. In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most... A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method |
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70,47 zł |
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Dis Mem Ber
ISBN: 9781786693990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
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47,28 zł |
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Garden of Earthly Delights PB
ISBN: 9780812968347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with...
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. I...
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87,10 zł |