wyszukanych pozycji: 447
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Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
ISBN: 9780007145737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Hard-hitting, page-turning and celebratory of friendship in unlikely circumstances, Joyce Carol Oates' sure touch with small town life hits home in her first young adult novel.
Hard-hitting, page-turning and celebratory of friendship in unlikely circumstances, Joyce Carol Oates' sure touch with small town life hits home in he...
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45,47 |
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The Rise of Life on Earth
ISBN: 9780811212137 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of...
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable port...
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Zero-Sum
ISBN: 9780008609801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Man's Best Friend
ISBN: 9781984586520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,70 |
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Der Schlächter
ISBN: 9783896677686 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Düster wie Bram Stoker, feministisch wie Margaret Atwood: Der neue Roman von einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart
Pennsylvania, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dr. Silas Weir ist ein junger Arzt aus gutem Hause, doch ohne Charisma und Talent. Beim Anblick von Blut wird er ohnmächtig, Frauenkörper stoßen ihn ab. Um seinen strengen Vater zu beeindrucken, versucht er, auf unorthodoxe Weise als Chirurg voranzukommen, was ihn gesellschaftlich isoliert. Dann wird er durch eine Aneinanderreihung von Zufällen Direktor der Staatlichen Heilanstalt für... Düster wie Bram Stoker, feministisch wie Margaret Atwood: Der neue Roman von einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart |
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107,86 |
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Zero-Sum
ISBN: 9780008609764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Sacrifice
ISBN: 9780062332981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial... New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence... |
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69,13 |
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Hazards of Time Travel
ISBN: 9780062319609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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93,92 |
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Flint Kill Creek
ISBN: 9781035909940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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101,12 |
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My Sister My Love
ISBN: 9780007305766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion mounts against friends, neighbours, and even the young girl's own family. Told from the point of view of the dead girl's brother, 'My Sister, My Love' explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twisted world.
When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion mounts against friends, neighbours, and even the young girl's own fa...
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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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65,69 |
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Bellefleur
ISBN: 9780062269164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 733 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch. Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and... A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir... |
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65,29 |
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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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Middle Age: A Romance
ISBN: 9780060934903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?
In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged.... |
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Butcher
ISBN: 9780008694913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,52 |
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Zombie
ISBN: 9780061778919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates--the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls--demonstrates why she ranks among America's most respected and accomplished literary artists with this provocative, breathtaking, and...
Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a ser...
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
ISBN: 9780061236839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Beautiful Days: Stories
ISBN: 9780062795793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,82 |
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Zero-Sum: Stories
ISBN: 9780593469583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 |
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A Bloodsmoor Romance
ISBN: 9780062269195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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