wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Indian Country
ISBN: 9780375725104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Indian Country" "is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience.
Christian Starkmann follows his boyhood friend, an Ojibwa Indian called Bonny George, from the wilderness of Michigan s Upper Peninsula, where they roamed, hunted and fished in their youths, to the wilderness of Vietnam, where they serve as soldiers in the same platoon. After returning home from the war, his friend buried on the battlefield he left behind, Christian begins to make a life for himself. Yet years later, although he is happily married to June, a... Indian Country" "is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience.
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96,10 zł |
A Rumor of War
ISBN: 9781847925138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. This book tells his story.
In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months late...
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87,72 zł |
Acts of Faith
ISBN: 9780375725975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Philip Caputo's tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There's the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who can't help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander.
As their... Philip Caputo's tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid worke...
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96,10 zł |
Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories
ISBN: 9781250231338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,36 zł |
Means of Escape
ISBN: 9780805089639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously."--Kirkus Reviews For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo's classic memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War, here is his powerful recounting of his life and adventures, updated with a foreword that assesses the state of the world and the journalist's art. As a journalist, Caputo has covered many of the world's troubles, and in Means of Escape, he tells the reader in moving and clear-eyed prose how he made himself into a writer, traveler, and observer with the nerve to put himself at the... "A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously."--Kirkus Reviews For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo's... |
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104,83 zł |
Equation for Evil
ISBN: 9780060984113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a quiet morning in California, a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of children headed for a field trip, then turns the gun on himself. Forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and special agent Gabriel Chin team up to investigate the case, seeking at first only to solve this single disturbing crime but in time delving into issues of race, morality, and the complex forces at work in all horrifying acts of violence. Part mystery, part psychological thriller, part piercing social commentary, Equation for Evil is a riveting and incisive meditation on violence and the nature... On a quiet morning in California, a lone gunman opens fire on a busload of children headed for a field trip, then turns the gun on himself. Forensi... |
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65,48 zł |
Horn of Africa
ISBN: 9780375725111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he's a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical...
When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropo...
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82,99 zł |
Some Rise by Sin
ISBN: 9781250182531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,73 zł |
Exiles
ISBN: 9780679768388 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With Exiles, his first collection of shorter fiction, the author of the universally acclaimed, best-selling memoir A Rumor of War ("It will make the strongest among us weep," wrote John Gregory Dunne) sends the reader on a tripartite adventure.
First to suburban Connecticut, where a young blue-collar man on the way to his mother's funeral falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish attention on him and pull him into unexpected dilemmas. Then to Australia's Torres Strait, where a charismatic but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island's very... With Exiles, his first collection of shorter fiction, the author of the universally acclaimed, best-selling memoir A Rumor of War ("It will make the s...
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74,26 zł |
Crossers
ISBN: 9780375725982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he uncovers some dark truths about his fearsome grandfather. When a Mexican illegal shows up at the ranch, terrified after a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder that we never truly escape our history. Spanning three generations of an Arizona family, Crossers... When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more... |
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104,83 zł |
Memory and Desire: A Novel
ISBN: 9781956763799 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed storyteller, a propulsive tale of desire, betrayal, duty, and infidelity-and the explosive consequences of buried passion.
From the acclaimed storyteller, a propulsive tale of desire, betrayal, duty, and infidelity-and the explosive consequences of buried passion.
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122,26 zł |