wyszukanych pozycji: 110
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My New American Life
ISBN: 9780061713798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who's also a world-class storyteller."--Russell Banks
Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusiveAmerican dream. Following her New York Times bestselling novels BlueAngel and A Changed Man, Prose delivers the darkly humorous storyof Lula, a twenty-something Albanian immigrant trying to find stability andcomfort in New York City in the charged aftermath of... "Francine Prose is a world-classsatirist who's also a world-class storyteller."--Russell Banks
Francine Prose captures contemporary Ameri... |
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69,70 |
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The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella
ISBN: 9780593875445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
85,24 |
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The Maid
ISBN: 9780008435769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,52 |
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Write at First Sight: Express Yourself Through Images in Architecture
ISBN: 9781540679864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Images have the power to inspire and ignite the creativity within. Write at First Sight gives you the platform to unleash your originality through 25 stunning public domain images in Architecture. Just follow these three easy steps:
Let your imagination soar to new heights With... Images have the power to inspire and ignite the creativity within. Write at First Sight gives you the platform to unleash your originality t... |
cena:
105,57 |
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Women and Children First: Stories
ISBN: 9781480445444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life It's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams abandons her for the stars themselves? In the twelve tales of Women and Children First, Francine Prose shows us an alcoholic trying to improve himself by fasting, a housewife enrolled in the New Consciousness Academy, and a French literature professor who's begun to fear Madame Bovary. Prose's characters are lost, frightened, and alone-and far more like us than we might care to admit.
Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday life It's one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a perso...
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73,57 |
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Write at First Sight: Express Yourself through Images in Holidays
ISBN: 9781540680129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Images have the power to inspire and ignite the creativity within. Write at First Sight gives you the platform to unleash your originality through 25 stunning public domain images in Holidays. Just follow these three easy steps:
Let your imagination soar to new heights With... Images have the power to inspire and ignite the creativity within. Write at First Sight gives you the platform to unleash your originality t... |
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105,57 |
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Primitive People
ISBN: 9781480445475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its own hardships Simone has gotten used to living in fear. After years of dictatorship, Haiti has sunk into chaos, and death is ever present. But it isn't the corpse she finds on her doorstep that convinces Simone to flee the island of her birth-it's the night she sees her lover with his arm draped around the shoulder of another. Death is one thing, but she cannot tolerate heartbreak. The assistant to the United States' cultural attache, Simone is clever enough to get herself a green card. But when she...
Fleeing the terrors of her home, a Haitian woman finds that life in America is filled with its own hardships Simone has gotten used to living in fear....
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77,49 |
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Ein mysteriöser Gast, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783839821398 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mit ihrer ausdrucksstarken Stimme begleitet Anna Thalbach Mollys Ermittlungen ebenso spannend wie charmant. Cosy Crime aus England mit Herz, Humor und einer ganz besonderen Heldin Ein mysteriöser Gast von Nita Prose ist der 2. Band der humorvollen Krimi-Reihe um das liebenswerte, leicht autistische Zimmermädchen Molly Gray. Unblutig und warmherzig: Zimmermädchen Molly ermittelt mit den Tricks von Inspektor Columbo und den Weisheiten ihrer Großmutter Mit Stolz und Hingabe schüttelt... Mit ihrer ausdrucksstarken Stimme begleitet Anna Thalbach Mollys Ermittlungen ebenso spannend wie charmant. |
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89,88 |
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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
ISBN: 9780060080853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entire lives. In the title novella, a third-rate American playwright named Landau attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," is... The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bew... |
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57,93 |
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Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
ISBN: 9780061713804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the striking Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete and scandalous... A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequen... |
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73,57 |
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The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel
ISBN: 9780593356203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
69,74 |
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Goldengrove
ISBN: 9780060560027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. Focusing on a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister, this masterful coming-of-age work is radiant with the possibility of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.
Goldengrove is an emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling auth...
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54,20 |
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
ISBN: 9780061430800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl...Extraordinary testimony to the power of literature and compassion" -Booklist (starred review)
In Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, Francine Prose, author of Reading Like a Writer, deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank's beloved classic, The Diary of a Young Girl. Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in... "A definitive, deeply moving inquiry into the life of the young, imperiled artist, and a masterful exegesis of Diary of a Young Girl...Extrao...
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Dirtbag Space Pirates: The Passion of Darryl and Rebecca
ISBN: 9798507717293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,41 |
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Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck: "... und nie kann ich vergessen"
ISBN: 9783453218307 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der letzten wurde er aus der Hölle geflogen. Fast 80 Jahre später, mit knapp 100 Jahren Lebensweisheit, blickt Schönbeck nun gemeinsam mit Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Tim Pröse zurück: Auf seinen inneren Widerstand gegen Hitler. Auf die verpasste Gelegenheit, ihn zu töten, als Schönbeck nach der Schlacht in Hitlers Nähe kommandiert wird. Ein paar Nächte schläft er auch neben Graf Stauffenbergs Bombe. All das beschäftigt ihn, doch es bricht...
Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der l...
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80,89 |
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Jan Fedder - Unsterblich
ISBN: 9783453605879 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Jan Fedder: direkt, gerade, ehrlich, kein Diplomat, aber mit großem Herzen für die Menschen - so verkörperte er wie kein zweiter DEN Hamburger schlechthin. Seine Paraderollen im »Großstadtrevier«, bei »Neues aus Büttenwarder«, den Siegfried-Lenz-Verfilmungen »Der Mann im Strom« und »Das Feuerschiff« oder im Kultfim »Das Boot« machten das norddeutsche Urgestein schon zu Lebzeiten zur Legende. Doch bei allen Erfolgen sagte Jan Fedder von sich: »Hauptberuflich bin ich Mensch - im Nebenberuf bin ich Schauspieler.«
Jan Fedder starb am 30. Dezember 2019. Jetzt erzählt Tim... Jan Fedder: direkt, gerade, ehrlich, kein Diplomat, aber mit großem Herzen für die Menschen - so verkörperte er wie kein zweiter DEN Hamburger schl...
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53,93 |
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Dans les yeux de Prose
ISBN: 9798700072229 / Francuski / Miękka / 2021 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
82,91 |
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The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella
ISBN: 9798217013913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
92,99 |
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Gluttony
ISBN: 9780195156997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony.
In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas about salvation and damnation, health and illness, life and death. Offering a lively smorgasbord that ranges from Augustine's Confessions... In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle betwee...
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cena:
95,13 |
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What to Read and Why
ISBN: 9780062397874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,32 |