wyszukanych pozycji: 118
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Buffalo Girls
ISBN: 9780743216296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story of a band of hardy, irrepressible survivors into an unforgettable portrait of love, fellowship, dreams, and heartbreak.
In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the...
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76,19 |
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Film Flam
ISBN: 9780743216241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often... A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows his Hollywood. In Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrat...
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60,94 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442648302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
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180,11 |
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Memoirs and Reflections
ISBN: 9781442629028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life. These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his... From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential caree... |
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160,64 |
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Am I Black on the Inside?
ISBN: 9781096935339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
45,62 |
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Heaven's Gold: Resurrecting Faith in Today's Youth
ISBN: 9781449787264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Young people are leaving the church in staggering numbers as they go off to college, and church leaders do not know how to stop this exodus of youth. This study outlines why young people are leaving and what it will take to resurrect their faith, offering a foolproof plan how to accomplish that. Heaven's Gold takes the reader on a treasure hunt through Scripture from a fresh point of view that will attract young people, rather than drive them away. By turning the church into a spiritual fitness center, the fire of faith can be rekindled in each of us.
Young people are leaving the church in staggering numbers as they go off to college, and church leaders do not know how to stop this exodus of yout... |
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53,32 |
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Měsíc nad prérií
ISBN: 9788076896901 / Czeski / 2025 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Měsíc nad prérií je druhá kniha epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice, která je vrcholem jedinečného pohledu Larryho McMurtryho na americký Západ. Vypráví o období dvaceti let mezi romány Cesta mrtvého muže a Osamělá holubice, o dobrodružství plném tragédií, krutosti, odvahy, cti a zrady. Texaští hraničáři Augustus McCrae a Woodrow Call, nyní již muži středního věku, se i nadále potýkají se stále většími útrapami dospělého života. Gus kvůli své osudové lásce Kláře Forsytheové a Call kvůli Maggie Tiltonové, mladé děvce, která ho miluje....
Měsíc nad prérií je druhá kniha epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice, která je vrcholem jedinečného pohledu Larryho McMurtryho na americký Z...
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cena:
116,31 |
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Lonesome Dove
ISBN: 9781529099942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,53 |
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Literary Life: A Second Memoir
ISBN: 9781439159941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. LARRY McMURTRY IS THAT RAREST OF ARTISTS, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In Literary Life, the sequel to Books, he expounds on the private trials and triumphs of being a writer. From his earliest inkling of his future career while at Rice University, to his tenure as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford with Ken Kesey in 1960, to his incredible triumphs as a bestselling author, this intimate and charming autobiography is replete with literary anecdotes and packed with memorable observations about writing, writers, and...
LARRY McMURTRY IS THAT RAREST OF ARTISTS, a prolific and genre-transcending writer who has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In ...
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cena:
53,36 |
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The Desert Rose
ISBN: 9780684853840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness -- makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is.
Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs... Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing abo...
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53,36 |
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Leaving Cheyenne
ISBN: 9781631493515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,80 |
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The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9780141194448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in a small dusty Texas town, this poignant coming-of-age novel portrays Jacy, Duane and Sonny, three teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love.
Set in a small dusty Texas town, this poignant coming-of-age novel portrays Jacy, Duane and Sonny, three teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discov...
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55,44 |
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Native Heart: The Life and Times of Ned Christie, Cherokee Patriot and Renegade
ISBN: 9781448662968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,82 |
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The Evening Star
ISBN: 9780684857510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set this novel apart rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star. McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway--along with her family, friends, and lovers--in a tale of affectionate wit, bittersweet tenderness, and the unexpected turns that life can take. This is Larry McMurtry at his very best: warm, compassionate, full...
Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment touched readers in a way no other story has in recent years. The earthy humor and the powerful emotional i...
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83,85 |
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Desert Rose
ISBN: 9781447274667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment.
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51,19 |
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Cesta mrtvého muže
ISBN: 9788076895683 / Czeski / 2025 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cesta mrtvého muže je první, mimořádná kniha z epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice. Larry McMurtry vdechl nový život zaniklému americkému Západu a stvořil dva nezapomenutelné hrdiny Guse a Calla. V zemi, kde na každém kroku číhá nebezpečí, se mladí texaští hraničáři Augustus McCrae a Woodrow Call musí mnohému naučit. Čelí spalujícímu vedru, zuřícím tornádům, rozbouřeným řekám, nemilosrdným indiánům, ale také smrtelně nebezpečným vrtochům vojáků. Na svých prvních výpravách v doprovodu statné a neohrožené děvky Matildy se...
Cesta mrtvého muže je první, mimořádná kniha z epické tetralogie Osamělá holubice. Larry McMurtry vdechl nový život zaniklému americkému ...
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cena:
97,91 |
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Paradise
ISBN: 9780743215664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective exploration of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his Texas hometown. In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a...
Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective explora...
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49,55 |
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The Last Picture Show
ISBN: 9781631493591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,75 |
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When the Light Goes
ISBN: 9781416534273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Show and, like his author, he has aged but not lost his vigor or his taste for life. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time...
In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author of Lonesome D...
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57,17 |
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La magie d'un monde
ISBN: 9783347500679 / Francuski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. La première histoire d'une princesse et sa famille à travers des difficultés avec une sorcière qui transform ceux qui ne fait pas ce qu'elle veut. Il y a trois autres histoires à venir!
La première histoire d'une princesse et sa famille à travers des difficultés avec une sorcière qui transform ceux qui ne fait pas ce qu'elle veut....
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cena:
67,25 |