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One True Thing
ISBN: 9780099538141 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Ellen Gulden learns that her mother, Kate, has cancer, she goes home to look after her. As Kate's pain increases so does Ellen's belief that her mother's suffering is unendurable. That doesn't mean she gave her the overdose of morphine.
When Ellen Gulden learns that her mother, Kate, has cancer, she goes home to look after her. As Kate's pain increases so does Ellen's belief that her ...
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81,76 |
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The Nanny Diaries : A Novel
ISBN: 9780141008929 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising the X's son Grayer, keeping on top of her studies, moving house and ensuring Mrs X's day runs smoothly, it's a wonder Nanny ever finds time to hang out with the gorgeous HH on the sixth floor.
Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising...
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81,76 |
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Enemies: A Love Story
ISBN: 9780141197616 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife.
Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazi...
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55,31 |
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Cry Freedom: The Legendary True Story of Steve Biko and the Friendship that Defied Apartheid
ISBN: 9780241950722 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods finds himself united with Biko in common cause after Biko reveals to him the true extent of police atrocities.
Under South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working for years to undermine the system when he meets white journal...
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50,28 |
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Sideways
ISBN: 9780312342517 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself. A... Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it go... |
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107,35 |
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My Summer of Love
ISBN: 9780747575887 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. Mona is 15 years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop. But when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, things very quickly get much worse.
It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. Mona is 15 years old. She's a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are alrea...
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76,65 |
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50 Harbor Street
ISBN: 9780778303428 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. '50 Harbor Street' is about friendship, family, heart-wrenching grief and heart-warming love - and most important of all, second chances. The struggles and triumphs of these ordinary men and women will have you blinking back tears one minute, and laughing out loud the next.
'50 Harbor Street' is about friendship, family, heart-wrenching grief and heart-warming love - and most important of all, second chances. The struggle...
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45,24 |
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Dead Poets Society
ISBN: 9781401308773 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count.
But the Dead Poets pledges... Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keatin...
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41,77 |
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Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified
ISBN: 9781455512867 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE?
DON'T GET STUMPED. GET PSYCHED You've seen him solve unsolvable crimes, stop unstoppable killers, and consume unconsumable breakfast cereals. Now Shawn Spencer, the mastermind from TV's hit show Psych, shows you how to become a fake psychic-and a real detective-using his patented methods of crime-fighting awesomeness. Along the way, he'll help you deal with whiny sidekicks (that means you, Gus), interfering police officers (including but not limited to Chief Vick, Lassiter, Henry, Buzz MacNab, and, ah, Juliet), and flashes of genius (like... GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE?
DON'T GET STUMPED. GET PSYCHED You've seen him solve unsolvable crimes, stop unstoppable killers, and ... |
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72,18 |
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South Riding
ISBN: 9781849902038 / Angielski / Miękka / 529 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby's classic novel, accompanying Andrew Davies's ("Bleak House, " "Little Dorrit")three-part adaptation
The community of South Riding, like the rest of England, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change. Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change. After the death of her fiance, she returns home to Yorkshire focused on her career as headmistress of the local schoolbut not everyone can embrace the new social order.... A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby's classic novel, accompanying Andrew Davies's ("Bleak House, " "Little Dorrit")three-part adaptation
Th... |
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91,99 |
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The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded
ISBN: 9781904764328 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three Matrix films, including the subsequent Web sites, computer games and The Animatrix films. Among the topics considered are the new cyberpunk, Baudrillarian simulacra, the politics of gender and race, the femme fatale, costume, cyberculture and the body, virtual realities and special effects. Discussing both the influences on the trilogy and the impact they have had since their release, the contributors to this collection provide critically innovative readings of...
The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three Matrix films, incl...
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112,50 |
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Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City
ISBN: 9781904764489 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the ro...
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87,39 |
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Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen
ISBN: 9781904764496 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film and its impact throughout film's history. Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie - the rebellion, the romance, the sex and the horror - up to contemporary portrayals of ever-changing youth. Films studied include Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Carrie (1976), The Breakfast Club (1985), and American Pie (1999).
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film and its impact throughout film's history. Timothy Sh...
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91,99 |
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War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line
ISBN: 9781904764540 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a linchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the history of this genre, one of continuing significance, from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to We Were Soldiers (2002). Guy Westwell focuses in particular on representations of the Vietnam War (Apocalypse Now 1979], Rambo 1985] and Platoon 1986]) and the more recent return to and reexamination of the Second World War (Saving Private Ryan 1998]).
An introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a linchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the history of this genre,...
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Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema
ISBN: 9781904764557 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema looks at the work, influences, legacy and style of one of cinema's most famous directors. Alfred Hitchcock worked in Britain and America, in silent and sound films, and through and beyond the studio system, all the time appealing to mass audiences while employing his own distinctive style. This book examines how he was affected by German cinema, British writing, the Hays Code and his own upbringing to produce films that challenged key notions of acting, sexuality, mise-en-scene and narrative convention. John Orr contends that Hitchcock is a matrix...
Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema looks at the work, influences, legacy and style of one of cinema's most famous directors. Alfred Hitchco...
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112,50 |
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Documentary: The Margins of Reality
ISBN: 9781904764595 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of documentary explores the definition and understanding of the form, as well as the relationship between documentary and drama, specifically the notion of reconstruction and reenactment. Paul Ward also discusses animated documentaries, the fertile genre of comedy, and feature-length contemporary works that have achieved widespread cinematic release.
In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of docum...
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118,05 |
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Air America
ISBN: 9781908059017 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Cennault's legendary Flying Tigers in WWII to two brutal decades cruising over the bomb-savaged jungles of Southeast Asia. This title tells the inside story of the world's most covert operation.
Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Cennault's legendary Flying Tigers in WWII ...
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65,37 |
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New World Order Rising: The New Civil War: Return to North Dakota
ISBN: 9781492798712 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All Carter Banks, 47, wanted, was to take his daughter and granddaughter out to his sister's farm, and live happily ever after. Like most Americans he believed in doing good and minding his own business, mostly blissfully unaware of escalating events going on around the country. He felt if he voted for his chosen candidates, that was enough. He would then leave it to the politicians to take care of things. How wrong he was. **** New World Order Rising is about a future war that is very likely to happen. As always, wars begin because the rich and powerful wish to get richer and more powerful....
All Carter Banks, 47, wanted, was to take his daughter and granddaughter out to his sister's farm, and live happily ever after. Like most Americans he...
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59,87 |
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Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization
ISBN: 9781783290178 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature. There they discovered hundreds of eggs, and just one slaughtered everyone but Ripley. This time she's accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines, but even their firepower may not be enough for them to survive and learn the fate of the colony known as Hadley's Hope
In the sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature....
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50,28 |
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Back Street
ISBN: 9780804170673 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling story behind Ross Hunter's classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin.
When fly girl and gorgeous socialite Ray Schmidt first meets Walter Saxel in Cincinnati, their attraction is instant and everlasting. As their bond deepens, Ray finds herself envisioning a future with Walter, until one fateful day when the settling of her family affairs interferes with their plans to meet, and his relationship with another woman forms. Though years pass and Ray manages to carve out a life for herself in New York City, Walter remains in her memory, and a chance run-in with... The bestselling story behind Ross Hunter's classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin.
When fly girl and gorgeous socialite Ray Schmi... |
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72,22 |