Factotum
ISBN: 9780061131271 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next. Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to... One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across Worl... |
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69,01 zł |
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
ISBN: 9780143036425 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire mystery series, the basis for the Netflix original series LONGMIRE.
Craig Johnson's new novel, The Western Star, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, in which New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson introduces Sheriff Walt Longmire of Wyoming's Absaroka County. Johnson draws... Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dry Bones, the first...
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77,68 zł |
Winter's Tale
ISBN: 9780156031196 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now a major motion pictureNew York Times bestseller"Utterly extraordinary . . . A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . . Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled . . . I find myself nervous, to a degree I don't recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance." - Benjamin DeMott, New York Times Book ReviewMark Helprin's masterpiece will transport you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a...
Now a major motion pictureNew York Times bestseller"Utterly extraordinary . . . A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and e...
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86,27 zł |
Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island
ISBN: 9780231128995 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers--Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang--the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.
Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers--Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang--the authors explore how these filmma...
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211,72 zł |
Big Night
ISBN: 9780312148447 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant and pointed look at Old World vs. New World values and provides a rueful assessment of the American Dream. In a New Jersey town, two Italian immigrant brothers stuggle to keep their restaurant afloat. Includes recipes. Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant an... |
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81,95 zł |
Jem #2: The Video Caper: You Are Jem! the Misfits Kidnap an English Princess -- And Blame It on You! You Have to Find Her!
ISBN: 9780345337948 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You are Jem, the fabulous and famous rock star. In London to shoot a new video, you re thrilled with your sensational wardrobe and the guest appearance in your video of a pretty young English princess.
You and Princess Sarah become friends. She is excited about riding with you in the Rocking Roadster to the English countryside for the weekend. But when you stop to change a flat tire, the princess is kidnapped You re sure the Misfits are behind the caper but everyone will think it s your fault. In your quest to find the princess and save your career you must make the right choices in... You are Jem, the fabulous and famous rock star. In London to shoot a new video, you re thrilled with your sensational wardrobe and the guest appearanc...
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64,73 zł |
Drugstore Cowboy
ISBN: 9780385302241 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novel that inspired the highly acclaimed film directed by Gus Van Sant Bob Hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a crew of traveling junkies, describes himself as "one of the cleverest and ringiest and most notorious dope fiend drugstore cowboys on the entire West Coast, including Alaska." Bob, his wife, Diane, Rick, and Nadine have a penchant for robbing drugstores and grabbing pills and capsules to support their habit and relieve their boredom. It's an all-too-real examination of the addict's domain: the euphoria, the paranoia, the busts, the...
The novel that inspired the highly acclaimed film directed by Gus Van Sant Bob Hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a c...
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64,73 zł |
Batman Begins
ISBN: 9780571229949 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Batman Begins, directed by the award-winning Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), unveils the untold origins of the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham City. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham City and unveils his alter ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect, and an array of high-tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city. As... Batman Begins, directed by the award-winning Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), unveils the untold origins of the Dark Kni... |
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112,20 zł |
Comfort and Joi
ISBN: 9780595335909 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "She was one of the working stiff actors who made American movies a sort of extended family for me. If I don't do this for her, who will?"
Memory and movies collide when the narrator of "Comfort and Joi," award-winning screenwriter Joseph Dougherty's imaginative blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and work of bosomy blonde bombshell Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl who appeared in such "classics" as "Hillbillys in a Haunted House" and "Queen of Outer Space." Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a winter weekend, he indulges his fascination... "She was one of the working stiff actors who made American movies a sort of extended family for me. If I don't do this for her, who will?"
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51,57 zł |
American Requiem: A Screenplay
ISBN: 9780595380664 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Eduardo "Eddie" Encinas decides to run for Congress in a Southern Arizona district, he knows he can never match the fund raising operation of his opponent, six term incumbent Congresswoman Felicia Martin. But he has a lot of faith in "Eddie's Army," the coalition of young Native American and Hispanic activists which first came together to support him during his tenure as County Commissioner, and who now staff his campaign.
With the Congressional race playing out against a backdrop of ancient Native American prophecy, Eddie discovers on election night undeniable evidence of nationwide... When Eduardo "Eddie" Encinas decides to run for Congress in a Southern Arizona district, he knows he can never match the fund raising operation of his...
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55,88 zł |
Paradise: Stories of a Changing Chesapeake
ISBN: 9780595398713 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "These ten related stories give us the most plausible picture I've seen of the life and prospects of Chesapeake Bay watermen.in this time of radical social change. In beautifully spare prose, Hall describes episodes.that are funny in places, sad in other places.and generally empathetic." John Goodspeed, "The Star Democrat," Easton, MD
"Hall's portrayal glows like a water color." Ramon de Rosas, "Maine in Print" "The book really made me miss departed story-tellers like Watt Herbert, who had a similar ability to spin a great yarn which passed on a lesson without excessive moralizing."... "These ten related stories give us the most plausible picture I've seen of the life and prospects of Chesapeake Bay watermen.in this time of radical s...
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47,25 zł |
Hollywood Exits: A Novel of 1935-1945
ISBN: 9780595443406 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Against the backdrop of Hollywood in the 1930's, an eye-catching, 15-year-old girl is catapulted into fame. Xavia "Excy" O'Brian, the impoverished, orphaned, daughter of a famous, silent movie star, becomes the protege of Hal Sonderson, a studio executive. With help from the family of her best friend, Annie, she escapes an amoral foster home and goes to live with Annie's Aunt Tillie. Excy meets many Hollywood personages including an Italian count, Alberto. Ted Wallace, Annie's older brother, always plays a pivotal role in her life. On a promotional studio tour in Europe, adolescence,... Against the backdrop of Hollywood in the 1930's, an eye-catching, 15-year-old girl is catapulted into fame. Xavia "Excy" O'Brian, the impoverished,... |
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94,72 zł |
The Object of My Affection
ISBN: 9780671743505 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy, cluttered Brooklyn apartment, a taste for impromptu tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing lessons at Arthur Murray. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Howard -- Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father -- wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad? A touching and hilarious novel about love,...
George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy, cluttered Brooklyn apartment, a taste for impromptu tuna casserole dinners, and a dev...
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77,64 zł |
Heartburn
ISBN: 9780679767954 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you... Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding y... |
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73,36 zł |
If Only It Were True
ISBN: 9780743276849 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet, particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her -- and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? Should you have her see a psychiatrist or should you consult one yourself? Or do you take a chance and believe in her, and allow yourself to be swept up in an extraordinary adventure?
This is the beginning of the dilemma Arthur, a young San Francisco architect, is facing when he discovers Lauren in his apartment. Arthur is the only man who... What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet, particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her -- and she can disappear and reapp...
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69,01 zł |
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
ISBN: 9780743442480 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."
-- Buckaroo Banzai Buckaroo Banzai. A strange, elusive figure, his name whispered in barrooms and boardrooms, his advice sought by pashas and presidents, his exploits recounted in movies, novels, and comic books that seem somehow more real than life itself. Buckaroo Banzai. First and foremost an extraordinary brain surgeon. In his spare time designer and driver of the electrifying Jet Car, a speed machine faster than sound Buckaroo Banzai. A happy man whose life has been marked by great... "I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."
-- Buckaroo Banzai Buckaroo Banzai. A strange, el... |
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81,77 zł |
Fool on the Hill
ISBN: 9780802135353 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion. Not your usual first effort, Fool on the Hill is a full-blown epic of life and death, good and evil, magic and love.
Think of the imaginative daring of Mark Helprin s Winter s Tale. The zany popism of Tom Robbins... It is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility bu...
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86,31 zł |
A Flower Blooms on Charlotte St
ISBN: 9780865549609 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the only remaining female in the George Nash family, Ociee chooses to view herself as more brother than sister as she grows up on their Mississippi farm. When her father decides that it's time to make her into a young lady, she is sent to live with her Aunt Mamie in Asheville. There she will bloom and sow seeds of love in the lives of those who come to know her on Charlotte Street. The film The Adventures of Ociee Nash is based on this book.
As the only remaining female in the George Nash family, Ociee chooses to view herself as more brother than sister as she grows up on their Mississippi...
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120,53 zł |
The Tudors: King Takes Queen
ISBN: 9781416948872 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dissent rises in the kingdom of King Henry VIII of England. The king's ongoing dispute with the papacy over a desire for annulment is about to incite the Reformation, and his next step is to appoint a new archbishop in order to obtain his long-awaited marriage to Anne Boleyn. All crests that once bore the initials "H & K" are promptly replaced with an intertwining "H & A," the first of many significant changes to come. The birth of the new royal couple's first child, Princess Elizabeth, is followed by the death of Katherine of Aragon. New legislation decrees that any who dare commit an...
Dissent rises in the kingdom of King Henry VIII of England. The king's ongoing dispute with the papacy over a desire for annulment is about to incite ...
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86,27 zł |
Doc Hollywood
ISBN: 9781425988609 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,18 zł |