The Red Queen
ISBN: 9780156032704 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown...
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed ...
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76,88 zł |
Memories of Lazarus
ISBN: 9780292750210 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are the recollections of Alexandre--of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born. The valley itself, in the backlands of the state of Bahia, Brazil, alternates at different stages in Alexandre's consciousness between reality and symbol. It swings from a harsh regional specificity to become the panorama of all human life, its endless, eroding wind the devouring hostility of all environments and its pain the pain of every human being in the face of his own brutality and that of others. ...These are the recollections of Alexandre--of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestr... |
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85,75 zł |
Paprika
ISBN: 9780307389183 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams.
When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the... Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psy...
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64,10 zł |
Life Without Parole
ISBN: 9780452297821 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Missing Persons will have readers eagerly waiting for show time on Kate s next case. Richmond Times-DispatchAfter the death of her ex-husband, things are finally returning to normal for Kate Conway so normal that she s gotten a little bored. Out of the blue, the television producer is offered a documentary gig about lifers in a state prison. Kate jumps at the chance. The only problem is that she s also just been asked to produce a reality show about the opening of a new restaurant one backed by Vera, her dead husband s mistress. Reluctantly, she agrees to both.
But when one of... Missing Persons will have readers eagerly waiting for show time on Kate s next case. Richmond Times-DispatchAfter the death of her ex-hu...
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102,56 zł |
Never Knowing
ISBN: 9781250009319 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of Still Missing comes a psychological thriller about one woman's search into her past and the deadly truth she uncovers. All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. The question of why she was given up for adoption has always haunted her. Finally, she is ready to take steps and to find closure. But some questions are better left unanswered. After months of research, Sara locates her birth... From the acclaimed author of Still Missing comes a psychological thriller about one woman's search into her past and the deadly truth she un... |
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128,16 zł |
The Girl in the Face of the Clock: A Mystery
ISBN: 9781250012272 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When her father emerges from an eight-year coma, Jane Sailor discovers that his fall had been no accident. But Aaron Sailor dies suddenly, and Jane is convinced that the clock in one of his paintings is the key to his murder. Embarking on a colorful odyssey into the international art world, Jane unearths family secrets--and hopes to live long enough to share them. In-book ads. HC: St. Martin's Press. Pub. 9/02.
When her father emerges from an eight-year coma, Jane Sailor discovers that his fall had been no accident. But Aaron Sailor dies suddenly, and Jane is...
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85,43 zł |
The Third Reich
ISBN: 9781250013934 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of the resort town's life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of the Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a shadowy local called El Quemado. As the game draws to its conclusion, Udo discovers that the outcome may be all too real. Written in 1989,... A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger... |
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85,47 zł |
Inverted Forest
ISBN: 9781416596035 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This "gripping, tender, and at times disturbing tale" (Entertainment Weekly) of unlikely devotion and sudden violence in an isolated Midwestern summer camp is a compelling follow up to the award-winning Heaven's Lake. From the prizewinning author of Heaven Lake comes an extraordinary story of unlikely devotion and sudden crisis in an isolated summer camp. Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors...
This "gripping, tender, and at times disturbing tale" (Entertainment Weekly) of unlikely devotion and sudden violence in an isolated Midwest...
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93,98 zł |
A World Made of Fire
ISBN: 9781419655937 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mark Childress is an artist with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's. I haven't read a Southern novel since Losing Battles that has given me such pleasure." - Harper Lee.An extraordinary burst of praise greeted Mark Childress's enthralling first novel, "A World Made of Fire." Set in Alabama at the turn of the century, it tells the story of Callie Bates and her adoring children; the preacher-husband leaving in a buggy after the wedding and returning with spiteful sermons about the children Callie gives birth to year after year in his absence. It is the story of the secret visitor who is the...
"Mark Childress is an artist with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's. I haven't read a Southern novel since Losing Battles that has given me such ple...
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58,11 zł |
Sanatorium pod klepsydrą
ISBN: 9788377791608 / Polski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Druga, po Sklepach cynamonowych, książka Bruno Schulza, wydawana przez MG w serii – wydania ilustrowane. Geniusz Schulza objawiał się zarówno w pisaniu, jak i w sztuce rysowania. Połączenie genialnego tekstu z niezwykłym rysunkiem daje szczególną wartość.
Sanatorium pod klepsydrą to cykl opowieści snutych przez Józefa, alter ego pisarza, który był też głównym bohaterem Sklepów... Teraz jednak Józef bywa dzieckiem, ale też młodzieńcem i dorosłym mężczyzną. Schulz kreuje świat pełen barw, dzięków, zapachów tworząc rozmaite wariacje na temat domu rodzinnego,... Druga, po Sklepach cynamonowych, książka Bruno Schulza, wydawana przez MG w serii – wydania ilustrowane. Geniusz Schulza objawiał się zarówno w...
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37,91 zł |
Speaking Truths
ISBN: 9781450214360 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landon Starker is an anger-imbued, foul-mouthed delinquent teenager with a horrific home life and an angry father who would challenge anyone's existence. He hates school, skips classes liberally, and fears his father's reaction to all of it. Then one day, it all changes, but why?
In the same vein as "Catcher in the Rye's" Holden Caulfield, Landon arrives at his existence through a tragedy, wherein his psyche becomes fractured. For emotional success, Landon must work to recognize how his mind has engaged in self-preservation: a combination of repressing memories and re-defining reality so... Landon Starker is an anger-imbued, foul-mouthed delinquent teenager with a horrific home life and an angry father who would challenge anyone's existen...
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80,99 zł |
Triangles
ISBN: 9781451626346 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath Three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life. Holly: Filled with regret for being a stay-at-home mom, she sheds sixty pounds and loses herself in the world of extramarital sex. Will it bring the fulfillment she is searching for? Andrea: A single mom and avowed celibate, she watches her friend Holly's meltdown with a mixture of concern and contempt. Holly is throwing away what Andrea has spent her whole...
From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath Three female friends face midlife cri...
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81,15 zł |
The Light Between Oceans
ISBN: 9781451681734 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one...
The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible...seductive...with...
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115,38 zł |
The Habituator
ISBN: 9781460980927 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HABITUATION is defined by Squatchopedia (a website for all things Bigfoot and Sasquatch) as: "The gradual decline of a response to a stimulus resulting from repeated exposure to the stimulus." This term is commonly applied to the often long and laborious process of gradually "training" wild animals, particularly primates, to tolerate the presence of human visitors in order to allowe long-term observations. Habituation is connected to Sasquatch research in that some people have claimed that some Sasquatch(es) have become habituated to the presence of humans, thereby allowing repeated...
HABITUATION is defined by Squatchopedia (a website for all things Bigfoot and Sasquatch) as: "The gradual decline of a response to a stimulus resultin...
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58,11 zł |
Ghosts of the Waikato
ISBN: 9781462066391 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,99 zł |
Ghosts of the Waikato
ISBN: 9781462066414 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,72 zł |
The Kult
ISBN: 9781466247994 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill. Out of misguided loyalty, police officer Prosper Snow is goaded into helping his friends perform a copycat killing, but when the real killer comes after him, it's not only his life on the line, but his family's too. Now if he goes to his colleagues for help, he risks being arrested for murder. If he doesn't, he risks being killed.
People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill. Out of misguided loyalty, police officer Prosper Snow is goaded into helping his friends ...
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53,80 zł |
Undue Influence
ISBN: 9781466901742 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,27 zł |
Undue Influence
ISBN: 9781466901766 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,12 zł |
Schism: A Psychological Thriller
ISBN: 9781468015416 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a boy, Horatio Higgins was ignored by the other children, but that didn't stop him having lots of friends...friends only he could see and whom he'd regale with tales of his fantastical exploits. Eventually, though, his parents became concerned at the inordinate amount of time their son appeared to spend talking to himself and took him for treatment, which, in time, proved successful...almost. One friend remained. Unfortunately it was the spiteful one. Years later, living alone in his tiny London flat, Horatio's loneliness is mitigated only by his acid-tongued friend and the company of what...
As a boy, Horatio Higgins was ignored by the other children, but that didn't stop him having lots of friends...friends only he could see and whom he'd...
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62,60 zł |