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Body Count: A Killer Collection
ISBN: 9780595377831 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bodies pile up fast and furiously in this off-tilt, macabre collection of stories from author Darrell James. From 'Who Wants To Kill Billy Tingle? (Raise Your Hand)" where a parlor full of jilted women have come together to decide the fate of their philandering lover. To 'A Miracle for Father Vega"-where a humble priest decides murder can sometimes be a blessing. The author rounds out his grisly tales with a cast that includes bumbling extortionists, larcenous senior citizens, and lovers on the con, dropping them onto a landscape where murder has become the solution of choice.
'Suspense... Bodies pile up fast and furiously in this off-tilt, macabre collection of stories from author Darrell James. From 'Who Wants To Kill Billy Tingle? (Ra...
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Principles of Uncertainty and Other Constants: Stories by Mitch Levenberg
ISBN: 9780595378340 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780595378432 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection. In "The Passing of the Ice, " Polish icemen suffer the fate of some great doomed Greek line. In "The Song of Rhodanthe" a fleeting vision of love flowers within a grim social prison. In "The journal of a Wife Beater" an insufferable chauvinist male discovers to his horror and bodily peril, that is wife is younger and stronger than he is.
The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of t...
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The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped
ISBN: 9780595378739 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Marie Sheppard Williams is delightfully politically incorrect. She takes us inside sheltered workshops, hospitals, funeral parlors, assorted agencies staffed by social workers, and to a United Way picnic attended by dwarfs. Her characters are unique and unforgettable. This is a disarming, disturbing book."
-Maxine Kumin, author of "Women, Animals, & Vegetables," winner of the Pulitzer Prize. '"Worldwide Church" is an absolute joy. I have been reading it all day.and made a fool of myself at Starbucks because I was laughing so hard that tears ran down my face, and then I started to... 'Marie Sheppard Williams is delightfully politically incorrect. She takes us inside sheltered workshops, hospitals, funeral parlors, assorted agencies...
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Pulp Graffiti: Volume I
ISBN: 9780595380152 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Pulp Graffiti" is a fresh and humorous combination of karma, the butterfly effect, and chaos theory that will compel you to ask, "Would the dancing virgin have jumped off the bridge if Roger hadn't farted." Better yet, what would have been the consequences of Cherry Sue Brown keeping her panties on instead of ending up wearing Cheryl Thompson's panties with the three-girl, four-boy, multipartner DNA collection on them? This comic tragedy of Cherry Sue's fall combines with the tragic comedy of Billy Gale's less-than-immaculate conception to explain why bad things happen to good people....
"Pulp Graffiti" is a fresh and humorous combination of karma, the butterfly effect, and chaos theory that will compel you to ask, "Would the dancing v...
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In Spite Of...: Understanding the Motivation in Obstacles
ISBN: 9780595380343 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Noah the Water Carrier and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780595380558 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A shadow moved down the muddy road in pale moonlight. Its steps were urgent. A decision had been made, a course determined. The hours of deliberation were over." "Noah the Water Carrier" is a collection of short stories whose setting is "T," a small city in Poland in the 1930's. The stories reflect the lives of Jews and Gentiles living together in a time and place that have disappeared forever. It was a time of change and even of optimism, before the Holocaust cast its vast net over an unprepared and unwitting people.
"A shadow moved down the muddy road in pale moonlight. Its steps were urgent. A decision had been made, a course determined. The hours of deliberation...
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We Are the New Auroras: The Story Collection
ISBN: 9780595380695 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Ukrainian writer barely on the wagon trades his health and sanity for the sake of his work when he makes a Faustian pact. A man tries to hold his family together as they watch their precious country being overtaken in a brutal military invasion. An upstart reporter from India gets too close to his beat and is quickly swallowed by his notoriety. Within the short stories of "We Are the New Auroras: The Story Collection," you'll encounter characters who are battered, bruised, and haunted by unfulfilled promises of their past. Solitary vagabonds, spies, rapscallion mercenaries, and ordinary men...
A Ukrainian writer barely on the wagon trades his health and sanity for the sake of his work when he makes a Faustian pact. A man tries to hold his fa...
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Underground Voices: a collection of short stories
ISBN: 9780595380923 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Underground Voices" is a collection of thirty-three short stories fueled by noir, grit, alcoholism, mental illnesses, psychiatric sessions, torments, journals, confessions, and purging.
"Underground Voices" is a collection of thirty-three short stories fueled by noir, grit, alcoholism, mental illnesses, psychiatric sessions, tormen... |
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Men Art War
ISBN: 9780595382163 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through clouded eyes we glimpse the cliffs that loom over yon distant shores.The waves they break with giant's strength and boom like oaken castle doors.Lightning threatens from above while frenzied sharks await below.Danger it is all about. In every element lurks a foe.Creation. Destruction. Birth and Death. The same. The same. The same.Fire melts the eternal ice, which transformed, douses the flame.Onward we sail, toward those cliffs, determined to reach the beckoning shore.And on landing make what our fathers made-glorious art and glorious war.Thus read the final lines of The Lay of...
Through clouded eyes we glimpse the cliffs that loom over yon distant shores.The waves they break with giant's strength and boom like oaken castle doo...
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Free-Falling Man
ISBN: 9780595384990 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the theme of the lost father-figure in stories, 'Fathers and Sons' and 'Nameless, ' to the openness of sexual relationships in the 'Orgy' and 'Two men and a plan', O Thiam Chin daringly explores the contrasting and contemplative facets of daily living and experience in Singapore.
With boldness and ingenuity, he juxtaposes real-life events with a touch of fictional narrative in 'Crash and Burn, ' 'Suicide Bomber' and 'Another Day in the Life of a Domestic Helper, ' and illuminates the secret lives hidden behind these events. From the theme of the lost father-figure in stories, 'Fathers and Sons' and 'Nameless, ' to the openness of sexual relationships in the 'Orgy' and 'Tw...
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Droppings of an Optimistic Fatalist
ISBN: 9780595385072 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Man-with-the-Ass-Hand. A mysterious phone call from a Capote-like Milquetoast about a toe trapped in a bath tub. An encounter between future President John Adams and the discoverer of Uranus - or so he thought. Rampaging Cossacks wreaking havoc in Toledo, Ohio. An intimate eye-witness report of O. Henry's honeymoon night. The Mafia and the magic mozzarella mystique. Death and dying in the hospital: An homage to Alfred Hitchcock. These are but samples of the twisted, odd-ball, tongue-in-cheek, black comedy that comprise the musings ('droppings") contained in this book. It's a brief glimpse...
The Man-with-the-Ass-Hand. A mysterious phone call from a Capote-like Milquetoast about a toe trapped in a bath tub. An encounter between future Presi...
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A Path of Love
ISBN: 9780595385140 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Ethiopian scribe envisions the tales of fourteen individuals that have yet to exist. This journey through time is an interesting and descriptive glance of what was the future to an ancient seer and also of our past.
An Ethiopian scribe envisions the tales of fourteen individuals that have yet to exist. This journey through time is an interesting and descriptive gl...
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Follow Your Java: Stories Exploring Caffeine Madness
ISBN: 9780595385973 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Du.pli∙ca'∙to L. literally dual places] vt 1 existing in parallel universes at the same time; 2 perception of both primary and secondary planes; 3 translation from one plane to another at a random moment in time; n 4 state of awareness induced by addictive levels of the stimulate caffeine. Du.pli∙cat' n 1 member of a society comprised of those who experience altered states of Duplicato; 2 one perceived by other Duplicats to be a voyager between said universes." "Follow Your Java" is a collection of reports, narratives, and stories of Duplicats in various stages of...
"Du.pli∙ca'∙to L. literally dual places] vt 1 existing in parallel universes at the same time; 2 perception of both primary and secondary...
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Sweet Orisa: short story collection
ISBN: 9780595386437 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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It Ain't Extra, It's Sextra: (Dan Gleason's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1)
ISBN: 9780595386598 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Short Works
ISBN: 9780595386642 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author George Putney, through numerous "Short Works," has continued his insightful and revealing observations of the cultural, technological, and historical forces that have brought our society to its present state. Among his musings are how we would be viewed by a future alien society, thoughts about the interaction between man and God, and reminisces about the magician and mystic, Joe Dunninger, whose voice was recognized only second to Franklin Roosevelt. Putney then turns his attention to Dick Wilson Associates which, through a series of adventures, reveals how entrepreneurism...
Acclaimed author George Putney, through numerous "Short Works," has continued his insightful and revealing observations of the cultural, technological...
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The Little Boy Who Lived in the Movie Theater: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780595387298 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Little Boy Who Lived in the Movie Theater" is a collection of short stories about love, romance, missed opportunities, fantasy, and regret. The eleven tales are about a variety of subjects-dreams and death; what might have been if only a few things had happened differently; a session with Doctor Deus, an unusual psychiatrist; an Irish heroine named Grace; reunions with past loves; and spending time at the movies hoping in vain for a happy ending. All readers will enjoy these wonderful and compelling stories.
"The Little Boy Who Lived in the Movie Theater" is a collection of short stories about love, romance, missed opportunities, fantasy, and regret. The e...
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Portraits from Mishima
ISBN: 9780595387793 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Woman In The red Coat;" "Kankankan. . . goo . . . kankankan' echoed the sound of the alarm bells at the railroad crossing. As I sat in my study, I heard the whizzing sound of the passing train. It reminded me of an incident twenty years before . . . a woman in a red coat . . . ."
"Interview With Karl Marx: "As long as you don't ask Marxist questions, you're welcome."" Nuyten's "The Last Supper" ("Letter," "Funeral Speech" and addendum: "The Mother-In-Law Report") is like reading Paul Bowles... "The Woman In The red Coat;" "Kankankan. . . goo . . . kankankan' echoed the sound of the alarm bells at the railroad crossing. As I sat in my study, ...
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Patchwork: Stories from the Dining Table
ISBN: 9780595389216 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When women from different parts of the world get together around a dining table what do they do? They tell stories. Each person sparks memories and imagination in the others until experience and invention are stitched into a rich patchwork. Join the Dining Table Writers; Vim, Urmilla, Rose, Marlene, Ki, Isabelle and Denise with their tales of a right of passage in traditional Sri Lanka, the art of making dahi in rural India and mysterious events in New Zealand. Uncover family secrets in a wardrobe in Mexico. Find out how a marriage is saved by timely advice from a Filipino nun, how living...
When women from different parts of the world get together around a dining table what do they do? They tell stories. Each person sparks memories and im...
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