Life Goes By
ISBN: 9780595330294 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the life of Carter Graham: a young adult who ends up contracting an illness. He can either choose to go through treatment and hope for a cure, or he can choose to live out his remaining days.
"Life Goes By" details the last four months of his life through a series of flashbacks and memories that he relates to a doctor. Carter's story illustrates the love and pain one goes through when a terrifying ordeal presents itself--How one person can push another away so they must face that pain alone. Love is tested in the extreme circumstances, and the question is, "Is it ever too late... This is the life of Carter Graham: a young adult who ends up contracting an illness. He can either choose to go through treatment and hope for a cure,...
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Mount Aesculapius
ISBN: 9780595376360 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Phillip Coffin, the legendary Dean of the Benjamin Franklin Medical School, harbors a secret that plagues him in his dreams and feeds his insecurities. Nick Ware=s implacable animosity towards him seems fueled by jealousy over the close relationship Coffin enjoys with the Chair of Internal Medicine. Over the course of their struggle, Ware, emboldened by the discovery of Coffin's secret, conspires to schedule an unauthorized meeting of his fellow chairpersons for a no-confidence vote on the Dean. The multiple subplots tell how the personal and professional lives of these chairpersons dovetail...
Phillip Coffin, the legendary Dean of the Benjamin Franklin Medical School, harbors a secret that plagues him in his dreams and feeds his insecurities...
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Diamond Dust: Stories
ISBN: 9780618042135 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathering together radiant new stories, "Diamond Dust" travels from India to the American Northeast, deftly exploring the tensions between social obligation and personal independence, between old traditions and new.
Gathering together radiant new stories, "Diamond Dust" travels from India to the American Northeast, deftly exploring the tensions between social obli...
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68,67 zł |
Arresting God in Kathmandu
ISBN: 9780618043712 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, "Arresting God in Kathmandu" brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. "Wonderful stories full of irony, compassion and wit. Read him and you will learn about Nepal as well as yourself".--Josip Novakovich.
From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, "Arresting God in Kathmandu" brilliantly explores the nature of desire an...
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Doghouse Roses: Stories
ISBN: 9780618219247 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steve Earle does everything he does with intelligence, creativity, passion, and integrity. In music, these strengths have earned him comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, the ardent devotion of his fans, and the admiration of the media. And Earle does a lot: he is singer, songwriter, producer, social activist, teacher. . . . He's not only someone who makes great music; he's someone to believe in. With the publication of his first collection of short stories, Doghouse Roses, he gives us yet another reason to believe.
Earle's stories reflect the many facets of the man and the... Steve Earle does everything he does with intelligence, creativity, passion, and integrity. In music, these strengths have earned him comparisons to Br...
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59,91 zł |
Long for This World
ISBN: 9780618446483 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wise and richly symphonic first novel by the award-winning author of "The Coast of Good Intentions" is a thoroughly contemporary family drama that hinges on a riveting medical dilemma.
This wise and richly symphonic first novel by the award-winning author of "The Coast of Good Intentions" is a thoroughly contemporary family drama tha...
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107,15 zł |
God's Gym: Stories
ISBN: 9780618711994 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first story collection in more than a decade from one of the most celebrated African-American authors of modern-day literature contains stories that move from the intimate to the political, from shock to transcendence.
The first story collection in more than a decade from one of the most celebrated African-American authors of modern-day literature contains stories th...
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55,62 zł |
Disturbance-Loving Species
ISBN: 9780618858705 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chilsons fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. This collection of stories explores the experiences of Americans struggling to cope with life in Africa, and of Africans acclimating to life in the United States.
Chilsons fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. This collection ...
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64,21 zł |
MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors
ISBN: 9780688149550 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees." For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original... Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of th...
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81,55 zł |
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
ISBN: 9780802139689 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wise and illuminating, "Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age "is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong love of William Blake's...
Wise and illuminating, "Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age "is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the No...
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55,83 zł |
A Thousand Tomorrows
ISBN: 9781931722803 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks and refusing relationships. When Cody and Ali meet, their first instincts are to hide behind their emotional walls, seemingly doomed to repeat the patterns they have established of roost of their lives. But their attraction is too strong, and soon they're doomed in another way, for neither can avoid falling in love, regardless of the...
Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali ...
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85,85 zł |
The Cure
ISBN: 9781934137031 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -An old-fashioned novel, in the best sense of that phrase, elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.---Michael Chabon on A Company of Three -A first novel that soars.---The New York Times on Like China As America emerges from the Depression, the Hatherfords build a comfortable life just outside of New York City, in rural Bergen County, New Jersey. They are a glamorous couple: Vern is the charismatic owner of a successful Ford dealership, and his flamboyant wife Maeve is beautiful even in middle age. When their three-year-old son Scott falls prey to... -An old-fashioned novel, in the best sense of that phrase, elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.---Michael Chabon on A Company of Th... |
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107,36 zł |
Wifeshopping: Stories
ISBN: 9780547053653 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection, "Wifeshopping" centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with women.
An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection, "Wifeshopping" centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understandi...
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68,67 zł |
Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN: 9780061624254 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers--modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition--before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await... On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls ... |
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Mona Lisa Overdrive
ISBN: 9780006480440 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The final volume of the Neuromancer trilogy set in a near-future world, which once again takes the reader into a world of high-tech computers and cybernetics.
The final volume of the Neuromancer trilogy set in a near-future world, which once again takes the reader into a world of high-tech computers and cybe...
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Infected
ISBN: 9780307406309 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page. A mysterious disease is turning thousands of ordinary Americans into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, their own families, and even themselves. And one morning, ex-football star Perry Dawsey awakens to find mysterious welts growing all over his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices, fighting uncontrollable rage . . . he is infected. Worse, the disease wants something from him, something that could alter the fate of the...
A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page. A mysterious disease is turning thousands of or...
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68,71 zł |
Disagreement
ISBN: 9781416550662 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is April 17, 1861 -- the day that Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war. Muro's father, believing that the Disagreement will pass, sends his son instead to Charlottesville. Jefferson's forty-year-old University of Virginia has become a haven of rogues and dilettantes, among them Muro's roommate, Braxton Baucom III, a planter's son who attempts to strike a resemblance to General "Stonewall"...
It is April 17, 1861 -- the day that Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts i...
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103,03 zł |
The Anatomy of Deception: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 9780385341356 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year is 1889. In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, physicians uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one doctor, Ephraim Carroll, strongly suspects that he knows the woman's identity...and the horrifying events that led to her death. Dr. Carroll came to Philadelphia to study with a leading professor, the brilliant William Osler, believing that he would gain the power to save countless lives. But Carroll and his mentor are at odds over what they glimpsed that morning in the hospital's Dead House. And... The year is 1889. In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, physicians uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see take... |
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A Crack in the Pavement
ISBN: 9780991966400 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Sheila Traventi discovers shes pregnant with her second child, shes ecstatic. Happily married to her handsome husband, Richard, and the mother of a two- year-old boy, Tim, the future can only be promising. Thats until genetic testing uncovers a problem with her fetus forcing her to make a difficult decision. When it comes time to leave the hospital, she is overcome with grief and impulsively steals her dead babys body. As she travels the streets of Toronto with it bundled closely to her, she finds salvation among its street people.
Sheilas journey is revealing, humorous and, at times,... When Sheila Traventi discovers shes pregnant with her second child, shes ecstatic. Happily married to her handsome husband, Richard, and the mother of...
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Apotheosis of My Butterfly
ISBN: 9781441574763 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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162,28 zł |